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…
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…
Eric Shoemaker and Michelle Taransky talk with me about Lisa Fishman's poem "Compost—decay": youtube.com/watch?v=AGYdheBf…