ModPo in Seattle
Nicholas “Denny” Stern, great ModPo guy (Community TA), in Seattle last night after our ModPo meet-up there (at Town Hall Seattle). We talked about Rae Armantrout‘s new poem “Care” and also Lorine Niedecker’s “My Life...
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On Robin Blaser’s “A Bird in the House”
Some time ago we recorded an episode of PoemTalk about a poem by Robin Blaser, “A Bird in the House.” Then we found ourselves in San Francisco, meeting up with ModPo people, and decided...
New poem & video: Dickinson’s “From Blank to Blank—”
Just today we added a new poem and new video to week 1! The poem is Dickinson’s “From Blank to Blank—,” which you can read HERE. And HERE is the video, which is an...
Marjorie Perloff on William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All”
During a visit to Los Angeles in January 2019, Al and Anna stopped by to see the eminent critic Marjorie Perloff at her home. We recorded a conversation about a several-pages-long passage from WCW’s Spring...
Message to ModPo people ModPo 2019 begins
Yes, ModPo 2019 begins on Saturday (September 7). The discussion forums are open now, of course, but on Saturday we will really get going again. I will write again soon to give you some...
Lytle Shaw’s rewriting of Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
We have added Lytle Shaw’s “The Confessions 2″—a poem that responds to Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”—to the Wallace Stevens section of the week 3 (rise of modernism: imagism) syllabus in ModPoPLUS. See the...
added to ModPoPLUS: Lytle Shaw’s response to Frank O’Hara
Just now added to the New York School week of ModPoPLUS (week 7)—a new video in which Lytle Shaw joins us in discussing his “homophobic translation” of Frank O’Hara’s “At the Old Place”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/rIKLc...
Jerome Rothenberg added to ModPo
Here (below—see links) is a new section on Jerome Rothenberg now added to the ModPoPLUS week 7 syllabus. It includes a discussion of the poem “A Paradise of Poets,” and a discussion of Rothenberg’s...
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...
New poem & video: Jennifer Scappettone’s “The Republic of Exit 43”
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...