As part of erica kaufman’s 2012 Jacket2 commentary series on poetry and pedagogy, she wrote a two-part comment on Gertrude Stein. “Gertrude Stein, a lesson play” (part 1): LINK “Gertrude Stein, a lesson play”...
In early April 2022, the ModPo team took to to the road and filmed three different discussions for later addition to the ModPo syllabus. First, at Rhinecliff, NY, overlooking the Hudson River, we talked...
My dear friend erica kaufman is a teacher’s teacher, a poet’s poet, and a generous soul! These are just a few reasons why I am over the moon about this news: erica will once...
In ModPoPLUS week 8 there’s a 17-minute video of a discussion with Tonya Foster, Tracie Morris, and erica kaufman on Charles Bernstein’s poem “There’s a Hole in My Pocket.” Now we have made available...
The next two-hour discussion session in our series will be led by poet-teacher and legendary ModPo TA erica kaufman. This will happen on Friday, April 3rd, from 1 PM to 3 PM Eastern Standard...
VIDEO: on teaching with Bernadette Mayer’s list of writing experiments. Al is joined by erica kaufman and Anna Strong Safford. Al picks out a few of Mayer’s ideas and asks erica and Anna to...
An astonishingly great poet, teacher, critic, scholar, and practitioner of progressive, experimental pedagogy—erica kaufman—will once again join the ModPo team as a TA and coordinator of ModPo’s TRC (Teacher Resource Center) for ModPo 2019....
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...
