ModPo Database Participant: Kristen Martin
![on what we mean when we talk about an "open" poem](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
on what we mean when we talk about an “open” poem
A webcast clip featuring Amaris Cuchanski, Max McKenna & Kristen Martin in response to a question from Sara Diaz.
ModPoPLUS
video: introduction
0:08:17
![on why this kind of poetry is apt for a MOOC](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
on why this kind of poetry is apt for a MOOC
From a 2012 webcast, featuring Jason Zuzga & Kristen Martin.
ModPoPLUS
video: introduction
0:04:19
![discussion of early modernists' preference for the concrete over the abstract](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
discussion of early modernists’ preference for the concrete over the abstract
ModPoPLUS
video: further poem discussion
0:03:45
![further discussion of Williams's "Between Walls" (2013)](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
further discussion of Williams’s “Between Walls” (2013)
ModPoPLUS
video: further poem discussion
0:05:44
![further discussion of Stevens's "Thirteen Way of Looking at a Blackbird" (2013)](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
further discussion of Stevens’s “Thirteen Way of Looking at a Blackbird” (2013)
TRC
video: further poem discussion
0:09:33
![Al Filreis leading a class discussion of Stevens's "The Snow Man" (part 1)](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Al Filreis leading a class discussion of Stevens’s “The Snow Man” (part 1)
TRC
video: further poem discussion
0:07:11
![Al Filreis leading a class discussion of Stevens's "The Snow Man" (part 2)](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
Al Filreis leading a class discussion of Stevens’s “The Snow Man” (part 2)
TRC
video: further poem discussion
0:07:01
![further discussion of Pound's "The Encounter" from a live webcast](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
further discussion of Pound’s “The Encounter” from a live webcast
TRC
video: further poem discussion
0:05:44
![discussion of Stein's "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso"](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
discussion of Stein’s “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso”
ModPo
video: primary poem discussion
0:20:49
![discussion of Bishop's "A Recollection" and the sonnet in modernism](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
discussion of Bishop’s “A Recollection” and the sonnet in modernism
ModPo
video: primary poem discussion
0:08:57
![discussion of how we assess and value Gertrude Stein's writing](https://modpo.org/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
discussion of how we assess and value Gertrude Stein’s writing
ModPoPLUS
video: further poem discussion
0:06:44