In October 2000, nine poets gathered at the Kelly Writers House. Each was asked to choose a modernist writer who had been a significant influence. Joan Retallack chose Gertrude Stein. Here, below, is a...
Al stopped by the Kelly Writers House on his daily run on New Year’s Eve day, 12/31/22, and made a 5-minute video greeting for all ModPo people.
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...
During a one-hour conversation/interview Al Filreis conducted with art critic, memoirist and New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als, Al asked Hilton about some comments he made in one of his essays about Gertrude Stein....
The other night the Writers House community once again celebrated wintry doldrums with its annual “Mind of Winter” event, featuring home-made soup (warm!) and bread (warm!) and a fire going in our fireplace (warm!)—and...
Hello and greetings from the Kelly Writers House on this Friday of week 8 of ModPo 2019! SloPo Two more weeks left of what we call “the symposium mode” of ModPo for this year!...
Back in June 2019 many of the ModPo TAs gathered back at the Writers House—a reunion!—to make a series of new videos for the ModPo syllabi. During a break we also filmed a new...
Shetland poet & ModPo regular Christie Williamson reads his poem “Da Burn” and explains it a bit for us at KWH: http://jacket2.org/commentary/christie-williamson-reads-explains-poem-shetlandic
Josh Schuster takes a question about the founding of the Writers House and turns it into an observation about the poem as a utopian space. Watch this 1-minute video.
Yesterday was Alumni Day at Penn. Judy Ribble Glenn came to campus from her home in New Mexico, in order to celebrate her 60th class reunion (yes, she is in the Penn Class of...