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...
Category: week 2
Video on Niedecker’s “Foreclosure” filmed at LN’s cabin on Black Hawk Island
Today we are adding a new ModPoPLUS video: Max McKenna traveled to Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where Lorine Niedecker lived, and filmed a collaborate close reading of Niedecker’s “Foreclosure” with members of the...
ModPo in Seattle
Nicholas “Denny” Stern, great ModPo guy (Community TA), in Seattle last night after our ModPo meet-up there (at Town Hall Seattle). We talked about Rae Armantrout‘s new poem “Care” and also Lorine Niedecker’s “My Life...
2-minute video clip on “A Supermarket in California”
During a September 2019 webcast, we talked for 2 minutes further about Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California.” See below for new links to ModPoPLUS, and here is that video: PART THIRTEEN: ALLEN GINSBERG 13.1...
Al’s update for Wednesday of ModPo week 2
Good morning. Autumn has arrived in Philly! Makes me feel that we should be in week 2 of ModPo. Oh, and we are! Wednesday of week 2! Here are a few notes/reminders: WEBCAST TODAY....
Discussion forum threads that could use some responses
Here are some discussion forum threads that have so far reviewed few responses (or none). Please take a moment to click one or two of the links and offer a comment! Thank you! On...
Info about our week 2 webcast
Tomorrow (Wednesday, September 18) we will convene our second webcast of the ModPo season. You really should try to make plans to watch (and participate in) our second weekly webcast of 2019. We start...
Al’s 9/16/19 message: 1) week 2; 2) resources for teachers; 3) meet-ups
Hello and welcome to Monday of week 2 of ModPo 2019. We are beginning to talk about our week 2 poets—influenced by Dickinson and Whitman. Fun! This week our Wednesday webcast will begin at...
Week 2 of ModPo 2019 begins: Al’s announcement (includes info about the first essay)
Sunday morning here in Philly. The sun is shining and it’s nearly time for me to dig around in my tiny urban garden. But first an overview of ModPo week 2. During week 2...