ModPo is a free online course on modern & contemporary American poetry taught by Al Filreis at Penn through Coursera.
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18 Feb 2025
New ModPo video, added today to ModPoPLUS—a discussion (in Montreal) of Lissa Wolsak's "lightsail": youtube.com/watch?v=g8Vlwgcg…
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28 Jan 2025
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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6 Dec 2024
A spontaneous collaborative close reading of a randomly chosen Emily Dickinson poem: youtube.com/watch?v=4TMiKoNq…
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5 Dec 2024
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…
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21 Nov 2024
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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20 Nov 2024
New ModPo video—on "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun": youtube.com/watch?v=Umbk1Izc…
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20 Nov 2024
New ModPo video—on Dickinson's "Revolution is the Pod": youtube.com/watch?v=1AuhOTOM…
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18 Nov 2024
Our roster of 2025 "SloPo" mini-courses hosted by ModPo. Free & open to all. coursera.org/learn/modpo/res…
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13 Nov 2024
New ModPo video—on Dickinson's "Revolution is the Pod": youtube.com/watch?v=1AuhOTOM…
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30 Oct 2024
New video—a 27-minute excerpt from our New York School week webcast, featuring comments by Dan Bergmann: vimeo.com/1021144684
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30 Oct 2024
ModPo people are always welcome to join any Kelly Writers House program (livestreamed from our YouTube page):
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28 Oct 2024
New ModPoPLUS video -- We talk about Ann Lauterbach's poem "Elision": youtube.com/watch?v=z1zP1uvM…
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27 Oct 2024
Watch this 8-minute video introduction to non-intentional/aleatory poetry in ModPo week 9: youtube.com/watch?v=jHv6gQvU…
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25 Oct 2024
New ModPo video—we talk about Emily Dickinson's "There is another Loneliness": youtube.com/watch?v=fugPKKrb…
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23 Oct 2024
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…
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19 Oct 2024
Richard Deming and James Berger talk with me about Whitman's long lines: youtube.com/watch?v=Pkq4IVmJ…
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