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ModPo is a free, open, non-credit online course in modern & contemporary U.S poetry. We are open all year. Go to modpo.org for more.
All the ModPo resources on/about Bernadette Mayer right here: modpo.org/explore/?art...
May 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Alice Notley at ModPo: modpo.org/explore/?art...
May 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
May 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Today we are releasing episode 208 of PoemTalk, a special forum in tribute to the late Tyrone Williams—a discussion of his poem “Charon on the Potomac” featuring Erica Hunt, Simone White, and Aldon Nielsen.

jacket2.org/podcasts/vai...
May 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Out in November!
May 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
@afilreis.bsky.social gave the introductory chapter of my forthcoming book to a machine that makes podcasts from text. The result is not perfectly accurate but does give you a fair, informal sense of what Al is saying in the book. Listen here: media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/Cro...
April 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The newest episode of the PoemTalk podcast is now being released: it’s episode 207, in which Rae Armantrout, Julia Bloch, and Laynie Browne talk about two poems appearing in Rae’s recent book Go Figure.

jacket2.org/podcasts/wor...

PoemTalk is also available at Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
April 15, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Gertrude Stein in Morocco: web.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/202...
April 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Anthony Watkins has written a guide: "How to Do ModPo." See this: modpo.org/2025/03/29/h...
March 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Today we are releasing episode 206 of PoemTalk—a discussion of Lewis Warsh’s “Polar Night,” with Anselm Berrigan, Kate Colby, and Laynie Browne. Here is the link to the audio and the program notes at Jacket2 magazine: jacket2.org/podcasts/son... .
March 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
@afilreis writes: "Yesterday I had the pleasure of convening Ken Taylor (visiting from Chicago), Jordan Trice & Sophia DuRose to record an episode of PoemTalk about Ed Roberson."
March 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We at the KWH & ModPo already keenly miss Pierre Joris. Over the years he & Nicole have been with us many times. A favorite interaction with Pierre was this free-wheeling discussion about Kurt Schwitters' w/ Pierre, Charles Bernstein & the late Jerry Rothenberg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3bZ...
February 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The newest episode of PoemTalk is now out—a discussion of June Jordan’s two 1989 performances in the TV series “Poetry Spots” with Bob Holman (creator of that series), Herman Beavers, and Christy Davids.

jacket2.org/podcasts/rad...
February 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We are delighted to announce that Ali Castleman is the first of the ModPo TAs to confirm that she will rejoin the ModPo team for ModPo 2025, which opens on August 30, 2025. Ali and I sealed the deal over lunch yesterday in Manhattan, catching up on all manner of ModPo news and plans.
February 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Max and erica meeting for the first time recently in Berlin. Yes, you read that correctly: after 10 years of working together in ModPo they met in person for the first time.
February 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Watch these powerful "final words" in 2022: www.coursera.org/learn/modpo/...
February 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM