Al’s update on Friday of week 1 (ModPo 2019)
Here are a few notes from me on this Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2019: WEEK ONE CONTINUES. Yes, let’s keep reading Dickinson and Whitman today and tomorrow, and let’s keep talking about...
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live webcast, week 1 – September 11, 2019 at 3 PM
Tomorrow (Wednesday, September 11) is webcast day here at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. You really should try to make plans to watch (and participate in) our first weekly ModPo webcast of 2019....
ModPo week 1: webcast & office hours
Today I want to highlight two things: 1) our first webcast coming up on Wednesday at 3 PM (Philadephia time) and 2) our office hours. WEBCASTS: Yes, our first weekly live webcast will happen...
Day 1 of week 1, ModPo 2019 — Al’s announcement
Week 1 of ModPo officially starts today. Here is the week 1 syllabus: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/home/week/1 Week 1 consists of a few poems by Emily Dickinson and sections (or “cantos”) from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”...
ModPo has begun today — Al’s announcement
ModPo 2019 has begun. It’s good to see, already, a number of lively, generous introductions. You can read them HERE. And please, while you’re there, post an introduction to yourself! I recommend that you...
Julia Vinograd’s poem “Street Detail” (text & videos)
We have now added Julia Vinograd’s “Street Detail” to ModPoPLUS—to week 5 (chapter 4). The text and a video recording of a discussion about this poem with ModPo’ers in Los Angeles has been added...
ModPo 2019 opening day message from Al
It’s Friday morning as I write this here in Philadelphia USA. Twenty-four hours from now we will begin our 10-week journey through the ModPo course. Whether you are able to devote just two hours...
Marcel Duchamp’s notes (discussion with Marjorie Perloff & others)
Marcel Duchamp’s miscellaneous notes were included in the conceptualist anthology called Against Expression. HERE is a copy of the text. HERE is a video recording of a discussion about these notes with Marjorie Perloff, Danny...
Marjorie Perloff on William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All”
During a visit to Los Angeles in January 2019, Al and Anna stopped by to see the eminent critic Marjorie Perloff at her home. We recorded a conversation about a several-pages-long passage from WCW’s Spring...
ModPoPLUS video on Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Chicago Picasso”
We have added Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Chicago Picasso” to week 5 of ModPoPLUS. Here is a link to the text of the poem. Here is a link to the video inside the ModPo...
