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class="entry excerpt entry-summary"> <p>Simone White, whose work as poet, teacher, art critic, theorist, and performer has achieved international recognition, has been named Associate Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House. She has been closely affiliated with the Writers House since she jo ined the Penn faculty in 2018 and now joins Faculty Director...</p> </div> </div> </article> </div> <div id="grid-wrapper" class="post-list group"> <div class="post-row"> <article id="post-2372" class="group grid-item post-2372 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-former-students category-kelly-writers-house tag-penn tag-teaching"> <div class="post-inner post-hover"> <div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/10/27/student-generations/"> <img width="720" height="340" src="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/IMG_0704-720x340.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-large size-thumb-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" srcset="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/IMG_0704-720x340.jpg 720w, https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/IMG_0704-520x245.jpg 520w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-meta group"> <p class="post-category"><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/former-students/" rel="category tag">former students</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/kelly-writers-house/" rel="category tag">Kelly Writers House</a></p> <p class="post-date"> <time class="published updated" datetime="2024-10-27 15:19:59">October 27, 2024</time> </p> </div> <h2 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/10/27/student-generations/" rel="bookmark">Student generations</a> </h2> <div class="entry excerpt entry-summary"> <p>Family Weekend. Another moment for realizing how long I’ve been doing this work and how deep & sustained many of my relationships are. Here I am yesterday with Rachel, who was my student and advisee in the early 1990s, and Josh, her son, who is currently my student and my...</p> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-2366" class="group grid-item post-2366 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-kelly-writers-house category-poetics tag-birthday tag-occasional-poem tag-tom-devaney"> <div class="post-inner post-hover"> <div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/10/13/thomas-devaneys-poem-for-al-filreis/"> <img width="720" height="340" src="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-13-at-11.03.15 AM-720x340.png" class="attachment-thumb-large size-thumb-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-13-at-11.03.15 AM-720x340.png 720w, https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-13-at-11.03.15 AM-520x245.png 520w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-meta group"> <p class="post-category"><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/kelly-writers-house/" rel="category tag">Kelly Writers House</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/poetics/" rel="category tag">poetics</a></p> <p class="post-date"> <time class="published updated" datetime="2024-10-13 15:03:36">October 13, 2024</time> </p> </div> <h2 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/10/13/thomas-devaneys-poem-for-al-filreis/" rel="bookmark">Thomas Devaney’s “Poem—for Al Filreis”</a> </h2> <div class="entry excerpt entry-summary"> <p>I was honored, on the occasion of my 50th birthday, to hear—and then later to read in print, in Jubilat—a poem by Tom Devaney dedicated to me. I like to think that it’s a wonderful poem regardless of my grateful feelings about its dedication and fine memories of the party...</p> </div> </div> </article> </div><div class="post-row"> <article id="post-2358" class="group grid-item post-2358 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-post-display-on-home-page category-kelly-writers-house-fellows category-poetics"> <div class="post-inner post-hover"> <div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/10/07/june-jordan-though-exhausted-reads-poem-for-a-young-poet-on-request-2001/"> <img width="720" height="340" src="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-07-at-11.12.17-AM-720x340.png" class="attachment-thumb-large size-thumb-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-07-at-11.12.17-AM-720x340.png 720w, https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-07-at-11.12.17-AM-520x245.png 520w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-meta group"> <p class="post-category"><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/featured-post-display-on-home-page/" rel="category tag">Featured Post</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/kelly-writers-house-fellows/" rel="category tag">Kelly Writers House Fellows</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/poetics/" rel="category tag">poetics</a></p> <p class="post-date"> <time class="published updated" datetime="2024-10-07 15:24:36">October 7, 2024</time> </p> </div> <h2 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/10/07/june-jordan-though-exhausted-reads-poem-for-a-young-poet-on-request-2001/" rel="bookmark">June Jordan, though exhausted, reads “Poem for a Young Poet” on request (2001)</a> </h2> <div class="entry excerpt entry-summary"> <p>June Jordan was a Kelly Writers House Fellow in 2001. She was battling through hard treatment for cancer and her usual great strength was diminished, and when toward the end of her public reading a student asked for a reprise of “Poem for a Young Poet” I could tell that...</p> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-2354" class="group grid-item post-2354 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-post-display-on-home-page category-fiction category-kelly-writers-house category-kelly-writers-house-fellows"> <div class="post-inner post-hover"> <div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/10/07/the-late-robert-coover-genius-maker-of-fictions/"> <img width="720" height="340" src="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-06-at-10.58.00-PM-720x340.png" class="attachment-thumb-large size-thumb-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-06-at-10.58.00-PM-720x340.png 720w, https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-06-at-10.58.00-PM-520x245.png 520w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-meta group"> <p class="post-category"><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/featured-post-display-on-home-page/" rel="category tag">Featured Post</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/fiction/" rel="category tag">fiction</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/kelly-writers-house/" rel="category tag">Kelly Writers House</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/kelly-writers-house-fellows/" rel="category tag">Kelly Writers House Fellows</a></p> <p class="post-date"> <time class="published updated" datetime="2024-10-07 03:16:43">October 7, 2024</time> </p> </div> <h2 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/10/07/the-late-robert-coover-genius-maker-of-fictions/" rel="bookmark">The late Robert Coover, genius maker of fictions</a> </h2> <div class="entry excerpt entry-summary"> <p>In 2009 Robert Coover spent some days with us as a Kelly Writers House Fellow—thus I had the great great pleasure of reading & teaching most of his stunningly fabulous books. His visit was unforgettable. My interview/conversation with him is available here: https://writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/fellows/coover.html along with links to other aspects of...</p> </div> </div> </article> </div><div class="post-row"> <article id="post-2346" class="group grid-item post-2346 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-1930s category-poetics tag-1930s-poetry tag-communist-poetry tag-horace-gregory"> <div class="post-inner post-hover"> <div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/06/24/horace-gregory-on-the-suburbs/"> <img width="720" height="340" src="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-24-at-3.37.31 PM-720x340.png" class="attachment-thumb-large size-thumb-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-24-at-3.37.31 PM-720x340.png 720w, https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-06-24-at-3.37.31 PM-520x245.png 520w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-meta group"> <p class="post-category"><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/1930s/" rel="category tag">1930s</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/poetics/" rel="category tag">poetics</a></p> <p class="post-date"> <time class="published updated" datetime="2024-06-24 19:38:54">June 24, 2024</time> </p> </div> <h2 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/06/24/horace-gregory-on-the-suburbs/" rel="bookmark">Horace Gregory on the suburbs</a> </h2> <div class="entry excerpt entry-summary"> <p>As the economic depression deepens in 1930, Horace Gregory publishes this poem in Poetry magazine:  </p> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-2339" class="group grid-item post-2339 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-holocaust category-pedagogy category-penn tag-holocaust tag-teaching"> <div class="post-inner post-hover"> <div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/05/19/former-student-after-20-years-remembers-our-9-11-class-session/"> <img width="720" height="340" src="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-19-at-4.38.59-PM-720x340.png" class="attachment-thumb-large size-thumb-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-19-at-4.38.59-PM-720x340.png 720w, https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/05/Screenshot-2024-05-19-at-4.38.59-PM-520x245.png 520w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-meta group"> <p class="post-category"><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/holocaust/" rel="category tag">holocaust</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/pedagogy/" rel="category tag">pedagogy</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/penn/" rel="category tag">Penn</a></p> <p class="post-date"> <time class="published updated" datetime="2024-05-19 20:40:13">May 19, 2024</time> </p> </div> <h2 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/05/19/former-student-after-20-years-remembers-our-9-11-class-session/" rel="bookmark">Former student after 20 years remembers our 9/11 class session</a> </h2> <div class="entry excerpt entry-summary"> <p>Bret stopped by to say hi at our open house yesterday. It was the 20th reunion of his graduating class (2004). As a sophomore, 3 years earlier, he was in my course on the holocaust (co-taught then with the great Penny Marcus of our Italian department). That was the fall...</p> </div> </div> </article> </div><div class="post-row"> <article id="post-2334" class="group grid-item post-2334 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-wallace-stevens"> <div class="post-inner post-hover"> <div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/05/09/i-talk-with-lisa-new-about-the-motive-for-metaphor/"> <img width="720" height="340" src="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/05/PTRY406_Al_IG_rev-090cc2cfe05b0d1c-720x340.png" class="attachment-thumb-large size-thumb-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/05/PTRY406_Al_IG_rev-090cc2cfe05b0d1c-720x340.png 720w, https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/05/PTRY406_Al_IG_rev-090cc2cfe05b0d1c-520x245.png 520w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-meta group"> <p class="post-category"><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/wallace-stevens/" rel="category tag">Wallace Stevens</a></p> <p class="post-date"> <time class="published updated" datetime="2024-05-09 01:05:35">May 9, 2024</time> </p> </div> <h2 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/05/09/i-talk-with-lisa-new-about-the-motive-for-metaphor/" rel="bookmark">I talk with Lisa New about “The Motive for Metaphor”</a> </h2> <div class="entry excerpt entry-summary"> <p>I talked with Lisa New about two poems by Stevens — “The Empreror of Ice Cream” and “The Motive for Metaphor.” This discussion is featured with others’ responses to these poems in a new episode of Lisa’s Poetry of America series. HERE is a link to the video recording of...</p> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-2329" class="group grid-item post-2329 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-post-display-on-home-page category-kelly-writers-house category-poetics"> <div class="post-inner post-hover"> <div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/02/15/interview-conversation-with-poet-larry-price/"> <img width="720" height="340" src="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-10.06.10-AM-1f1c4bc9ece40be9-720x340.png" class="attachment-thumb-large size-thumb-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-10.06.10-AM-1f1c4bc9ece40be9-720x340.png 720w, https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2024/02/Screenshot-2024-02-15-at-10.06.10-AM-1f1c4bc9ece40be9-520x245.png 520w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-meta group"> <p class="post-category"><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/featured-post-display-on-home-page/" rel="category tag">Featured Post</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/kelly-writers-house/" rel="category tag">Kelly Writers House</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/poetics/" rel="category tag">poetics</a></p> <p class="post-date"> <time class="published updated" datetime="2024-02-15 15:05:20">February 15, 2024</time> </p> </div> <h2 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2024/02/15/interview-conversation-with-poet-larry-price/" rel="bookmark">Interview/conversation with poet Larry Price</a> </h2> <div class="entry excerpt entry-summary"> <p>New—an interview/conversation with poet Larry Price, moderated by me and Bill Fuller: https://jacket2.org/podcasts/larry-price ‘In this episode, poet Larry Price joins Al Filreis and William Fuller for an interview in the Wexler Studio at the Kelly Writers House to discuss his new book 1/0 (“one over zero”), as well as some...</p> </div> </div> </article> </div><div class="post-row"> <article id="post-2322" class="group grid-item post-2322 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-post-display-on-home-page category-kelly-writers-house category-poemtalk"> <div class="post-inner post-hover"> <div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2023/12/09/article-marks-the-200th-episode-of-poemtalk/"> <img width="720" height="340" src="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-09-at-8.06.44-AM-720x340.png" class="attachment-thumb-large size-thumb-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-09-at-8.06.44-AM-720x340.png 720w, https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2023/12/Screen-Shot-2023-12-09-at-8.06.44-AM-520x245.png 520w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-meta group"> <p class="post-category"><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/featured-post-display-on-home-page/" rel="category tag">Featured Post</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/kelly-writers-house/" rel="category tag">Kelly Writers House</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/poemtalk/" rel="category tag">PoemTalk</a></p> <p class="post-date"> <time class="published updated" datetime="2023-12-09 13:45:30">December 9, 2023</time> </p> </div> <h2 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2023/12/09/article-marks-the-200th-episode-of-poemtalk/" rel="bookmark">Article marks the 200th episode of PoemTalk</a> </h2> <div class="entry excerpt entry-summary"> <p>Here’s a nice feature on PoemTalk — written on the occasion of the recording of our 200th episode: LINK “It’s such an honor. I have been a listener to ‘PoemTalk’ from the early days right up to the present. So I came into the room feeling the weight and the...</p> </div> </div> </article> <article id="post-2317" class="group grid-item post-2317 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured-post-display-on-home-page category-kelly-writers-house tag-interview tag-kelly-writers-house tag-victor-bokris"> <div class="post-inner post-hover"> <div class="post-thumbnail"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2023/10/03/i-interview-victor-bokris-about-the-interview/"> <img width="720" height="340" src="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-03-at-7.49.45-AM-720x340.png" class="attachment-thumb-large size-thumb-large wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-03-at-7.49.45-AM-720x340.png 720w, https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2023/10/Screen-Shot-2023-10-03-at-7.49.45-AM-520x245.png 520w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> </a> </div> <div class="post-meta group"> <p class="post-category"><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/featured-post-display-on-home-page/" rel="category tag">Featured Post</a> / <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/category/kelly-writers-house/" rel="category tag">Kelly Writers House</a></p> <p class="post-date"> <time class="published updated" datetime="2023-10-03 11:56:41">October 3, 2023</time> </p> </div> <h2 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/2023/10/03/i-interview-victor-bokris-about-the-interview/" rel="bookmark">I interview Victor Bockris about the interview</a> </h2> <div class="entry excerpt entry-summary"> <p>Recently at the Kelly Writers House I interviewed Victor Bokris about the interview. HERE is a Daily Pennsylvanian article about the event. And HERE is the recording of the YouTube livestream. Bockris graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. After graduation, he founded Telegraph Press, a seminal small press...</p> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> <nav class="pagination group"> <ul class="group"> <li class="prev left"></li> <li class="next right"><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/page/2/" >Next Page »</a></li> </ul> </nav> </div> </main> <div class="sidebar s1 collapsed" data-position="left" data-layout="col-3cm" data-sb-id="s1"> <button class="sidebar-toggle" title="Expand Sidebar"><i class="fas sidebar-toggle-arrows"></i></button> <div class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-top group"> <p>Follow:</p> </div> <div id="text-3" class="widget widget_text"> <div class="textwidget"><img src="https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Images/portrait-for-home-page.jpg"> </img> 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 <em>Jacket2</em>—all at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are <em>Secretaries of the Moon</em>, <em>Wallace Stevens & the Actual World</em>, <em>Modernism from Left to Right</em>, and <em>Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60</em>. His new book is <em><a href=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/1960/9780231201858>1960: When Art & Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II & Remade the Modern</a></em> (Columbia University Press, 2021). He is currently writing a book about online pedagogy. 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We are delighted to present Tablet #3 — the paired poem and panel. The visual was made with chalk, charcoal, and soft moulding paste on prepared birch panel. Its dimensions are 30 x 22”. King's plan is to finish this se...'>Basil King’s Tablets</a></li><li> <a class='title' target='_blank' href='https://jacket2.org/commentary/james-berger-%E2%80%9Cnaive-and-sentimental-poetics%E2%80%9D' title=' Excerpt from a new book in draft James Berger James Berger, whose books include The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity , Under the Impression, The Obvious Poems and the Worthless Poems, and The OBU Manifestos, is writing a new book to be titled “Naive and Sentimental Poetics.” I’ve happily prevailed upon Jim to share with Jacket2 readers an excerpt from thi...'>James Berger, “Naive and Sentimental Poetics”</a></li><li> <a class='title' target='_blank' href='https://jacket2.org/commentary/polish-poet-writes-33-poems-directly-english' title=' Grzegorz Wróblewski's new project Grzegorz Wróblewski has written a new series of poems. "From January to May 2023," he tells me, "I was intensively dealing with asemic writing and an unexpected, very unusual project for myself. During this time I wrote 33 poems directly in English. It was the first time in my life that I made such a linguistic experiment. They have no Polis...'>A Polish poet writes 33 poems directly into English</a></li></ul></div> </div><div id="text-6" class="widget widget_text"><h3 class="widget-title">featured photograph</h3> <div class="textwidget"><a href=https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2017/03/Cecilia-Vicuna-preps-to-perform-12kzedd.jpg> <img src=https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2017/03/Cecilia-Vicuna-preps-to-perform-12kzedd.jpg></a> Cecilia Vicuna gets ready to perform at the Kelly Writers House, February 2017. Click on the image for a larger view.</div> </div><div id="text-8" class="widget widget_text"><h3 class="widget-title">recent PoemTalk episode</h3> <div class="textwidget"><a href=https://jacket2.org/podcasts/rearrange-world-poemtalk-110>PoemTalk #110 on Philip Whalen</a> <img src=https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2017/03/Bolinas-PoemTalk-26mzbox.png></a> PoemTalk’s crew took to the road, wandering pretty much as far west as one can go on this continent, to a place Philip Whalen called, in a poem’s subtitle, “the last of California” — Bolinas, coastal spot famous as A congenial writer’s retreat. Stephen Ratcliffe, Joanne Kyger, and Julia Bloch gathered there with Al Filreis to talk about Whalen. Our poem was indeed written in Bolinas, in 1968, and finished in Kyoto in 1969. It’s called “Life at Bolinas: The Last of California.” Whalen’s PennSound page includes a recording of his performance of this poem, the final poem he read at an event in Albuquerque in 1987. Click <A HREF=https://jacket2.org/podcasts/rearrange-world-poemtalk-110>HERE</a> to read program notes and <A HREF=https://jacket2.org/podcasts/rearrange-world-poemtalk-110><strong>LISTEN TO THE SHOW</strong></a>.</div> </div><div id="alxvideo-4" class="widget widget_hu_video"> <h3 class="widget-title">ModPo video highlight #2: on Ruth Weiss's "Poem" (filmed on location in San Francisco)</h3><div class="video-container"><iframe title="On ruth weiss's "Poem"" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u-EX4oqInCo?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></div> <div id="text-11" class="widget widget_text"><h3 class="widget-title">Enroll in “ModPo”</h3> <div class="textwidget"><img src=https://web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/files/2017/03/ModPo-2013-final-words-webcast-14qvgs4.png> <a href=https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo>ModPo</a> is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior experience with poetry) will learn how to read poems that are supposedly "difficult." We encounter and discuss the poems one at a time. It's much easier than it seems! Click <a href=https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo><strong>HERE</strong></a> to enroll.</p> <p> Even though we are currently in our offseason ("SloPo"), you are welcome to enroll now. You will have access to the entire ModPo site. Explore; meet some ModPo'ers who are conversing in the site year-round; read poems and watch videos. Then join us again when the intense "symposium mode" starts up again in September. <p> Yes, the next live, interactive 10-week session of ModPo will begin on September 9, 2017, and will conclude on November 20, 2017. Al Filreis will be in touch with you by email before the September 9 start of the course with all the information you'll need to participate. If you have questions, you can email the ModPo team at modpo@writing.upenn.edu. <p> During the 10 weeks of the course, you will be guided through poems, video discussions of each poem, and community discussions of each poem. And (unique among open online courses) we offer weekly, interactive live webcasts. Our famed TAs also offer office hours throughout the week. We help arrange meet-ups and in-site study groups. <p> If you are curious about the ModPo team, type "ModPo YouTube introduction" into Google or your favorite search engine, and watch the 20-minute introductory video. 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