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....
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...
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...
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...
A complete renovation of the “Arts Cafe” at the Kelly Writers House is underway, but (perhaps predictably!) we’re decided to keep our famously creaky old chairs. Since the room will be larger than before,...
Today Anna and Al joined a number of ModPo people using Facebook Live, experimenting with a live-streaming-plus-commentary mode that we will use this autumn experimentally for a mode of “office hour.” You can watch...
We are revising the headnotes to ModPoPLUS (the paragraph-long introduction to each week’s readings and videos). Here’s the revised headnote to week 1: The first week of ModPo’s main syllabus introduces us to Whitman...
PennSound, the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems, has a very extensive alphabetical listing of authors included in the archive. Here is the LINK to the author list.
From ModPo’s crowdsourced CCCR syllabus: watch this collaborative close reading by ModPo people of Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!”: LINK.
In October 2017 the ModPo team traveled to London—and was greeted there by many ModPo friends from around English, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and variously from around Europe (including Poland). Here is the live webcast...