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...
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
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...
ModPo webcast at the Morgan Library in NY – 10/26/2022
We at the Kelly Writers House are thrilled to invite you to join us for a special edition of our weekly “ModPo” live interactive webcasts. For this event the Writers House/ModPo team will be...
New ModPo essay: “Collaborative Close Reading and Global Conversation…”
HERE is a link to a new essay co-written by Anna Strong Safford, Davy Knittle, and me, published in a book of essays, Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom, eds. John Miller and Julie...
Tracie Morris improvises a poem-performance with Jayne Cortez
Watch Tracie Morris improvise a poem-performance in response to (and with) the video of Jayne Cortez performing her piece “She Got He Got.” This was Tracie’s contribution to a program featuring six poets each...
Rae Armantrout, “Second Person”
HERE is a link to the text of Rae Armantrout’s “Second Person.” And HERE is a page with related links.
