Update during our final weekend of ModPo 2018
ModPo 2018 ends on Monday with our annual Final Words webcast, as I’ve noted previously. But really what’s ending is what we call our “symposium mode,” our annual run through the ten weeks of...
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Final Words thread & webcast & voicemail
We have more week 10 poems to discuss, and there are more essay-assignments for you to read and review, BUT… we have created a “Final Words” thread HERE. Is there something you want to...
call for responses to ModPo’ers’ poem-essays
You’ll find in the ModPo site currently a number of really creative “uncreative” responses to assignment #4. People took such pleasure from this experimental poem-making task! You’ll see all the poems in THIS subforum. As usual...
ModPo update for Monday of week 10 (including info about “final words”)
This week our live webcast will begin at 8 PM Philadelphia time on Wednesday, November 14. Please plan to join us! As you know—our last live webcast of the season will happen next Monday,...
Al’s update at the start of week 10 (2018)
Week 10! Yes, today we begin week 10. It’s our final week of the so-called “symposium mode” of ModPo. Each (northern hemisphere) autumn, from September to late-mid-November, we move through the ten weeks of...
A ModPo’er makes an impromptu visit to KWH
Yesterday Al was hanging around at a Kelly Writers House open house (for Penn’s homecoming day). A ModPo’er who is not affiliated with Penn other than through ModPo, who happened to be in Philly...
Talking about form becomes a crucial part of any discussion of “content”
Go HERE to see an interesting discussion about form and content. One of my responses is below.
Celina uses mesostic to write through her own essay about an encounter in Cuba
Celina found a wonderful prompt for her mesostic re-writing. Below is her explanation & here is where you can find her mesostic poem: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/all/threads/whmWHOUkEeim-Ap6C5Wgvg
Remove “a”-words from a communist poem (per B. Mayer)
If you go back to week 5 (chapter 3—on communist poets) and find Genevieve Taggard’s “Interior,” and then remove all the words beginning with “a” (per one of the Bernadette Mayer experiments), this is...
3 new videos on Eileen Myles (featuring Davy Knittle’s students)
Three new videos—in which Davy Knittle’s student, joined by Lily Applebaum, discuss poems by Eileen Myles: “Writing,” “Snakes,” “Mount St. Helens”: HERE, HERE, and HERE.
