Nick Montfort on radical uses of the sonnet
During our live webcast from Boston, October 2019, Al asked Nick Montfort to talk about radical uses of the sonnet. Here is his response: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/z0APZ
During our live webcast from Boston, October 2019, Al asked Nick Montfort to talk about radical uses of the sonnet. Here is his response: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/z0APZ
During our October 2019 visit to Boston, where our weekly webcast was hosted at MIT, Anna Strong Safford led us in a meta-poetic reading of Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/VTAeP .
We’ve long admired how Bernadette Mayer incorporates things, scenes, people, occasions from her daily life in her poems. This is at the heart of the New York School style, of course. Then there’s the...
Today (Sunday, October 20) we begin week 7 of ModPo 2019. This week we will be reading and discussing the New York School poets. In the main ModPo syllabus we encounter Frank O’Hara, Barbara...
Tomorrow (Wednesday, October 16) at NOON (Philly time) we will be coming to you live from our beloved Kelly Writers House. The amazing poet Doug Kearney will be joining us! HERE is your link...
There’s a new section of week 6 in ModPoPLUS—on the Beats. These materials pertain to Jack Kerouac’s experimental prose-poem, “Old Angel Midnight.” Recently the ModPo TAs reunited to talk about section 4 of this...
During a September 2019 webcast, we talked for 2 minutes further about Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California.” See below for new links to ModPoPLUS, and here is that video: PART THIRTEEN: ALLEN GINSBERG 13.1...
Al traveled recently to Los Angeles to participate in a conference on Wallace Stevens. There he met Charles Altieri, eminent critic of modern U.S. poetry. They talked for 7 minutes about Wallace Stevens’s poem...
Back in June 2019 many of the ModPo TAs gathered back at the Writers House—a reunion!—to make a series of new videos for the ModPo syllabi. During a break we also filmed a new...
Nishiwiki’s poem “Rain” is directly influenced by H.D.’s “Oread.” Here is a discussion with Andrew Houwen about the connection. Generally speaking, thanks for a few contemporary scholars working on the relationship, we find that...