“ModPo” is an entirely free, non-credit, online 10-week version of the 14-week course on modern and contemporary American poetry I’ve been teaching for thirty years, mostly here at Penn in Philadelphia, mostly here in the Kelly Writers House.
The course was offered last fall, with 36,000 people enrolled from 129 different countries. An overview of that experience, including links to reviews of and articles about the course, is available here:
https://jacket2.org/commentary/modpo-overview
As of today, we are taking enrollments for the second running of ModPo – starting Saturday, September 7, and finishing 10 weeks plus two days later, on Monday, November 18. One can enroll here:
https://www.coursera.org/course/modernpoetry
- providing merely an email address and name (no other information is requested). As I say, it is entirely free and entirely open.
A 20-minute video introduction to the course can be found on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/HsE6f0hbHwI .
If you know of teachers, students and friends who might like to give this introduction to modern & contemporary poetry a try, please forward this message to them and encourage them to enroll.
