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...
In early October, the ModPo team will be traveling to Manchester, UK. As usual, we will be filming discussions with poets about various poems—in this case, Manchester and Manchester-affiliated poets and poems. The poems...
Just out—this interview with me about my hopes for digital pedagogy. From the host, Trevor Aleo: “In this episode of Conceptually Speaking, I sit down with Dr. Al Filreis, the Kelly Professor at the...
Readers and fans of the late Julia Vinograd will be happy to have the latest about Ken Paul Rosenthal’s film about Julia’s life and work: “I’m thrilled to inform you that I’ve finished editing...
Dear Students of ModPo, Some of you may recall that Karren Alenier was an original student and later a CTA of ModPo. Her interest has always been the work of Gertrude Stein. This year...
Vero Garcia — Veronica Scharf Garcia — long-time super-citizen of the ModPo world, created this Duchampian sketch for us, and we are delighted to share it widely.
During the ModPo team’s visit to Scotland in October 2023, we hosted a live webcast at the Scottish Poetry Library. During that discussion we had occasion to look once again at Baraka’s “Incident,” a...
Al Filreis and ModPo’s coordinator Laynie Browne & are thrilled to announce that these TAs will join us for ModPo 2026: Jake Marmer, Gabi Ojeda-Sagué, Jordan Trice, Ali Castleman, Sophia DuRose, erica kaufman, Kate...
Recently Al Filreis was interviewed by Don Rooney and John Timpane for their podcast The Musical Innertube. He talked with them about ModPo and my his book. Here is the episode program note at...
Vijaya and Rahana—dear friends by now—had never met in person before the day this photo was taken. (Vijaya brought Rahana and copy of Al’s book!)
Marc Bauch, a long-time ModPo CTA and convener of meet-ups, has sent me three of his own wonderful books of poetry. One of them (cover depicted here) responds directly to a favorite poem-generating version...