I know, I know, I haven’t been around. But I’ve been studying poetry, falling in love lyric essay, being awaken at night by the muse. But now that the semester– and my first year of studying poetry– is over I’m getting busy again. Before I could fully get my foot out the door ofContinue reading “LET’S GET LIT: Babbling towards Baghdad (My First Radio Interview!)”
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Poets of Babel’s Rebirth: 1 Year Anniversary at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Beyond
Poets of Babel is metamorphosing into a larger, less familiar creature. It started in my home with only two rules: (1) Read in any language as long as there was someone who understood (bring a friend!) and (2) Everyone participates. I had to break rule number one very early on. Sometimes there was only oneContinue reading “Poets of Babel’s Rebirth: 1 Year Anniversary at the Jerusalem Cinematheque and Beyond”
“In Media Res” or a ModPoetic Collage: On a Vision, a Course, a Liberation, a Block, and a “Way” to “Eunoia”
*(Note to reader: This entire piece is an experiment. It is an exercise in “how,” that is, it’s not so much what I am saying but how I am saying it. I try to explain what ModPo has taught me by using it, drawing on elements from proto-modernism, the edge of modernist poetics, found language, spontaneous prose,Continue reading ““In Media Res” or a ModPoetic Collage: On a Vision, a Course, a Liberation, a Block, and a “Way” to “Eunoia””
“The Way” ModPo Changed My Facebook Posts
The Modern and Contemporary Poetry Course, better known as ModPo, led by Prof. Al Filreis and his enlightened TA team, from the University of Pennsylvania, started September 10, 2012. Since beginning the course, not only have I become obsessed with it (I’ve been ‘squeezing’ it in everywhere as Prof. Filreis extolled us to do inContinue reading ““The Way” ModPo Changed My Facebook Posts”
Shoshana Sarah 