Artist Maria Markovich makes an Emily Dickinson sculpture
The artist Maria Markovich has participated in ModPo for a number of years. In 2015 she created the Emily Dickinson figure photographed below.
Category: Dickinsonian
Jake Marmer’s writing prompts
Poet and long-time ModPo TA Jake Marmer has shared three of his many writing prompts. Attention ModPo teachers: try these with your students and let us know (modpo@writing.upenn.edu) how it went.
Montreal meet-up
Last night (10-6-2018) a small group of ModPo’ers met in Montreal to do two collaborative close readings—which we recorded and will add to ModPoPLUS. We discussed a poem by Dickinson and Fred Wah’s poem...
New video: further discussion of Armantrout’s “The Way”
Over the years ModPo people have spent a good deal of time pondering how to read Rae Armantrout’s “The Way.” Almost everyone deems it to be the most difficult poem on the week 2...
New video: on teaching Cid Corman’s “It isnt for want”
During our week 2 webcast for ModPo 2018 we had an opportunity to discuss—once again!—Cid Corman’s “It isnt for want.” After a bit we turned to how the poem might be taught. Is this...
New video on John Phillips’ “This”
During our week 2 webcast for ModPo 2018, we discussed John Phillips’s poem “This,” new to the ModPoPLUS syllabus:
New ModPoPLUS video on Francisco X. Alarcón’s “From the Other Side of Night”
We have just now added to week 2 of the ModPoPLUS syllabus Francisco X. Alarcón’s poem “From the Other Side of Night.” The text of the poem can be found HERE. The video in...
New video on John Phillips’ “This”
We have now added a new video to the ModPoPLUS week 2 syllabus—a discussion of John Phillips’ poem titled “This”: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/U7LHc And HERE is a link to the poem.
Talking about Vesuvius at home
To talk about Dickinson’s idea of her poem—or writing space—as a Vesuvius at home, go HERE.
Updates & notes for the end of week 1
Here are a few notes from me on this Friday of week 1 of ModPo ’18: WEEK ONE CONTINUES. Yes, let’s keep reading Dickinson and Whitman today and tomorrow, and let’s keep talking about...