Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
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We have very nearly reached our goal of providing every ModPo essayist at least four responses to their essay! I have found just a few essays—for instance, THIS one and THIS one and THIS...
Next Wednesday—October 17—there will be not one but two events held at the Kelly Writers House here in Philadelphia that we hope will be of interest to all ModPo people. 1) At noon, we...
Here is a 3-minute video clip in which we discuss Dada, power, appropriation and Williams’s plums:
Please plan to join us for our week 5 webcast tomorrow (Wednesday, October 10) at 5 PM Philadelphia time. Tomorrow morning I will send the usual guidelines and will describe options for participating. Meantime,...
Joan Danforth, experienced ModPo’er, has created a Stein collage, and mailed it to us. We will keep it and show it to any ModPo person who comes by the Kelly Writers House for a...
Welcome, truly, to ModPo 2018 week 5! Below I’ve copied one of the four headnotes to the main week 5 syllabus—on “chapter 4” (the second of week 5’s four parts), the Harlem Renaissance. And...
Annamaria Gradara has published an article about ModPo in an Italian magazine. The piece is in part based on an interview with Massimo Soranzio, a long-term ModPo’er. HERE is a link to the article.
Last night (10-6-2018) a small group of ModPo’ers met in Montreal to do two collaborative close readings—which we recorded and will add to ModPoPLUS. We discussed a poem by Dickinson and Fred Wah’s poem...
Matt Corey reports from Chicago on the recent ModPo meet-up convened there: “Photos from our Chicago meetup today, a more formal one – that’s left to right Marc (who goes by Dr. Marc A...
