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...
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!
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
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...
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...
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...
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: 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...
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...
Poet and long-time ModPo TA Jake Marmer has shared three of his many writing prompts. Attention ModPo teachers: try these with your students and let us know (modpo@writing.upenn.edu) how it went.