New Year’s greetings (2023) — video message from Al
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.
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Erica Hunt gives the inaugural poem at Penn
Erica Hunt—a poet who is a dear friend of KWH, once the teacher of a full-semester course at the House, and a recent KWH Fellow, and whose poems are in the ModPo curriculum—gave the...
On Ferlinghetti’s “Baseball Canto”
Our discussion of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “Baseball Canto” is now available on YouTube. This was originally posted to the ModPo syllabus as an audio-only item. But thanks to Paul Burke we are now presenting it...
On Robert Frost’s “Birches” (filmed “on location”)
We’ve added Frost’s “Birches” to ModPoPLUS. This includes a rare 1936 recording of Frost performing the poem. And it includes a new “on location” video in which Laynie and I, along with Stephen Metcalf...
March 22, 2022 off-season (SloPo) webcast — photos and video recording
We so enjoyed hosting an off-season live webcast yesterday! We discussed poems by Harryette Mullen and Joanne Kyger, and the edited video segments of these will soon be added to the ModPo syllabus. Here...
Ron Silliman on Ezra Pound
A 4.5-minute clip from Ron Silliman’s time as Kelly Writers House Fellow—on Ezra Pound:
Jo Park & Tim Yu talk about Brandon Shimoda’s “The Desert”
Tim Yu and Jo Park met with Al in summer 2021 to talk about passages from Brandon Shimoda’s book The Desert. Here is a link to the text they discussed: LINK TO TEXT And...
1-min. video on Dickinson’s dashes
Watch this one-minute excerpt from our discussion of Emily Dickinson’s dashes:
1-min. excerpt from an overview on ModPo as a massive open online course
Al visited Coursera headquarters in Mountain View, California, a few years ago and recorded a video in which he gave an overview of ModPo as an open online course (“MOOC”). Here is a one-minute...
Jake Marmer: reading & conversation available in recordings
Jake Marmer’s 10/20/2020 reading & conversation hosted by the Kelly Writers House is now available at PennSound as a full video recording and also audio recordings segmented by poem and discussion topic: https://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Marmer.php#10-14-20