We recommend Ashbery’s “Hard Times”
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...
Category: week 7
Welcome to week 7 on the New York School (plus *news* of new poems & videos)
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...
On the experience of re-reading the New York School
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:
added to ModPoPLUS: Lytle Shaw’s response to Frank O’Hara
Just now added to the New York School week of ModPoPLUS (week 7)—a new video in which Lytle Shaw joins us in discussing his “homophobic translation” of Frank O’Hara’s “At the Old Place”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/rIKLc...
Jerome Rothenberg added to ModPo
Here (below—see links) is a new section on Jerome Rothenberg now added to the ModPoPLUS week 7 syllabus. It includes a discussion of the poem “A Paradise of Poets,” and a discussion of Rothenberg’s...
Aaron Simon’s poem-response to O’Hara’s urban mode
Aaron Simon’s poem “McCoppin Hub” is a response to Frank O’Hara’s present-tense walking-the-city mode from the point of view of someone politically passionate about the planned destruction of a “people’s park.” We have now...
New poem & video: Joanne Kyger’s “September”
During a recent visit to San Francisco, the ModPo team gathered together with 30 or so ModPo’ers from the region (some folks traveled a long way, in fact!). We filmed two collaborative close readings...
3 new videos on Eileen Myles (featuring Davy Knittle’s students)
Three new videos—in which Davy Knittle’s student, joined by Lily Applebaum, discuss poems by Eileen Myles: “Writing,” “Snakes,” “Mount St. Helens”: HERE, HERE, and HERE.
ModPo update for Friday of week 7
Today I’ve been watching all the new #3 essays coming in—posted to the special subforum we’ve set up for them. If you intend to write and post an essay on Eileen Myles’s “The Honey...
Info for watching/joining our live webcast (10/24/18 at 9 PM)
Tonight at 9 PM (Philadelphia time) we will host our week 7 webcast! Please plan to join us. The video stream will be available HERE. No need to wait until the webcast begins to post...