On connotations of “got” in Jayne Cortez’s “She Got He Got”
We have now added a new video to ModPoPLUS for week 6. This is a discussion of the connotations of the word “got” in Jayne Cortez’s poem-performance piece “She Got He Got.” This is...
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1-minute video on “Poem” by ruth weiss filmed on location
ModPo short—a 1-minute excerpt from a longer conversation filmed in a San Francisco park a few years ago in which Jake Marmer & Lily Applebaum talk about a poem titled “Poem” by ruth weiss. The clip...
ModPo Short: 1-minute video on Anne Waldman’s “Rogue State”
A 1-minute clip from an October 19, 2016, live webcast:
new abridged version of our discussion of Helen Adam’s poem
Thanks to the talented editing of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available an abridged, 20-minute version of our discussion of Helen Adam’s “Cheerless Junkie’s Song.” See below for the revised list and links...
Doug Kearney in ModPo
ModPo people might recall that Doug Kearney visited us back in November 2019 and joined us for the Beat week webcast. We edited several clips from the full recording of the webcast, and have...
Jerome Rothenberg’s “A Poem of Fears”
Jerry Rothenberg performed this little-known poem, “A Poem of Fears,” and then we discussed it with them. This has been added to Rothenberg’s section of the week 6 ModPoPLUS syllabus: 20.3 read Rothenberg’s “A...
Nanao Sakaki “Small People” added to ModPoPLUS week 6
Nanao Sakaki’s poem “Small People” — and a video accompanying the poem — have been added to week 6 of the ModPoPLUS syllabus. The video features Davy Knittle and Wai Chee Dimock, recorded in...
Michael McClure added to the Beats week in ModPo
We have added three poems from Michael McClure’s Ghost Tantras to week 6 (the Beats) of the ModPoPLUS syllabus, as follows: PART TWENTY-TWO: MICHAEL McCLURE 22.1 read three poems from Michael McClure’s “Ghost Tantras”: LINK...
new abridged version of our discussion of Frank Lima’s “Plena”
A new 12-minute abridged version of our discussion of Frank Lima’s “Plena” is now available, thanks for the talented editing of Makena Deveraux. https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/K6tjl
On Robin Blaser’s “A Bird in the House”
Some time ago we recorded an episode of PoemTalk about a poem by Robin Blaser, “A Bird in the House.” Then we found ourselves in San Francisco, meeting up with ModPo people, and decided...