Watch Tracie Morris improvise a poem-performance in response to (and with) the video of Jayne Cortez performing her piece “She Got He Got.” This was Tracie’s contribution to a program featuring six poets each...
ModPo citizen John Kamholz recently responded to reading Guest’s poem “20” with the following observation: When I was in Seville, my son and I went to a flamenco bar. The dancing started at midnight...
We recently added two new poems—and a new video for each poem—to our John Yau entry in ModPoPLUS. See list and links below. These are now part of the week 7 syllabus in ModPoPLUS....
During our May 13, 2020, live interactive webcast, we talked about re-reading John Ashbery’s “Hard Times” a time of pandemic. Here is that segment of the webcast:
During our May 13, 2020, live interactive webcast, we talked about re-reading Bernadette Mayer’s “The Incorporation of Sophia’s Cereal” in a time of pandemic. Here is that segment of the webcast:
We’ve long admired how Bernadette Mayer incorporates things, scenes, people, occasions from her daily life in her poems. This is at the heart of the New York School style, of course. Then there’s the...
Today is our final day working together to read and discuss the poems of the New York School—week 7. Week 8 begins tomorrow. Of course if you only had a chance to read a...
Today i want to mention and recommend just one poem we read this week—John Ashbery’s “Hard Times.” Ashbery is not really—or not often directly, anyway—a political poet. But “Hard Times” gives you a sense...
Today (Sunday, October 20) we begin week 7 of ModPo 2019. This week we will be reading and discussing the New York School poets. In the main ModPo syllabus we encounter Frank O’Hara, Barbara...
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any webcast live.
1) Wed 9/7/22, 3 pm (wk 1)
2) Wed 9/14/22, 9:30 am (wk 2)
3) Wed 9/21/22, 11 am (wk 3) (CELEBRATION of ModPo’s 10th anniversary & “The Difference Is Spreading” book—visitors welcome)
4) Wed 9/28/22, noon (wk 4) [featuring Jerome Rothenberg]
5) Thursday. 10/6/22, 8:30 pm (wk 5)
6) Thursday 10/13/22, 6:30 pm local time (wk 6) [in Chicago place TBD]
7) Wed 10/19/22, noon (wk 7)
8) Wed 10/26/22, 6:30 pm (wk 8) [in NYC at Morgan Library]
9) Wed 11/2/22, 3 pm (wk 9)
10) Wed 11/9/22, noon (wk 10) [featuring Laynie Browne]
11) Mon 11/14/22, noon (“final words”)
[] Click HERE to watch recordings of all the ModPo 2021 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 ModPo coordinator Laynie Browne. Click HERE for all the info you need. Contact Laynie with questions at modpo@writing.upenn.edu.
ModPo has created a Teacher Resource Center (“TRC“) for teachers who use ModPo poems & videos in their classrooms. Click HERE to read teaching guides and watch videos in which teachers talk about teaching with ModPo. If you wish to be added to our teachers mailing list, write us at modpo@writing.upenn.edu. Click HERE to discuss ModPo poems with other teachers.
