Modern & Contemporary American Poetry ( "Modpo") by university of Pennsylvania.

Modern & Contemporary American poetry ("Modpo ") by university of Pennsyvania.



ANNOUNEMETS/WEEK10 SEYEMBER 11,2020

Modpo update on Friday of week10 of modpo 2020

It’s Friday of week 1 of ModPo 2020. Still plenty of time to read week 1 poems and watch videos before we turn to week 2. But if you run out of time this...

DICKSONIA NEW VIDEO/ WEEK 2 SEPTEMBER 2,2020

Al gave this talk at the graduation ceremonies of the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in May 2020:

MODPOPLUS/NEW VIDEo / wEEK 10 Augusta 25,2020

New abridged version of discussion of Tracie morris's " Slave shot video "

Thanks to the editing talents of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available a 24-minute abridgment of the original 40-minute discussion of Tracie Morris’s “Slave Show to Video aka Black but Beautiful.” It is...

BEATS/NEW VIDEO/ WEEK 6 AUGUST 25,2020

New abridged version of our discussion of Helen Adam's poem

Thanks to the talented editing of Makena Deveraux, we are now making available an abridged, 20-minute version of our discussion of Helen Adam’s “Cheerless Junkie’s Song.” See below for the revised list and links...

ANNOUNCEMENTS/CCCR/ MEET- Up/WEEK 6 AUGUST, 21,2020

CCCR Meet- up 8/28/20 about Bob Kaufman

Alison Borkowska is organizing another meet-up (via Zoom) that will happen on August 28. See below for a link to all the details, and also Alison’s email address. If you want to participate, send..