Marianne Moore, “To a Giraffe”
Moore’s “To a Giraffe” was first published in 1924. It is in part a response to her friend T. S. Eliot. She performed it at the 92nd Street Y in New York in 1965....
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Marianne Moore, “Values in Use”
This poem was first published in the Partisan Review in 1956 and then appeared in Moore’s book O to Be a Dragon in 1959. Moore read “Values in Use” publicly on October 10, 1957,...
Marianne Moore, “Silence”
“Silence” was first published in The Dial in 1924. It was collected in Moore’s book Observations also in 1924. Moore did not actually know her father. Her parents separated before her birth, and her...
Laura Riding’s poem “Mouth”
Here is the text of Laura Riding’s poem “Mouth.” We discuss that poem HERE in a video filmed at the Kelly Writers House.
Marcel Duchamp, “Nude Descending a Staircase”
HERE is a link to all the ModPo resources on the art and writing of Marcel Duchamp. And here, below, is an image (from the Philadelphia Museum of Art) of the painting, Nude Descending...
Al Filreis & Lisa New discuss Wallace Stevens
I talked with Lisa New about two poems by Stevens — “The Empreror of Ice Cream” and “The Motive for Metaphor.” This discussion is featured with others’ responses to these poems in a new...
New video: Steven’s “Thirteen Ways” & Ostashevsky’s “Fourteen Ways”
Recently we visited Dan Bergmann at his home in Massachusetts and recorded a discussion of Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” and Eugene Ostashevsky’s “Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Translator.”...
Murat Nemet-Nejat’s “Proof of Memory”
Proof of Memory a water flowergreen circlesif you lift itit will fall all limpbut in watersilent wires.fish strollamong thempoke their nose,green turtledoveswith wings.once as a kidour tent by the waterwe camped for fisha dry...
Ron Silliman on Ezra Pound
A 4.5-minute clip from Ron Silliman’s time as Kelly Writers House Fellow—on Ezra Pound:
Stevens’s “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch” (with Hilton Als)
We have now added a new Wallace Stevens poem to the ModPoPLUS week 3 syllabus. It’s “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch.” We have the text. We have a recording of Stevens’s reading the poem...