Highlight reel for week 9 of ModPo
Here is a highlight reel — brief clips — from week 9 of ModPo, our free, open, online 10-week course on modern and contemporary U.S. poetry.
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ModPo’s Teacher Resource Center (TRC) — invitation to join us
As you might know, we at the Kelly Writers House at Penn, six years ago, created an open, free, online course on modern and contemporary U.S. poetry. The next 10-week session of ModPo begins on September 9, 2017. We hope you’ll join us (simply click HERE). We have greatly enjoyed working...
Kelly finds her university through a MOOC
When the ModPo team visited the San Francisco area last fall, Kelly Liu, a local high-school senior, joined us for the webcast in Mountain View and the meet-up/collaborative close reading in San Francisco. Kelly was an avid, active participant/learner/“student” in ModPo. Well, Kelly became very interested in the arts & humanities at Penn,...
ModPo video subtitles now available in Arabic
Recently we put out a call for ModPo people worldwide who might like to help us voluntarily to translate video subtitles in various languages. The first video in the course—on Emily Dickinson—is now available in French, Chinese, and Arabic. We will be adding Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian and several other...
ModPo: help us offer video subtitles in all languages
ModPo people: please go to the ModPo site, click on any video, hover your cursor over the video screen and see options for subtitles in languages other than English. If you want to help us translate more of these into your language, please write us at modpo@writing.upenn.edu .
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....
Jake Marmer’s sci fi jazz poetry
I’m a fan of pretty much whatever Jake Marmer does. Now he’s into sci fi jazz poetry. Here’s an instance of his new work:
ModPo in London (October 2017)
A few months ago I announced that the ModPo team would be taking our annual “on the road” webcast to London, England, this year. Today we are excited to share more details of this visit. We are very grateful to our London-based partners for providing us spaces to host our...
Video: discussion of Lorine Niedecker’s “I married”
We have made a new video for ModPo—on Lorine Niedecker’s “I married.” During this discussion we listen to two voicemail left for us by ModPo people, asking questions about this poem. Here is a link to the video.
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, 