Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
ENROLL HERE! ** ModPo is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior...
Here is a copy of the announcement Al has just sent around to all ModPo people. If you are reading this and wonder why you didn’t receive it by email, please write to modpo@writing.upenn.edu...
Are you a teacher searching for a way of enable full participation of your students in the sometimes daunting work of reading and discussing a poem? It might seem obvious, especially in a post...
Many ModPo people know that each year the ModPo team travels to a city where we can meet in person with ModPo participants and also with local poets who convene with us in the...
We’ve organized various introductory videos about ModPo—overviews of the course and our approach—into one easy view. Click HERE and have a look!
Here is the text of a meta-pedagogical poem we often discuss in ModPo. It is available as part of the ModPoPLUS syllabus.
I talked with Lisa New about two poems by Stevens — “The Empreror of Ice Cream” and “The Motive for Metaphor.” This discussion is featured with others’ responses to these poems in a new...
Today I have the true great pleasure of announcing to you the group of ModPo TAs who will re-joining us for the upcoming annual “symposium mode” of ModPo (August 31 – November 11). Some...
David Seelow has published an essay-overview about ModPo. Near the beginning is this: “When the MOOC fanfare exploded around 2012, the platform pitched three appealing features: free cost, unlimited unenrollment, star professors. All three...
Recently we visited Dan Bergmann at his home in Massachusetts and recorded a discussion of Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” and Eugene Ostashevsky’s “Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Translator.”...
Many of you will of course remember John Knight’s involvement with ModPo since its founding year, 2012. John continued to be part of the ModPo community through last fall’s 12th season. Right there at...