Message to ModPo people, 9/3/23
Dear ModPo friends near & far: Good morning! Today we start officially to do what many of you have already done—to read and discuss the poems of week 1. HERE Opens in a new...
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ModPo is coming to Scotland!
Each year, the ModPo team leaves the Kelly Writers House and takes ModPo on the road. This year, in a few weeks, we will be traveling to Scotland! While we’re in Scotland, we have organized two meet-ups. We...
TA office hours for ModPo 2023 (September -> November ’23)
NOTE: The ModPo TAs offer weekly office hours only during the “symposium mode” of the course each year, from early September through mid-November. These office hours are listed in EST (Philadelphia time) for the...
Notes toward a pedagogy of ModPo
Published in the June 2023 issue of the Marsh Hawk Press Review: Al’s notes toward a pedagogy of ModPo. It begins: “Whenever I write these days about poetry I express an intense interest in...
ModPo update: Laynie Browne!
Al Filreis writes: As part of our series of announcements as we prepare for ModPo 2023 (the “symposium mode” that runs from 10 weeks starting September 2), I have a great honor and pleasure...
A visit to Cid Corman’s coffee shop in Kyoto
Thanks to long-time ModPo’er Alonna Shaw—and her partner Stephen—we are able to share photos of “C.C.’s,” Cid Corman’s coffee shop in Kyoto, Japan. See below. Stephen met the current owner, who has preserved many...
New to ModPo: abridged discussion of Dickinson’s “Alone and in a Circumstance”
Text (including manuscript), audio (by Lee Ann Brown) & two filmed discussions about Dickinson’s “Alone and in a Circumstance.” https://modpo.org/explore/?poem=1135
JS Wu joins ModPo as our newest TA
I am thrilled to announce that JS Wu will be joining the ModPo team, as a TA, in the fall of 2023! JS is a scholar, artist, and first-time ModPo TA living in Philadelphia. She’s currently...
The passing of Andrea Buonincontro
I’m sorry to be passing along the very sad news of the death of our dear ModPo CTA friend Andrea Buonincontro on April 23. She was just 47 years old and the ModPo family...
Jason Zuzga rejoins ModPo as a TA for ModPo ’23!
I have the honor of announcing the reappointment of our extraordinary colleague and friend Jason Zuzga as a TA for ModPo ’23, the ten-week symposium mode of which begins on Saturday, September 2. I...