ModPo update: week 10 begins!
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...
Category: week 10
Jason Camlot’s “31 Awakenings” (added to our Canadian sampler)
To the week 10 syllabus of ModPoPLUS we are now adding a poem by Jason Camlot called “31 Awakenings.” And of course a video recording of a discussion about that poem. The discussion features...
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...
Discussion of Phyllis Webb’s poem “Poetry” (with Deanna Fong, at Drawn & Quarterly bookstore)
Discussion of Phyllis Webb’s poem “Poetry” with Deanna Fong and @annapstrong at Drawn & Quarterly bookstore: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=224332 New video added to the sampler of Canadian poetry in week 10 of ModPoPLUS.
Douglas Kearney on Yona Harvey’s “The Dream District: Origins”
Just now added to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 10: Douglas Kearney discusses Yona Harvey’s poem “The Dream District: Origins.” The new video is linked here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/wv37y
Erín Moure poem, “The Notification of Birches” (new video)
Also at Mont-Royal & again with Michael Nardone, we talk about an early poem by Erín Moure—”The Notification of Birches.” Here’s the new ModPo video: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/CF5kH Here is our week 10 “Canadian sampler” as...
New poem & video: Kaie Kellough’s “Maple Leaf Rag” (filmed on location in Montreal at Mont-Royal)
We went to Montreal to talk with Michael Nardone about Kaie Kellough’s book Maple Leaf Rag and in particular the prefatory poem titled “flux.” Today we posted the video recording of our conversation on...
New poem & video: Andrew Whiteman (in Montreal) talks with us about Victor Coleman’s “Earth Day”
During the ModPo team’s visit to Montreal in October 2018, we met up with songwriter/musician Andrew Whiteman—a long-time supporter of Canadian avant-garde poetry and a long-time ModPo’er—to talk about one of his favorite Canadian...
New poem & video: Jennifer Scappettone’s “The Republic of Exit 43”
We are now adding a new video on Jen Scappettone‘s “The Republic of Exit 43″—a close-reading/close-looking discussion of one poem/page/collage from that book. This video and the poem are being added today to ModPoPLUS...
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...