This week our live webcast will begin at 8 PM Philadelphia time on Wednesday, November 14. Please plan to join us! As you know—our last live webcast of the season will happen next Monday,...
Week 10! Yes, today we begin week 10. It’s our final week of the so-called “symposium mode” of ModPo. Each (northern hemisphere) autumn, from September to late-mid-November, we move through the ten weeks of...
Yesterday Al was hanging around at a Kelly Writers House open house (for Penn’s homecoming day). A ModPo’er who is not affiliated with Penn other than through ModPo, who happened to be in Philly...
Go HERE to see an interesting discussion about form and content. One of my responses is below.
Celina found a wonderful prompt for her mesostic re-writing. Below is her explanation & here is where you can find her mesostic poem: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/discussions/all/threads/whmWHOUkEeim-Ap6C5Wgvg
If you go back to week 5 (chapter 3—on communist poets) and find Genevieve Taggard’s “Interior,” and then remove all the words beginning with “a” (per one of the Bernadette Mayer experiments), this is...
Three new videos—in which Davy Knittle’s student, joined by Lily Applebaum, discuss poems by Eileen Myles: “Writing,” “Snakes,” “Mount St. Helens”: HERE, HERE, and HERE.
If it’s your intention to post a response to assignment #4 (create a mesostic or do one of Bernadette’s writing experiments), I would strongly urge you to create it and post it HERE before Sunday if possible. We will all begin...
Oh, oh, the range of responses to the week 9 poems! I love it. On one hand, we have the “Hmmm, I don’t quite get it” thread. On the other hand, we have the “OMG I’m...
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any of our 2025 webcasts.
Week 1 – Wed 9/2 – noon
Week 2 – Wed 9/9 – 10 AM
Week 3 – Wed 9/16 – 3 PM
Week 4 – Wed 9/23 – noon (w/ Ron Silliman)
Week 5 – Thursday 10/1 (in Manchester) 6:30 local time
Week 6 – Wed 10/7 – 3 PM
Week 7 – Wed 10/14 – 3 PM (w/ Anne Waldman)
Week 8 – Wed 10/21 – noon (w/ Bob Perelmant)
Week 9 – Wed 10/28 – 10 AM
Week 10 – Wed 11/4 – 3 PM (w/ Emily Skillings & Mark Nowak)
Final Words – Monday 11/9 – noon
Yes, you can take ModPo for University of Pennsylvania credit. A 10-week session is offered each year fall. 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.
