Amaris Cuchanski is back!
Amaris Cuchanski, whose sheer critical intelligence and talent for perfectly saying what everyone else is just then halfway thinking, was one of the original ModPo TAs back in 2012. I’m so very excited to...
Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) Blog
Erica Baum’s “A Long Dress” gallery show responds to Stein’s “Tender Buttons”
Yesterday a ModPo film crew met up with Erica Baum at Bureau gallery in the lower east side of Manhattan — to make a new ModPoPLUS video with her about her newest project. Bureau...
Watch the live video stream of “Five Up on Walt”: celebrate Whitman at 200
This event, which is being hosted by Anna Strong Safford, will be live streamed (as all our programs are) here: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/ *** We’re excited to invite you to the Writers House on Tuesday, February...
Final words clip: Ujjwala, Nepali spoken-word poet
ModPo final words from Ujjwala Maharjan, a Nepali spoken-word poet:
ModPo 2018 final words: Jason, a teacher
ModPo 2018 final words from Jason, a teacher from Baltimore—who talks about ModPo’s effect on this teaching & other matters:
SloPo mini-course on Lorine Niedecker, led by Max McKenna (starts 2/4/2019)
I am pleased to announce that beloved long-time ModPo TA Max McKenna will be leading a 4-week SloPo discussion group on the poems of Lorine Niedecker. The discussion will begin on February 4. If...
ModPo in California
The ModPo team recently returned from a five-day visit to Calfornia. We met with folks at Coursera in Mountain View on Thursday (talking about improvements to the platform we use to host ModPo, especially...
ModPo comes to San Francisco & Los Angeles, January 17/18, 2019 — join us!
Dear all: The ModPo team will be traveling to the U.S. west coast in January. We will convene meet-ups in San Francisco and then in Los Angeles.The details for both gatherings are given below....
Artist Maria Markovich makes an Emily Dickinson sculpture
The artist Maria Markovich has participated in ModPo for a number of years. In 2015 she created the Emily Dickinson figure photographed below.
ModPo’s home is Kelly Writers House—can you help?
I love my affiliation with ModPo and this is the time of year when I take time to reflect on what’s good and sweet in my life. ModPo is good and sweet, for sure!...
