Aaron Simon’s poem “McCoppin Hub” is a response to Frank O’Hara’s present-tense walking-the-city mode from the point of view of someone politically passionate about the planned destruction of a “people’s park.” We have now...
During a recent visit to San Francisco, the ModPo team gathered together with 30 or so ModPo’ers from the region (some folks traveled a long way, in fact!). We filmed two collaborative close readings...
Today I’ve been watching all the new #3 essays coming in—posted to the special subforum we’ve set up for them. If you intend to write and post an essay on Eileen Myles’s “The Honey...
Tonight at 9 PM (Philadelphia time) we will host our week 7 webcast! Please plan to join us. The video stream will be available HERE. No need to wait until the webcast begins to post...
Here we are, Tuesday of week 7. We’re getting into a sampling of the poems of the New York School. Yesterday a group of us spent some time talking about Bernadette Mayer’s “Invasion of...
The ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 7 now includes Bernadette Mayer’s “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet.” Below are some links: read Mayer’s “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet”: LINK TO TEXT listen to Mayer perform “Chocolate Poetry Sonnet”: LINK TO...
Today we begin to encounter a selection of poems from poets of the New York School. Yes, it’s week 7 of ModPo 2018! People are already discussing this poems HERE. Please do! It’s easy: click that link...