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:
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...
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:
Greetings from Montreal! WEBCAST! Today at 6:30 PM Montreal time (same as Philadelphia time) we will be convening our week 4 live webcast. Please plan to join us live if you possibly can. If...
This week many of us are writing 500-word essays in response to essay assignment #2. The poem we ask you to read and closely analyze is by H.D. Be sure to post your essay this week if...
And so today we begin week 4. If you have never encountered the (supposedly) difficult and (apparently) opaque poetry of Stein, you are in for a treat. A challenge, surely, but also a treat! Be...