Erica Hunt added to ModPoPLUS week 8
Erica Hunt, who is often associated with the Language poets, has been added to week 8 of ModPoPLUS. Her poem “the voice of no” has long been part of the week 5 syllabus of...
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A Gertrude Stein primer—ModPo videos for those who want to understand Stein
Over the years we at ModPo have assembled a number of short videos that will help you introduce yourself to the (supposed) “difficulty” of Gertrude Stein. These are available in the first section of...
introducing: “ModPo shorts”!
We have begun to edit a series of 1-minute videos under the rubric “ModPo shorts.” Our goal here is to draw in folks who don’t know about ModPo, who don’t feel they have time...
Daphne Marlatt, Vancouver-based poet, in ModPoPLUS
Daphne Marlatt is a Vancouver-based poet. ModPoPLUS week 10 features a “Canadian sampler.” Here are the Daphne Marlatt resources there: 17.24 read Daphne Marlatt‘s “Generation, Generations at the Mouth”: LINK TO TEXT 17.25 watch discussion with...
Wallace Stevens in ModPoPLUS
Over the years the collection of Wallace Stevens poems, audio and video in the ModPoPLUS syllabus has become quite an extensive array. Here is a list, with links, of all these materials: 8.1 read...
new abridged version of discussion of Tracie Morris’s “Slave Sho to Video”
Thanks to the editing talents of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available a 24-minute abridgment of the original 40-minute discussion of Tracie Morris’s “Slave Show to Video aka Black but Beautiful.” It is...
Video: on Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” (filmed in Vancouver)
Stephen Collis and Karis Shearer joined Al Filreis to talk about Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” — at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The video recording of...
Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul” — added to ModPoPLUS — new video
Cristanne Miller and Davy Knittle talk with Al Filreis about a poem now added to ModPoPLUS—Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul.” PART NINETEEN: HE FUMBLES AT YOUR SOUL 19.1 read Dickinson’s “He fumbles at...
John Yau poems in ModPoPLUS week 7
We recently added two new poems—and a new video for each poem—to our John Yau entry in ModPoPLUS. See list and links below. These are now part of the week 7 syllabus in ModPoPLUS....
a ModPoPLUS playlist — a selection of ten poems & videos from the first half of the course
Recently Kent Ekberg, a long-time devoted ModPo’er and someone whose grit we admire a lot, mentioned that he was looking for some new interesting things to read and watch. We suggested a “best of”...