A thoughtful essay about ModPo c. 2013
A ModPo’er wrote this thoughtful piece about ModPo back in 2013 (ModPo’s 2nd year):
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ModPo update: week 10 begins!
We now begin the final week of ModPo 2019’s “symposium mode.” Week 10 begins today. HERE are the poems and videos. The poets we discuss this week are testing the limits of our understanding...
ModPo 2019: week 8 begins!
Today we have begun week 8 of ModPo 2019. Weeks 8, 9, and 10, taken together, constitute our effort to present three approaches to the foundations of contemporary U.S. poetry. That’s why you will...
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....
Earning the ModPo certificate
If it is your intention to receive a ModPo certificate, please contact us as modpo@writing.upenn.edu. In that email please include a link (or “URL” or web address) to your ModPo profile page. The easiest...
Update during our final weekend of ModPo 2018
ModPo 2018 ends on Monday with our annual Final Words webcast, as I’ve noted previously. But really what’s ending is what we call our “symposium mode,” our annual run through the ten weeks of...
ModPo update, Saturday of week 5: essays needing more reviews
These essays have received fewer than four reviews. Please take a moment, click any of the links, and offer your comments on the essay. Thank you! https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/forums/OUdy-V97EeiU4AqSt1Tblg/threads/ovESXslzEei6ORJWlrjzSg https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/forums/OUdy-V97EeiU4AqSt1Tblg/threads/uClMVsZpEeirJhIApq73rA https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/forums/OUdy-V97EeiU4AqSt1Tblg/threads/I99QSMWFEeicog6tn-2JYA https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/forums/OUdy-V97EeiU4AqSt1Tblg/threads/lXLlWMkzEei6ORJWlrjzSg https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/forums/OUdy-V97EeiU4AqSt1Tblg/threads/bL3RfMp6EeiX0ArZ0JXbSA https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/forums/OUdy-V97EeiU4AqSt1Tblg/threads/H28MKsa9Eei1BQr4yq4EXg https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/forums/OUdy-V97EeiU4AqSt1Tblg/threads/ucEPmcs2Eei72hLe6wTz8A https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/forums/OUdy-V97EeiU4AqSt1Tblg/threads/KE0vGXlYEeiyiQ7RYTNQlA...
ModPo update for Monday of week 5
Welcome, truly, to ModPo 2018 week 5! Below I’ve copied one of the four headnotes to the main week 5 syllabus—on “chapter 4” (the second of week 5’s four parts), the Harlem Renaissance. And...
ModPo update, October 2 (Tuesday of week 4): on essay #2; on Stein; on Montreal webcast
This week many of us are writing 500-word essays in response to essay assignment #2. The poem we ask you to read and closely analyze is by H.D. Be sure to post your essay this week if...
Week 3 begins — time to review others’ essays
Week 3 of ModPo 2018 begins! We hope you enjoy the intense, terse imagist poems we offer through the syllabus. I’ll have more to say about these early modernist poems tomorrow. Meantime, be sure...