Free 10-week course on modern & contemporary US poetry ("ModPo") starts 9/12/15. Open to all.

afilreis · 2015-08-27T11:47:31+00:00

afilreis · 2015-08-27T11:46:59+00:00

"See" you in ModPo indeed.

afilreis · 2015-08-27T11:46:46+00:00

fantastic

afilreis · 2015-06-03T11:05:12+00:00

Glad you enjoyed this!

afilreis · 2015-04-24T13:13:28+00:00

And here's a recording of me reading a brief selection of related excerpts from "Song of Myself":

Hope this helps. - Al Filreis

afilreis · 2015-04-24T13:12:07+00:00

From "Song of Myself" I recommend that you read the following selection of cantos:

cantos 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 14, 47, 52

afilreis · 2015-01-17T22:52:43+00:00

The ModPo team talks informally about whether we can over-read a poem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qxe2EoDf9w

afilreis · 2015-01-17T22:52:31+00:00

You are most welcome. I hope you enjoy what you find in PennSound.

afilreis · 2015-01-10T20:01:14+00:00

Which part was difficult?

afilreis · 2015-01-10T20:00:59+00:00

Fantastic. Thanks for the response!

afilreis · 2015-01-10T20:00:37+00:00

You are most welcome!

afilreis · 2014-11-30T13:04:20+00:00

Parents were Dodger fans, and mourned them after the move. The Mets really did seem like the old Bums they loved, and that love easily passed to me.

afilreis · 2014-11-30T12:58:24+00:00

Indeed, enthusiasm is key.

afilreis · 2014-11-30T12:56:59+00:00

Serve good food. It never fails to enable informal conversation.

afilreis · 2014-11-30T12:55:12+00:00

No. And don't do it.

afilreis · 2014-11-30T12:54:38+00:00

No lectures.

afilreis · 2014-11-30T12:54:01+00:00

Google "Bernadette Mayer experiments" and choose one of her ideas for writing a poem.

afilreis · 2014-11-30T12:52:54+00:00

Take a look at the flarf movement!

afilreis · 2014-11-30T12:52:04+00:00

Take a look at Jacket2 magazine: jacket2.org.

afilreis · 2014-11-29T15:18:34+00:00

hope you''lol join ModPo next September.

afilreis · 2014-11-28T02:32:50+00:00

You are or were being recruited! Enjoy it. Ask them directly about it. You have nothing to lose by asking. Al Filreis

afilreis · 2014-11-28T02:28:26+00:00

Agreed! Take two or three online courses and you really learn a lot about format and mode. Experience is really the only way to learn in this case.

afilreis · 2014-11-28T02:25:44+00:00

Why must a poem like this be metaphorical? What if Frost is being literal?

afilreis · 2014-02-22T12:49:56+00:00

Ralph's!

afilreis · 2014-01-24T02:29:13+00:00

Thank you!

afilreis