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...
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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...
Jo Park & Tim Yu talk about Brandon Shimoda’s “The Desert”
Tim Yu and Jo Park met with Al in summer 2021 to talk about passages from Brandon Shimoda’s book The Desert. Here is a link to the text they discussed: LINK TO TEXT And...
1-min. video on Dickinson’s dashes
Watch this one-minute excerpt from our discussion of Emily Dickinson’s dashes:
1-min. excerpt from an overview on ModPo as a massive open online course
Al visited Coursera headquarters in Mountain View, California, a few years ago and recorded a video in which he gave an overview of ModPo as an open online course (“MOOC”). Here is a one-minute...
Jake Marmer: reading & conversation available in recordings
Jake Marmer’s 10/20/2020 reading & conversation hosted by the Kelly Writers House is now available at PennSound as a full video recording and also audio recordings segmented by poem and discussion topic: https://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Marmer.php#10-14-20
On connotations of “got” in Jayne Cortez’s “She Got He Got”
We have now added a new video to ModPoPLUS for week 6. This is a discussion of the connotations of the word “got” in Jayne Cortez’s poem-performance piece “She Got He Got.” This is...
