Info about our week 2 webcast
Tomorrow (Wednesday, September 18) we will convene our second webcast of the ModPo season. You really should try to make plans to watch (and participate in) our second weekly webcast of 2019. We start...
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ModPo comes to Boston, October 10-12
We would like to announce that the ModPo team is going on the road again. Each October we go somewhere and meet up with ModPo people. What fun it’s been! In recent years: London,...
live webcast, week 1 – September 11, 2019 at 3 PM
Tomorrow (Wednesday, September 11) is webcast day here at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. You really should try to make plans to watch (and participate in) our first weekly ModPo webcast of 2019....
Discussion of Cage’s idea that poetry can demilitarize language
Further discussion of John Cage’s idea that poetry can demilitarize language:
On the pleasures & disappointments of making a mesostic
On the pleasures & disappointments of making your own aleatory (chance-based) poetry—a video clip from our week 9 webcast in 2018. Josh Schuster joined us for this webcast.
On the continued relevance of the Beats (video clip from webcast)
Video (9 minutes long): on the continued relevance of the Beats, a discussion that includes poets Angela Carr and Rae Armantrout.
On the experience of re-reading the New York School
During a 2018 live webcast for week 7, we discussed the experience of re-reading the New York School poets. Here is that 4-minute clip:
A 60-something newbie to poetry calls into a webcast & we respond
One evening, during a ModPo webcast, we received a call from a self-described newbie to poetry. She’s 60-something, and her nephew recommended ModPo to her, and she loves it. The ModPo team responds:
Further discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”
Here is an edited clip from our October 2018 webcast discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”:
Info: June 6, 2019 live interactive webcast, starting at noon Philly time
Our special “offseason” live webcast today begins at NOON Philly time—which is just about 3.5 hours from now. Join us! Click HERE for the live video stream. Click HERE to post a comment or...