New poem & video: Kate Colby’s “Middleman”
Today we have added a new poem and video to ModPoPLUS. The poem is Kate Colby’s “Middleman.” Read the poem HERE. Watch the video HERE.
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Filming on bpNichol & Victor Coleman with Andrew Whiteman
Yesterday, at a park in “The Plateau” neighborhood of Montreal, we filmed two ModPoPLUS videos, and one ModPoMinute, with Andrew Whiteman (the lead guitarist and lyricist for the band “Broken Social Scene”), who is...
How *ever* will you be able to appreciate Gertrude Stein?
And so today we begin week 4. If you have never encountered the (supposedly) difficult and (apparently) opaque poetry of Stein, you are in for a treat. A challenge, surely, but also a treat! Be...
ModPo update for Sat. Sept. 29, 2018
Tomorrow (Sunday, September 30th) week 4 of ModPo 2018 begins. Perhaps today is a good day for reading a few more week 3 poem (perhaps THIS ONE), viewing a few more videos (such as THIS ONE), and commenting in some...
A sampling of new(ish) ModPoPLUS videos for week 3
ModPoPLUS keeps expanding. Week 3’s ModPoPLUS syllabus includes some 76 poems and videos. Below are some relatively new videos. A sampling of ModPoPLUS videos for week 3: watch discussion of “Portrait d’une Femme” filmed...
New video on John Phillips’ “This”
During our week 2 webcast for ModPo 2018, we discussed John Phillips’s poem “This,” new to the ModPoPLUS syllabus:
New ModPoPLUS video on Francisco X. Alarcón’s “From the Other Side of Night”
We have just now added to week 2 of the ModPoPLUS syllabus Francisco X. Alarcón’s poem “From the Other Side of Night.” The text of the poem can be found HERE. The video in...
Coming soon: new ModPoPLUS video on Hugh MacDiarmid
Today we recorded a new two-part video discussion of Hugh MacDiarmid’s modernist epic poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, which was written in “braid Scots verse.” We were joined by Scottish poet Christie...
Revised & enlarged headnote to week 3 of ModPoPLUS
Getting ready for week 3 of ModPo, Al has revised and expanded the headnote to the week 3 syllabus in ModPoPLUS: In the first part of week 3—on the rise of modernism in the...
New video on John Phillips’ “This”
We have now added a new video to the ModPoPLUS week 2 syllabus—a discussion of John Phillips’ poem titled “This”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/U7LHc And HERE is a link to the poem.