ModPo update as week 4 begins (9/29/2019)
We are now beginning week 4 of ModPo 2019! The main ModPo syllabus for week 4 is divided into two parts. The much larger first part is about Gertrude Stein’s writing. The smaller second...
Category: week 4
Philip Metres’s “The Blues of Ken Davis” now added to ModPoPLUS week 5
Just now added to ModPoPLUS week 5, chapter 4—Philip Metres‘s poem “The Ballad of Ken Davis.” The text is here below and the video is here: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=225683
Marcel Duchamp’s notes (discussion with Marjorie Perloff & others)
Marcel Duchamp’s miscellaneous notes were included in the conceptualist anthology called Against Expression. HERE is a copy of the text. HERE is a video recording of a discussion about these notes with Marjorie Perloff, Danny...
CCCR video in which Max leads a discussion of Stein in Chicago
We have added to the CCCR* syllabus a discussion led by Max McKenna with some ModPo’ers in Chicago (October 2018) about stanza 2 of Gertrude Stein’s “Stanzas in Meditation.” Here are the links as...
Collaborative close reading of Stein’s “A Table”
ModPo is all about encouraging people worldwide to collaborate on close readings of poems. Here’s the newest addition to the CCCR (=Community Collaborative Close Readings syllabus)—a discussion of Gertrude Stein’s “A Table”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/r0Zp9
New video: on “X-RAY” by the Baroness, with Jennifer Scappettone
Jennifer Scappettone (whose poems are associated with week 10 of our course) visited the Kelly Writers House and recorded a discussion of a mysterious poem by Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, which we have...
Greek ModPo’er makes Stein comix
Kyriakos Mavridis, a ModPo participant back in 2013, has made a work of comix from Gertrude Stein’s prose poem “Let Us Describe,” which we discuss in ModPo: http://jacket2.org/commentary/stein-comix
3-minute video clip on Dada, appropriation, power & WCW
Here is a 3-minute video clip in which we discuss Dada, power, appropriation and Williams’s plums:
Stein collage created by ModPo’er
Joan Danforth, experienced ModPo’er, has created a Stein collage, and mailed it to us. We will keep it and show it to any ModPo person who comes by the Kelly Writers House for a...
Montreal webcast 10/4/2018: photographs
The ModPo team here in Montreal—and our colleagues everywhere—really enjoyed hosting our week 4 (Stein et alia) webcast from Concordia University. Here are some photos taken during the session:
