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...
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ModPo update for Friday, October 4, 2019
Friday dawns here in Philly as we begin to wrap up week 4 of ModPo 2019. While many folks are continuing to read Stein and other poems in the main syllabus, and watch our...
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...
ModPo today (9/11/18)—what’s on Al’s mind
Oh, as we discuss Dickinson’s intense creative power and Whitman’s craving for a word so basic that it’s just sound (“lull” [canto 47])—these complex precursors to modern writing in the U.S.—I am thinking of...
ModPo’s “Resources” submenu
One of the most important elements of the ModPo site is our “Resources” tab, which is viewable in the left-side menu of almost every ModPo page. On the menu, click “Course Home” to find...
A call to K-12 teachers
This is for teachers of K-12 arts & humanities: ModPo is a free 10-week course on modern poetry. Since its founding in 2012 teachers and their students have enrolled and enjoyed the poems, videos...