Many of you are beginning to discuss our week 1 poems HERE. I’m enjoying the various approaches and topical emphases. If you want to contribute to our discussion forums, ponder two sorts of posts: 1)...
Just added to ModPo—a 26-minute abridged version of our discussion of Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul”—recorded in January 2020 in Seattle with Davy Knittle and Cristanne Miller.
For the next seven days we will be reading and discussing a very small sampling of poems by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. In ModPo we think of then as proto-modernist poets. Whether that...
Watch this one-minute excerpt from our discussion of Emily Dickinson’s dashes:
It’s Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2020. Still plenty of time to read week 1 poems and watch videos before we turn to week 2. But if you run out of time this...
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 =...
An excerpt from our week 2 2019 live webcast—a discussion of the ongoing influence of Whitman:
Cristanne Miller and Davy Knittle talk with Al Filreis about a poem now added to ModPoPLUS—Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul.” PART NINETEEN: HE FUMBLES AT YOUR SOUL 19.1 read Dickinson’s “He fumbles at...
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.
Recently we added a short commentary on canto 8 of “Song of Myself” to the main week 1 syllabus. Here is that brief essay: * In canto 8 we encounter the poem’s first urban...