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Post by afilreis on Jan 4, 2023 20:51:04 GMT -5
Hey there, I'm Colin. I'm new to ModPo, SloPo, AND Joan Retallack. I write poetry and memoir and I work in construction in Philadelphia. Very happy to have discovered ModPo in this new year Welcome, Colin! If you are new to ModPo, how did you find out about our SloPo mini-course? Are you saying that you've joined ModPo but only recently? Anyway, so glad you're here. If you're in Philly, please come by the Kelly Writers House at 3805 Locust Walk for one of our upcoming events! - Al
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Post by ravitte on Jan 4, 2023 20:58:03 GMT -5
Hi, I'm an older MFA student, joining from Boulder CO. I took ModPo many years ago, 2012 I think. I still remember the amazing energy and generosity of the program and staff. I came back to the program some years later to experience the additional material. I also did one slowPo, about Frank O'Hara, but was too busy to do it justice. I hope to take it really slow this time. Looking forward to it.
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Post by Kathy Florence on Jan 4, 2023 22:17:14 GMT -5
Hello from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Last September, I returned to ModPo after a roughly 10-year hiatus. The first time I enrolled in ModPo, I only had the time to skim each session. In 2022, I was thrilled to have the time to complete every reading and watch every video and Webcast, but not quite enough time to participate in the interactive side. Now with SloPo, my goal is to participate on the forums and maybe even be bold enough to say something in a webcast.
As to a bit of my involvement in the writing community, I co-organize the Midtown Writers Group, a free, public writing group in Minneapolis where 5-25 people show up for 1.75 hours on Saturday morning to freewrite from prompts. The group has joyfully met every Saturday for 15 years, and we intend to go on forever.
I am excited to be here!
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Post by burt on Jan 4, 2023 23:13:42 GMT -5
I'm an off and on again follower of ModPo, greatly enjoyed the video discussions; totally unfamiliar with many of the modern/contemporary poets discussed recently but it's been fun and I now have a better appreciation of their art (I've even begun reading poems published in the New Yorker mag ... something I had totally ignored before). Filreis does a great job teasing out the insights from his group of students and it's a delight to hear those discussions. I have a feeling he didn't anticipate how successful this journey would be and I'm certain that hundreds like me are appreciative passengers. Me? I'm a neuroscientist who spends his free time reading at least some of the English Romantics, WWI poets, Vachel Lindsay, Millay, Eliot, Frost, Cummings, Dylan Thomas and trying to get into Auden, Yeats and Lowell and recently discovered short poems of WS Landor (what fun!).
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Post by Sophia Naz on Jan 4, 2023 23:34:19 GMT -5
Hi Everyone, I was a little lost in the poetic landscape of America until I discovered ModPo in 2013. I am a poet, occasional essayist, short fiction writer and translator ( from my native Urdu). I also paint ( watercolor and Japanese brush painting) and enjoy a broad range of music from around the world but continue to delve deep into Indian classical music which I consider to be the world’s earliest form of what is considered “modern art”.
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Post by Jim Lynch on Jan 5, 2023 0:10:36 GMT -5
Hello all! I did the main course over this summer and joined in the forums this past season – enjoying every minute of it – so this will be my first time for SloPo and excited to learn. I work at home, self-employed arts + crafter, in Myrtle Beach area, South Carolina. When I'm not working, or reading or writing, I'm in the ocean or in the woods or walking dogs, and contemplating the edges of possibility from the center of the impossible. I read Retallack's Errata Suite and Afterrimages back in 2014 so don't remember much – and in last few weeks have read through Poethical Wager and listened to most of her Penn Sound page. The essays are fantastic and I'm excited to interact with her poetry in a forum setting. Really enjoyed both “The Ventriloquest's Dummy” and the ModPo Plus discussion video – you could design a whole course just from the worlds of inquiry generated by that poem! And looking forward to learning more about procedural poetries.
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Post by Sandy on Jan 5, 2023 0:12:07 GMT -5
Hello everyone! I have tried ModPo several times but I get derailed very easily! It's a new year, excited to be here and hoping to make it through SloPo! I'm a native Philadelphian, went to Penn for undergrad/grad (BSEE, MSEE) and now live in DC!
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Post by Lidia Ostepeev on Jan 5, 2023 2:55:40 GMT -5
I have been doing ModPo since 2017. I live in Melbourne, Australia.
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Post by Diane Schofield on Jan 5, 2023 4:21:14 GMT -5
Hello everyone, I've taken part in ModPo a few times and dipped in and out of SloPo during the rest of the year. When not doing that I paint, write and walk. I like to make my own notes about poems before I see / read / listen to how others interpret them, even if I'm way off the mark, because it's so easy to be influenced and end up down a rabbit hole that confuses me. I find Joan Retallack's work challenging and fascinating so I'm looking forward to the next few weeks.
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Post by jennifer on Jan 5, 2023 5:01:06 GMT -5
Hello everyone, I'm Jennifer from Wiltshire, England. I really enjoyed ModPo this last autumn but still have a great deal to learn about close reading and collaborative close reading, so I trust you will be patient with me if I get things wrong. Thank you Al for your email link to Retallack's writing on ModPo Plus. I particularly enjoyed her Poethics and your excellent group dicussion of it. I already have her conversations with John Cage, which I dip into ftom time to time. I love the European Time Zone meetings and prefer Zoom discussion to written posts, though the latter have the advantage of bring able to closely involve more people and allow thoughts to develop over time. Other interests include music, particularly jazz, walking, gardening, friendship, and exploring Europe in our small motorhome, sadly on hold at present as I'm another SloPoer with health issues.
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Post by Debjani Chatterjee on Jan 5, 2023 5:29:55 GMT -5
Hi, I’m a 2012 friend of ModPo and one who happily watched ModPo extending over the years…This format seems a little unfamiliar but I hope to get my head around it.I enjoyed SloPo courses earlier with Mandana and another one with Jake … and am looking forward to Joan Retallack ‘s exciting poetry.Best wishes to all my fellow learners for interesting posts, even if I’m not able to contribute myself!
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Post by Prithvijeet Sinha on Jan 5, 2023 6:05:38 GMT -5
Hello people and all literary connoisseurs. My name is Prithvijeet Sinha and I hail from the historic North Indian city of Lucknow, a cultural and artistic beacon since centuries that has moulded minds and discerning souls.
From September to November, 2022, I was extremely fortunate to be a part of the premium ModPo course that not only helped me to hone my powers of deduction and interpretation but acutely impacted my own poetic output in the most affirmative manner. I was completely won over by Mr.Al and his collective team's morale-boosting, considerate tempers and the way each part of the course constituted a real breakthrough for the one participating in it. It was/is a Godsend for someone who is a self-proclaimed 'student for life' and having received the Certificate of Participation from MODPO and imbibing all the visual materials, the works of poets old and new , I am so happy to be in continuity of enhancing my literary prowess with SloPo.
In the course of the period before the course begins, I read quite a few works by Ms. Joan Retallack beginning with NOT A CAGE,of course, as also others like THE VENTRILOQUIST'S DILEMMA, THE MAGIC RULE OF NINE, POLITIES &/OR SONNETS, NONE TOO SOON, A HISTORY OF BEING SCHE, ELLIPTICAL ICE TERRIERS, BY NOW and TRANSMIGRATION.
Her unique vision pulsates with factual tidbits as also the intertextuality informed by history, nature, anthropology, sociology, mathematics and geometry et all. Basically, a multiplicity of disciplines challenges our pre-conceived notions of culture, form and content as also erudition. So it's an exciting new step in the new year to begin with those intersections enshrined in #28 off her Procedural Elegies.
Let this new chapter be one of learning and enthusiasm.
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Post by roberta on Jan 5, 2023 6:37:22 GMT -5
Good morning, I only discovered ModPro as the 2022 live course came to a conclusion. I hope it will be repeated in 2023 as in previous years. It was a real treat to discover this spin off and look forward to participating in real time. I am retired from the UK and living in Spain, belong to a Poetry Reading Group in the U3A (University of the 3rd Age for people like me!). We include a lot of Dickinson and Whitman; with Mary Oliver and Amy Lowell together with a wide cohort of UK poets. Joan Retallack is a new adventure for me. looking forward to it.
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Post by mattlutwen on Jan 5, 2023 7:27:15 GMT -5
Hi everyone, I'm Matt and I live in Pittsburgh. I've derived a lot of value from Joan Retallack's work, and I look forward to engaging more with you all. I joined ModPo two seasons ago.
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Post by afilreis on Jan 5, 2023 7:44:59 GMT -5
Good morning, I only discovered ModPro as the 2022 live course came to a conclusion. I hope it will be repeated in 2023 as in previous years. It was a real treat to discover this spin off and look forward to participating in real time. I am retired from the UK and living in Spain, belong to a Poetry Reading Group in the U3A (University of the 3rd Age for people like me!). We include a lot of Dickinson and Whitman; with Mary Oliver and Amy Lowell together with a wide cohort of UK poets. Joan Retallack is a new adventure for me. looking forward to it. Roberta - hello! Oh yes yes yes, the next 10-week "symposium mode" of ModPo will begin on September 2, 2023. You are enrolled and so you don't need to do anything, just wait for the moment when we start with week 1 together again. Meantime, there's SloPo, and there's ModPoPLUS (click "Resources" inside the ModPo site at Coursera) and there's Modpo.org. Go to modpo.org and click "Explore" and you can then create your own syllabus for further reading. - Al
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