ModPo is coming to L.A. in February 2023
The ModPo team will be in Los Angeles in early February. If you are in or near L.A., or might like to travel there to meet up with us, please keep reading this note—about...
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
Jerome Rothenberg’s favorite Stein poem
During our 2022 week 4 live webcast, Jerome Rothenberg talks about a favorite Gertrude Stein poem. Rothenberg was visiting the Writers House from California to be with us for the webcast, a PoemTalk episode,...
SloPo courses for winter/spring 2023
Once again, we at ModPo are pleased to roster several SloPo (off-season) mini-courses. Anyone enrolled in ModPo is eligible to participate. (If you are not currently enrolled in ModPo, go HERE.) To enroll in...
Sylvia Plath’s “The Stones”
Here is the text of Sylvia Plath’s “The Stones.” This poem was discussed in episode #129 of the PoemTalk podcast series HERE. The Stones This is the city where men are mended.I lie on...
John Ashbery’s “The Short Answer”
Here is the text of Ashbery’s poem “The Short Answer” from his book Quick Question. This was the basis of a PoemTalk episode which can be heard and viewed HERE. The Short Answer I...
ModPo at the Morgan Library, 10/26/2002
The ModPo team traveled to the Morgan Library in New York, where they met up with many ModPo friends, including legendary ModPo TA Ali Castleman and poet Lee Ann Brown. The week’s live webcast—for...
Laynie Browne performs four poems from “Daily Sonnets”
Listen to Laynie Browne perform four poems from her book Daily Sonnets: “6/14 Donne Sonnet,” “Two-Fourteenths Sonnet,” “In Chinese astrology you are a snake,” “I’m a bunny in a human suit”: “6/14ths Donne sonnet”:...
Rosmarie Waldrop writes through the Declaration of Independence
Listen as Rosmarie Waldrop writes through the Declaration of Independence using N+7 chance operations:
Erica Hunt gives the inaugural poem at Penn
Erica Hunt—a poet who is a dear friend of KWH, once the teacher of a full-semester course at the House, and a recent KWH Fellow, and whose poems are in the ModPo curriculum—gave the...
ModPo at the Poetry Foundation, October 15, 2022
During the ModPo team’s visit to Chicago in October 2022 we spent Saturday at the Poetry Foundation. At 11 AM we recorded an episode of PoemTalk before a live audience. We discussed seven short...
