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...

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

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

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

ModPo people talk about Ginsberg's "Howl": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow-s...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Out in November!

@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...

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

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...

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

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

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... .

@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."

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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

Have you seen ModPoPLUS? If not, check it out — here's the link: www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/...