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Modern & Contemporary American Poetry

Al Filreis

This course is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, from Dickinson and Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior experience with poetry) will learn how to read poems that are supposedly "difficult."

Dear FIX,

I'm pleased to announce that with help from our friends at Coursera we have now extended all quiz deadlines. Quizzes can be submitted (and retaken) until 11:59 PM on November 19, the final day of the course.

Some of you want to be deemed as having "completed" the course. For this, doing all the quizzes is one of the expectations. We hope that the extended deadline makes that easier for some of you. Now you can go back to week 1 and take or re-take the quizzes from that point forward, or try a few you seem to have missed along the way.

By the way, our point is to encourage people doing the ModPo curriculum - reading the poems and thinking about them - to think a little further and try, modestly and quickly, to do a bit of that thinking on their own (before seeing responses immediately after). This is, in short, how we conceive of the Coursera quiz mode as relevant to the ModPo experience.

A little more on the point just above: our goal is to help ModPo people further contemplate a concept or two raised in the video discussions of the poems. Quiz questions in this format are extremely difficult to write for open-ended modern poems, and a few of them don't quite work as quizzes per se but we offer each explanation as a sometimes gray-area response to an answer the multiple-choice system only understands as definitive. We hope in each case the point gets across, and many of you have said it does. Pedagogically, I have never been a fan of quizzes. In fact, in nearly thirty years of teaching this is the first time I've used them. But as in all things, ModPo has taught me something I didn't know. There is some value in such a "check-in" on certain concepts.

Best wishes,

Al

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Modern & Contemporary American Poetry

Al Filreis

This course is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, from Dickinson and Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior experience with poetry) will learn how to read poems that are supposedly "difficult."

Dear FIX,

Two topics tonight from here at ModPo headquarters, the Kelly Writers House on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. (A few hours ago I and most of the ModPo TAs, and other KWH people, attending a fabulous program: seven people each spoke for seven minutes about one work by Marcel Duchamp. Some of you watched the webcast, and I hope you enjoyed this program as much as I did. At right here you see a photo I took of the reception after the event. The Writers House-affiliated students prepared a "Food Descending a Staircase" presentation!)

upcoming live webcast

1) On Thursday, October 11, at 11:45 AM eastern time, watch a live webcast of a discussion/"debate" I will moderate on Robert Frost's "Mending Wall." The poem, of course, is one we are discussing this week (chapter 5). As usual, click on the "live webcasts" link on the ModPo home page, or go directly to our ModPo YouTube page. We will not be taking phone calls during this public event, but Kristen Martin will be watching comments and questions in the discussion forum and twitter feed (@ModPoPenn - #Modpolive). She will be able to pose a few of these to the panel of four poets. I will read other comments and questions after the event, and respond as best I can to them. As usual, a recording will be made and will be posted to the ModPo live webcasts page and the ModPo YouTube page.

peer reviews of essay #2

2) The assignments of peer reviewing within the "essay assignments" module is working well so far. Already most essays have had one review, and many have had two. Those who wrote essays should go back into "essay assignments" and find your four assigned peer review. Those who did not write essays - as well as those who did - are encouraged to offer comments and responses to the essays as they appear in the discussion forum. The peer reviewing process will continue throughout week 5, so please be patient if you haven't seen your essay yet.

I have some news about quizzes and will write about that separately.

Best wishes from the Writers House, cozy inside on this cool rainy autumn mid-Atlantic night,

Al