Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
On Thursday, January 28, at 6:00 PM (ET), Kelly Writers House Faculty Director & ModPo founder Al Filreis will lead a collaborative close reading of Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Snow Man” — and you...
We have begun to edit a series of 1-minute videos under the rubric “ModPo shorts.” Our goal here is to draw in folks who don’t know about ModPo, who don’t feel they have time...
In ModPoPLUS for week 8, we include a poem by Fred Wah called “Between You and Me There Is an I.” During our ModPo 2020 week 8 webcast, we discussed this poem, and here...
Daphne Marlatt is a Vancouver-based poet. ModPoPLUS week 10 features a “Canadian sampler.” Here are the Daphne Marlatt resources there: 17.24 read Daphne Marlatt‘s “Generation, Generations at the Mouth”: LINK TO TEXT 17.25 watch discussion with...
We continue to add new materials to our CCCR (Community Collaborative Close Readings) syllabus. The newest addition: Aiden Meade (Ireland), a 2020 ModPo participant, performs and interprets Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”: LINK TO VIDEO...
We have now added to our CCCR syllabus a new video of a collaborative discussion of Rae Armantrout’s “Second Person”: re-read Rae Armantrout’s “Second Person”: LINK TO TEXT watch discussion of Armantrout’s “Second Person”:...
Over the years the collection of Wallace Stevens poems, audio and video in the ModPoPLUS syllabus has become quite an extensive array. Here is a list, with links, of all these materials: 8.1 read...
We are pleased to announce that you can now listen to an audio livestream of a live ModPo webcast. This is ideal for folks with slow internet connections, and for people who are traveling...
Below is a list of some of the essays submitted in response to essay assignment #1 that could use some more responses. Please take a moment today or very soon to click on one...
Week 2 of ModPo 2020 has begun! This week, as you know, we will explore poems written by poets who are influenced by—and/or are responding to—Dickinson and Whitman. For a 5 1/2-minute video introduction...