What to do when ModPo is finished? The TAs offer some guidance.
Here’s a clip from a ModPo 2021 webcast: the ModPo TAs offer guidance in response to someone’s question about what to do when the annual symposium mode is done.
Category: video
21 videos about Gertrude Stein – intended especially for those who don’t know where to start when reading her poems
GERTRUDE STEIN IN GENERAL 1.1 watch discussion on how we assess and value Stein’s writing:LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY] 1.2 watch Rachel Blau DuPlessis describe how Stein resists normative reading: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE...
introducing: “ModPo shorts”!
We have begun to edit a series of 1-minute videos under the rubric “ModPo shorts.” Our goal here is to draw in folks who don’t know about ModPo, who don’t feel they have time...
ModPoMinute video on Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”
The newest episode of ModPoMinute (the 72nd in our series) has now been posted: a very brief discussion of Emily Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” with Cristanne Miller and Davy Knittle.
Video on Niedecker’s “Foreclosure” filmed at LN’s cabin on Black Hawk Island
Today we are adding a new ModPoPLUS video: Max McKenna traveled to Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where Lorine Niedecker lived, and filmed a collaborate close reading of Niedecker’s “Foreclosure” with members of the...
New poem & video: Dickinson’s “From Blank to Blank—”
Just today we added a new poem and new video to week 1! The poem is Dickinson’s “From Blank to Blank—,” which you can read HERE. And HERE is the video, which is an...
ModPoMinute on Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways”
The newest episode of our weekly YouTube series called “ModPoMinute” is about the first section of Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”
On loss and silence in Perelman’s “Chronic Meanings”
Jake Marmer & others talk about loss and silence in Bob Perelman’s poem “Chronic Meanings”:
Further discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”
Here is an edited clip from our October 2018 webcast discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”:
Laura Broadbent’s “A Meditation on Translation” added to week 10 of ModPoPLUS
Discussion of Laura Broadbent’s “A Meditation on Translation” from “In on the Great Joke”—filmed with Deanna Fong at Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore in Montreal. Here’s your link to the video: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=224331 This has been...