Talking about Vesuvius at home
To talk about Dickinson’s idea of her poem—or writing space—as a Vesuvius at home, go HERE.
Category: week 1
Updates & notes for the end of week 1
Here are a few notes from me on this Friday of week 1 of ModPo ’18: WEEK ONE CONTINUES. Yes, let’s keep reading Dickinson and Whitman today and tomorrow, and let’s keep talking about...
Photos taken during our week 1 (9-12-2018) webcast
Here are some photos Al took during today’s week 1 webcast. Because our Arts Cafe is being renovated, we have moved our first webcasts to the Kelly Writers House garden, where we’ve installed a...
Webcast week 1 (9/12/18): join us at 3 PM Philly time
It’s webcast day here at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia. You really should try to make plans to watch (and participate in) today’s first weekly ModPo webcast of 2018. We start at exactly 3 PM Philadelphia time (some...
Announcement: 9/9/18 on starting week 1
I have really enjoyed reading and responding to your introductions. Keep those coming HERE! Meantime, week 1 now begins for real. Between now and next weekend, we hope everyone will read the poems in...
Announcement 9/7/18: welcome to ModPo — let’s get started
Welcome to ModPo 2018. Our ten-week movement through the course begins again tomorrow, Saturday, September 8. I say “begins again” because many participants have been involved with ModPo in previous years. We created this...
ModPoPLUS headnotes being revised
We are revising the headnotes to ModPoPLUS (the paragraph-long introduction to each week’s readings and videos). Here’s the revised headnote to week 1: The first week of ModPo’s main syllabus introduces us to Whitman...
CCCR video on Dickinson’s “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!”
From ModPo’s crowdsourced CCCR syllabus: watch this collaborative close reading by ModPo people of Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!”: LINK.