On Ferlinghetti’s “Baseball Canto”
Our discussion of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Baseball Canto” is now available on YouTube. This was originally posted to the ModPo syllabus as an audio-only item. But thanks to Paul Burke we are now presenting it...
Category: week 6
On connotations of “got” in Jayne Cortez’s “She Got He Got”
We have now added a new video to ModPoPLUS for week 6. This is a discussion of the connotations of the word “got” in Jayne Cortez’s poem-performance piece “She Got He Got.” This is...
1-minute video on “Poem” by ruth weiss filmed on location
ModPo short—a 1-minute excerpt from a longer conversation filmed in a San Francisco park a few years ago in which Jake Marmer & Lily Applebaum talk about a poem titled “Poem” by ruth weiss. The clip...
ModPo Short: 1-minute video on Anne Waldman’s “Rogue State”
A 1-minute clip from an October 19, 2016, live webcast:
ModPo Short: 1-minute video on the social specificity of the Beats
From an October 17, 2018, live webcast, featuring poet-critic Angela Carr.
new abridged version of our discussion of Helen Adam’s poem
Thanks to the talented editing of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available an abridged, 20-minute version of our discussion of Helen Adam’s “Cheerless Junkie’s Song.” See below for the revised list and links...
CCCR meet-up 8/28/20 about Bob Kaufman
Alison Borkowska is organizing another meet-up (via Zoom) that will happen on August 28. See below for a link to all the details, and also Alison’s email address. If you want to participate, send...
Doug Kearney in ModPo
ModPo people might recall that Doug Kearney visited us back in November 2019 and joined us for the Beat week webcast. We edited several clips from the full recording of the webcast, and have...
Jerome Rothenberg’s “A Poem of Fears”
Jerry Rothenberg performed this little-known poem, “A Poem of Fears,” and then we discussed it with them. This has been added to Rothenberg’s section of the week 6 ModPoPLUS syllabus: 20.3 read Rothenberg’s “A...
Nanao Sakaki “Small People” added to ModPoPLUS week 6
Nanao Sakaki’s poem “Small People” — and a video accompanying the poem — have been added to week 6 of the ModPoPLUS syllabus. The video features Davy Knittle and Wai Chee Dimock, recorded in...