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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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...

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On Eileen Tabios's "As If"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We cite our favorite lines from New York School poems: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjLT...

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An anthology of favorite New York School lines

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

We talk about Barbara Guest's brilliant poem "20": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk6L...

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Further discussion of Barbara Guest's "20"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

The ModPo folks talk about Bernadette Mayer's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers": www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO-9...

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Further discussion of Mayer's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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

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Read A Little Poetry

Read A Little Poetry is a passion project that holds poets to the light side-by-side personal experiences of joy, loss, grief, and more.

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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...

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On M. NourbeSe Philip's "Discourse on the Logic of Language"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

All the ModPo resources on/about Bernadette Mayer right here: modpo.org/explore/?art...

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Alice Notley at ModPo: modpo.org/explore/?art...

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cla...

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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...

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

New ModPo video—during our live webcast in Montreal we discussed Gertrude Stein's "Water Raining": www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1fj...

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Further Discussion of Stein's "Water Raining"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

We talk about Erica Hunt's poem "Reader we were meant to meet": www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0t8...

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Further Discussion of Hunt's "Reader we were meant to meet"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

New ModPo video on Ginsberg's "Howl" featuring Bob Holman: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow-s...

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Further discussion of Ginsberg's "Howl"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

New ModPo video—a further discussion of Lyn Hejinian's "My Life": www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwkp...

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Further discussion of Lyn Hejinian's "My Life"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

New to ModPo—we discuss Charles Bernstein's poem "Let's Just Say" with Bernstein himself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zkO...

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Further discussion of Charles Bernstein's "Lets Just Say"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

@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...

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

New ModPo video: further discussion of Ruth Lechlitner's "Lines for an Abortionist's Office": www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca59...

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Further Discussion of Lechlitner's "Lines for an Abortionist's Office"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

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.

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Gertrude Stein in Morocco: web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/202...

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

What are some social & political contexts for chance-based/aleatory poetry? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfmF...

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Does Aleatory Poetry Arise from a Social/Political Context?

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Anthony Watkins has written a guide: "How to Do ModPo." See this: modpo.org/2025/03/29/h...

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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... .

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

@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."

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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...

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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...

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On Barbara Althea Jones's "Crystal Ball," "Hello — Sonnet," and "Academia"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

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...

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

We are delighted to announce that Ali Castleman is the first of the ModPo TAs to confirm that she will rejoin the ModPo team for ModPo 2025, which opens on August 30, 2025. Ali and I sealed the deal over lunch yesterday in Manhattan, catching up on all manner of ModPo news and plans.

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New ModPo video, added today to ModPoPLUS—a discussion (in Montreal) of Lissa Wolsak's "lightsail": www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Vl...

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On Lissa Wolsak's lightsail

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New to ModPo—a discussion of Horace Gregory writing about the suburbs during the Great Depression: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifgd...

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On Horace Gregory's "Interior: The Suburbs"

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Max and erica meeting for the first time recently in Berlin. Yes, you read that correctly: after 10 years of working together in ModPo they met in person for the first time.

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ModPo (modpo.org) @modpo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Watch these powerful "final words" in 2022: www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/...

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