This video—about an hour long—features a presentation Al Filreis made at Columbia University about ModPo as an instance of the then-somewhat-new phenomenon: a massive open online course. Most of the talk was really about...
A complete renovation of the “Arts Cafe” at the Kelly Writers House is underway, but (perhaps predictably!) we’re decided to keep our famously creaky old chairs. Since the room will be larger than before,...
Today Anna and Al joined a number of ModPo people using Facebook Live, experimenting with a live-streaming-plus-commentary mode that we will use this autumn experimentally for a mode of “office hour.” You can watch...
We are revising the headnotes to ModPoPLUS (the paragraph-long introduction to each week’s readings and videos). Here’s the revised headnote to week 1: The first week of ModPo’s main syllabus introduces us to Whitman...
PennSound, the largest archive of recordings of poets reading their own poems, has a very extensive alphabetical listing of authors included in the archive. Here is the LINK to the author list.
From ModPo’s crowdsourced CCCR syllabus: watch this collaborative close reading by ModPo people of Emily Dickinson’s “Wild Nights — Wild Nights!”: LINK.
In October 2017 the ModPo team traveled to London—and was greeted there by many ModPo friends from around English, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and variously from around Europe (including Poland). Here is the live webcast...
Support ModPo with a gift! To make a donation to our Digital Poetries Fund, click HERE. To donate to our Student Access Fund, click HERE. The ModPo team, based here at the Kelly Writers...
Here are some handy ModPo and ModPo-related links. Please let us know if we should add more. Send your suggestions to modpo@writing.upenn.edu. Important links: ModPo enrollment page on Coursera: LINK Enter the ModPo site...
Al Filreis is the founder and creator of ModPo (during the spring and summer of 2012) and has been leading ModPo ever since, one of the first humanities MOOCs. More about Al here. Laynie...
NOTE: All times given are Eastern U.S. Time. Click HERE to watch any of our 2025 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 – 6:30 PM (at Torn Page in NYC)
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.
