Poet, performance artist, sound artist Caroline Bergvall is traveling from London to be with us on March 28 and 29th. Please plan to join us! Caroline is our second Kelly Writers House Fellow of...
For ModPo people who admire the work of Caroline Bergvall in week 10 of our course: We at PennSound have now segmented (by topic discussed and poem performed) Caroline Bergvall’s appearance on Leonard Schwartz’s...
The ModPo team talks for five minutes about the poem Nasser Hussain wrote, using only three-letter airport codes, in response to Walt Whitman—during a 2020 live ModPo webcast.
Fairly new to ModPo’s week 10 syllabus: an excerpt from Jordan Abel’s A Place of Scraps. We have now added to ModPoPLUS for week 10 a 20-minute discussion in which we talk about erasure...
Danny Snelson and Al Filreis met to discuss two book-length poems or prose poems—Craig Dworkin’s The Pine-Woods Notebook and Frances Ponge’s World War II-era The Pine Woods Notebook. Obviously there is a connection and...
Yesterday we posted episode 71 of our ModPoMinute YouTube series. This episode features a discussion of Craig Dworkin’s “The Pine Woods Notebook” with Danny Snelson:
We now begin the final week of ModPo 2019’s “symposium mode.” Week 10 begins today. HERE are the poems and videos. The poets we discuss this week are testing the limits of our understanding...
Marcel Duchamp’s miscellaneous notes were included in the conceptualist anthology called Against Expression. HERE is a copy of the text. HERE is a video recording of a discussion about these notes with Marjorie Perloff, Danny...
We are now adding a new video on Jen Scappettone‘s “The Republic of Exit 43″—a close-reading/close-looking discussion of one poem/page/collage from that book. This video and the poem are being added today to ModPoPLUS...
Week 10! Yes, today we begin week 10. It’s our final week of the so-called “symposium mode” of ModPo. Each (northern hemisphere) autumn, from September to late-mid-November, we move through the ten weeks of...