Category: TAs
ModPo TAs re-read poems through the pandemic
Hi, everyone. Here is the list of poems the TAs have chosen to re-read through the perspective of the pandemic: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/ModPo-misc/ModPo-webcast-pandemic-poem-list-May2020.pdf This PDF includes links to the poems. Have a look!
Max McKenna on Niedecker in ModPo
In the current issue of the Friends of Lorine Niedecker Newsletter (issue #31, Winter 2020), Max McKenna has published a short essay on encountering Niedecker in ModPo. Here is the link to the online...
Molly O’Neill to return as ModPo TA for 2020
It’s the time of year when I announce the reappointments of ModPo TAs for the next “symposium mode” round of ModPo. First up—to join us for a 9th year as fabulously thoughtful & intellectually...
ModPo TAs Molly O’Neill & Anna Strong Stafford are featured on a podcast about losing a parent
There’s a podcast series called “Dead Parents Society,” produced & hosted by KWH’s Jamie-Lee Josselyn & recorded by Zach Carduner at Kelly Writers House’s Wexler Studio. The series is about writing about living life...
ModPo TAs return for a new session of filming
A number of ModPo TAs, including all but one of the originals, traveled back to the Kelly Writers House to spend the day making new videos for the course. These videos will soon be...
Jason Zuzga back as TA for ModPo 2019
Returning as a ModPo TA for ModPo 2019: the extraordinary Jason Zuzga! It’s no wonder to me that Jason is utterly beloved by so many members of the ModPo community. He feels deeply every...
Emily Harnett returns for ModPo 2019
Emily Harnett! Emily will join us again for ModPo 2019 as a TA for the *eighth* year. Utterly brilliant—able to articulate the most nuanced point improvisationally—Emily is a person I could listen to all...
erica kaufman is back!
An astonishingly great poet, teacher, critic, scholar, and practitioner of progressive, experimental pedagogy—erica kaufman—will once again join the ModPo team as a TA and coordinator of ModPo’s TRC (Teacher Resource Center) for ModPo 2019....
Max McKenna is back as TA
Al writes: “I caught up with Max McKenna yesterday & I can announce that Max is going to be—once again, for an 8th year!—a ModPo TA for ModPo 2019! Max is a ModPo original....