Week 2 of ModPo 2020 has begun
Week 2 of ModPo 2020 has begun! This week, as you know, we will explore poems written by poets who are influenced by—and/or are responding to—Dickinson and Whitman. For a 5 1/2-minute video introduction...
Category: week 2
Al Filreis discusses Cid Corman’s “It isnt for want” as part of a commencement address
Al gave this talk at the graduation ceremonies of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2020:
Niedecker wrote poems on her calendar — here’s one plus a new video
Lorine Niedecker wrote poems on the pages of her daily calendar. Very Dickinsonian in its use of quotidian domestic bits and pieces as writing resources. We discussed one of these poem-entries in detail when...
new video: discussion of Niedecker’s “Linnaeus in Lapland” with Jenny Penberthy & Karis Shearer
During our visit to Vancouver, we met up with Jenny Penberthy and Karis Shearer at the University of British Columbia and recorded this discussion of Lorine Niedecker’s poem “Linnaeus in Lapland”: 4.19 read Lorine...
video: on the ongoing influence of Whitman
An excerpt from our week 2 2019 live webcast—a discussion of the ongoing influence of Whitman:
Kate Colby’s poem “Homing” & our discussion of it with her
During our week 2 live webcast 2019 we were joined by poet Kate Colby. She read her poem “Homing” (from The Arrangements) and then we discussed it. The poem and video have been added...
video: what we mean when we call a poem “Dickinsonian”
3-minute video on what we mean when we call a poem “Dickinsonian”:
New poem & video: Lorine Niedecker’s “My Life by Water”
An amazing poem: Niedecker’s “My Life by Water.” We were in Seattle in January 2020 and gathered with poets (among them Rae Armantrout and Bob Perelman) and ModPo citizens in the area and talked...
3/26/2020 discussion on “Survey” by Elizabeth Willis, hosted by Davy Knittle
On Thursday, March 26, from 5-7 PM (Philadelphia time) Davy Knittle will host a 2-hour discussion of a poem by Elizabeth Willis titled “Survey.” The text of the poem, a link to an audio...
Max McKenna on Niedecker in ModPo
In the current issue of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker Newsletter (issue #31, Winter 2020), Max McKenna has published a short essay on encountering Niedecker in ModPo. Here is the link to the online...