Is nowpoetry up and active?

[Skip Fox]

Friends,

I've not heard from nowpoetry for some time now until yesterday when I saw Anny's post. Now James' post on the Scottish poetry dispute came through.

So I'm wondering if we're up and well?

In terms of poetry, I've been checking out Al Felreis' ModPo course at UPenn which I find intelligent and worthwhile even for us old, seasoned poets and teachers of modern poetry. Perhaps everyone knows about this already.

Skip

[Margaret Watson]

I for one would be thrilled.  Although mostly silent I do miss the extraordinary conversation. 

Thank you

Margaret Watson

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On Oct 9, 2020, at 10:57 AM, Skip Fox <fox....@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Skip Fox]

I must admit, one of the reasons I like ModPo is that I get to witness the magic of the classroom once again with Al and a half-dozen smart and friendly graduate students. But the quality of that magic is in itself remarkable. Difficult poems are given very generous close readings. (By "very generous," I mean I mean the readings are collaborative and fully human, not locked into a set of methodological goals like the New Critics.)

ModPo also has  sessions with a half-dozen poets like Rachal Blau Duplessis and Bob Perman as well as clips which disclose more of PennSound's fantastic on-line poetry collection than I would have found on my own, and I've been looking for about two decades.

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