1-minute “ModPo Short”: on a Fred Wah poem
1-minute clip from the longer video made in Vancouver about Fred Wah’s great poem “Between You and Me There Is an I”:
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COVID-19 lockdown moment PoemTalk with 3 ModPo’ers
Recorded during the spring ’20 time of lockdown, during the first shocks of the pandemic, this special episode of PoemTalk considered William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All” (“By the road to the contagious hospital”)...
Poem about Walt Whitman constructed only with three-letter airport codes
The ModPo team talks for five minutes about the poem Nasser Hussain wrote, using only three-letter airport codes, in response to Walt Whitman—during a 2020 live ModPo webcast.
John Cage’s conception of beauty — a new 4-minute video
We have now added to ModPoPLUS week 9 a 4-minute video in which we discuss John Cage’s conception of beauty.
1-minute video about Rosa Alcalá’s “Undocumentaries”
David Colón and Al Filreis recorded a discussion about Rosa Alcalá’s Undocumentaries — 24 minutes in all. Here now is a 1-minute excerpt from that discussion, which can be found in ModPoPLUS week 3:
1-minute excerpt from longer discussion of Bernstein’s “There’s a Hole in My Pocket”
In ModPoPLUS week 8 there’s a 17-minute video of a discussion with Tonya Foster, Tracie Morris, and erica kaufman on Charles Bernstein’s poem “There’s a Hole in My Pocket.” Now we have made available...
Sylvia Plath poems & videos in ModPoPLUS week 5
ModPoPLUS for week 5 (“chapter 6”) deals with formalist poets of the 1950s, “neo-modernists” of the Cold War era, and also has a relatively new section on several confessional poets. Among the confessional poets...
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué returns as ModPo 2021 TA
The nicest thing happened at the end of the day yesterday. We recorded a new episode of PoemTalk (to be released a few months from now) and the talented Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué joined us as...
On erasure as a technique in Jordan Abel’s “A Place of Scraps”
Fairly new to ModPo’s week 10 syllabus: an excerpt from Jordan Abel’s A Place of Scraps. We have now added to ModPoPLUS for week 10 a 20-minute discussion in which we talk about erasure...
Fall 2021 ModPo weekly live webcast schedule
We are thrilled to announce the ModPo 2021 weekly live webcast schedule. All times given are U.S. eastern times (Philadelphia time). ModPo webcasts are viewable through YouTube—at ModPo’s own YouTube channel. You can also...
