Davy Knittle returns as a TA
We are well beyond just joyful in announcing that the super-talented & intellectually generous Davy Knittle will be back once again as a ModPo TA for ModPo 2019, starting September 7. He’s responsive, incisive,...
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Dave Poplar is back for ModPo 2019!
Dave Poplar! [ David Poplar ] Yes, Dave will be back as a ModPo TA for ModPo 2019 starting 9/7/19. Dave is an original (in so many senses): this will be his 8th year...
SloPo course on Loy, Guest and Notley
Jason’s Zuzga’s SloPo mini-course begins on Monday (March 11). See below for info! *** Mina Loy, Barbara Guest, and Alice Notley: The New York School and the Body of the PoemThere is no poem...
Amaris Cuchanski is back!
Amaris Cuchanski, whose sheer critical intelligence and talent for perfectly saying what everyone else is just then halfway thinking, was one of the original ModPo TAs back in 2012. I’m so very excited to...
Erica Baum’s “A Long Dress” gallery show responds to Stein’s “Tender Buttons”
Yesterday a ModPo film crew met up with Erica Baum at Bureau gallery in the lower east side of Manhattan — to make a new ModPoPLUS video with her about her newest project. Bureau...
Watch the live video stream of “Five Up on Walt”: celebrate Whitman at 200
This event, which is being hosted by Anna Strong Safford, will be live streamed (as all our programs are) here: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/ *** We’re excited to invite you to the Writers House on Tuesday, February...
Final words clip: Ujjwala, Nepali spoken-word poet
ModPo final words from Ujjwala Maharjan, a Nepali spoken-word poet:
ModPo 2018 final words: Jason, a teacher
ModPo 2018 final words from Jason, a teacher from Baltimore—who talks about ModPo’s effect on this teaching & other matters:
SloPo mini-course on Lorine Niedecker, led by Max McKenna (starts 2/4/2019)
I am pleased to announce that beloved long-time ModPo TA Max McKenna will be leading a 4-week SloPo discussion group on the poems of Lorine Niedecker. The discussion will begin on February 4. If...
ModPo in California
The ModPo team recently returned from a five-day visit to Calfornia. We met with folks at Coursera in Mountain View on Thursday (talking about improvements to the platform we use to host ModPo, especially...