The Global ModPo Study Group convened in January 2020 to talk about Whitman’s “I Heard It Was Charged against Me.” The recording of that session has been added to ModPo’s CCCR syllabus. CCCR =...
An excerpt from our week 2 2019 live webcast—a discussion of the ongoing influence of Whitman:
On Thursday, March 26, from 5-7 PM (Philadelphia time) Davy Knittle will host a 2-hour discussion of a poem by Elizabeth Willis titled “Survey.” The text of the poem, a link to an audio...
Recently we added a short commentary on canto 8 of “Song of Myself” to the main week 1 syllabus. Here is that brief essay: * In canto 8 we encounter the poem’s first urban...
Hello and welcome to Monday of week 2 of ModPo 2019. We are beginning to talk about our week 2 poets—influenced by Dickinson and Whitman. Fun! This week our Wednesday webcast will begin at...
Here are a few notes from me on this Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2019: WEEK ONE CONTINUES. Yes, let’s keep reading Dickinson and Whitman today and tomorrow, and let’s keep talking about...
This event, which is being hosted by Anna Strong Safford, will be live streamed (as all our programs are) here: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/ *** We’re excited to invite you to the Writers House on Tuesday, February...
Annamaria Gradara has published an article about ModPo in an Italian magazine. The piece is in part based on an interview with Massimo Soranzio, a long-term ModPo’er. HERE is a link to the article.
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...
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...