HERE is a link to a new essay co-written by Anna Strong Safford, Davy Knittle, and me, published in a book of essays, Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom, eds. John Miller and Julie...
On January 28, 2021, Al Filreis convened a group of nearly 100 people by Zoom to collaborate on a close reading of Wallace Stevens’s “The Snow Man.” The event was hosted by the Kelly...
This was an argument against massive open online courses (MOOCs) made back in 2014, when this form of learning was relatively new. How does the argument fare today? HERE is a link to a...
One evening, during a ModPo webcast, we received a call from a self-described newbie to poetry. She’s 60-something, and her nephew recommended ModPo to her, and she loves it. The ModPo team responds:
Need a break today? Why not spend some time watching some short “bonus” ModPo videos! Here’s a selection: watch this video on poems we believe can be taught to 11- to 14-year-olds: LINK TO VIDEO watch...
Wai Chee Dimock, professor of literature at Yale University and editor of PMLA, has published an essay on Kelly Writers House, PennSound and ModPo. HERE is a PDF copy of that essay.
Rolf Potts returned to the Writers House recently and, after leading a public program he and I went into the Wexler Studio to record an episode of his fine podcast series, “Deviate.” It was...
This video—about an hour long—features a presentation Al Filreis made at Columbia University about ModPo as an instance of the then-somewhat-new phenomenon: a massive open online course. Most of the talk was really about...
