Here is a video clip from our week 9 (November 7, 2018) live webcast—in which guest poet/teacher Joshua Schuster (one of the founders of the Writers House in 1995-96) discusses the classroom and the...
Here is a further discussion of (Cage’s idea of) defamiliarizing and defamiliarizing language—a video clip from our November 7, 2018 week 9 live webcast:
Here is a video clip from the week 9 live webcast (November 7, 2018).
Poet and long-time ModPo TA Jake Marmer has shared three of his many writing prompts. Attention ModPo teachers: try these with your students and let us know (modpo@writing.upenn.edu) how it went.
Max McKenna & two ModPo’ers in Chicago have added a good close reading of Rosmarie Waldrop’s poem “Representations.” Video quality is fuzzy but audio is good and the reading is terrific. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpJBFVRcx_w (link to...
In the ModPo forums ModPo’er Lauren Elle DeGaine told us of her chapbook, “The Landscape We Left on Each Other.” Just now I read these poems with pleasure. Here is one that is especially intriguing (and...
ModPo 2018 final words webcast. Here are some photos from the KWH point of view of this annual worldwide gathering.
AL: Meaning making takes a little bit of a turn here in week nine, because the meaning gets created unintentionally. So, what’s the future of meaning? And, where does meaning go from here? And,...
Dada Squared. A ModPo person has made a dada poem by procedurally writing through a dadaist’s writing. Please read and comment here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/all/threads/xtJwf-ioEeivog5utGlu8g?utm_medium=email&utm_source=other&utm_campaign=opencourse.discourse.modpo~opencourse.discourse.yeli1ehUEeSBtCIAC3lLIA.xtJwf-ioEeivog5utGlu8g
If it is your intention to receive a ModPo certificate, please contact us as modpo@writing.upenn.edu. In that email please include a link (or “URL” or web address) to your ModPo profile page. The easiest...
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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 – Thurs, 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
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