Introduction to week 5 in 2024 (9/29/24)
Here is a copy of the announcement Al has just sent around to all ModPo people. If you are reading this and wonder why you didn’t receive it by email, please write to modpo@writing.upenn.edu...
Category: Harlem Renaissance poets
re-reading Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” in the context of documentary photography (new video)
During our live webcast co-hosted with MoMA, we talked about Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass” in the context provided by our discussion of Dorothea Lange’s documentary photography of Depression-era people who move into the...
Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Chicago Picasso”
See below for three links pertaining to Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Chicago Picasso.” We have now added an excerpt from a 1969 interview in which Brooks talked about that poem. This is all in...
ModPo update for October 9, 2019: 1) webcast, 2) NYC, 3) Seattle/Vancouver?; 4) discussions to join; 5) essays
Here are a few updates for today, Wednesday of ModPo 2019 week 5: WEBCAST. Tomorrow’s webcast will begin at 7 PM Boston time. Click HERE to join us at the time of the webcast....
Week 5 begins (& other updates)
Week 5, week 5! Today is our first day of week 5. The main syllabus for week 5 is divided into four parts or “chapters.” Chapter 3 is about the communist poets of the...
Langston Hughes’s “Dinner Guest: Me” — new video for week 5
I’m pleased to announce that we are adding a new video—about Langston Hughes’s “Dinner Guest: Me”—to ModPo’s *main* *syllabus* for week 5. (This was one of the videos we made when we had a...
ModPoPLUS video on Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Chicago Picasso”
We have added Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Chicago Picasso” to week 5 of ModPoPLUS. Here is a link to the text of the poem. Here is a link to the video inside the ModPo...
Further discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”
Here is an edited clip from our October 2018 webcast discussion of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Boy Breaking Glass”:
Special SloPo live webcast, Thursday, June 6 starting at noon
We are convening a special SloPo season (off season) ModPo live webcast on Thursday, June 6, starting at noon Philly time. Please plan to join us! Click this link then: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/webcasts/ We will be...
Talking about form becomes a crucial part of any discussion of “content”
Go HERE to see an interesting discussion about form and content. One of my responses is below.