canon challenge video for week 9
Al Filreis presents our week 9 “canon challenge,” ninth in a series examining problems or difficulties with the ModPo syllabus.
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 Are the week 9 poets outdated or in need of reconsideration?
erica kaufman’s essay on Retallack’s “Not a Cage”
From the book The Difference Is Spreading, erica kaufman’s short essay on “Not a Cage.”
further discussion of Loden’s “I Know a Brand”
Max McKenna leads the ETZM group, 2022.
text of Morris’s “Invisible Man on a Station in the Metro”
From her book “human / nature poems.”
text of Barbara Althea Jones’s “Crystal Ball”, “Hello – Sonnet” and “Academia”
discussion of Barbara Althea Jones’s “Crystal Ball”, “Hello — Sonnet” and “Academia”
discussion of M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Discourse on the Logic of Language”
discussion of Oana Avasilichioaei’s “Voices (remix) Side A”
discussion of Raha’s “subterranean / dreaming grace roots”
