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...
Author: Al Filreis
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...
Kelly Writers House: new look but creaky old chairs
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,...
Facebook Live “office hour” – Anna & Al talk about Dickinson
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...
ModPoPLUS headnotes being revised
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 authors
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.
CCCR video on Dickinson’s “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!”
From ModPo’s crowdsourced CCCR syllabus: watch this collaborative close reading by ModPo people of Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!”: LINK.
Our live webcast from London (October 2017)
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...
ModPo 2026 (click to enroll here now)
ENROLL HERE! ** ModPo is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior...
Support ModPo
Support ModPo with a gift! To make a donation to our Digital Poetries Fund, click HERE. To donate to our Student Access Fund, click HERE. The ModPo team, based here at the Kelly Writers...