ModPo in Saigon: a short tribute reel
After Al Filreis led a collaborative close reading of a Gertrude Stein poem with a class of middle-school students in Saigon, they sent us this reel. Fun! What a wonderful group.
Category: teaching ModPo
Teachers: you can use the ModPo method of collaborative close reading in your classrooms!
Are you a teacher searching for a way of enable full participation of your students in the sometimes daunting work of reading and discussing a poem? It might seem obvious, especially in a post...
Overviews and introductions to ModPo all in one view
We’ve organized various introductory videos about ModPo—overviews of the course and our approach—into one easy view. Click HERE and have a look!
Interview about ModPo
A new interview with Al Filreis about ModPo (conducted by Ann Cefola) has now been published in Fast Flesh Literary Journal, issue #4 (“Conscious”). The interview can be found here: https://www.fastflesh.net/modpo
New ModPo essay: “Collaborative Close Reading and Global Conversation…”
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...
erica kaufman returns for ModPo ’22
My dear friend erica kaufman is a teacher’s teacher, a poet’s poet, and a generous soul! These are just a few reasons why I am over the moon about this news: erica will once...
“The Mind of Winter”: Collaborative close reading by Zoom of Stevens’s “The Snow Man”
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...
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.”...
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...
A ModPo book
Anna Strong Safford and Al Filreis are editing & publishing a book (paperback & e-book) of 1,000-word essays by 50 poets—each writing about one poem. Here are some of the essays: Bernadette Mayer on...