ModPo 2026 TAs are announced!
Al Filreis and ModPo’s coordinator Laynie Browne & are thrilled to announce that these TAs will join us for ModPo 2026: Jake Marmer, Gabi Ojeda-Sagué, Jordan Trice, Ali Castleman, Sophia DuRose, erica kaufman, Kate...
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ModPo 2025: TA Ali Castleman will join us again!
We are delighted to announce that Ali Castleman, as of yesterday, is the first of the ModPo TAs to confirm that she will rejoin the ModPo team for ModPo 2025, which opens on August...
Announcing: ModPo TAs & special poet-guests for ModPo 2024
Today I have the true great pleasure of announcing to you the group of ModPo TAs who will re-joining us for the upcoming annual “symposium mode” of ModPo (August 31 – November 11). Some...
TA office hours for ModPo 2023 (September -> November ’23)
NOTE: The ModPo TAs offer weekly office hours only during the “symposium mode” of the course each year, from early September through mid-November. These office hours are listed in EST (Philadelphia time) for the...
ModPo update: Laynie Browne!
Al Filreis writes: As part of our series of announcements as we prepare for ModPo 2023 (the “symposium mode” that runs from 10 weeks starting September 2), I have a great honor and pleasure...
JS Wu joins ModPo as our newest TA
I am thrilled to announce that JS Wu will be joining the ModPo team, as a TA, in the fall of 2023! JS is a scholar, artist, and first-time ModPo TA living in Philadelphia. She’s currently...
Jason Zuzga rejoins ModPo as a TA for ModPo ’23!
I have the honor of announcing the reappointment of our extraordinary colleague and friend Jason Zuzga as a TA for ModPo ’23, the ten-week symposium mode of which begins on Saturday, September 2. I...
Kate Colby returns to ModPo as a TA in ’23!
Al Filreis writes: I’m beyond excited to announce this: Kate Colby returns to ModPo 2023—a marvelous talented poet and a wonderfully responsive collaborative reader of poems, a good friend of the Writers House people....
Max McKenna is back as a TA for ModPo ’23!
Well, what can said about Max McKenna’s positively great effect on ModPo over the past decade-plus? He’s intellectually generous, always brings new ideas to the conversation about a poem, loves leading the famed Euro...
Ali Castleman returns to ModPo for a 12th year!
Al Filreis writes: “Today I enthuse about this utterly remarkable thing: the one & only Ali Castleman will re-join ModPo starting September 2 as a ModPo TA for the *12th* year! As ModPo people...