Tracie Morris visits for our week 10 webcast!
Tracie Morris was our special guest at the Kelly Writers House this past week—leading an improvised workshop for Writers House people, joining us for the live week 10 webcast. Here are some photos of...
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ModPo update for Saturday, November 16
Have you listened to Caroline Bergvall’s mesmerizing performance of her “VIA”? If not, I urge you to do so (go HERE). As you know, she has made an arrangement of many translators’ versions of...
ModPo update: week 10 begins!
We now begin the final week of ModPo 2019’s “symposium mode.” Week 10 begins today. HERE are the poems and videos. The poets we discuss this week are testing the limits of our understanding...
Jason Camlot’s “31 Awakenings” (added to our Canadian sampler)
To the week 10 syllabus of ModPoPLUS we are now adding a poem by Jason Camlot called “31 Awakenings.” And of course a video recording of a discussion about that poem. The discussion features...
Laura Broadbent’s “A Meditation on Translation” added to week 10 of ModPoPLUS
Discussion of Laura Broadbent’s “A Meditation on Translation” from “In on the Great Joke”—filmed with Deanna Fong at Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore in Montreal. Here’s your link to the video: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=224331 This has been...
Discussion of Phyllis Webb’s poem “Poetry” (with Deanna Fong, at Drawn & Quarterly bookstore)
Discussion of Phyllis Webb’s poem “Poetry” with Deanna Fong and @annapstrong at Drawn & Quarterly bookstore: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=224332 New video added to the sampler of Canadian poetry in week 10 of ModPoPLUS.
Douglas Kearney on Yona Harvey’s “The Dream District: Origins”
Just now added to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 10: Douglas Kearney discusses Yona Harvey’s poem “The Dream District: Origins.” The new video is linked here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/wv37y
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...
New CCCR video on “Representations” by Rosemarie Waldrop
Max McKenna & two ModPo’ers in Chicago have added a good close reading of Rosmarie Waldrop’s poem “Representations.” Video quality is fuzzy but audio is good and the reading is terrific. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpJBFVRcx_w (link to...
Update during our final weekend of ModPo 2018
ModPo 2018 ends on Monday with our annual Final Words webcast, as I’ve noted previously. But really what’s ending is what we call our “symposium mode,” our annual run through the ten weeks of...