Here we are—Thursday of week 4 of ModPo 2019. Have you had a chance to watch Bob Perelman’s brilliant explanation of Gertrude Stein’s occasional use of the continuous present tense? No? Well, here is...
Week 4 is truly underway! Lots of good conversation about Gertrude Stein is happening in our forum. Even if you’ve been shy about entering our discussion forum, maybe now is the time to check...
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...
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 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...
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...
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
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...
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
Here is a 3-minute video clip in which we discuss Dada, power, appropriation and Williams’s plums:
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any webcast live.
1) Wed 9/8/21, noon (wk 1)
2) Wed 9/15/21, 9:30 AM (wk 2)
3) Wed 9/22/21, 8 PM (wk 3)
4) Wed 9/29/21, 3 PM (wk 4) [Kate Colby visits]
5) Wed. 10/6/21, noon (wk 5)
6) Thu 10/14/21, 6:30 PM (wk 6) (ModPo on the road: LOCATION TBD)
7) Wed 10/20/21, 3 PM (wk 7) [with Edwin Torres]
8) Wed 10/27/21, 6 PM (wk 8) (at Morgan Library, NYC)
9) Wed 11/3/21, 3 PM (wk 9)
10) Wed 11/10/21, NOON (wk 10) [“erica kaufman DAY”] [with Jack Gieseking]
11) Mon 11/15/21, NOON (“final words”)
[] Click HERE to watch recordings of all the ModPo 2020 webcasts.
Yes, you can take ModPo for University of Pennsylvania credit. Three 10-week sessions are offered each year: fall, spring, summer. This version of ModPo is taught by famed ModPo TA Anna Strong Safford and co-created with ModPo founder Al Filreis. Click HERE for all the info you need. Contact Anna with questions at modpo@writing.upenn.edu.
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