Suggestions for what you can do during ModPo’s “SloPo” season
Here are some ideas for ModPo people who are searching for ways to spend time with ModPo during the “SloPo” season (mid-November through early September):
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
SloPo mini-courses, 2024
To enroll in any of these courses, please fill out THIS FORM. List of sessions: Session 1: January 22-31 – Kate Colby on Rosmarie Waldrop Session 2: February 19-28 – JS Wu on Renee...
Paradise Prose blog celebrates ModPo
Shreya, writing from Oxford in the UK, has posted a blog essay on ModPo. You can find the entire essay HERE. Below are the final paragraphs: One thing I’ve always loved about literature is...
Laura Lippman on ModPo 2023
Laura Lippman writes a substack series under the title “Shaved Meats, Piled High.” Her November 7, 2023, essay is about ModPo. Click HERE to read the whole piece. Below are the first few paragraphs:...
Inspired by Erica Baum/week 10: Maryam Daftari’s Beach Rock Poem series
Maryam Daftari was inspired by the week ten poetry last year, Erica Baum’s Card Catalog and Dog Ear. She went out to Moonlight Beach (in San Diego, we live about 7 miles east of...
ModPo’er visits KWH & send watercolor
Michele Bethke came all the way from Colorado recently to visit us at the Writers House and be part of a live webcast in person! It was marvelous for me, among others, to finally...
ModPo in New York City – 9/27/23 – live webcast gathering at CUNY
The ModPo team is coming to New York City for our week 4 live webcast. Yes, yes, we will webcast from the Segal Theater, and CUNY (the City University of New York) starting at...
Message to ModPo people, 9/3/23
Dear ModPo friends near & far: Good morning! Today we start officially to do what many of you have already done—to read and discuss the poems of week 1. HERE Opens in a new...
ModPo is coming to Scotland!
Each year, the ModPo team leaves the Kelly Writers House and takes ModPo on the road. This year, in a few weeks, we will be traveling to Scotland! While we’re in Scotland, we have organized two meet-ups. We...
TA office hours for ModPo 2023 (September -> November ’23)
NOTE: The ModPo TAs offer weekly office hours only during the “symposium mode” of the course each year, from early September through mid-November. These office hours are listed in EST (Philadelphia time) for the...
