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Master of Teaching Arts
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,
For the past nine hours, ModPo people have been writing peer
reviews on essay #3. If you submitted this essay, please now go back into the
"writing assignments" module, see your assigned peer reviews, and begin to write
and submit them. As usual, once you submit them, a copy of the essay and your
peer review will appear in the discussion forum. Our goal once again is to
provide at least four peer reviews for each essayist.
Those who did not
submit essays this time are urged to read essays as they appear in the
discussion forum and offer at least brief additional comments.
We have
this entire week to offer comments and reviews of the essays. If there is
significant power loss in the eastern part of the U.S., we might decided to
extend the review period by a day. But not longer than that, alas, since we are
eager to begin the next assignment more or less on time, starting next week.
This will be the fourth "essay" - but this time it will be an experimental
poetic/writing assignment. We hope it will be fun. More about that later. You
will create the experimental writing during week 9 and we will also comment and
respond during week 10, our final week.
Because some of us face power
outages in the coming hours, I suggest that those in areas affected by this big
storm get started now on their peer reviewing! Anticipating loss of internet
connection, you might want to download some videos and audio and texts of poems
- or even print some of the poems.
Many thanks to all the ModPo
people for your generosity and spirit of poetic communitarianism. This course
only works if many people help each other.
With best wishes from a soggy
& windy city of brotherly love,
- Al
Hoy 30 de Octubre!



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