New to ModPo: abridged discussion of Dickinson’s “Alone and in a Circumstance”
Text (including manuscript), audio (by Lee Ann Brown) & two filmed discussions about Dickinson’s “Alone and in a Circumstance.” https://modpo.org/explore/?poem=1135
Tagged: Dickinson
New video on Dickinson: “He fumbles at your Soul”
Just added to ModPo—a 26-minute abridged version of our discussion of Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul”—recorded in January 2020 in Seattle with Davy Knittle and Cristanne Miller.
ModPo’ers’ essays that can use your attention!
Below is a list of some of the essays submitted in response to essay assignment #1 that could use some more responses. Please take a moment today or very soon to click on one...
Montreal meet-up discusses Dickinson’s “The Soul unto itself”
During our visit to Montreal in October 2018, we convened a meet-up which was attended by a wonderful group of Canadian ModPo’ers. One of the poems we discussed that night was Dickinson’s “The Soul...
Special SloPo live webcast, Thursday, June 6 starting at noon
We are convening a special SloPo season (off season) ModPo live webcast on Thursday, June 6, starting at noon Philly time. Please plan to join us! Click this link then: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/webcasts/ We will be...
Week 3 begins — time to review others’ essays
Week 3 of ModPo 2018 begins! We hope you enjoy the intense, terse imagist poems we offer through the syllabus. I’ll have more to say about these early modernist poems tomorrow. Meantime, be sure...
Talking about Vesuvius at home
To talk about Dickinson’s idea of her poem—or writing space—as a Vesuvius at home, go HERE.
Updates & notes for the end of week 1
Here are a few notes from me on this Friday of week 1 of ModPo ’18: WEEK ONE CONTINUES. Yes, let’s keep reading Dickinson and Whitman today and tomorrow, and let’s keep talking about...
Facebook Live “office hour” – Anna & Al talk about Dickinson
Today Anna and Al joined a number of ModPo people using Facebook Live, experimenting with a live-streaming-plus-commentary mode that we will use this autumn experimentally for a mode of “office hour.” You can watch...
ModPoPLUS headnotes being revised
We are revising the headnotes to ModPoPLUS (the paragraph-long introduction to each week’s readings and videos). Here’s the revised headnote to week 1: The first week of ModPo’s main syllabus introduces us to Whitman...