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...
Category: week 8
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.
Charles Bernstein ModPo materials to date
From ModPoPLUS part 2: PART FOUR: CHARLES BERNSTEIN 4.1 read Charles Bernstein’s “In Particular”: LINK TO TEXT (2ND LINK TO TEXT) 4.2 listen to Bernstein perform “In Particular”: LINK TO AUDIO 4.3 watch discussion...
video: re-reading Bernstein’s “In a Restless World Like This Is” in a time of pandemic
During the May 13, 2020, live interactive webcast, we discussed how we re-read Charles Bernstein’s “In a Restless World Like This Is” in a time of pandemic. This “9/11 poem” turns out to be...
