Two passages from Sarah Dowling’s “Entering Sappho”
We discuss these two passages from Sarah Dowling’s Entering Sappho: “Clip”: LINK “White Columns”: LINK
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
5 pages from Craig Dworkin’s “The Pine-Woods Notebook”
In week 10 of ModPoPLUS we discuss 5 pages from Craig Dworkin’s The Pine-Woods Notebook: Excerpt #1, page 13: LINK Excerpt #2, pages 14-15: LINK Excerpt #3, pages 16-17: LINK Excerpt #4, pages 36-37:...
texts of 3 poems from Joan Retallack’s Bosch series
Here are three poems from Retallack’s Bosch series: LINK TO TEXTS —–
C. D. Wright: 4 poems from “One Big Self”
Here are four poems from Wright’s book One Big Self that formed the basis of the conversation recorded in an episode of PoemTalk: “Count Heads”: LINK “Count Your Fingers”: LINK “I want to go...
Joan Retallack SloPo mini-course (Jan 6-20, 2023)
Welcome to the SloPo mini-course on the writings of Joan Retallack. If at any time you have questions about how our mini-course is working, please don’t hesitate to contact Al Filreis at afilreis@writing.upenn.edu. Our...
New Year’s greetings (2023) — video message from Al
Al stopped by the Kelly Writers House on his daily run on New Year’s Eve day, 12/31/22, and made a 5-minute video greeting for all ModPo people.
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...
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...
