Bernadette Mayer, “Returning Books to Their Shelves”
In 2025 this poem was featured in one of the essay assignments for ModPo.
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re-reading Bernadette Mayer’s “The Incorporation of Sophia’s Cereal” in a time of pandemic
During our May 13, 2020, live interactive webcast, we talked about re-reading Bernadette Mayer’s “The Incorporation of Sophia’s Cereal” in a time of pandemic. Here is that segment of the webcast:
New video: on Mayer’s “The Incorporation of Sophia’s Cereal”
We’ve long admired how Bernadette Mayer incorporates things, scenes, people, occasions from her daily life in her poems. This is at the heart of the New York School style, of course. Then there’s the...
Video: teaching with Bernadette Mayer’s writing experiments
VIDEO: on teaching with Bernadette Mayer’s list of writing experiments. Al is joined by erica kaufman and Anna Strong Safford. Al picks out a few of Mayer’s ideas and asks erica and Anna to...
Remove “a”-words from a communist poem (per B. Mayer)
If you go back to week 5 (chapter 3—on communist poets) and find Genevieve Taggard’s “Interior,” and then remove all the words beginning with “a” (per one of the Bernadette Mayer experiments), this is...
ModPo update: week 9 begins
Welcome again to week 9. In the main ModPo syllabus this week, we read and discuss the aleatory writing of John Cage, Jackson Mac Low, Jena Osman, and Joan Retallack—and the writing experiments of...
ModPo update for Tuesday of week 7 (2018)
Here we are, Tuesday of week 7. We’re getting into a sampling of the poems of the New York School. Yesterday a group of us spent some time talking about Bernadette Mayer’s “Invasion of...
New poem & video: Bernadette Mayer’s “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet”
The ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 7 now includes Bernadette Mayer’s “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet.” Below are some links: read Mayer’s “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet”: LINK TO TEXT listen to Mayer perform “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet”: LINK TO...