ModPo update for Saturday of week 3 (9-28-2019)
Hello and happy Saturday! A lovely day here in Manhattan, NY, USA. Yes, it’s Saturday of week 3 of ModPo 2019—which is to say, the final day of our collaborative exploration of the rise...
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ModPo update for 9/26/2019: 1) webcast recording; 2) Boston meet-ups; 3) NYC meet-up
It’s Thursday of week 3 of ModPo and I’m here to remind you—excitedly—that there’s a great deal of discussoin happening in our forums around each poem in the week 3 syllabus. Go HERE and...
ModPo update for Tuesday of week 3, 2019
Hello and welcome to Tuesday of week 3, ModPo 2019! Here are four thoughts/reminders/announcements: 1) Tomorrow (Wednesday, September 25th) we will convene our weekly live interactive webcast at 10 AM Philadelphia time. We hope...
Al on why week 3 of ModPo is so much fun
Week 3 of ModPo is a favorite! Reading and discussion H.D.’s “Sea Rose” gives us a chance to try out our ideas about what a modern approach to the oldest poetic symbol for love...
ModPo update for Saturday, September 21, 2019
I’m enjoying two full days of constant talk about the poet Wallace Stevens out here at the gorgeous Huntington Library. Yesterday I recorded a new ModPo video about Stevens’s poem “Plot against the Giant”...
Al’s update for Wednesday of ModPo week 2
Good morning. Autumn has arrived in Philly! Makes me feel that we should be in week 2 of ModPo. Oh, and we are! Wednesday of week 2! Here are a few notes/reminders: WEBCAST TODAY....
Al’s 9/16/19 message: 1) week 2; 2) resources for teachers; 3) meet-ups
Hello and welcome to Monday of week 2 of ModPo 2019. We are beginning to talk about our week 2 poets—influenced by Dickinson and Whitman. Fun! This week our Wednesday webcast will begin at...
Week 2 of ModPo 2019 begins: Al’s announcement (includes info about the first essay)
Sunday morning here in Philly. The sun is shining and it’s nearly time for me to dig around in my tiny urban garden. But first an overview of ModPo week 2. During week 2...
ModPo comes to Boston, October 10-12
We would like to announce that the ModPo team is going on the road again. Each October we go somewhere and meet up with ModPo people. What fun it’s been! In recent years: London,...
Al’s update on Friday of week 1 (ModPo 2019)
Here are a few notes from me on this Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2019: WEEK ONE CONTINUES. Yes, let’s keep reading Dickinson and Whitman today and tomorrow, and let’s keep talking about...