Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
To the week 10 syllabus of ModPoPLUS we are now adding a poem by Jason Camlot called “31 Awakenings.” And of course a video recording of a discussion about that poem. The discussion features...
Discussion of Laura Broadbent’s “A Meditation on Translation” from “In on the Great Joke”—filmed with Deanna Fong at Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore in Montreal. Here’s your link to the video: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=224331 This has been...
Discussion of Phyllis Webb’s poem “Poetry” with Deanna Fong and @annapstrong at Drawn & Quarterly bookstore: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=224332 New video added to the sampler of Canadian poetry in week 10 of ModPoPLUS.
We visited the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia to meet with curators of the extensive archive there of Marianne Moore’s papers and belongings. Archivist Elizabeth Fuller showed us manuscript versions of Moore’s famous...
We have added Lytle Shaw’s “The Confessions 2″—a poem that responds to Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”—to the Wallace Stevens section of the week 3 (rise of modernism: imagism) syllabus in ModPoPLUS. See the...
Just now added to the New York School week of ModPoPLUS (week 7)—a new video in which Lytle Shaw joins us in discussing his “homophobic translation” of Frank O’Hara’s “At the Old Place”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/rIKLc...
A number of ModPo TAs, including all but one of the originals, traveled back to the Kelly Writers House to spend the day making new videos for the course. These videos will soon be...
Our special “offseason” live webcast today begins at NOON Philly time—which is just about 3.5 hours from now. Join us! Click HERE for the live video stream. Click HERE to post a comment or...
Anna Strong Safford and Al Filreis are editing & publishing a book (paperback & e-book) of 1,000-word essays by 50 poets—each writing about one poem. Here are some of the essays: Bernadette Mayer on...
When Douglas Kearney visited the Kelly Writers House recently, he took a few moments to meet with Al Filreis and talk about the natural relationship between ModPo and Doug’s “Sharpened Visions” massive open online...