ModPo’ers’ essays that can use your attention!
Below is a list of some of the essays submitted in response to essay assignment #1 that could use some more responses. Please take a moment today or very soon to click on one...
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ModPo update for October 9, 2019: 1) webcast, 2) NYC, 3) Seattle/Vancouver?; 4) discussions to join; 5) essays
Here are a few updates for today, Wednesday of ModPo 2019 week 5: WEBCAST. Tomorrow’s webcast will begin at 7 PM Boston time. Click HERE to join us at the time of the webcast....
ModPo update as week 4 begins (9/29/2019)
We are now beginning week 4 of ModPo 2019! The main ModPo syllabus for week 4 is divided into two parts. The much larger first part is about Gertrude Stein’s writing. The smaller second...
Week 2 of ModPo 2019 begins: Al’s announcement (includes info about the first essay)
Sunday morning here in Philly. The sun is shining and it’s nearly time for me to dig around in my tiny urban garden. But first an overview of ModPo week 2. During week 2...
Al’s update on Friday of week 1 (ModPo 2019)
Here are a few notes from me on this Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2019: WEEK ONE CONTINUES. Yes, let’s keep reading Dickinson and Whitman today and tomorrow, and let’s keep talking about...
Earning the ModPo certificate
If it is your intention to receive a ModPo certificate, please contact us as modpo@writing.upenn.edu. In that email please include a link (or “URL” or web address) to your ModPo profile page. The easiest...
Update during our final weekend of ModPo 2018
ModPo 2018 ends on Monday with our annual Final Words webcast, as I’ve noted previously. But really what’s ending is what we call our “symposium mode,” our annual run through the ten weeks of...
call for responses to ModPo’ers’ poem-essays
You’ll find in the ModPo site currently a number of really creative “uncreative” responses to assignment #4. People took such pleasure from this experimental poem-making task! You’ll see all the poems in THIS subforum. As usual...
ModPo update for Thursday of week 8, 2018
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...
ModPo update for Friday of week 7
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...