ModPoMinute on Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways”
The newest episode of our weekly YouTube series called “ModPoMinute” is about the first section of Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”
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On the experience of re-reading the New York School
During a 2018 live webcast for week 7, we discussed the experience of re-reading the New York School poets. Here is that 4-minute clip:
A 60-something newbie to poetry calls into a webcast & we respond
One evening, during a ModPo webcast, we received a call from a self-described newbie to poetry. She’s 60-something, and her nephew recommended ModPo to her, and she loves it. The ModPo team responds:
On loss and silence in Perelman’s “Chronic Meanings”
Jake Marmer & others talk about loss and silence in Bob Perelman’s poem “Chronic Meanings”:
New video: further discussion of Harryette Mullen’s “Any Lit”
Further discussion of Harryette Mullen’s “Any Lit”—a clip from a fall 2018 webcast:
Further discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”
Here is an edited clip from our October 2018 webcast discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”:
Video: teaching with Bernadette Mayer’s writing experiments
VIDEO: on teaching with Bernadette Mayer’s list of writing experiments. Al is joined by erica kaufman and Anna Strong Safford. Al picks out a few of Mayer’s ideas and asks erica and Anna to...
Jason Camlot’s “31 Awakenings” (added to our Canadian sampler)
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...
Laura Broadbent’s “A Meditation on Translation” added to week 10 of ModPoPLUS
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...
