Artist Maria Markovich makes an Emily Dickinson sculpture
The artist Maria Markovich has participated in ModPo for a number of years. In 2015 she created the Emily Dickinson figure photographed below.
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
ModPo’s home is Kelly Writers House—can you help?
I love my affiliation with ModPo and this is the time of year when I take time to reflect on what’s good and sweet in my life. ModPo is good and sweet, for sure!...
Greek ModPo’er makes Stein comix
Kyriakos Mavridis, a ModPo participant back in 2013, has made a work of comix from Gertrude Stein’s prose poem “Let Us Describe,” which we discuss in ModPo: http://jacket2.org/commentary/stein-comix
ModPo meet-up in L.A. – January 18, 2019, starting at 6:30 PM
The ModPo team will be traveling to the U.S. west coast in January. We will convene meet-ups in San Francisco and then in Los Angeles. Today I’m announcing details of our Los Angeles meet-up....
“The poem is a tiny utopian space”—Josh Schuster
Here is a video clip from our week 9 (November 7, 2018) live webcast—in which guest poet/teacher Joshua Schuster (one of the founders of the Writers House in 1995-96) discusses the classroom and the...
Further discussion of “demilitarizing” & defamiliarizing language (video)
Here is a further discussion of (Cage’s idea of) defamiliarizing and defamiliarizing language—a video clip from our November 7, 2018 week 9 live webcast:
On the pleasures & disappointments of making your own mesostic poem (video; 6 minutes)
Here is a video clip from the week 9 live webcast (November 7, 2018).
Jake Marmer’s writing prompts
Poet and long-time ModPo TA Jake Marmer has shared three of his many writing prompts. Attention ModPo teachers: try these with your students and let us know (modpo@writing.upenn.edu) how it went.
New CCCR video on “Representations” by Rosemarie Waldrop
Max McKenna & two ModPo’ers in Chicago have added a good close reading of Rosmarie Waldrop’s poem “Representations.” Video quality is fuzzy but audio is good and the reading is terrific. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpJBFVRcx_w (link to...
Poem by a ModPo’er poet
In the ModPo forums ModPo’er Lauren Elle DeGaine told us of her chapbook, “The Landscape We Left on Each Other.” Just now I read these poems with pleasure. Here is one that is especially intriguing (and...
