A ModPo book coming in 2020: 50 poets on 50 poems
Anna Strong Safford & Al Filreis are editing a book, to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2020, in which we present 50 poets writing 1,000 words each in response to...
Author: Al Filreis
erica kaufman is back!
An astonishingly great poet, teacher, critic, scholar, and practitioner of progressive, experimental pedagogy—erica kaufman—will once again join the ModPo team as a TA and coordinator of ModPo’s TRC (Teacher Resource Center) for ModPo 2019....
Max McKenna is back as TA
Al writes: “I caught up with Max McKenna yesterday & I can announce that Max is going to be—once again, for an 8th year!—a ModPo TA for ModPo 2019! Max is a ModPo original....
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué returns as ModPo TA
Today Al says the following: “I’m downright verklempt because I am typing these words: Gabe Ojeda-Sagué will be returning as a TA for ModPo 2019! Everyone who has worked alongside Gabe loves him: he’s...
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,...
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...