Daphne Marlatt is a Vancouver-based poet. ModPoPLUS week 10 features a “Canadian sampler.” Here are the Daphne Marlatt resources there: 17.24 read Daphne Marlatt‘s “Generation, Generations at the Mouth”: LINK TO TEXT 17.25 watch discussion with...
Over the years the collection of Wallace Stevens poems, audio and video in the ModPoPLUS syllabus has become quite an extensive array. Here is a list, with links, of all these materials: 8.1 read...
Thanks to the editing talents of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available a 24-minute abridgment of the original 40-minute discussion of Tracie Morris’s “Slave Show to Video aka Black but Beautiful.” It is...
We have added to ModPoPLUS part 1 a link to a newspaper article describing testimony of a Rutherford NJ resident who seems to have inspired William Carlos Williams’s legendary modernist poem, “The Red Wheelbarrow”...
Max McKenna convened a group of Chicago-land ModPo people to discuss Jennifer Scappettone’s “Delection Even.” The links now added to week 10 of ModPoPLUS include the text of the poem, a recording of the...
An excerpt from our week 2 2019 live webcast—a discussion of the ongoing influence of Whitman:
During our week 2 live webcast 2019 we were joined by poet Kate Colby. She read her poem “Homing” (from The Arrangements) and then we discussed it. The poem and video have been added...
3-minute video on what we mean when we call a poem “Dickinsonian”:
Here are the ModPo TAs discussing Stein and honesty—during our 2019 week 4 live webcast:
During our Stein week webcast in 2019, we took a few minutes to offer recommendations to those new to reading Gertrude Stein:
NOTE: ModPo 2021 weekly webcast schedule will be posted soon. Meantime, this was the 2020 schedule:
1) Wed 9/9/20, noon (wk 1)
2) Wed 9/16/20, 3PM (wk 2) (w/ Kate Colby & Angela Carr)
3) Wed 9/23/20, noon (wk 3) (w/ Bob Perelman)
4) Wed 9/30/20, 10 AM (wk 4)
5) Wed. 10/7/20, 3PM (wk 5)
6) Wed 10/14/20, noon (wk 6) (w/ Jake Marmer)
7) Wed 10/21/20, 10AM (wk 7)
8) Wed 10/28/20, 6:30PM (wk 8)
9) Wed 11/4/20, 3PM (wk 9)
10) Wed 11/11/20, noon (wk 10) (w/ Derek Beaulieu)
11) Mon 11/16/20, 10:30AM (“final words”)
[] Click HERE to watch recordings of all the ModPo 2020 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 famed ModPo TA Anna Strong Safford and co-created with ModPo founder Al Filreis. Click HERE for all the info you need. Contact Anna 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.
