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...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
See below for three links pertaining to Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Chicago Picasso.” We have now added an excerpt from a 1969 interview in which Brooks talked about that poem. This is all in...
During our live webcast from Boston, October 2019, Al asked Nick Montfort to talk about radical uses of the sonnet. Here is his response: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/z0APZ
During our October 2019 visit to Boston, where our weekly webcast was hosted at MIT, Anna Strong Safford led us in a meta-poetic reading of Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/VTAeP .
Here are a few updates for today, Wednesday of ModPo 2019 week 5: WEBCAST. Tomorrow’s webcast will begin at 7 PM Boston time. Click HERE to join us at the time of the webcast....