So maybe poetry isnt dead....
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Watch the "foggy glasses" video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsf28bU8g-k

My most magical place on earth

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SESSION #4 – April 24-May 3 – Jake Marmer on Hank Lazer

Hank Lazer’s Poetry: Experiments and Rituals

We’ll spend 10 days reading poems by this inventive, versatile, and prolific contemporary poet, Hank Lazer. Special attention will be given to his shape-poems — hand-written improvisations that freely move across the surface of the page. In Lazer’s work, spirituality meets humor, and philosophical quests meet everyday life: dogs, conversations, walks, and so much more.
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SESSION #3 – March 13 – 22 — Irene Torra Mohedano on Alejandra Pizarnik

Alejandra Pizarnik: You write poems because you need a place where what isn’t may be.

Can we hide in language? Can we use language to say the unsayable? What is it that cannot be said? In this mini-course we will encounter the poet Alejandra Pizarnik (Buenos Aires, 1936-1972) and we will discuss a selection of poems....

https://modpo.org/2022/12/02/slopo-courses-for-winter-spring-2023/

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SESSION #2 – February 13 -22, 2023 — Kate Colby on Lorine Niedecker

Reading Lorine Niedecker’s Calendar Poem(s)

In this mini course we will read Lorine Niedecker’s poem series “Next Year or I Fly My Rounds, Tempestuous” in its entirety. Unpublished in Niedecker’s lifetime and only rediscovered in the 1990s, the handwritten series was pasted onto pages of a 1935 pocket calendar and hand-bound as a gift to Louis Zukofsky....
https://modpo.org/2022/12/02/slopo-courses-for-winter-spring-2023/

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SloPo courses – winter and spring 2023

SESSION #1 – January 6 – 20, 2023 — Al Filreis on Joan Retallack

Writing as poethics.

We will read and discuss a selection of poems and other writings of Joan Retallack. Our discussions will take place primarily in online discussion forums. In addition we will schedule two optional Zoom sessions.

https://modpo.org/2022/12/02/slopo-courses-for-winter-spring-2023/

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Kelly Writers House, Penn, Philly, Pennsylvania

(from a visit back in September)

Happy Kelly Writers House Sunday morning coffee from a KWH mug a friend of mine painted

Kelly Writers House Penn, Philly, PA

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Are Imagery and Imagism Different?
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@GeePawHill

been writing poetry since age 5, but really started thinking about how other poets think a decade ago when i first took the free MOOC from Penn called ModPo, been a volunteer educator with the course ever since! #Modpo.org

#Intro: I am the #parent of two teens, married to a doctor, live in #sandiego, work as #softwaredev at #illumina in #bioinformatics. I play #viola & #violin #classicalmusic like on a semipro level, help run the SoCal Chamber Music workshop for many years. Avid reader / sometime #writer of #poetry, a community TA for the UPenn massive online course #modpo. Worry all the time about #climate, hope my work on #genetics will help. #fountainpens #yiddish #jewish #torah #ethics