erica kaufman returns for ModPo ’22
My dear friend erica kaufman is a teacher’s teacher, a poet’s poet, and a generous soul! These are just a few reasons why I am over the moon about this news: erica will once...
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
Caroline Bergvall at the Writers House – March 28/29, 2022
Poet, performance artist, sound artist Caroline Bergvall is traveling from London to be with us on March 28 and 29th. Please plan to join us! Caroline is our second Kelly Writers House Fellow of...
SloPo ModPo webcast – March 22, 2022
We will be hosting a special off-season (“SloPo” season) live interactive webcast. Laynie, Gabi, Kate, Camara, Knar, Amber Rose, Lily, Ali and Davy—and perhaps others too—will join me and YOU too for an informal, improvised conversation...
Doug Kearney reading added to PennSound
PennSound is now making available the segmented audio recording of Doug Kearney’s presentation/reading in the Kelly Writers House “City Planning Poetics Series” (curated & hosted by Davy Knittle)—October 23, 2018. Kearney appears variously in...
Ron Silliman on Ezra Pound
A 4.5-minute clip from Ron Silliman’s time as Kelly Writers House Fellow—on Ezra Pound:
A review of “The Difference is Spreading”
Karren Alenier’s review of “The Difference Is Spreading”: https://www.scene4.com/0222/karrenalenier0222.html The book can be pre-ordered HERE.
Artist Jen Wroblewski attempts to make drawing a kind of writing (minus signifying)
Here’s a recording of a 2/1/22 event at Kelly Writers House featuring Etty Yaniv interviewing Jennifer Wroblewski about Jen’s new series of drawings, “Late for Revision.” Jen spent a year making graphite drawings that...
What to do when ModPo is finished? The TAs offer some guidance.
Here’s a clip from a ModPo 2021 webcast: the ModPo TAs offer guidance in response to someone’s question about what to do when the annual symposium mode is done.
Our ModPo book, “The Difference is Spreading” — 40% discount available now!
Click this link in order to purchase our book—The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems—at a 40% discount with (for most people) free shipping as well: https://site.pennpress.org/mla-2022/9780812253238/the-difference-is-spreading/ The promotional code is...
Caroline Bergvall’s translation of Chaucer: “The Not Tale”
We are talking about “The Not Tale” — Caroline Bergvall’s experimental translation of the Arcite funeral passage in Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale” HERE. Go HERE to see the entire subforum for a 10-day discussion...
