ModPo Database Participant: Alonna Shaw
A discussion of Vinograd’s “Why I write poetry” at a ModPo meet-up in Tokyo
Alonna writes: “This is how Olga and I began discussing Julia Vinograd’s “Why I Write Poetry” at a ModPo meetup in Tokyo, June 2026. For us, close reading is a collaborative conversation centered on one poem. We are freed from the expectation that there is only one right answer.”
discussion of Gary Snyder’s translation of Kenji Miyazawa’s “Cloud Semaphore”
Hosted by poet/translator/scientist Yosuke Tanaka in May 2026. Here is a link to an audio-only recording. Here is a photograph of the group.
ModPo people respond to A.I.’s effect on week 9 poetry
For the making of the “canon challenge” video to be added to the syllabus of week 9 on aleatory and chance-based poetry, we asked ModPo people to respond to this question: Does the ascendancy of A.I. and Large Language Models (LLMs) change the way we encounter week 9 of ModPo? Are the week 9 poets outdated or in need of reconsideration?