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...
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
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...
ModPo updates for Tuesday of week 3: (1) webcast; (2) reviewing essays; (3) Montreal
Three ModPo things today: 1) WEBCAST. Tomorrow (Wednesday, September 26) at 10 AM Philadelphia time we will be convening our week 3 live webcast. Please plan to join us live if you possibly can....
A sampling of new(ish) ModPoPLUS videos for week 3
ModPoPLUS keeps expanding. Week 3’s ModPoPLUS syllabus includes some 76 poems and videos. Below are some relatively new videos. A sampling of ModPoPLUS videos for week 3: watch discussion of “Portrait d’une Femme” filmed...
New video: further discussion of Armantrout’s “The Way”
Over the years ModPo people have spent a good deal of time pondering how to read Rae Armantrout’s “The Way.” Almost everyone deems it to be the most difficult poem on the week 2...
New video: on teaching Cid Corman’s “It isnt for want”
During our week 2 webcast for ModPo 2018 we had an opportunity to discuss—once again!—Cid Corman’s “It isnt for want.” After a bit we turned to how the poem might be taught. Is this...
