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Join us for our week 5 live webcast on the communist poets of the 1930s!
0:00 pre-webcast
1:33 opening remarks
10:30 Al asks everyone to give an announcement
16:08 Laynie reads discussion forum comments
17:20 historical context of week 5 and discussion of “Green Light”
40:38 call from Mona
45:31 discussion of Bob Brown erasure poem
53:58 Laynie leads discussion of “Earth, I Thank You”
1:03:36 call from Jane W and comment about “Lines for an Abortionist’s Office”
1:10:27 final thoughts
Join us for our week 5 live webcast on the communist poets of the 1930s!
0:00 pre-webcast
1:33 opening remarks
10:30 Al asks everyone to give an announcement
16:08 Laynie reads discussion forum comments
17:20 historical context of week 5 and discussion of “Green Light”
40:38 call from Mona
45:31 discussion of Bob Brown erasure poem
53:58 Laynie leads discussion of “Earth, I Thank You”
1:03:36 call from Jane W and comment about “Lines for an Abortionist’s Office”
1:10:27 final thoughts
![Introduction to Week 5 [2025]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PsywpfCHXms/mqdefault.jpg "Introduction to Week 5 [2025]
Al and Laynie introduce Week 5 (modules 7, 8, 9, and 10), which focuses on different popular poetic movements of the mid-20th century.
For more information and to enroll for free in ModPo, visit: ModPo.org")
![Introduction to Week 3 [2025]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q_mD_x45k7k/mqdefault.jpg "Introduction to Week 3 [2025]
Al and Laynie introduce Week 3 (modules 3 and 4), which focuses on imagism and poets like H.D., Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams.
For more information and to enroll for free in ModPo, visit: ModPo.org")
