Dear all: The ModPo team will be traveling to the U.S. west coast in January. We will convene meet-ups in San Francisco and then in Los Angeles.The details for both gatherings are given below....
The artist Maria Markovich has participated in ModPo for a number of years. In 2015 she created the Emily Dickinson figure photographed below.
I love my affiliation with ModPo and this is the time of year when I take time to reflect on what’s good and sweet in my life. ModPo is good and sweet, for sure!...
Kyriakos Mavridis, a ModPo participant back in 2013, has made a work of comix from Gertrude Stein’s prose poem “Let Us Describe,” which we discuss in ModPo: http://jacket2.org/commentary/stein-comix
The ModPo team will be traveling to the U.S. west coast in January. We will convene meet-ups in San Francisco and then in Los Angeles. Today I’m announcing details of our Los Angeles meet-up....
Here is a video clip from our week 9 (November 7, 2018) live webcast—in which guest poet/teacher Joshua Schuster (one of the founders of the Writers House in 1995-96) discusses the classroom and the...
Here is a further discussion of (Cage’s idea of) defamiliarizing and defamiliarizing language—a video clip from our November 7, 2018 week 9 live webcast:
Here is a video clip from the week 9 live webcast (November 7, 2018).
Poet and long-time ModPo TA Jake Marmer has shared three of his many writing prompts. Attention ModPo teachers: try these with your students and let us know (modpo@writing.upenn.edu) how it went.
Max McKenna & two ModPo’ers in Chicago have added a good close reading of Rosmarie Waldrop’s poem “Representations.” Video quality is fuzzy but audio is good and the reading is terrific. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpJBFVRcx_w (link to...