Announcing: ModPo TAs & special poet-guests for ModPo 2024
Today I have the true great pleasure of announcing to you the group of ModPo TAs who will re-joining us for the upcoming annual “symposium mode” of ModPo (August 31 – November 11). Some...
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JS Wu joins ModPo as our newest TA
I am thrilled to announce that JS Wu will be joining the ModPo team, as a TA, in the fall of 2023! JS is a scholar, artist, and first-time ModPo TA living in Philadelphia. She’s currently...
Jason Zuzga rejoins ModPo as a TA for ModPo ’23!
I have the honor of announcing the reappointment of our extraordinary colleague and friend Jason Zuzga as a TA for ModPo ’23, the ten-week symposium mode of which begins on Saturday, September 2. I...
Kate Colby returns to ModPo as a TA in ’23!
Al Filreis writes: I’m beyond excited to announce this: Kate Colby returns to ModPo 2023—a marvelous talented poet and a wonderfully responsive collaborative reader of poems, a good friend of the Writers House people....
Max McKenna is back as a TA for ModPo ’23!
Well, what can said about Max McKenna’s positively great effect on ModPo over the past decade-plus? He’s intellectually generous, always brings new ideas to the conversation about a poem, loves leading the famed Euro...
Ali Castleman returns to ModPo for a 12th year!
Al Filreis writes: “Today I enthuse about this utterly remarkable thing: the one & only Ali Castleman will re-join ModPo starting September 2 as a ModPo TA for the *12th* year! As ModPo people...
Sophia DuRose returns at TA for ModPo 2023
Al Filreis announces the following: “I have the huge pleasure to announcing that the amazing Sophia DuRose will return as a TA for ModPo 2023 (starting September 2)! Sophia is the best—always ready with...
Dave Poplar returns as TA for 12th season
Al Filreis writes: “I’m elated and honored to announce that Dave Poplar will re-join ModPo as a TA for the ModPo 2023 season, starting September 2. Dave is a ModPo original, a member of...
ModPo ’23 TA reappointment: erica kaufman
A note from Al Filreis: In the coming weeks I will be conferring with the ModPo TAs and will announce, one at a time, those who will be joining us again—once again—for ModPo 2023...
ModPo TAs re-read poems through the pandemic
Hi, everyone. Here is the list of poems the TAs have chosen to re-read through the perspective of the pandemic: https://media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/ModPo-misc/ModPo-webcast-pandemic-poem-list-May2020.pdf This PDF includes links to the poems. Have a look!