Wallace Stevens in ModPoPLUS
Over the years the collection of Wallace Stevens poems, audio and video in the ModPoPLUS syllabus has become quite an extensive array. Here is a list, with links, of all these materials: 8.1 read...
Category: week 3
Rutherford NJ resident inspired Williams’s wheelbarrow/chickens poem
We have added to ModPoPLUS part 1 a link to a newspaper article describing testimony of a Rutherford NJ resident who seems to have inspired William Carlos Williams’s legendary modernist poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow”...
Poems from (and videos about) Rosa Alcalá’s “Undocumentaries”
We have now added three poems and two new videos to ModPoPLUS week 3. These are from—and about—Rosa Alcalá’s book Undocumentaries. We met up with David Colon in Seattle in January 2020 to talk about...
2-hour discussion of Marianne Moore’s “Poetry”: Wed., April 1, 11 AM-1 PM
Our series of 2-hour special ModPo TA “office hours” continues with the next session to be held this week — specifically on Wednesday, April 1, from 11 AM until 1 PM Philly time (eastern...
Discuss poem by Amy Lowell on 3/20/2020 for CCCR syllabus
See below. Alison Borkowska has organized a online (via Zoom) discussion of a poem by Amy Lowell. If you want to participate, contact Alison at the email address below. The discussion will be recorded...
New video: collaborative close reading of “The Snow Man”
The other night the Writers House community once again celebrated wintry doldrums with its annual “Mind of Winter” event, featuring home-made soup (warm!) and bread (warm!) and a fire going in our fireplace (warm!)—and...
Wallace Stevens, “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”
This poem is being discussed HERE. Whether you are reading this as it is posted, or soon after–or much later—we urge you to click HERE and add your thoughts. The text of the poem...
Further discussion of “the American Beauty Rose” in week 3 discussions
A ModPo’er who is not familiar with the U.S. asks about our emphasis on “the American Beauty Rose” in our discussions (during week 3) of imagism’s rebuke of the clichéd rose. Here is a...
New video: on Stevens’s “The Plot against the Giant” (with Charles Altieri)
Al traveled recently to Los Angeles to participate in a conference on Wallace Stevens. There he met Charles Altieri, eminent critic of modern U.S. poetry. They talked for 7 minutes about Wallace Stevens’s poem...
imagists influenced by Japanese poetry (and also: Japanese poets were influenced by imagists putting their tradition to use in modernist modes)
Nishiwiki’s poem “Rain” is directly influenced by H.D.’s “Oread.” Here is a discussion with Andrew Houwen about the connection. Generally speaking, thanks for a few contemporary scholars working on the relationship, we find that...