ModPo week 1: webcast & office hours
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...
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Day 1 of week 1, ModPo 2019 — Al’s announcement
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 has begun today — Al’s announcement
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...
ModPo 2019 opening day message from Al
It’s Friday morning as I write this here in Philadelphia USA. Twenty-four hours from now we will begin our 10-week journey through the ModPo course. Whether you are able to devote just two hours...
Montreal meet-up discusses Dickinson’s “The Soul unto itself”
During our visit to Montreal in October 2018, we convened a meet-up which was attended by a wonderful group of Canadian ModPo’ers. One of the poems we discussed that night was Dickinson’s “The Soul...
Updates & notes for the end of week 1
Here are a few notes from me on this Friday of week 1 of ModPo ’18: WEEK ONE CONTINUES. Yes, let’s keep reading Dickinson and Whitman today and tomorrow, and let’s keep talking about...
Announcement: 9/9/18 on starting week 1
I have really enjoyed reading and responding to your introductions. Keep those coming HERE! Meantime, week 1 now begins for real. Between now and next weekend, we hope everyone will read the poems in...
Announcement 9/7/18: welcome to ModPo — let’s get started
Welcome to ModPo 2018. Our ten-week movement through the course begins again tomorrow, Saturday, September 8. I say “begins again” because many participants have been involved with ModPo in previous years. We created this...
ModPoPLUS headnotes being revised
We are revising the headnotes to ModPoPLUS (the paragraph-long introduction to each week’s readings and videos). Here’s the revised headnote to week 1: The first week of ModPo’s main syllabus introduces us to Whitman...