Announcement: 9/9/18 on starting week 1
I have really enjoyed reading and responding to your introductions. Keep those coming HERE! Meantime, week 1 now begins for real. Between now and next weekend, we hope everyone will read the poems in...
Author: Al Filreis
ModPo as “Education Populism” (essay in PMLA)
Wai Chee Dimock, professor of literature at Yale University and editor of PMLA, has published an essay on Kelly Writers House, PennSound and ModPo. HERE is a PDF copy of that essay.
Added to ModPoPLUS: Caroline Bergvall’s “Say Parsley”
Recently we have added to ModPoPLUS materials pertaining to Caroline Bergvall’s “Say Parsley.” Here are the links: read Caroline Bergvall’s “Say Parsley” from her book Fig: LINK TO TEXT & IMAGES watch Bergvall’s video...
new poems & videos in ModPoPLUS for week 5
Here, below, are a number of poems and videos recently added to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 5: watch teachers discuss Lechlitner’s “Lines for an Abortionist’s Office”: LINK TO TRC VIDEO watch discussion of...
Al Filreis interviewed: podcast on what’s right & wrong with education now
Rolf Potts returned to the Writers House recently and, after leading a public program he and I went into the Wexler Studio to record an episode of his fine podcast series, “Deviate.” It was...
ModPo travels to Montreal in early October 2018
Each October the ModPo team travels to a city beyond—sometimes well beyond—our home at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. This year we will be coming to Montreal. We will be hosting TWO ModPo events: 1)...
Our statement of completion: everything you need to know
Q: Will we get certificates upon completion of this course? A: Yes, we will present non-credit Statements of Completion to those who complete the course and fulfill all the requirements for such a certification....
Announcement 9/7/18: welcome to ModPo — let’s get started
Welcome to ModPo 2018. Our ten-week movement through the course begins again tomorrow, Saturday, September 8. I say “begins again” because many participants have been involved with ModPo in previous years. We created this...
Buy a ModPo mug & support our recruitment of talented young writers
Yes, you can buy one of the ModPo mugs from which you see Al and the TAs sipping coffee in the ModPo videos. Click HERE and see what’s available (mugs and more). The tiny...
Video: Al Filreis presents about ModPo at Columbia University (January 2014)
This video—about an hour long—features a presentation Al Filreis made at Columbia University about ModPo as an instance of the then-somewhat-new phenomenon: a massive open online course. Most of the talk was really about...