Here’s a recording of a 2/1/22 event at Kelly Writers House featuring Etty Yaniv interviewing Jennifer Wroblewski about Jen’s new series of drawings, “Late for Revision.” Jen spent a year making graphite drawings that...
Here’s a clip from a ModPo 2021 webcast: the ModPo TAs offer guidance in response to someone’s question about what to do when the annual symposium mode is done.
Click this link in order to purchase our book—The Difference Is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems—at a 40% discount with (for most people) free shipping as well: https://site.pennpress.org/mla-2022/9780812253238/the-difference-is-spreading/ The promotional code is...
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.
1. Lauren Marie on the poem’s speaker, who is unhappy yet will not act: LINK TO ESSAY 2. Raja on Guest’s tone of mundanity: LINK TO ESSAY 3. Junia on New York School style: LINK TO ESSAY...
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) (CELEBRATION of ModPo’s 10th anniversary & “The Difference Is Spreading” book—visitors welcome)
4) Wed 9/28/22, noon (wk 4) [featuring Jerome Rothenberg]
5) Thursday. 10/6/22, 8:30 pm (wk 5)
6) Thursday 10/13/22, 6:30 pm local time (wk 6) [in Chicago place TBD]
7) Wed 10/19/22, noon (wk 7)
8) Wed 10/26/22, 6:30 pm (wk 8) [in NYC at Morgan Library]
9) Wed 11/2/22, 3 pm (wk 9)
10) Wed 11/9/22, noon (wk 10) [featuring Laynie Browne]
11) Mon 11/14/22, noon (“final words”)
[] Click HERE to watch recordings of all the ModPo 2020 webcasts.
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 famed ModPo TA Anna Strong Safford and co-created with ModPo founder Al Filreis. Click HERE for all the info you need. Contact Anna 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.
