ModPo is a free online course on modern & contemporary American poetry taught by Al Filreis at Penn through Coursera.
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New ModPo video, added today to ModPoPLUS—a discussion (in Montreal) of Lissa Wolsak's "lightsail": youtube.com/watch?v=g8Vlwgcg…
New ModPo video—on Kevin Davies's "Comp": youtube.com/watch?v=7UdcVsiJ…
Today we have released episode 204 of PoemTalk—in which Cristos Kalli, Jon Hoel, and Henry Steinberg discuss two poems in the Chorus for Survival series (1935) by Horace Gregory.
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Discussion of online learning & accessibility: youtube.com/watch?v=XUDsWH1R…
A spontaneous collaborative close reading of a randomly chosen Emily Dickinson poem: youtube.com/watch?v=4TMiKoNq…
ModPo people: please help keep ModPo going. Our course & resources are available to all & free (no fee, no charge, no cast). But if you want to help us with the substantial costs we incur hosting ModPo, please go here: socialfundraising.apps.upenn…
Today we are releasing episode 202 of the PoemTalk podcast series. In this episode, Harryette Mullen, Simone White, and Laynie Browne join me to discuss the “Chasing Dirt” section of Harryette’s recent book Open Leaves.
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New ModPo video—on "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun": youtube.com/watch?v=Umbk1Izc…
Our roster of 2025 "SloPo" mini-courses hosted by ModPo. Free & open to all. coursera.org/learn/modpo/res…
New video—a 27-minute excerpt from our New York School week webcast, featuring comments by Dan Bergmann: vimeo.com/1021144684
ModPo people are always welcome to join any Kelly Writers House program (livestreamed from our YouTube page):
New ModPoPLUS video -- We talk about Ann Lauterbach's poem "Elision": youtube.com/watch?v=z1zP1uvM…
Watch this 8-minute video introduction to non-intentional/aleatory poetry in ModPo week 9: youtube.com/watch?v=jHv6gQvU…
New ModPo video—we talk about Emily Dickinson's "There is another Loneliness": youtube.com/watch?v=fugPKKrb…
In PoemTalk episode 201, Kay Gabriel, Syd Zolf, and Levi Bentley joined @afilreis to talk about 2 poems by Trish Salah. jacket2.org/podcasts/your-vo…
Richard Deming and James Berger talk with me about Whitman's long lines: youtube.com/watch?v=Pkq4IVmJ…