Horace Gregory on the suburbs
As the economic depression deepens in 1930, Horace Gregory publishes this poem in Poetry magazine:
Category: 1930s
Ira Wolfert: links to his 1943 novel & my 1993 interview with him [audio]
Ira Wolfert published a powerful wartime novel about organized crime, Tucker’s People (1943). I admire this book so much that I decided to edit a new edition of it—and wrote a long introduction to it. Wolfert’s idea is that organized crime is capitalism as fascism. In 1993, with Alan Wald, I...
New ModPo video: on Naomi Repansky’s “An Inheritance”
New to ModPoPLUS (as we prepare for ModPo ’17’s opening next weekend): a video discussion of Naomi Replansky’s “An Inheritance,” to accompany a video of Naomi R. herself performing & discussing the poem. Here’s your direct link to the video inside the ModPo site (you must enroll in the course...
Charles Bernstein, anti-anti-intellectual
Charles Bernstein is back from a trip to Israel & Palestine and we are chatting by email this afternoon (typical of us) and I realized that this overview I did of why I like his “Pitch of Poetry” so much adequately gets to what I love about his anti-anti-intellectual Euromodernist...
Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, Director of the Center
for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Co-Director of PennSound, and Publisher of Jacket2—all at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Secretaries of the Moon,
Wallace Stevens & the Actual World, Modernism from Left to Right, and Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60. His new book is 
Founder/Faculty Director, 