For more information about the day’s events, click HERE to see the Kelly Writers House web calendar entries. To watch a recording of the 11 AM 10th-year webcast, click HERE. To watch a recording...
Alison Borkowska is organizing another meet-up (via Zoom) that will happen on August 28. See below for a link to all the details, and also Alison’s email address. If you want to participate, send...
The Global ModPo Study Group convened in January 2020 to talk about Whitman’s “I Heard It Was Charged against Me.” The recording of that session has been added to ModPo’s CCCR syllabus. CCCR =...
Today we are adding a new ModPoPLUS video: Max McKenna traveled to Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where Lorine Niedecker lived, and filmed a collaborate close reading of Niedecker’s “Foreclosure” with members of the...
Nicholas “Denny” Stern, great ModPo guy (Community TA), in Seattle last night after our ModPo meet-up there (at Town Hall Seattle). We talked about Rae Armantrout‘s new poem “Care” and also Lorine Niedecker’s “My Life...
The ModPo team is definitely coming to Seattle and Vancouver in January! In Seattle: there will be a ModPo meet-up on Friday, January 10, We will gather at the Town Hall Forum starting at...
Thanks to Christine Nelson, Morgan Library curator and ModPo friend, we hosted a live ModPo webcast at the library in New York City on October 30, 2019—for a discussion of our week 8 poems:...
The ModPo team is preparing for our quick trip to New York City tomorrow. Our live worldwide webcast will begin at 6 PM (eastern US time) at the Morgan Library. You can join us...
It’s Friday of week 6 of ModPo 2019! Perfect day for taking a break from work or play or childcare or your workout to read a poem. How about Bob Kaufman’s “Jail Poems” HERE....
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...
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any webcast live.
1) Wed 9/7/22, 3 pm (wk 1)
2) Wed 9/14/22, 9:30 am (wk 2)
3) Wed 9/21/22, 11 am (wk 3) (CELEBRATION of ModPo’s 10th anniversary & “The Difference Is Spreading” book—visitors welcome)
4) Wed 9/28/22, noon (wk 4) [featuring Jerome Rothenberg]
5) Thursday. 10/6/22, 8:30 pm (wk 5)
6) Thursday 10/13/22, 6:30 pm local time (wk 6) [in Chicago place TBD]
7) Wed 10/19/22, noon (wk 7)
8) Wed 10/26/22, 6:30 pm (wk 8) [in NYC at Morgan Library]
9) Wed 11/2/22, 3 pm (wk 9)
10) Wed 11/9/22, noon (wk 10) [featuring Laynie Browne]
11) Mon 11/14/22, noon (“final words”)
[] Click HERE to watch recordings of all the ModPo 2021 webcasts.
Yes, you can take ModPo for University of Pennsylvania credit. Three 10-week sessions are offered each year: fall, spring, summer. This version of ModPo is taught by ModPo coordinator Laynie Browne. Click HERE for all the info you need. Contact Laynie with questions at modpo@writing.upenn.edu.
ModPo has created a Teacher Resource Center (“TRC“) for teachers who use ModPo poems & videos in their classrooms. Click HERE to read teaching guides and watch videos in which teachers talk about teaching with ModPo. If you wish to be added to our teachers mailing list, write us at modpo@writing.upenn.edu. Click HERE to discuss ModPo poems with other teachers.
