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...
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...
Watch this one-minute excerpt from our discussion of Emily Dickinson’s dashes:
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’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
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...
We have now added a new Wallace Stevens poem to the ModPoPLUS week 3 syllabus. It’s “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch.” We have the text. We have a recording of Stevens’s reading the poem...
During a one-hour conversation/interview Al Filreis conducted with art critic, memoirist and New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als, Al asked Hilton about some comments he made in one of his essays about Gertrude Stein....
DEREK BEAULIEU IN ModPo watch Derek Beaulieu talk about one of his concrete poems: LINK TO VIDEO watch Derek Beaulieu talk about a bpNichol short story: LINK TO VIDEO watch Derek Beaulieu talk about...
We recently added another video to ModPoPLUS week 3 — in which Al discusses Wallace Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar” with Elisa New and her “Poetry in America” colleagues. The recording took place in...
This is a 1-minute excerpt from our conversation about Susan Howe’s “The Midnight” as we stood in front of the Houghton Library at Harvard two early springs ago. This video is part of our...