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...
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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
a meta-poetic reading of Frost
During our October 2019 visit to Boston, where our weekly webcast was hosted at MIT, Anna Strong Safford led us in a meta-poetic reading of Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/VTAeP .
Week 9 begins!
Today we begin week 9 (chapter 9.2) of ModPo 2019. Week 9 is about aleatory poetry—poems written by or through chance operations, quasi-nonintentional poems, poems written through or in spite of severe rules or...
New video: on Mayer’s “The Incorporation of Sophia’s Cereal”
We’ve long admired how Bernadette Mayer incorporates things, scenes, people, occasions from her daily life in her poems. This is at the heart of the New York School style, of course. Then there’s the...
ModPo update for 11/1/2019: 1) SloPo; 2) Final Words; 3) Kelly Writers House New York event; 4) week 9
Hello and greetings from the Kelly Writers House on this Friday of week 8 of ModPo 2019! SloPo Two more weeks left of what we call “the symposium mode” of ModPo for this year!...
ModPo webcast at the Morgan Library: photos
Thanks to Christine Nelson, Morgan Library curator and ModPo friend, we hosted a live ModPo webcast at the library in New York City on October 30, 2019—for a discussion of our week 8 poems:...
