Danny Snelson and Al Filreis met to discuss two book-length poems or prose poems—Craig Dworkin’s The Pine-Woods Notebook and Frances Ponge’s World War II-era The Pine Woods Notebook. Obviously there is a connection and...
In Seattle in January 2020 Al met up with Larissa Lai — and the recording a close reading of Roy Miki’s poem “I Hear You.” The poem and the video have been added to...
Stephen Ratcliffe wrote a 1,000-section poem in which each section describes the weather, the way the waves in a particular Pacific Ocean channel looks at sounds, and follows other constraints — making for a...
Edgar Morquecho has composed a poem called “ModPo” which, he tells us, consists of words and phrases uttered during a fall 2019 ModPo webcast. Here is a LINK to the poem.
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...
Yesterday we posted episode 71 of our ModPoMinute YouTube series. This episode features a discussion of Craig Dworkin’s “The Pine Woods Notebook” with Danny Snelson:
On the day the ModPo team traveled to New York City to meet Erica Baum at Bureau to make a video—where her show “A Long Dress” was exhibited—these photographs were taken:
Tracie Morris was our special guest at the Kelly Writers House this past week—leading an improvised workshop for Writers House people, joining us for the live week 10 webcast. Here are some photos of...
Have you listened to Caroline Bergvall’s mesmerizing performance of her “VIA”? If not, I urge you to do so (go HERE). As you know, she has made an arrangement of many translators’ versions of...
We now begin the final week of ModPo 2019’s “symposium mode.” Week 10 begins today. HERE are the poems and videos. The poets we discuss this week are testing the limits of our understanding...