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...
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
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...
Tracie Morris visits for our week 10 webcast!
Tracie Morris was our special guest at the Kelly Writers House this past week—leading an improvised workshop for Writers House people, joining us for the live week 10 webcast. Here are some photos of...
ModPo update for Saturday, November 16
Have you listened to Caroline Bergvall’s mesmerizing performance of her “VIA”? If not, I urge you to do so (go HERE). As you know, she has made an arrangement of many translators’ versions of...
ModPo comes to Seattle & Vancouver
The ModPo team is definitely coming to Seattle and Vancouver in January! In Seattle: there will be a ModPo meet-up on Friday, January 10, We will gather at the Town Hall Forum starting at...
ModPo update: week 10 begins!
We now begin the final week of ModPo 2019’s “symposium mode.” Week 10 begins today. HERE are the poems and videos. The poets we discuss this week are testing the limits of our understanding...
ModPo update for Monday, November 4, 2019
Monday of week 9! Have you encountered John Cage’s explanation for why he thinks we should make English less understandable? If not, please take a look HERE. As usual, we are holding office hours...
Nick Montfort on radical uses of the sonnet
During our live webcast from Boston, October 2019, Al asked Nick Montfort to talk about radical uses of the sonnet. Here is his response: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/z0APZ
