New video: further discussion of Harryette Mullen’s “Any Lit”
Further discussion of Harryette Mullen’s “Any Lit”—a clip from a fall 2018 webcast:
Category: week 8
New poem & video: Rae Armantrout’s “Speech Acts”
We have added a new poem & video to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 2 (Dickinsonians and Whitmanians). The poem is Rae Armantrout’s “Speech Acts.” During the poet’s visit to the Kelly Writers House...
New video (filmed in San Francisco): on Larry Eigner’s “corner / stop-sign”
We have now posted a new video to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 8. During a recent visit to San Francisco we gathered with Jake Marmer and Ariel Resnikoff at a tavern in the...
ModPo update for Thursday of week 8, 2018
Got ten minutes tonight? Terrific! Please click HERE and review some essays! Below, in particular, are six essays on Eileen Myles’s “The Honey Bear” that could use a few more reviews/responses. Please click on at least...
A sampling of our Language poets’ poems (week 8)
Here are some fascinating options for starting into our week 8 syllabus: Lyn Hejinian writes a prose-poem autobiography, following her life year by year—but her sentences are not in chronological order, nor are they of...
Week 8 begins!
Welcome to week 8, our brief encounter with the Language poets. The final three weeks of ModPo constitute what we call “chapter 9.” First chapter 9.1, week 8, is indeed about the Language poets....