SloPo mini-courses for winter/spring 2026
SloPo season is upon us. There are many ways to be involved with ModPo when we are not in our annual 10-week “Symposium Mode.” You can click HERE and learn of many ways to...
SloPo season is upon us. There are many ways to be involved with ModPo when we are not in our annual 10-week “Symposium Mode.” You can click HERE and learn of many ways to...
“The SoCal Spellers” have been posting to the ModPo forums, contributing their comments to our discussions of individual poems. We here on the ModPo team invite all ModPo people to respond to their posts!...
In the week ahead we hope you will join us as we read and discuss poems composed by chance, by quasi-nonintentional means, by aid of computer program, by gamification and randomization, by deterministic processes!...
Al Filreis gave the introductory chapter of his forthcoming book to a machine that makes podcasts from text. The result is not perfectly accurate but does give you a fair, informal sense of what...
After Al Filreis led a collaborative close reading of a Gertrude Stein poem with a class of middle-school students in Saigon, they sent us this reel. Fun! What a wonderful group.
Opening day Saturday, August 30 Week 1 Sunday, August 31 – Saturday, September 6 Webcast: Wednesday, September 3 — 3 PM Week 2 Sunday, September 7 – Saturday, September 13 Webcast: Wednesday, September 10...
Our most active Community TA (CTA), Anthony Watkins, has posted to LinkedIn a very helpful guide to ModPo. It’s called “How to do ModPo.” You can find and read it by clicking HERE. Here...
Jane Ward, a long-time ModPo citizen, has put together a document, now available online, that provides access to all the readings in the main syllabus. HERE is a link to this helpful document. We...
John Sanchez has been involved with ModPo since 2020 at least. He was a star learner during our pandemic seasons. He did the course with his dad. Recently John wrote this to me: “My...
We are delighted to announce that Ali Castleman, as of yesterday, is the first of the ModPo TAs to confirm that she will rejoin the ModPo team for ModPo 2025, which opens on August...