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...
Published in the June 2023 issue of the Marsh Hawk Press Review: Al’s notes toward a pedagogy of ModPo. It begins: “Whenever I write these days about poetry I express an intense interest in...
Al Filreis writes: As part of our series of announcements as we prepare for ModPo 2023 (the “symposium mode” that runs from 10 weeks starting September 2), I have a great honor and pleasure...
Thanks to long-time ModPo’er Alonna Shaw—and her partner Stephen—we are able to share photos of “C.C.’s,” Cid Corman’s coffee shop in Kyoto, Japan. See below. Stephen met the current owner, who has preserved many...
Text (including manuscript), audio (by Lee Ann Brown) & two filmed discussions about Dickinson’s “Alone and in a Circumstance.” https://modpo.org/explore/?poem=1135
I am thrilled to announce that JS Wu will be joining the ModPo team, as a TA, in the fall of 2023! JS is a scholar, artist, and first-time ModPo TA living in Philadelphia. She’s currently...
I’m sorry to be passing along the very sad news of the death of our dear ModPo CTA friend Andrea Buonincontro on April 23. She was just 47 years old and the ModPo family...
I have the honor of announcing the reappointment of our extraordinary colleague and friend Jason Zuzga as a TA for ModPo ’23, the ten-week symposium mode of which begins on Saturday, September 2. I...
Mark your calendars! On May 10, starting at 10 AM Philadelphia time, we will convene for a live, interactive ModPo webcast. You will be able to watch and participate by tuning in to our...
Al Filreis writes: I’m beyond excited to announce this: Kate Colby returns to ModPo 2023—a marvelous talented poet and a wonderfully responsive collaborative reader of poems, a good friend of the Writers House people....
An avid ModPo community member went to the nearby city of Toronto and, as he passed by a storefront there, saw the Baroness. And posed likewise. And sent this photo to us along with...
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any webcast live.
Week 1 — Wednesday, September 6 – 3 PM
Week 2 – Wednesday, September 13 – 8:30 PM
Week 3 – Wednesday, September 20 – NOON (special guest: Rachel Blau DuPlessis)
September 20, SPECIAL EVENT: 6 PM, reading by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Week 4 – Wednesday, September 27 – 6:30 PM at the Morgan Library in NYC (to be confirmed)
Week 5 – Wednesday, October 4 – 10 AM
Week 6 – Thursday, October 12 – 7 PM local time (live from Scotland)
Week 7 – Wednesday, October 18: 10 AM [Davy Knittle joins us!]
Week 8 – Wednesday, October 25: NOON – special event featuring Bernadette Mayer Memorial with Lee Ann Brown & others
October 25, SPECIAL EVENT: 6 PM readings by friends of Bernadette Mayer, hosted by Laynie Browne
Week 9 – Wednesday, November 1 – 8:30 PM [Gabi Ojeda-Sagué & Kate Colby & Ann Strong Safford join us]
Week 10 – Wednesday, November 8 – NOON (Erica Baum & Jake Marmer join panel – to be confirmed)
FINAL WORDS – Monday, November 13th – NOON
[] Click HERE to watch recordings of all the ModPo 2022 webcasts.
Yes, you can take ModPo for University of Pennsylvania credit. Three 10-week sessions are offered each year: fall, spring, summer. This version of ModPo is taught by ModPo coordinator Laynie Browne. Click HERE for all the info you need. Contact Laynie with questions at modpo@writing.upenn.edu.
ModPo has created a Teacher Resource Center (“TRC“) for teachers who use ModPo poems & videos in their classrooms. Click HERE to read teaching guides and watch videos in which teachers talk about teaching with ModPo. If you wish to be added to our teachers mailing list, write us at modpo@writing.upenn.edu. Click HERE to discuss ModPo poems with other teachers.
