In October 2000, nine poets gathered at the Kelly Writers House. Each was asked to choose a modernist writer who had been a significant influence. Joan Retallack chose Gertrude Stein. Here, below, is a...
Here is Joan Retallack’s poem “None Too Soon.” And here is a recording that was made at a 2013 reading at Zinc Bar in New York and is available at the Retallack PennSound page:...
Here are three poems from Retallack’s Bosch series: 1. “The Ventriloquist’s Dilemma”: see text below 2. “None Too Soon”: LINK 3. “The Long And Short of It Thought Experiment”: LINK —– The Ventriloquist’s Dilemma...
Welcome to the SloPo mini-course on the writings of Joan Retallack. If at any time you have questions about how our mini-course is working, please don’t hesitate to contact Al Filreis at afilreis@writing.upenn.edu. Our...
Listen as Rosmarie Waldrop writes through the Declaration of Independence using N+7 chance operations:
We have now added to ModPoPLUS week 9 a 4-minute video in which we discuss John Cage’s conception of beauty.
Monday of week 9! Have you encountered John Cage’s explanation for why he thinks we should make English less understandable? If not, please take a look HERE. As usual, we are holding office hours...
Today we begin week 9 (chapter 9.2) of ModPo 2019. Week 9 is about aleatory poetry—poems written by or through chance operations, quasi-nonintentional poems, poems written through or in spite of severe rules or...
Hello and greetings from the Kelly Writers House on this Friday of week 8 of ModPo 2019! SloPo Two more weeks left of what we call “the symposium mode” of ModPo for this year!...
Further discussion of John Cage’s idea that poetry can demilitarize language: