We are delighted to announce five new SloPo mini-courses for the ModPo off-season (the first months of 2022). As with all ModPo offerings, these are free (no charge whatsoever) and open to anyone. You...
Jake Marmer’s 10/20/2020 reading & conversation hosted by the Kelly Writers House is now available at PennSound as a full video recording and also audio recordings segmented by poem and discussion topic: https://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Marmer.php#10-14-20
ModPo short—a 1-minute excerpt from a longer conversation filmed in a San Francisco park a few years ago in which Jake Marmer & Lily Applebaum talk about a poem titled “Poem” by ruth weiss. The clip...
We here at ModPo are very pleased to once again be able to offer brand new SloPo mini courses to any and all ModPo students who want to join them. Two of these courses...
Here (below—see links) is a new section on Jerome Rothenberg now added to the ModPoPLUS week 7 syllabus. It includes a discussion of the poem “A Paradise of Poets,” and a discussion of Rothenberg’s...
“SloPo” is, as you know, the nickname ModPo’ers have given to our “off season”—which describes anything that happens in the always-open ModPo site other than during the 10 weeks each autumn (early September—mid-November) when...
Poet and long-time ModPo TA Jake Marmer has shared three of his many writing prompts. Attention ModPo teachers: try these with your students and let us know (modpo@writing.upenn.edu) how it went.