New Year’s greetings (2023) — video message from Al
Al stopped by the Kelly Writers House on his daily run on New Year’s Eve day, 12/31/22, and made a 5-minute video greeting for all ModPo people.
Category: new videos
Jerome Rothenberg’s favorite Stein poem
During our 2022 week 4 live webcast, Jerome Rothenberg talks about a favorite Gertrude Stein poem. Rothenberg was visiting the Writers House from California to be with us for the webcast, a PoemTalk episode,...
Rosmarie Waldrop writes through the Declaration of Independence
Listen as Rosmarie Waldrop writes through the Declaration of Independence using N+7 chance operations:
Erica Hunt gives the inaugural poem at Penn
Erica Hunt—a poet who is a dear friend of KWH, once the teacher of a full-semester course at the House, and a recent KWH Fellow, and whose poems are in the ModPo curriculum—gave the...
Tracie Morris improvises a poem-performance with Jayne Cortez
Watch Tracie Morris improvise a poem-performance in response to (and with) the video of Jayne Cortez performing her piece “She Got He Got.” This was Tracie’s contribution to a program featuring six poets each...
On Ferlinghetti’s “Baseball Canto”
Our discussion of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Baseball Canto” is now available on YouTube. This was originally posted to the ModPo syllabus as an audio-only item. But thanks to Paul Burke we are now presenting it...
On Robert Frost’s “Birches” (filmed “on location”)
We’ve added Frost’s “Birches” to ModPoPLUS. This includes a rare 1936 recording of Frost performing the poem. And it includes a new “on location” video in which Laynie and I, along with Stephen Metcalf...
New video on Dickinson: “He fumbles at your Soul”
Just added to ModPo—a 26-minute abridged version of our discussion of Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul”—recorded in January 2020 in Seattle with Davy Knittle and Cristanne Miller.
March 22, 2022 off-season (SloPo) webcast — photos and video recording
We so enjoyed hosting an off-season live webcast yesterday! We discussed poems by Harryette Mullen and Joanne Kyger, and the edited video segments of these will soon be added to the ModPo syllabus. Here...
Artist Jen Wroblewski attempts to make drawing a kind of writing (minus signifying)
Here’s a recording of a 2/1/22 event at Kelly Writers House featuring Etty Yaniv interviewing Jennifer Wroblewski about Jen’s new series of drawings, “Late for Revision.” Jen spent a year making graphite drawings that...