New poem & video: Kate Colby’s “Theory”
Now added to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 2: Al Filreis & Kate Colby talk about her poem “Theory” and of course we provide a link to the text of the poem itself. Here...
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New video: on “X-RAY” by the Baroness, with Jennifer Scappettone
Jennifer Scappettone (whose poems are associated with week 10 of our course) visited the Kelly Writers House and recorded a discussion of a mysterious poem by Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, which we have...
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...
Final words clip: Ujjwala, Nepali spoken-word poet
ModPo final words from Ujjwala Maharjan, a Nepali spoken-word poet:
New CCCR video on “Representations” by Rosemarie Waldrop
Max McKenna & two ModPo’ers in Chicago have added a good close reading of Rosmarie Waldrop’s poem “Representations.” Video quality is fuzzy but audio is good and the reading is terrific. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpJBFVRcx_w (link to...
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.
On the continuing relevance of the Beats (video clip; 9 minutes)
On the continued relevance of the Beat poets—a 9-minute clip from the week 6 live webcast for 2018, featuring comments from guest poets Rae Armantrout and Angela Carr.
Webcast clip: on Rae Armantrout’s “The Way” (September 2018)
Here is a clip from our September 2018 week 2 webcast.
Three excerpts from Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”—new videos with Christie Williamson
We have now added Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 3. Or, to be more precise, we discuss three passages from that long poem. Joining...
New CCCR video—on Tracie Morris’s “Enclosed,” a response to Stein’s Tender Buttons
Newly added to ModPo’s CCCR syllabus—ModPo people in L.A. convened by Molly O’Neill talk about Tracie Morris’s “Enclosed,” which is a response to Stein’s Tender Buttons. https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/9luW0