Montreal meet-up
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...
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Chicago meet-up
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...
Filming on bpNichol & Victor Coleman with Andrew Whiteman
Yesterday, at a park in “The Plateau” neighborhood of Montreal, we filmed two ModPoPLUS videos, and one ModPoMinute, with Andrew Whiteman (the lead guitarist and lyricist for the band “Broken Social Scene”), who is...
Montreal webcast 10/4/2018: photographs
The ModPo team here in Montreal—and our colleagues everywhere—really enjoyed hosting our week 4 (Stein et alia) webcast from Concordia University. Here are some photos taken during the session:
Webcast 10/4/18 coming to you from Montreal
Greetings from Montreal! WEBCAST! Today at 6:30 PM Montreal time (same as Philadelphia time) we will be convening our week 4 live webcast. Please plan to join us live if you possibly can. If...
ModPo update, October 2 (Tuesday of week 4): on essay #2; on Stein; on Montreal webcast
This week many of us are writing 500-word essays in response to essay assignment #2. The poem we ask you to read and closely analyze is by H.D. Be sure to post your essay this week if...
New York meet-up
Mandana Chaffa, who convenes and moderates ModPo meet-ups in New York City, wrote this about the meet-up this past weekend: “The stellar NYC autumn day—as rare a sighting as an on-time subway—was outmatched, as...
L.A. meet-up
A group of ModPo people met up in L.A. this past weekend. Paige Polcene posted the photo below and wrote: “Today’s LA meetup. Found very similar themes in H. D.’s “Sheltered Garden” and “Enclosed”...
How *ever* will you be able to appreciate Gertrude Stein?
And so today we begin week 4. If you have never encountered the (supposedly) difficult and (apparently) opaque poetry of Stein, you are in for a treat. A challenge, surely, but also a treat! Be...
ModPo update for Sat. Sept. 29, 2018
Tomorrow (Sunday, September 30th) week 4 of ModPo 2018 begins. Perhaps today is a good day for reading a few more week 3 poem (perhaps THIS ONE), viewing a few more videos (such as THIS ONE), and commenting in some...
