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ModPo is a free, open, non-credit online course in modern & contemporary U.S poetry. We are open all year. Go to modpo.org for more.
New video just now added to ModPoPLUS for week 3: a discussion of Eileen Tabios's poem "As If." www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTSV...
13.06.2025 12:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We cite our favorite lines from New York School poems: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjLT...
10.06.2025 18:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We talk about Barbara Guest's brilliant poem "20": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk6L...
10.06.2025 18:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The ModPo folks talk about Bernadette Mayer's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers": www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO-9...
06.06.2025 20:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ModPo people talk about Ginsberg's "Howl": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow-s...
05.06.2025 19:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
T. de los Reyes has been a ModPo citizen since the very beginning! We all love T.! Her passion project, "Read a Little Poetry," turns 20 yrs old this coming summer. Check it out: readalittlepoetry.com
03.06.2025 11:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New to ModPo—a discussion of M. NourbeSe Philip's "Discourse on the Logic of Language." This video was filmed at the Word Bookstore in Montreal and features Kate Colby, Laynie Browne, Sophia DuRose and Hoa Nguyen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsm9...
28.05.2025 12:42 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
All the ModPo resources on/about Bernadette Mayer right here: modpo.org/explore/?art...
17.05.2025 12:06 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Alice Notley at ModPo: modpo.org/explore/?art...
17.05.2025 01:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cla...
13.05.2025 11:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today we are releasing episode 208 of PoemTalk, a special forum in tribute to the late Tyrone Williams—a discussion of his poem “Charon on the Potomac” featuring Erica Hunt, Simone White, and Aldon Nielsen.
jacket2.org/podcasts/vai...
New ModPo video—during our live webcast in Montreal we discussed Gertrude Stein's "Water Raining": www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1fj...
05.05.2025 00:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We talk about Erica Hunt's poem "Reader we were meant to meet": www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0t8...
05.05.2025 00:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New ModPo video on Ginsberg's "Howl" featuring Bob Holman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow-s...
04.05.2025 21:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New ModPo video—a further discussion of Lyn Hejinian's "My Life": www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwkp...
04.05.2025 18:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New to ModPo—we discuss Charles Bernstein's poem "Let's Just Say" with Bernstein himself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zkO...
04.05.2025 17:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Out in November!
01.05.2025 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@afilreis.bsky.social gave the introductory chapter of my forthcoming book to a machine that makes podcasts from text. The result is not perfectly accurate but does give you a fair, informal sense of what Al is saying in the book. Listen here: media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/Cro...
27.04.2025 11:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New ModPo video: further discussion of Ruth Lechlitner's "Lines for an Abortionist's Office": www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca59...
24.04.2025 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The newest episode of the PoemTalk podcast is now being released: it’s episode 207, in which Rae Armantrout, Julia Bloch, and Laynie Browne talk about two poems appearing in Rae’s recent book Go Figure.
jacket2.org/podcasts/wor...
PoemTalk is also available at Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Gertrude Stein in Morocco: web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/202...
09.04.2025 16:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What are some social & political contexts for chance-based/aleatory poetry? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfmF...
30.03.2025 13:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anthony Watkins has written a guide: "How to Do ModPo." See this: modpo.org/2025/03/29/h...
29.03.2025 17:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today we are releasing episode 206 of PoemTalk—a discussion of Lewis Warsh’s “Polar Night,” with Anselm Berrigan, Kate Colby, and Laynie Browne. Here is the link to the audio and the program notes at Jacket2 magazine: jacket2.org/podcasts/son... .
27.03.2025 14:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@afilreis writes: "Yesterday I had the pleasure of convening Ken Taylor (visiting from Chicago), Jordan Trice & Sophia DuRose to record an episode of PoemTalk about Ed Roberson."
05.03.2025 14:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We at the KWH & ModPo already keenly miss Pierre Joris. Over the years he & Nicole have been with us many times. A favorite interaction with Pierre was this free-wheeling discussion about Kurt Schwitters' w/ Pierre, Charles Bernstein & the late Jerry Rothenberg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3bZ...
28.02.2025 14:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New ModPo video! We gathered a group at McGill University to talk about two poems by the little-known Montreal poet Barbara Althea Jones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_F...
26.02.2025 20:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The newest episode of PoemTalk is now out—a discussion of June Jordan’s two 1989 performances in the TV series “Poetry Spots” with Bob Holman (creator of that series), Herman Beavers, and Christy Davids.
jacket2.org/podcasts/rad...
