Ron Silliman on Ezra Pound
A 4.5-minute clip from Ron Silliman’s time as Kelly Writers House Fellow—on Ezra Pound:
Tagged: week 3
Stevens’s “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch” (with Hilton Als)
We have now added a new Wallace Stevens poem to the ModPoPLUS week 3 syllabus. It’s “So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch.” We have the text. We have a recording of Stevens’s reading the poem...
ModPo resources on: Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar”
We recently added another video to ModPoPLUS week 3 — in which Al discusses Wallace Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar” with Elisa New and her “Poetry in America” colleagues. The recording took place in...
COVID-19 lockdown moment PoemTalk with 3 ModPo’ers
Recorded during the spring ’20 time of lockdown, during the first shocks of the pandemic, this special episode of PoemTalk considered William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All” (“By the road to the contagious hospital”)...
1-minute video about Rosa Alcalá’s “Undocumentaries”
David Colón and Al Filreis recorded a discussion about Rosa Alcalá’s Undocumentaries — 24 minutes in all. Here now is a 1-minute excerpt from that discussion, which can be found in ModPoPLUS week 3:
“The Mind of Winter”: Collaborative close reading by Zoom of Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
On January 28, 2021, Al Filreis convened a group of nearly 100 people by Zoom to collaborate on a close reading of Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man.” The event was hosted by the Kelly...
Live collaborative close reading of Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
On Thursday, January 28, at 6:00 PM (ET), Kelly Writers House Faculty Director & ModPo founder Al Filreis will lead a collaborative close reading of Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Snow Man” — and you...
Wallace Stevens in ModPoPLUS
Over the years the collection of Wallace Stevens poems, audio and video in the ModPoPLUS syllabus has become quite an extensive array. Here is a list, with links, of all these materials: 8.1 read...
Rutherford NJ resident inspired Williams’s wheelbarrow/chickens poem
We have added to ModPoPLUS part 1 a link to a newspaper article describing testimony of a Rutherford NJ resident who seems to have inspired William Carlos Williams’s legendary modernist poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow”...
Poems from (and videos about) Rosa Alcalá’s “Undocumentaries”
We have now added three poems and two new videos to ModPoPLUS week 3. These are from—and about—Rosa Alcalá’s book Undocumentaries. We met up with David Colon in Seattle in January 2020 to talk about...