We have now posted a new video to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 8. During a recent visit to San Francisco we gathered with Jake Marmer and Ariel Resnikoff at a tavern in the...
Now added to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 2: Al Filreis & Kate Colby talk about her poem “Theory” and of course we provide a link to the text of the poem itself. Here...
We are convening a special SloPo season (off season) ModPo live webcast on Thursday, June 6, starting at noon Philly time. Please plan to join us! Click this link then: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/webcasts/ We will be...
Yesterday was Alumni Day at Penn. Judy Ribble Glenn came to campus from her home in New Mexico, in order to celebrate her 60th class reunion (yes, she is in the Penn Class of...
Here are some links you will find in ModPoPLUS for week 3 pertaining to Japanese poets’ response to the rise of modernism in the U.S. (and to imagism in particular): PART TEN: MICHIYO NAKAMOTO...
We will be hosting an off-season live webcast on Thursday, June 6, start at noon (12 PM) Philadelphia time. To join us, at that time click this link: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/webcasts/ You do not need to...
Jennifer Scappettone (whose poems are associated with week 10 of our course) visited the Kelly Writers House and recorded a discussion of a mysterious poem by Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, which we have...
“SloPo” is, as you know, the nickname ModPo’ers have given to our “off season”—which describes anything that happens in the always-open ModPo site other than during the 10 weeks each autumn (early September—mid-November) when...
Returning as a ModPo TA for ModPo 2019: the extraordinary Jason Zuzga! It’s no wonder to me that Jason is utterly beloved by so many members of the ModPo community. He feels deeply every...
Emily Harnett! Emily will join us again for ModPo 2019 as a TA for the *eighth* year. Utterly brilliant—able to articulate the most nuanced point improvisationally—Emily is a person I could listen to all...