ModPo Short: 1-minute video on Gertrude Stein’s “Water Raining”
A 1-minute clip from the October 1, 2014, live webcast on Stein:
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ModPo Short: 1-minute video on the social specificity of the Beats
From an October 17, 2018, live webcast, featuring poet-critic Angela Carr.
Filreis leads a “Listening Practice” workshop on February 17, 2021
On Wednesday (Feb 17) Al Filreis will be leading a “Listening Practice” workshop for SpokenWeb, the Canada-based consortium of digital audio archiving. https://spokenweb.ca/events/virtual-listening-practice-guided-by-al-filreis/ [<–click to register]
Live collaborative close reading of Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
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...
introducing: “ModPo shorts”!
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...
On Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I”
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, Vancouver-based poet, in ModPoPLUS
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...
Aiden from Ireland performs & interprets “Mending Wall”
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...
new CCCR video on Armantrout’s “Second Person”
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”:...
Wallace Stevens in ModPoPLUS
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...
