We recently added another video to ModPoPLUS week 3 — in which Al discusses Wallace Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar” with Elisa New and her “Poetry in America” colleagues. The recording took place in...
We have prepared a 1-minute excerpt of a discussion with poet Jerome Rothenberg of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Here it is:
Recorded during the spring ’20 time of lockdown, during the first shocks of the pandemic, this special episode of PoemTalk considered William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All” (“By the road to the contagious hospital”)...
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.
We have now added to ModPoPLUS week 9 a 4-minute video in which we discuss John Cage’s conception of beauty.
David Colón and Al Filreis recorded a discussion about Rosa Alcalá’s Undocumentaries — 24 minutes in all. Here now is a 1-minute excerpt from that discussion, which can be found in ModPoPLUS week 3:
ModPoPLUS for week 5 (“chapter 6”) deals with formalist poets of the 1950s, “neo-modernists” of the Cold War era, and also has a relatively new section on several confessional poets. Among the confessional poets...
Erica Hunt, who is often associated with the Language poets, has been added to week 8 of ModPoPLUS. Her poem “the voice of no” has long been part of the week 5 syllabus of...
Over the years we at ModPo have assembled a number of short videos that will help you introduce yourself to the (supposed) “difficulty” of Gertrude Stein. These are available in the first section of...
We have begun to edit a series of 1-minute videos under the rubric “ModPo shorts.” Our goal here is to draw in folks who don’t know about ModPo, who don’t feel they have time...
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any webcast live.
1) Wed 9/8/21, noon (wk 1)
2) Wed 9/15/21, 9:30 AM (wk 2)
3) Wed 9/22/21, 8 PM (wk 3)
4) Wed 9/29/21, 3 PM (wk 4) [Kate Colby visits]
5) Wed. 10/6/21, noon (wk 5)
6) Thu 10/14/21, 6:30 PM (wk 6) (ModPo on the road: LOCATION TBD)
7) Wed 10/20/21, 3 PM (wk 7) [with Edwin Torres]
8) Wed 10/27/21, 6 PM (wk 8) (at Morgan Library, NYC)
9) Wed 11/3/21, 3 PM (wk 9)
10) Wed 11/10/21, NOON (wk 10) [“erica kaufman DAY”] [with Jack Gieseking]
11) Mon 11/15/21, NOON (“final words”)
[] Click HERE to watch recordings of all the ModPo 2020 webcasts.
Yes, you can take ModPo for University of Pennsylvania credit. Three 10-week sessions are offered each year: fall, spring, summer. This version of ModPo is taught by famed ModPo TA Anna Strong Safford and co-created with ModPo founder Al Filreis. Click HERE for all the info you need. Contact Anna with questions at modpo@writing.upenn.edu.
ModPo has created a Teacher Resource Center (“TRC“) for teachers who use ModPo poems & videos in their classrooms. Click HERE to read teaching guides and watch videos in which teachers talk about teaching with ModPo. If you wish to be added to our teachers mailing list, write us at modpo@writing.upenn.edu. Click HERE to discuss ModPo poems with other teachers.
