ModPo week 1: webcast & office hours
Today I want to highlight two things: 1) our first webcast coming up on Wednesday at 3 PM (Philadephia time) and 2) our office hours. WEBCASTS: Yes, our first weekly live webcast will happen...
Category: webcast
A 60-something newbie to poetry calls into a webcast & we respond
One evening, during a ModPo webcast, we received a call from a self-described newbie to poetry. She’s 60-something, and her nephew recommended ModPo to her, and she loves it. The ModPo team responds:
On loss and silence in Perelman’s “Chronic Meanings”
Jake Marmer & others talk about loss and silence in Bob Perelman’s poem “Chronic Meanings”:
Info: June 6, 2019 live interactive webcast, starting at noon Philly time
Our special “offseason” live webcast today begins at NOON Philly time—which is just about 3.5 hours from now. Join us! Click HERE for the live video stream. Click HERE to post a comment or...
Special SloPo live webcast, Thursday, June 6 starting at noon
We are convening a special SloPo season (off season) ModPo live webcast on Thursday, June 6, starting at noon Philly time. Please plan to join us! Click this link then: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/webcasts/ We will be...
ModPo webcast: June 6, starting at noon (12 pm) Philadelphia time
We will be hosting an off-season live webcast on Thursday, June 6, start at noon (12 PM) Philadelphia time. To join us, at that time click this link: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/webcasts/ You do not need to...
Final words clip: Ujjwala, Nepali spoken-word poet
ModPo final words from Ujjwala Maharjan, a Nepali spoken-word poet:
ModPo 2018 final words: Jason, a teacher
ModPo 2018 final words from Jason, a teacher from Baltimore—who talks about ModPo’s effect on this teaching & other matters:
Further discussion of “demilitarizing” & defamiliarizing language (video)
Here is a further discussion of (Cage’s idea of) defamiliarizing and defamiliarizing language—a video clip from our November 7, 2018 week 9 live webcast:
On the pleasures & disappointments of making your own mesostic poem (video; 6 minutes)
Here is a video clip from the week 9 live webcast (November 7, 2018).