new section on “Confessional poets”
As part of the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 5 (chapter 6), we have added a section of poems by so-called “confessional poets” of the late 1950s and 1960s. We have been edging toward discussions...
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Poems from (and videos about) Rosa Alcalá’s “Undocumentaries”
We have now added three poems and two new videos to ModPoPLUS week 3. These are from—and about—Rosa Alcalá’s book Undocumentaries. We met up with David Colon in Seattle in January 2020 to talk about...
John Yau poems in ModPoPLUS week 7
We recently added two new poems—and a new video for each poem—to our John Yau entry in ModPoPLUS. See list and links below. These are now part of the week 7 syllabus in ModPoPLUS....
video: why experimental poetry & online teaching go well together
Why experimental poetry is well suited to remote/online teaching:
a ModPoPLUS playlist — a selection of ten poems & videos from the first half of the course
Recently Kent Ekberg, a long-time devoted ModPo’er and someone whose grit we admire a lot, mentioned that he was looking for some new interesting things to read and watch. We suggested a “best of”...
MoMA/ModPo combo webcast, June 11, 2020, at 11 AM (eastern US time)
Save the date! On Thursday, June 11, at 11 AM (eastern U.S. time) ModPo and MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art in New York City) will be kicking off a collaboration with a live...
Charles Bernstein ModPo materials to date
From ModPoPLUS part 2: PART FOUR: CHARLES BERNSTEIN 4.1 read Charles Bernstein’s “In Particular”: LINK TO TEXT (2ND LINK TO TEXT) 4.2 listen to Bernstein perform “In Particular”: LINK TO AUDIO 4.3 watch discussion...
video: re-reading Bernstein’s “In a Restless World Like This Is” in a time of pandemic
During the May 13, 2020, live interactive webcast, we discussed how we re-read Charles Bernstein’s “In a Restless World Like This Is” in a time of pandemic. This “9/11 poem” turns out to be...
