We are talking about “The Not Tale” — Caroline Bergvall’s experimental translation of the Arcite funeral passage in Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale” HERE. Go HERE to see the entire subforum for a 10-day discussion...
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any webcast live. 1) Wed 9/7/22, 3 pm (wk 1)2) Wed 9/14/22, 9:30 am (wk 2)3) Wed 9/21/22, 11 am (wk 3)...
Here, below, is the schedule for ModPo 2022. This is not finalized but will give you a fairly accurate sense of what we have planned. ModPo 2022 schedule Saturday, Sept 3 opening day Sun...
We are delighted to announce five new SloPo mini-courses for the ModPo off-season (the first months of 2022). As with all ModPo offerings, these are free (no charge whatsoever) and open to anyone. You...
A friend is staying near Frost’s farm and sent us these two photos of Frost’s wall, looking rather unmended.
Long-time devoted ModPo citizen Richard Weil has passed away. He participated thoughtful and consistently in ModPo discussions (especially “SloPo”/off-season mini-courses) for years. He joined Max McKenna’s Chicago meet-ups and I had the pleasure of...
GERTRUDE STEIN IN GENERAL 1.1 watch discussion on how we assess and value Stein’s writing:LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE COPY] 1.2 watch Rachel Blau DuPlessis describe how Stein resists normative reading: LINK TO VIDEO [OFFSITE...
For the next seven days we will be reading and discussing a very small sampling of poems by Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. In ModPo we think of then as proto-modernist poets. Whether that...
Tim Yu and Jo Park met with Al in summer 2021 to talk about passages from Brandon Shimoda’s book The Desert. Here is a link to the text they discussed: LINK TO TEXT And...
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any of our 2024 webcasts.
Week 1 — Wed, Sept 3 – 3 PM
Week 2 – Wed, Sept 10 – NOON (with Ariel Resnikoff)
Week 3 – Wed, Sept 17 – 8:30 PM
Week 4 – Wed, Sept 24 – 3 PM
Week 5 – Wed, Oct 1 – NOON
Week 6 – Thursday, Oct 9 – New York City (time & location, TBD)
Week 7 – Wed, Oct 15 — NOON
Week 8 – Wed, Oct 22 — 3 PM (with Sarah Riggs)
Week 9 – Wed, Oct 29 – 10 AM (with Marcella Durand)
Week 10 – Wed, Nov 5– 8:30 PM
FINAL WORDS – Mon, Nov 10 – 11 AM
Yes, you can take ModPo for University of Pennsylvania credit. Three 10-week sessions are offered each year: fall, spring, summer. This version of ModPo is taught by ModPo coordinator Laynie Browne. Click HERE for all the info you need. Contact Laynie with questions at modpo@writing.upenn.edu.
ModPo has created a Teacher Resource Center (“TRC“) for teachers who use ModPo poems & videos in their classrooms. Click HERE to read teaching guides and watch videos in which teachers talk about teaching with ModPo. If you wish to be added to our teachers mailing list, write us at modpo@writing.upenn.edu. Click HERE to discuss ModPo poems with other teachers.
