New video on Dickinson: “He fumbles at your Soul”
Just added to ModPo—a 26-minute abridged version of our discussion of Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul”—recorded in January 2020 in Seattle with Davy Knittle and Cristanne Miller.
Tagged: week 1
Week 1 message sent to all ModPo people (9/5/2021)
For the next seven days we will be reading and discussing a very small sampling of poems by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. In ModPo we think of then as proto-modernist poets. Whether that...
ModPo update on Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2020
It’s Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2020. Still plenty of time to read week 1 poems and watch videos before we turn to week 2. But if you run out of time this...
CCCR: discussion of Whitman’s “I Hear It Was Charged against Me”
The Global ModPo Study Group convened in January 2020 to talk about Whitman’s “I Heard It Was Charged against Me.” The recording of that session has been added to ModPo’s CCCR syllabus. CCCR =...
video: on the ongoing influence of Whitman
An excerpt from our week 2 2019 live webcast—a discussion of the ongoing influence of Whitman:
Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul” — added to ModPoPLUS — new video
Cristanne Miller and Davy Knittle talk with Al Filreis about a poem now added to ModPoPLUS—Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul.” PART NINETEEN: HE FUMBLES AT YOUR SOUL 19.1 read Dickinson’s “He fumbles at...
read Al Filreis on canto 8 of “Song of Myself”
Recently we added a short commentary on canto 8 of “Song of Myself” to the main week 1 syllabus. Here is that brief essay: * In canto 8 we encounter the poem’s first urban...
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...
Al’s update on Friday of week 1 (ModPo 2019)
Here are a few notes from me on this Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2019: WEEK ONE CONTINUES. Yes, let’s keep reading Dickinson and Whitman today and tomorrow, and let’s keep talking about...
ModPo week 1: webcast & office hours
Today I want to highlight two things: 1) our first webcast coming up on Wednesday at 3 PM (Philadephia time) and 2) our office hours. WEBCASTS: Yes, our first weekly live webcast will happen...
