ModPo update on Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2020
It’s Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2020. Still plenty of time to read week 1 poems and watch videos before we turn to week 2. But if you run out of time this...
It’s Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2020. Still plenty of time to read week 1 poems and watch videos before we turn to week 2. But if you run out of time this...
The Global ModPo Study Group convened in January 2020 to talk about Whitman’s “I Heard It Was Charged against Me.” The recording of that session has been added to ModPo’s CCCR syllabus. CCCR =...
An excerpt from our week 2 2019 live webcast—a discussion of the ongoing influence of Whitman:
Cristanne Miller and Davy Knittle talk with Al Filreis about a poem now added to ModPoPLUS—Dickinson’s “He fumbles at your Soul.” PART NINETEEN: HE FUMBLES AT YOUR SOUL 19.1 read Dickinson’s “He fumbles at...
Recently we added a short commentary on canto 8 of “Song of Myself” to the main week 1 syllabus. Here is that brief essay: * In canto 8 we encounter the poem’s first urban...
Just today we added a new poem and new video to week 1! The poem is Dickinson’s “From Blank to Blank—,” which you can read HERE. And HERE is the video, which is an...
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...
Today I want to highlight two things: 1) our first webcast coming up on Wednesday at 3 PM (Philadephia time) and 2) our office hours. WEBCASTS: Yes, our first weekly live webcast will happen...
Week 1 of ModPo officially starts today. Here is the week 1 syllabus: https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/home/week/1 Week 1 consists of a few poems by Emily Dickinson and sections (or “cantos”) from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”...
ModPo 2019 has begun. It’s good to see, already, a number of lively, generous introductions. You can read them HERE. And please, while you’re there, post an introduction to yourself! I recommend that you...