ModPo update for Saturday of week 3 (9-28-2019)
Hello and happy Saturday! A lovely day here in Manhattan, NY, USA. Yes, it’s Saturday of week 3 of ModPo 2019—which is to say, the final day of our collaborative exploration of the rise...
Category: week 3
ModPo update for 9/26/2019: 1) webcast recording; 2) Boston meet-ups; 3) NYC meet-up
It’s Thursday of week 3 of ModPo and I’m here to remind you—excitedly—that there’s a great deal of discussoin happening in our forums around each poem in the week 3 syllabus. Go HERE and...
ModPo 9-25-2019 webcast info
At 10 AM today (Philadelphia time)—approximately 2.5 hours from now—we will convene our weekly live webcast! HERE is your link. You can call us at 610-616-3208. You can tweet using the hashtag #ModPoLive (we...
ModPo update for Tuesday of week 3, 2019
Hello and welcome to Tuesday of week 3, ModPo 2019! Here are four thoughts/reminders/announcements: 1) Tomorrow (Wednesday, September 25th) we will convene our weekly live interactive webcast at 10 AM Philadelphia time. We hope...
Al on why week 3 of ModPo is so much fun
Week 3 of ModPo is a favorite! Reading and discussion H.D.’s “Sea Rose” gives us a chance to try out our ideas about what a modern approach to the oldest poetic symbol for love...
ModPo update for Saturday, September 21, 2019
I’m enjoying two full days of constant talk about the poet Wallace Stevens out here at the gorgeous Huntington Library. Yesterday I recorded a new ModPo video about Stevens’s poem “Plot against the Giant”...
Marjorie Perloff on William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All”
During a visit to Los Angeles in January 2019, Al and Anna stopped by to see the eminent critic Marjorie Perloff at her home. We recorded a conversation about a several-pages-long passage from WCW’s Spring...
ModPoMinute on Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways”
The newest episode of our weekly YouTube series called “ModPoMinute” is about the first section of Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”
Visit to the Rosenbach Museum & Library to discuss Marianne Moore
We visited the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia to meet with curators of the extensive archive there of Marianne Moore’s papers and belongings. Archivist Elizabeth Fuller showed us manuscript versions of Moore’s famous...
Lytle Shaw’s rewriting of Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
We have added Lytle Shaw’s “The Confessions 2″—a poem that responds to Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”—to the Wallace Stevens section of the week 3 (rise of modernism: imagism) syllabus in ModPoPLUS. See the...