Two passages from Sarah Dowling’s “Entering Sappho”
We discuss these two passages from Sarah Dowling’s Entering Sappho: “Clip”: LINK “White Columns”: LINK
Tagged: week 10
Laynie Browne performs four poems from “Daily Sonnets”
Listen to Laynie Browne perform four poems from her book Daily Sonnets: “6/14 Donne Sonnet,” “Two-Fourteenths Sonnet,” “In Chinese astrology you are a snake,” “I’m a bunny in a human suit”: “6/14ths Donne sonnet”:...
Tracie Morris improvises a poem-performance with Jayne Cortez
Watch Tracie Morris improvise a poem-performance in response to (and with) the video of Jayne Cortez performing her piece “She Got He Got.” This was Tracie’s contribution to a program featuring six poets each...
Caroline Bergvall at the Writers House – March 28/29, 2022
Poet, performance artist, sound artist Caroline Bergvall is traveling from London to be with us on March 28 and 29th. Please plan to join us! Caroline is our second Kelly Writers House Fellow of...
Artist Jen Wroblewski attempts to make drawing a kind of writing (minus signifying)
Here’s a recording of a 2/1/22 event at Kelly Writers House featuring Etty Yaniv interviewing Jennifer Wroblewski about Jen’s new series of drawings, “Late for Revision.” Jen spent a year making graphite drawings that...
Caroline Bergvall’s translation of Chaucer: “The Not Tale”
We are talking about “The Not Tale” — Caroline Bergvall’s experimental translation of the Arcite funeral passage in Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale” HERE. Go HERE to see the entire subforum for a 10-day discussion...
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...
Derek Beaulieu in ModPo
DEREK BEAULIEU IN ModPo watch Derek Beaulieu talk about one of his concrete poems: LINK TO VIDEO watch Derek Beaulieu talk about a bpNichol short story: LINK TO VIDEO watch Derek Beaulieu talk about...
Caroline Bergvall on shifting the imagination of English (and other topics)
For ModPo people who admire the work of Caroline Bergvall in week 10 of our course: We at PennSound have now segmented (by topic discussed and poem performed) Caroline Bergvall’s appearance on Leonard Schwartz’s...
Poem about Walt Whitman constructed only with three-letter airport codes
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.