ModPo week 6 – here come the Beats
It’s week 6 of ModPo 2019! Time for the Beat poets! The main week 6 syllabus features the writings of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Anne Waldman, Bob Kaufman, Amiri Baraka, Robert Creeley, and Jayne...
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ModPo update for October 9, 2019: 1) webcast, 2) NYC, 3) Seattle/Vancouver?; 4) discussions to join; 5) essays
Here are a few updates for today, Wednesday of ModPo 2019 week 5: WEBCAST. Tomorrow’s webcast will begin at 7 PM Boston time. Click HERE to join us at the time of the webcast....
2-minute video clip on “A Supermarket in California”
During a September 2019 webcast, we talked for 2 minutes further about Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California.” See below for new links to ModPoPLUS, and here is that video: PART THIRTEEN: ALLEN GINSBERG 13.1...
New video: on Stevens’s “The Plot against the Giant” (with Charles Altieri)
Al traveled recently to Los Angeles to participate in a conference on Wallace Stevens. There he met Charles Altieri, eminent critic of modern U.S. poetry. They talked for 7 minutes about Wallace Stevens’s poem...
Week 5 begins (& other updates)
Week 5, week 5! Today is our first day of week 5. The main syllabus for week 5 is divided into four parts or “chapters.” Chapter 3 is about the communist poets of the...
New video tour of the Kelly Writers House
Back in June 2019 many of the ModPo TAs gathered back at the Writers House—a reunion!—to make a series of new videos for the ModPo syllabi. During a break we also filmed a new...
ModPo update for Friday, October 4, 2019
Friday dawns here in Philly as we begin to wrap up week 4 of ModPo 2019. While many folks are continuing to read Stein and other poems in the main syllabus, and watch our...
ModPo update for Thursday of week 4 (October 3, 2019)
Here we are—Thursday of week 4 of ModPo 2019. Have you had a chance to watch Bob Perelman’s brilliant explanation of Gertrude Stein’s occasional use of the continuous present tense? No? Well, here is...
ModPo updates: various, fun, important, misc. (October 1, 2019)
Good morning! Today the eminent poet Jerome (Jerry) Rothenberg, 88 years young, will be visiting the Writers House, as he does whenever he is touring the east coast. We will be making four new...
imagists influenced by Japanese poetry (and also: Japanese poets were influenced by imagists putting their tradition to use in modernist modes)
Nishiwiki’s poem “Rain” is directly influenced by H.D.’s “Oread.” Here is a discussion with Andrew Houwen about the connection. Generally speaking, thanks for a few contemporary scholars working on the relationship, we find that...
