During our 2022 week 4 live webcast, Jerome Rothenberg talks about a favorite Gertrude Stein poem. Rothenberg was visiting the Writers House from California to be with us for the webcast, a PoemTalk episode,...
GERTRUDE STEIN IN GENERAL 1.1 watch discussion on how we assess and value Stein’s writing:LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY] 1.2 watch Rachel Blau DuPlessis describe how Stein resists normative reading: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE...
During a one-hour conversation/interview Al Filreis conducted with art critic, memoirist and New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als, Al asked Hilton about some comments he made in one of his essays about Gertrude 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...
A 1-minute clip from the October 1, 2014, live webcast on Stein:
Here are the ModPo TAs discussing Stein and honesty—during our 2019 week 4 live webcast:
10-minute video in which the ModPo people talk about Tristan Tzara’s experiments with “cut-ups”:
During our Stein week webcast in 2019, we took a few minutes to offer recommendations to those new to reading Gertrude Stein:
We are adding a new video to ModPoPLUS week 4. In it we discuss Rosmarie Waldrop’s poem about Stein’s idea of “exact resemblance,” a concept we will recall from Stein’s portrait of Picasso. The...
Friday dawns here in Philly as we begin to wrap up week 4 of ModPo 2019. While many folks are continuing to read Stein and other poems in the main syllabus, and watch our...