Lorine Niedecker wrote poems on the pages of her daily calendar. Very Dickinsonian in its use of quotidian domestic bits and pieces as writing resources. We discussed one of these poem-entries in detail when...
During our week 2 live webcast 2019 we were joined by poet Kate Colby. She read her poem “Homing” (from The Arrangements) and then we discussed it. The poem and video have been added...
3-minute video on what we mean when we call a poem “Dickinsonian”:
An amazing poem: Niedecker’s “My Life by Water.” We were in Seattle in January 2020 and gathered with poets (among them Rae Armantrout and Bob Perelman) and ModPo citizens in the area and talked...
We went to The Houghton Library at Harvard University to record a discussion of an except from Susan Howe’s The Midnight. Here is the updated entry for Susan Howe’s work in ModPoPLUS, including the new...
In the current issue of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker Newsletter (issue #31, Winter 2020), Max McKenna has published a short essay on encountering Niedecker in ModPo. Here is the link to the online...
The newest episode of ModPoMinute (the 72nd in our series) has now been posted: a very brief discussion of Emily Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” with Cristanne Miller and Davy Knittle.
Today we are adding a new ModPoPLUS video: Max McKenna traveled to Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where Lorine Niedecker lived, and filmed a collaborate close reading of Niedecker’s “Foreclosure” with members of the...
Sunday morning here in Philly. The sun is shining and it’s nearly time for me to dig around in my tiny urban garden. But first an overview of ModPo week 2. During week 2...
Now added to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 2: Al Filreis & Kate Colby talk about her poem “Theory” and of course we provide a link to the text of the poem itself. Here...