ModPo week 1: webcast & office hours
Today I want to highlight two things: 1) our first webcast coming up on Wednesday at 3 PM (Philadephia time) and 2) our office hours. WEBCASTS: Yes, our first weekly live webcast will happen...
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
Day 1 of week 1, ModPo 2019 — Al’s announcement
Week 1 of ModPo officially starts today. Here is the week 1 syllabus: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/home/week/1 Week 1 consists of a few poems by Emily Dickinson and sections (or “cantos”) from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”...
ModPo has begun today — Al’s announcement
ModPo 2019 has begun. It’s good to see, already, a number of lively, generous introductions. You can read them HERE. And please, while you’re there, post an introduction to yourself! I recommend that you...
Julia Vinograd’s poem “Street Detail” (text & videos)
We have now added Julia Vinograd’s “Street Detail” to ModPoPLUS—to week 5 (chapter 4). The text and a video recording of a discussion about this poem with ModPo’ers in Los Angeles has been added...
ModPo 2019 opening day message from Al
It’s Friday morning as I write this here in Philadelphia USA. Twenty-four hours from now we will begin our 10-week journey through the ModPo course. Whether you are able to devote just two hours...
Marcel Duchamp’s notes (discussion with Marjorie Perloff & others)
Marcel Duchamp’s miscellaneous notes were included in the conceptualist anthology called Against Expression. HERE is a copy of the text. HERE is a video recording of a discussion about these notes with Marjorie Perloff, Danny...
Marjorie Perloff on William Carlos Williams’s “Spring and All”
During a visit to Los Angeles in January 2019, Al and Anna stopped by to see the eminent critic Marjorie Perloff at her home. We recorded a conversation about a several-pages-long passage from WCW’s Spring...
ModPoPLUS video on Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Chicago Picasso”
We have added Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Chicago Picasso” to week 5 of ModPoPLUS. Here is a link to the text of the poem. Here is a link to the video inside the ModPo...
Message to ModPo people ModPo 2019 begins
Yes, ModPo 2019 begins on Saturday (September 7). The discussion forums are open now, of course, but on Saturday we will really get going again. I will write again soon to give you some...
Message to all ModPo people before ModPo 2019 begins
Hello to all ModPo people! Greetings from Philadelphia—from the Kelly Writers House, home of ModPo since 2012. “ModPo” is short for “Modern & Contemporary U.S. Poetry,” the 10-week course that is free, non-credit, and...
