Got ten minutes tonight? Terrific! Please click HERE and review some essays! Below, in particular, are six essays on Eileen Myles’s “The Honey Bear” that could use a few more reviews/responses. Please click on at least...
Here are some fascinating options for starting into our week 8 syllabus: Lyn Hejinian writes a prose-poem autobiography, following her life year by year—but her sentences are not in chronological order, nor are they of...
Welcome to week 8, our brief encounter with the Language poets. The final three weeks of ModPo constitute what we call “chapter 9.” First chapter 9.1, week 8, is indeed about the Language poets....
On the continued relevance of the Beat poets—a 9-minute clip from the week 6 live webcast for 2018, featuring comments from guest poets Rae Armantrout and Angela Carr.
Today I’ve been watching all the new #3 essays coming in—posted to the special subforum we’ve set up for them. If you intend to write and post an essay on Eileen Myles’s “The Honey...
Christan Bush is teaching ModPo in her high school class. Which is to say: she and her students are doing ModPo together. Yesterday afternoon they reached Al by telephone in his office at the...
Tonight at 9 PM (Philadelphia time) we will host our week 7 webcast! Please plan to join us. The video stream will be available HERE. No need to wait until the webcast begins to post...
Here is a clip from our September 2018 week 2 webcast.
We have now added Hugh MacDiarmid’s “A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle” to the ModPoPLUS syllabus for week 3. Or, to be more precise, we discuss three passages from that long poem. Joining...
Newly added to ModPo’s CCCR syllabus—ModPo people in L.A. convened by Molly O’Neill talk about Tracie Morris’s “Enclosed,” which is a response to Stein’s Tender Buttons. https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/resources/9luW0
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any of our 2024 webcasts.
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 – Wed, 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
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 ModPo coordinator Laynie Browne. Click HERE for all the info you need. Contact Laynie 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.
