I’m enjoying two full days of constant talk about the poet Wallace Stevens out here at the gorgeous Huntington Library. Yesterday I recorded a new ModPo video about Stevens’s poem “Plot against the Giant”...
We are making available audio-only files of the ModPo videos from the main syllabus. Now you can listen to us talking about the poems while you commute, while you exercise, while you do the...
Good morning. Autumn has arrived in Philly! Makes me feel that we should be in week 2 of ModPo. Oh, and we are! Wednesday of week 2! Here are a few notes/reminders: WEBCAST TODAY....
There’s a podcast series called “Dead Parents Society,” produced & hosted by KWH’s Jamie-Lee Josselyn & recorded by Zach Carduner at Kelly Writers House’s Wexler Studio. The series is about writing about living life...
Here are some discussion forum threads that have so far reviewed few responses (or none). Please take a moment to click one or two of the links and offer a comment! Thank you! On...
Tomorrow (Wednesday, September 18) we will convene our second webcast of the ModPo season. You really should try to make plans to watch (and participate in) our second weekly webcast of 2019. We start...
Hello and welcome to Monday of week 2 of ModPo 2019. We are beginning to talk about our week 2 poets—influenced by Dickinson and Whitman. Fun! This week our Wednesday webcast will begin at...
Just today we added a new poem and new video to week 1! The poem is Dickinson’s “From Blank to Blank—,” which you can read HERE. And HERE is the video, which is an...
Just now added to ModPoPLUS week 5, chapter 4—Philip Metres‘s poem “The Ballad of Ken Davis.” The text is here below and the video is here: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/app/public/watch.php?file_id=225683
