I received the following email from a fellow poet, and he gave me permission to announce this wonderful opportunity on my website:
Dear all:
As you may have heard, Stanford, Penn, Princeton and the University of Michigan are collaborating to offer free online courses to anyone, anywhere. The project has just gotten underway.
In this first round, Penn is offering four courses in the arts & sciences. A course I’ve been teaching here at the Writers House for many years – Modern & Contemporary American Poetry – is one these first experiments.
To find out more about the course, and to enroll, just go here:
https://www.coursera.org/course/modernpoetry
No prior knowledge or understanding of poetry is necessary. It is a non-credit course, and again it is free. But it’s a significant and substantive version of the course I teach at Penn, and the poems and poets you encounter stand a chance of changing your life.
The course begins September 1 and runs for 10 weeks.
If you have questions, feel free to ask me.
Al Filreis
Kelly Professor, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Faculty Director, Kelly Writers House
Director, Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
Director, PennSound
Publisher, Jacket2
