video: why experimental poetry & online teaching go well together
Why experimental poetry is well suited to remote/online teaching:
Category: pedagogy
AP English class tries the ModPo method of collaborative close reading
ModPo’er & teacher Christan Bush tried the ModPo method of collaborative close reading with her students, and it worked! And you can watch it work! The poem they discussed is Theodore Roethke’s “The Waking.”...
The poem as a utopian space
Josh Schuster takes a question about the founding of the Writers House and turns it into an observation about the poem as a utopian space. Watch this 1-minute video.
Video: teaching with Bernadette Mayer’s writing experiments
VIDEO: on teaching with Bernadette Mayer’s list of writing experiments. Al is joined by erica kaufman and Anna Strong Safford. Al picks out a few of Mayer’s ideas and asks erica and Anna to...
“The poem is a tiny utopian space”—Josh Schuster
Here is a video clip from our week 9 (November 7, 2018) live webcast—in which guest poet/teacher Joshua Schuster (one of the founders of the Writers House in 1995-96) discusses the classroom and the...
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.
ModPo bonus videos
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...
High school students reach Al by phone, get advice
Christan Bush is teaching ModPo in her high school class. Which is to say: she and her students are doing ModPo together. Yesterday afternoon they reached Al by telephone in his office at the...
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...