ModPo 2026 (September thru November) live webcasts – LINK
Here is a single link to YouTube that will take you to all the livestreams for the weekly interactive webcasts we will host during ModPo 2026 (early September through mid-November):
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ModPo hosts two poetry writing workshop weekends
You might recall that ModPo and the Kelly Writers House hosted a weekend poetry retreat back in April—at Frost Valley in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. The spaces reserved for that weekend...
A farewell video from Anthony Watkins
Anthony Watkins passed away on December 10, 2025. Put simply, Anthony was the most active and most engaged member of the ModPo community across the whole history of our gathering. He loved poetry (and...
Ray Maxwell, one of the ModPo founders, is gone
We are mourning the loss of Ray Maxwell, a ModPo founder. Ray suddenly left (not by choice) the State Department in the summer of 2012. He had always had a passion for poetry and...
Citizen poetics, the book
Al Filreis gave the introductory chapter of his forthcoming book to a machine that makes podcasts from text. The result is not perfectly accurate but does give you a fair, informal sense of what...
ModPo in Saigon: a short tribute reel
After Al Filreis led a collaborative close reading of a Gertrude Stein poem with a class of middle-school students in Saigon, they sent us this reel. Fun! What a wonderful group.
“How to do ModPo,” by a long-time ModPo regular
Our most active Community TA (CTA), Anthony Watkins, has posted to LinkedIn a very helpful guide to ModPo. It’s called “How to do ModPo.” You can find and read it by clicking HERE. Here...
All the ModPo syllabus readings in one document!
Jane Ward, a long-time ModPo citizen, has put together a document, now available online, that provides access to all the readings in the main syllabus. HERE is a link to this helpful document. We...
ModPo participant has “A Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore” on his wall
John Sanchez has been involved with ModPo since 2020 at least. He was a star learner during our pandemic seasons. He did the course with his dad. Recently John wrote this to me: “My...
SloPo mini-courses for winter/spring 2025
To participate in SloPo mini-courses for winter/spring 2025, please sign up using this form: LINK TO FORM . Here is the schedule: Session 1: Jan 20-30 Irene Torra Mohedano on Paloma Chen Session 2:...