We recently added another video to ModPoPLUS week 3 — in which Al discusses Wallace Stevens’s “Anecdote of the Jar” with Elisa New and her “Poetry in America” colleagues. The recording took place in...
This is a 1-minute excerpt from our conversation about Susan Howe’s “The Midnight” as we stood in front of the Houghton Library at Harvard two early springs ago. This video is part of our...
We have prepared a 1-minute excerpt of a discussion with poet Jerome Rothenberg of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons. Here it is:
We are now making available a short video in which the ModPo team further discusses the week 8 “Canon Challenge” video by Amber Rose Johnson. The discussion took place during a November 2020 webcast....
We have now added to ModPoPLUS week 8 an 8-minute video clip in which the ModPo team discusses Fred Wah’s “Between You and Me There Is an I” during a November 2020 live webcast....
For ModPo people who admire the work of Caroline Bergvall in week 10 of our course: We at PennSound have now segmented (by topic discussed and poem performed) Caroline Bergvall’s appearance on Leonard Schwartz’s...
ModPo short—a 1-minute excerpt from a longer conversation filmed in a San Francisco park a few years ago in which Jake Marmer & Lily Applebaum talk about a poem titled “Poem” by ruth weiss. The clip...
1-minute clip from the longer video made in Vancouver about Fred Wah’s great poem “Between You and Me There Is an I”:
Recorded during the spring ’20 time of lockdown, during the first shocks of the pandemic, this special episode of PoemTalk considered William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All” (“By the road to the contagious hospital”)...
The ModPo team talks for five minutes about the poem Nasser Hussain wrote, using only three-letter airport codes, in response to Walt Whitman—during a 2020 live ModPo webcast.
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.
