2-hour discussion of Gertrude Stein with erica kaufman
The next two-hour discussion session in our series will be led by poet-teacher and legendary ModPo TA erica kaufman. This will happen on Friday, April 3rd, from 1 PM to 3 PM Eastern Standard...
Category: Stein
Rosmarie Waldrop on Stein’s “exact resemblance”
We are adding a new video to ModPoPLUS week 4. In it we discuss Rosmarie Waldrop’s poem about Stein’s idea of “exact resemblance,” a concept we will recall from Stein’s portrait of Picasso. The...
ModPo update for Friday, October 4, 2019
Friday dawns here in Philly as we begin to wrap up week 4 of ModPo 2019. While many folks are continuing to read Stein and other poems in the main syllabus, and watch our...
CCCR video in which Max leads a discussion of Stein in Chicago
We have added to the CCCR* syllabus a discussion led by Max McKenna with some ModPo’ers in Chicago (October 2018) about stanza 2 of Gertrude Stein’s “Stanzas in Meditation.” Here are the links as...
Collaborative close reading of Stein’s “A Table”
ModPo is all about encouraging people worldwide to collaborate on close readings of poems. Here’s the newest addition to the CCCR (=Community Collaborative Close Readings syllabus)—a discussion of Gertrude Stein’s “A Table”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/r0Zp9
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...
Greek ModPo’er makes Stein comix
Kyriakos Mavridis, a ModPo participant back in 2013, has made a work of comix from Gertrude Stein’s prose poem “Let Us Describe,” which we discuss in ModPo: http://jacket2.org/commentary/stein-comix
Stein collage created by ModPo’er
Joan Danforth, experienced ModPo’er, has created a Stein collage, and mailed it to us. We will keep it and show it to any ModPo person who comes by the Kelly Writers House for a...
Filming on bpNichol & Victor Coleman with Andrew Whiteman
Yesterday, at a park in “The Plateau” neighborhood of Montreal, we filmed two ModPoPLUS videos, and one ModPoMinute, with Andrew Whiteman (the lead guitarist and lyricist for the band “Broken Social Scene”), who is...
Montreal webcast 10/4/2018: photographs
The ModPo team here in Montreal—and our colleagues everywhere—really enjoyed hosting our week 4 (Stein et alia) webcast from Concordia University. Here are some photos taken during the session: