Are you a teacher searching for a way of enable full participation of your students in the sometimes daunting work of reading and discussing a poem? It might seem obvious, especially in a post...
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”)...
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:
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”...
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...
A ModPo’er who is not familiar with the U.S. asks about our emphasis on “the American Beauty Rose” in our discussions (during week 3) of imagism’s rebuke of the clichéd rose. Here is a...
During a visit to Los Angeles in January 2019, Al and Anna stopped by to see the eminent critic Marjorie Perloff at her home. We recorded a conversation about a several-pages-long passage from WCW’s Spring...
Here is a 3-minute video clip in which we discuss Dada, power, appropriation and Williams’s plums: