Week 8 begins!
Welcome to week 8, our brief encounter with the Language poets. The final three weeks of ModPo constitute what we call “chapter 9.” First chapter 9.1, week 8, is indeed about the Language poets....
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
On the continuing relevance of the Beats (video clip; 9 minutes)
On the continued relevance of the Beat poets—a 9-minute clip from the week 6 live webcast for 2018, featuring comments from guest poets Rae Armantrout and Angela Carr.
ModPo update for Friday of week 7
Today I’ve been watching all the new #3 essays coming in—posted to the special subforum we’ve set up for them. If you intend to write and post an essay on Eileen Myles’s “The Honey...
High school students reach Al by phone, get advice
Christan Bush is teaching ModPo in her high school class. Which is to say: she and her students are doing ModPo together. Yesterday afternoon they reached Al by telephone in his office at the...
Info for watching/joining our live webcast (10/24/18 at 9 PM)
Tonight at 9 PM (Philadelphia time) we will host our week 7 webcast! Please plan to join us. The video stream will be available HERE. No need to wait until the webcast begins to post...
Webcast clip: on Rae Armantrout’s “The Way” (September 2018)
Here is a clip from our September 2018 week 2 webcast.
Three excerpts from Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”—new videos with Christie Williamson
We have now added Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 3. Or, to be more precise, we discuss three passages from that long poem. Joining...
New CCCR video—on Tracie Morris’s “Enclosed,” a response to Stein’s Tender Buttons
Newly added to ModPo’s CCCR syllabus—ModPo people in L.A. convened by Molly O’Neill talk about Tracie Morris’s “Enclosed,” which is a response to Stein’s Tender Buttons. https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/9luW0
Laynie Browne in ModPo
LAYNIE BROWNE IN MODPO watch Divya Victor & Laynie Browne discuss “W Is for Walt Whitman’s Soul”: LINK TO VIDEO watch a discussion of Mayer’s “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet” with Laynie Browne: LINK TO VIDEO read four...
ModPo update for Tuesday of week 7 (2018)
Here we are, Tuesday of week 7. We’re getting into a sampling of the poems of the New York School. Yesterday a group of us spent some time talking about Bernadette Mayer’s “Invasion of...
