Three ModPo things today: 1) WEBCAST. Tomorrow (Wednesday, September 26) at 10 AM Philadelphia time we will be convening our week 3 live webcast. Please plan to join us live if you possibly can....
ModPoPLUS keeps expanding. Week 3’s ModPoPLUS syllabus includes some 76 poems and videos. Below are some relatively new videos. A sampling of ModPoPLUS videos for week 3: watch discussion of “Portrait d’une Femme” filmed...
Over the years ModPo people have spent a good deal of time pondering how to read Rae Armantrout’s “The Way.” Almost everyone deems it to be the most difficult poem on the week 2...
During our week 2 webcast for ModPo 2018 we had an opportunity to discuss—once again!—Cid Corman’s “It isnt for want.” After a bit we turned to how the poem might be taught. Is this...
During our week 2 webcast for ModPo 2018, we discussed John Phillips’s poem “This,” new to the ModPoPLUS syllabus:
Week 3 of ModPo 2018 begins! We hope you enjoy the intense, terse imagist poems we offer through the syllabus. I’ll have more to say about these early modernist poems tomorrow. Meantime, be sure...
When you are deciding which ModPo essay to review, go to the subforum designated for the particular assignment. Then scroll through all the essays that have been posted there. To the right of each...
We have just now added to week 2 of the ModPoPLUS syllabus Francisco X. Alarcón’s poem “From the Other Side of Night.” The text of the poem can be found HERE. The video in...
Michael Rothenberg, a poet and friend of ModPo, is a founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, an organization that seeks to promote a healthy and sustainable society through poetry and the arts. From...
Greetings on this Friday of week 2 of ModPo 2018! Today I suggest that you read or re-read a few more week 2 poems, and prepare yourself to move on to week 3, which begins on...
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.
