We continue to add new materials to our CCCR (Community Collaborative Close Readings) syllabus. The newest addition: Aiden Meade (Ireland), a 2020 ModPo participant, performs and interprets Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”: LINK TO VIDEO...
We have now added to our CCCR syllabus a new video of a collaborative discussion of Rae Armantrout’s “Second Person”: re-read Rae Armantrout’s “Second Person”: LINK TO TEXT watch discussion of Armantrout’s “Second Person”:...
Over the years the collection of Wallace Stevens poems, audio and video in the ModPoPLUS syllabus has become quite an extensive array. Here is a list, with links, of all these materials: 8.1 read...
We are pleased to announce that you can now listen to an audio livestream of a live ModPo webcast. This is ideal for folks with slow internet connections, and for people who are traveling...
Below is a list of some of the essays submitted in response to essay assignment #1 that could use some more responses. Please take a moment today or very soon to click on one...
Week 2 of ModPo 2020 has begun! This week, as you know, we will explore poems written by poets who are influenced by—and/or are responding to—Dickinson and Whitman. For a 5 1/2-minute video introduction...
It’s Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2020. Still plenty of time to read week 1 poems and watch videos before we turn to week 2. But if you run out of time this...
Al gave this talk at the graduation ceremonies of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2020:
Thanks to the editing talents of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available a 24-minute abridgment of the original 40-minute discussion of Tracie Morris’s “Slave Show to Video aka Black but Beautiful.” It is...
Thanks to the talented editing of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available an abridged, 20-minute version of our discussion of Helen Adam’s “Cheerless Junkie’s Song.” See below for the revised list and links...
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.
