Al Filreis discusses Cid Corman’s “It isnt for want” as part of a commencement address
Al gave this talk at the graduation ceremonies of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2020:
Category: new videos
new abridged version of discussion of Tracie Morris’s “Slave Sho to Video”
Thanks to the editing talents of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available a 24-minute abridgment of the original 40-minute discussion of Tracie Morris’s “Slave Show to Video aka Black but Beautiful.” It is...
new abridged version of our discussion of Helen Adam’s poem
Thanks to the talented editing of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available an abridged, 20-minute version of our discussion of Helen Adam’s “Cheerless Junkie’s Song.” See below for the revised list and links...
Video: on Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” (filmed in Vancouver)
Stephen Collis and Karis Shearer joined Al Filreis to talk about Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” — at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The video recording of...
Niedecker wrote poems on her calendar — here’s one plus a new video
Lorine Niedecker wrote poems on the pages of her daily calendar. Very Dickinsonian in its use of quotidian domestic bits and pieces as writing resources. We discussed one of these poem-entries in detail when...
new video: discussion of Niedecker’s “Linnaeus in Lapland” with Jenny Penberthy & Karis Shearer
During our visit to Vancouver, we met up with Jenny Penberthy and Karis Shearer at the University of British Columbia and recorded this discussion of Lorine Niedecker’s poem “Linnaeus in Lapland”: 4.19 read Lorine...
Jennifer Scappettone’s writing through “The Pledge of Allegiance” in “Delection Even”
Max McKenna convened a group of Chicago-land ModPo people to discuss Jennifer Scappettone’s “Delection Even.” The links now added to week 10 of ModPoPLUS include the text of the poem, a recording of the...
CCCR: discussion of Whitman’s “I Hear It Was Charged against Me”
The Global ModPo Study Group convened in January 2020 to talk about Whitman’s “I Heard It Was Charged against Me.” The recording of that session has been added to ModPo’s CCCR syllabus. CCCR =...
video: on the ongoing influence of Whitman
An excerpt from our week 2 2019 live webcast—a discussion of the ongoing influence of Whitman:
Kate Colby’s poem “Homing” & our discussion of it with her
During our week 2 live webcast 2019 we were joined by poet Kate Colby. She read her poem “Homing” (from The Arrangements) and then we discussed it. The poem and video have been added...