Li Zhimin video clip now at Jacket2
I’ve now posted a video clip from Li Zhimin’s fall 2016 reading at Kelly Writers House HERE.
Category: poetics
Philly’s youth poet laureate
Otter Jung-Allen, Philadelphia’s Youth Poet Laureate, performs a poem called “Praise,” about their father. Otter Jung-Allen is a seventeen-year-old genderqueer poet and performer from West Philly. They are the coach of Science Leadership Academy’s Slam League team, a 2015 Brave New Voices International Champion, the 2015 Liberty Unplugged Champion, and the...
On Kyger’s “When I used to focus on the worries” (video)
A 51-minute video of a collaborative close reading of Joanne Kyger’s poem “When I used to focus on the worries…” — a ModPo meet-up held at the San Francisco Center for the Book in January 2016.
Joanne Kyger (November 19, 1934 – March 22, 2017)
The great poet Joanne Kyger passed yesterday. I had the honor of hosting an on-location episode of PoemTalk a few months ago not far from her home in Bolinas, California. You can hear that conversation here. That afternoon was brilliant: a late summer day, clear skies, the mesa field behind...
Jed Rasula on Dada (6-minute video excerpt)
On December 5, 2016, Jed Rasula visited the Kelly Writers House to talk about Dada — and in particular about his recent book on the subject. Here, below, is a 6-minute excerpt from that discussion, in which Al Filreis attempts to get Rasula to talk about how anyone could teach...
T. de los Reyes’s poetry postcards
Here are two of the many poetry postcards made for us by T. de los Reyes of Manila. T. has been a ModPo regular since 2012 and has served the community brilliantly as a Community TA (CTA) for five years. Click on either image for a larger view.
Peter Cole’s new book
I was excited and pleased to receive yesterday an advance copy of Peter Cole’s new book, New & Selected Poems & Translations.
new ModPo video: close reading of James Schuyler’s “Salute”
We at ModPo have now added to the “ModPoPLUS” syllabus an early poem of James Schuyler called “Salute.” Among the new resources is a filmed close reading of the poem, moderated by me, with Emily Harnett, Davy Knittle, and Gabriel Ojeda-Sague. If you are currently enrolled in ModPo you will...
Hannah Judd & Nathaniel Mackey improvise a duet
Nate read a poem from Blue Fasa while Hannah Judd joined him for an improvised duet—poet’s Andoumboulous voice and cello.
Nathaniel Mackey visits Kelly Writers House, day 1
Nathaniel Mackey is here as a Kelly Writers House Fellow for several days. Yesterday he joined me and the students in the Kelly Writers House Fellows seminar for an intense three-hour conversation about his work and much else. In the evening he gave a spectacular reading from his work —...
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, 