ModPo TAs return for a new session of filming
A number of ModPo TAs, including all but one of the originals, traveled back to the Kelly Writers House to spend the day making new videos for the course. These videos will soon be...
Category: video
Final words clip: Ujjwala, Nepali spoken-word poet
ModPo final words from Ujjwala Maharjan, a Nepali spoken-word poet:
ModPo 2018 final words: Jason, a teacher
ModPo 2018 final words from Jason, a teacher from Baltimore—who talks about ModPo’s effect on this teaching & other matters:
Further discussion of “demilitarizing” & defamiliarizing language (video)
Here is a further discussion of (Cage’s idea of) defamiliarizing and defamiliarizing language—a video clip from our November 7, 2018 week 9 live webcast:
On the pleasures & disappointments of making your own mesostic poem (video; 6 minutes)
Here is a video clip from the week 9 live webcast (November 7, 2018).
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...
ModPo bonus videos
Need a break today? Why not spend some time watching some short “bonus” ModPo videos! Here’s a selection: watch this video on poems we believe can be taught to 11- to 14-year-olds: LINK TO VIDEO watch...
3-minute video clip on Dada, appropriation, power & WCW
Here is a 3-minute video clip in which we discuss Dada, power, appropriation and Williams’s plums:
A sampling of new(ish) ModPoPLUS videos for week 3
ModPoPLUS keeps expanding. Week 3’s ModPoPLUS syllabus includes some 76 poems and videos. Below are some relatively new videos. A sampling of ModPoPLUS videos for week 3: watch discussion of “Portrait d’une Femme” filmed...
New video: further discussion of Armantrout’s “The Way”
Over the years ModPo people have spent a good deal of time pondering how to read Rae Armantrout’s “The Way.” Almost everyone deems it to be the most difficult poem on the week 2...