Notes on Barbara Guest’s “20”
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...
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...
During a 2018 live webcast for week 7, we discussed the experience of re-reading the New York School poets. Here is that 4-minute clip: