Introduction to week 5 in 2024 (9/29/24)
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...
Author: Al Filreis
Teachers: you can use the ModPo method of collaborative close reading in your classrooms!
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...
ModPo team travels to Montreal – join us!
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...
Overviews and introductions to ModPo all in one view
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!
Erica Hunt, “Reader we were meant to meet”
Here is the text of a meta-pedagogical poem we often discuss in ModPo. It is available as part of the ModPoPLUS syllabus.
Al Filreis & Lisa New discuss Wallace Stevens
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...
Announcing: ModPo TAs & special poet-guests for ModPo 2024
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, “A Good MOOC Is Hard to Find”
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...
New video: Steven’s “Thirteen Ways” & Ostashevsky’s “Fourteen Ways”
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.”...
Beloved ModPo citizen John Knight has passed away
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...