ModPo announces: “SloPo” mini-courses for winter/spring 2020
We here at ModPo are very pleased to once again be able to offer brand new SloPo mini courses to any and all ModPo students who want to join them. Two of these courses...
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
ModPo in Seattle
Nicholas “Denny” Stern, great ModPo guy (Community TA), in Seattle last night after our ModPo meet-up there (at Town Hall Seattle). We talked about Rae Armantrout‘s new poem “Care” and also Lorine Niedecker’s “My Life...
Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Chicago Picasso”
See below for three links pertaining to Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Chicago Picasso.” We have now added an excerpt from a 1969 interview in which Brooks talked about that poem. This is all in...
Wallace Stevens, “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain”
This poem is being discussed HERE. Whether you are reading this as it is posted, or soon after–or much later—we urge you to click HERE and add your thoughts. The text of the poem...
Further discussion of “the American Beauty Rose” in week 3 discussions
A ModPo’er who is not familiar with the U.S. asks about our emphasis on “the American Beauty Rose” in our discussions (during week 3) of imagism’s rebuke of the clichéd rose. Here is a...
read Al Filreis on canto 8 of “Song of Myself”
Recently we added a short commentary on canto 8 of “Song of Myself” to the main week 1 syllabus. Here is that brief essay: * In canto 8 we encounter the poem’s first urban...
On Robin Blaser’s “A Bird in the House”
Some time ago we recorded an episode of PoemTalk about a poem by Robin Blaser, “A Bird in the House.” Then we found ourselves in San Francisco, meeting up with ModPo people, and decided...
On Baraka’s “How You Sound??” with Douglas Kearney
Al Filreis and Doug Kearney went into the Wexler Studio of the Kelly Writers House to discuss Amiri Baraka’s “How You Sound??” This statement appeared in Donald Allen’s famous anthology, The New American Poetry in...
The ModPo team visits Bureau Gallery with Erica Baum
On the day the ModPo team traveled to New York City to meet Erica Baum at Bureau to make a video—where her show “A Long Dress” was exhibited—these photographs were taken:
Final Words webcast (Nov 18 at 10:30 AM)
Tomorrow morning at 10:30 AM Philadelphia time we will be going live with our last webcast of 2019—our annual “Final Words” webcast. Please plan to join us! HERE is your link to the live...
