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.
Category: latest updates
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...
ModPo at the Poetry Foundation, October 15, 2022
During the ModPo team’s visit to Chicago in October 2022 we spent Saturday at the Poetry Foundation. At 11 AM we recorded an episode of PoemTalk before a live audience. We discussed seven short...
ModPo webcast at the Morgan Library in NY – 10/26/2022
We at the Kelly Writers House are thrilled to invite you to join us for a special edition of our weekly “ModPo” live interactive webcasts. For this event the Writers House/ModPo team will be...
New ModPo essay: “Collaborative Close Reading and Global Conversation…”
HERE is a link to a new essay co-written by Anna Strong Safford, Davy Knittle, and me, published in a book of essays, Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom, eds. John Miller and Julie...
ModPo & Kelly Writers House come to Chicago — 4 events — you are invited!
I’m writing with details about our upcoming visit to Chicago. If you are in Chicago, or in the Chicago region, or planning to be visit Chicago during that time, or might like to plan...
Message sent to all ModPo people on Sunday at the start of week 1 of ModPo ’22
Many of you are beginning to discuss our week 1 poems HERE. I’m enjoying the various approaches and topical emphases. If you want to contribute to our discussion forums, ponder two sorts of posts: 1)...