Bob Perelman, “Politics”
This poem was written by Bob Perelman probably in 1987. The poem appeared in the literary magazine o·blék and was subsequently selected for The Best American Poetry 1988, edited by David Lehman with John...
Category: week 8
“The SoCal Spellers”: nonspeaking autistic ModPo reading group in southern California
“The SoCal Spellers” have been posting to the ModPo forums, contributing their comments to our discussions of individual poems. We here on the ModPo team invite all ModPo people to respond to their posts!...
Erica Hunt, “Reader we were meant to meet”
Here is the text of a meta-pedagogical poem we often discuss in ModPo. It is available as part of the ModPoPLUS syllabus.
images of Robert Grenier’s “Sentences”
Here are several links in which one can get an overview of Robert Grenier’s Sentences: — Introduction and image of the box: LINK — Granary Press entry on Sentences, including images of the box...
ModPo at the Morgan Library, 10/26/2002
The ModPo team traveled to the Morgan Library in New York, where they met up with many ModPo friends, including legendary ModPo TA Ali Castleman and poet Lee Ann Brown. The week’s live webcast—for...
Erica Hunt gives the inaugural poem at Penn
Erica Hunt—a poet who is a dear friend of KWH, once the teacher of a full-semester course at the House, and a recent KWH Fellow, and whose poems are in the ModPo curriculum—gave the...
Rae Armantrout, “Second Person”
HERE is a link to the text of Rae Armantrout’s “Second Person.” And HERE is a page with related links.
Erica Hunt, “Reader, We Were Meant to Meet”
HERE is a link to Erica Hunt’s poem “Reader, we were meant to meet.” And HERE is a resource page—with a list and links—to some Erica Hunt poems and videos added to ModPo.
Fred Wah, “Selves”
Here is a LINK to the text of Fred Wah’s poem “Selves.” And here are some OTHER MATERIALS pertaining to this poem.
Ron Silliman on Ezra Pound
A 4.5-minute clip from Ron Silliman’s time as Kelly Writers House Fellow—on Ezra Pound: