Michael Rothenberg, a poet and friend of ModPo, is a founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, an organization that seeks to promote a healthy and sustainable society through poetry and the arts. From...
Greetings on this Friday of week 2 of ModPo 2018! Today I suggest that you read or re-read a few more week 2 poems, and prepare yourself to move on to week 3, which begins on...
It’s webcast day here at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. You really should try to make plans to watch (and participate in) today’s second weekly ModPo webcast of 2018. We start at exactly...
Getting ready for week 3 of ModPo, Al has revised and expanded the headnote to the week 3 syllabus in ModPoPLUS: In the first part of week 3—on the rise of modernism in the...
Good morning to all! Happy Tuesday of week 2 of ModPo ’18! We encourage you to visit one of the “office hours” of the ModPo TAs. Even if you are reticent about posting to...
We have now added a new video to the ModPoPLUS week 2 syllabus—a discussion of John Phillips’ poem titled “This”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/U7LHc And HERE is a link to the poem.
Happy Sunday to you (and happy early-hours Monday to ModPo friends way way east of us)! Now we begin to read our week 2 poems, discuss them, listen to recordings of these poems as...
These ModPo hacks were enumerated and supplemented by ModPo’s fabulous Community TAs—but the main author and compiler is T. de los Reyes. So there are lifehacks, and then there are ModPo hacks—how-to’s on productivity...
Here are a few notes from me on this Friday of week 1 of ModPo ’18: WEEK ONE CONTINUES. Yes, let’s keep reading Dickinson and Whitman today and tomorrow, and let’s keep talking about...
It’s webcast day here at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. You really should try to make plans to watch (and participate in) today’s first weekly ModPo webcast of 2018. We start at exactly 3 PM Philadelphia time (some...