Jerome Rothenberg added to ModPo
Here (below—see links) is a new section on Jerome Rothenberg now added to the ModPoPLUS week 7 syllabus. It includes a discussion of the poem “A Paradise of Poets,” and a discussion of Rothenberg’s...
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Douglas Kearney on Yona Harvey’s “The Dream District: Origins”
Just now added to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 10: Douglas Kearney discusses Yona Harvey’s poem “The Dream District: Origins.” The new video is linked here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/wv37y
New poem & video: Kaie Kellough’s “Maple Leaf Rag” (filmed on location in Montreal at Mont-Royal)
We went to Montreal to talk with Michael Nardone about Kaie Kellough’s book Maple Leaf Rag and in particular the prefatory poem titled “flux.” Today we posted the video recording of our conversation on...
New poem & video: Andrew Whiteman (in Montreal) talks with us about Victor Coleman’s “Earth Day”
During the ModPo team’s visit to Montreal in October 2018, we met up with songwriter/musician Andrew Whiteman—a long-time supporter of Canadian avant-garde poetry and a long-time ModPo’er—to talk about one of his favorite Canadian...
Aaron Simon’s poem-response to O’Hara’s urban mode
Aaron Simon’s poem “McCoppin Hub” is a response to Frank O’Hara’s present-tense walking-the-city mode from the point of view of someone politically passionate about the planned destruction of a “people’s park.” We have now...
New poem & video: Jennifer Scappettone’s “The Republic of Exit 43”
We are now adding a new video on Jen Scappettone‘s “The Republic of Exit 43″—a close-reading/close-looking discussion of one poem/page/collage from that book. This video and the poem are being added today to ModPoPLUS...
New poem & video: Joanne Kyger’s “September”
During a recent visit to San Francisco, the ModPo team gathered together with 30 or so ModPo’ers from the region (some folks traveled a long way, in fact!). We filmed two collaborative close readings...
Japanese imagism in ModPo
Here are some links you will find in ModPoPLUS for week 3 pertaining to Japanese poets’ response to the rise of modernism in the U.S. (and to imagism in particular): PART TEN: MICHIYO NAKAMOTO...
Erica Baum’s “A Long Dress” gallery show responds to Stein’s “Tender Buttons”
Yesterday a ModPo film crew met up with Erica Baum at Bureau gallery in the lower east side of Manhattan — to make a new ModPoPLUS video with her about her newest project. Bureau...
3 new videos on Eileen Myles (featuring Davy Knittle’s students)
Three new videos—in which Davy Knittle’s student, joined by Lily Applebaum, discuss poems by Eileen Myles: “Writing,” “Snakes,” “Mount St. Helens”: HERE, HERE, and HERE.