Amaris Cuchanski is back!
Amaris Cuchanski, whose sheer critical intelligence and talent for perfectly saying what everyone else is just then halfway thinking, was one of the original ModPo TAs back in 2012. I’m so very excited to...
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SloPo mini-course on Lorine Niedecker, led by Max McKenna (starts 2/4/2019)
I am pleased to announce that beloved long-time ModPo TA Max McKenna will be leading a 4-week SloPo discussion group on the poems of Lorine Niedecker. The discussion will begin on February 4. If...
ModPo’s home is Kelly Writers House—can you help?
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!...
ModPo meet-up in L.A. – January 18, 2019, starting at 6:30 PM
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....
Update during our final weekend of ModPo 2018
ModPo 2018 ends on Monday with our annual Final Words webcast, as I’ve noted previously. But really what’s ending is what we call our “symposium mode,” our annual run through the ten weeks of...
ModPo update for Monday of week 10 (including info about “final words”)
This week our live webcast will begin at 8 PM Philadelphia time on Wednesday, November 14. Please plan to join us! As you know—our last live webcast of the season will happen next Monday,...
Al’s update at the start of week 10 (2018)
Week 10! Yes, today we begin week 10. It’s our final week of the so-called “symposium mode” of ModPo. Each (northern hemisphere) autumn, from September to late-mid-November, we move through the ten weeks of...
ModPo update for Friday of week 9
If it’s your intention to post a response to assignment #4 (create a mesostic or do one of Bernadette’s writing experiments), I would strongly urge you to create it and post it HERE before Sunday if possible. We will all begin...
ModPo update: week 9 begins
Welcome again to week 9. In the main ModPo syllabus this week, we read and discuss the aleatory writing of John Cage, Jackson Mac Low, Jena Osman, and Joan Retallack—and the writing experiments of...
ModPo week 9 starts now
Please ponder these questions: Can you imagine a poem whose meaning is not intended? What if a poet, experimenting with the idea of the speaking self, decided to create a compositional process that in...