A note on ModPo pedagogy
Soon after sending another update to all the people enrolled in ModPo, I received this note from Carlene (one of the 20,000 or so ModPo’ers who received my message):
You probably already know, but a university that is alway open is the sentinel of a modern way of considering learning. I adore the way you and your staff maintain a presence. It is important in an age that has parallels to the great age of centralised rhetoric instruction in the historic instruction camps of Greece and Rome that you don’t lose sight of the power of the method.
Great way to start the day!
Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, Director of the Center
for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Co-Director of PennSound, and Publisher of Jacket2—all at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Secretaries of the Moon,
Wallace Stevens & the Actual World, Modernism from Left to Right, and Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60. His new book is 
Founder/Faculty Director, 