Erica Hunt added to ModPoPLUS week 8
Erica Hunt, who is often associated with the Language poets, has been added to week 8 of ModPoPLUS. Her poem “the voice of no” has long been part of the week 5 syllabus of...
Category: week 8
Robert Grenier: a drawing poem
Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis discuss one of Robert Grenier’s “drawing poems.” From ModPoPLUS part 2: 3.4 look at/read one of Robert Grenier’s drawing poems: LINK TO TEXT/IMAGE 3.5 watch a discussion of Robert...
On Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I”
In ModPoPLUS for week 8, we include a poem by Fred Wah called “Between You and Me There Is an I.” During our ModPo 2020 week 8 webcast, we discussed this poem, and here...
new CCCR video on Armantrout’s “Second Person”
We have now added to our CCCR syllabus a new video of a collaborative discussion of Rae Armantrout’s “Second Person”: re-read Rae Armantrout’s “Second Person”: LINK TO TEXT watch discussion of Armantrout’s “Second Person”:...
Video: on Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” (filmed in Vancouver)
Stephen Collis and Karis Shearer joined Al Filreis to talk about Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” — at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The video recording of...
Charles Bernstein’s “There’s a Hole in My Pocket”
To ModPoPLUS week 8—on the Language poets—we have added a new Charles Bernstein poem to the Bernstein section. It’s called “There’s a Hole in My Pocket” and it was included in the recent collected...
Rae Armantrout’s “Care” added to ModPoPLUS week 8
When in Seattle in January 2020, the ModPo team met up with various ModPo people, friends, and poets — including Rae Armantrout and Bob Perelman — and recorded a collaborative close reading of a...
Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s “Concordance” added to ModPoPLUS week 8
Section 1 of Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s “Concordance” is now part of the week 8 syllabus in ModPoPLUS — along with a video in which Al and the TAs discussed the poem. Here is the new...
Susan Howe’s “The Midnight”: excerpt & video made on location
We went to The Houghton Library at Harvard University to record a discussion of an except from Susan Howe’s The Midnight. Here is the updated entry for Susan Howe’s work in ModPoPLUS, including the new...
Imaad Majeed on Bernstein’s “In a Restless World”
We have added a 14-minute video in which Al talks with Imaad Majeed about Charles Bernstein’s poem “In a Restless World Like This Is,” part of our ModPoMinute series.
