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...
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...
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,...
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...
Week 1 of ModPo officially starts today. Here is the week 1 syllabus: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/home/week/1 Week 1 consists of a few poems by Emily Dickinson and sections (or “cantos”) from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”...
ModPo 2019 has begun. It’s good to see, already, a number of lively, generous introductions. You can read them HERE. And please, while you’re there, post an introduction to yourself! I recommend that you...
It’s Friday morning as I write this here in Philadelphia USA. Twenty-four hours from now we will begin our 10-week journey through the ModPo course. Whether you are able to devote just two hours...
Yes, ModPo 2019 begins on Saturday (September 7). The discussion forums are open now, of course, but on Saturday we will really get going again. I will write again soon to give you some...
Hello to all ModPo people! Greetings from Philadelphia—from the Kelly Writers House, home of ModPo since 2012. “ModPo” is short for “Modern & Contemporary U.S. Poetry,” the 10-week course that is free, non-credit, and...
Anna Strong Safford and Al Filreis are editing & publishing a book (paperback & e-book) of 1,000-word essays by 50 poets—each writing about one poem. Here are some of the essays: Bernadette Mayer on...