ModPo ’23 TA reappointment: erica kaufman
A note from Al Filreis: In the coming weeks I will be conferring with the ModPo TAs and will announce, one at a time, those who will be joining us again—once again—for ModPo 2023...
Category: latest updates
Amber Rose Johnson offers a SloPo course & weekly Zoom office hours!
I’m delighted to announce two ModPo activities to be hosted by beloved ModPo TA Amber Rose Johnson: 1) Amber Rose will offer a SloPo course this spring—the fifth SloPo course we’re offering this season (look HERE to see...
Interview about ModPo
A new interview with Al Filreis about ModPo (conducted by Ann Cefola) has now been published in Fast Flesh Literary Journal, issue #4 (“Conscious”). The interview can be found here: https://www.fastflesh.net/modpo
ModPo 2023 — webcast schedule
Here is the schedule of live webcasts for the autumn 2023 “symposium mode” of ModPo. All times are given in Eastern U.S. time. Week 1: Wednesday, September 6 – 3 PM Week 2 –...
Announcing: new database for exploring all ModPo materials
The most remarkable thing has happened with ModPo since we founded the course in 2012. Truly! Read on…and find out. We have created a way for you or anyone to search all of the...
New Year’s greetings (2023) — video message from Al
Al stopped by the Kelly Writers House on his daily run on New Year’s Eve day, 12/31/22, and made a 5-minute video greeting for all ModPo people.
ModPo is coming to L.A. in February 2023
The ModPo team will be in Los Angeles in early February. If you are in or near L.A., or might like to travel there to meet up with us, please keep reading this note—about...
Jerome Rothenberg’s favorite Stein poem
During our 2022 week 4 live webcast, Jerome Rothenberg talks about a favorite Gertrude Stein poem. Rothenberg was visiting the Writers House from California to be with us for the webcast, a PoemTalk episode,...
SloPo courses for winter/spring 2023
Once again, we at ModPo are pleased to roster several SloPo (off-season) mini-courses. Anyone enrolled in ModPo is eligible to participate. (If you are not currently enrolled in ModPo, go HERE.) To enroll in...
Erica Hunt gives the inaugural poem at Penn
Erica Hunt—a poet who is a dear friend of KWH, once the teacher of a full-semester course at the House, and a recent KWH Fellow, and whose poems are in the ModPo curriculum—gave the...