Frost’s wall today
A friend is staying near Frost’s farm and sent us these two photos of Frost’s wall, looking rather unmended.
Tagged: week 5
Help us reach our goal of 4x responses to every ModPo’er’s essay!
We are within reach of out crazy ambitious goal of providing at least four responses to every essay written in response to essay assignment #2 (about H.D.). The H.D. poem is HERE and then...
Sylvia Plath poems & videos in ModPoPLUS week 5
ModPoPLUS for week 5 (“chapter 6”) deals with formalist poets of the 1950s, “neo-modernists” of the Cold War era, and also has a relatively new section on several confessional poets. Among the confessional poets...
ModPo Short: 1-minute video on Frost’s “For Once, Then, Something”
This is a 1-minute excerpt from a longer video featuring Al Filreis, standing in Biscuit Creek of New York State, talking about Robert Frost’s sonnet, “For Once, Then, Something”:
Jerome Rothenberg on Stein’s “A Shawl”
When Jerome last visited the Writers House, we sat down with him to talk about Gertrude Stein’s “A Shawl.” We’ve now added that video to ModPoPLUS week 4 among the Gertrude Stein resources. Here...
Edwin Rolfe’s “Season of Death” added to week 5/chapter 3 (communist poets)
Edwin Rolfe, a member of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) in the 1930s, wrote a poem about the Depression called “Season of Death.” This poem and a video of our discussion of...
re-reading Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” in the context of documentary photography (new video)
During our live webcast co-hosted with MoMA, we talked about Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” in the context provided by our discussion of Dorothea Lange’s documentary photography of Depression-era people who move into the...
George Oppen poem & video added to ModPoPLUS week 5, chapter 3
We have now added a new George Oppen poem (and video about the poem) to our modest collection of Oppen materials in week 5 (chapter 3). Below are all the links now in that...
MoMA/ModPo combo webcast, June 11, 2020, at 11 AM (eastern US time)
Save the date! On Thursday, June 11, at 11 AM (eastern U.S. time) ModPo and MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art in New York City) will be kicking off a collaboration with a live...
Special 2-hour SloPo “office hour” session on Brooks’s “The Chicago Picasso”: 3/24/2020 at 11 AM
On Tuesday, March 24, 2020, from 11 AM to 1 PM Philadelphia time, Al Filreis is going to host a 2-hour discussion, in a special thread inside the ModPo discussion forum—where we’ll all talk...
