[Purple-Blurb] Al Filreis on his ModPo course and writing community

[Nick Montfort]

ON TELEVISION...

Tomorrow at around 8:30am Eastern Time, there will be a four-minute 
segment on the Today Show covering MOOCs, Coursera, and Al Filreis's ModPo 
course.

LIVE AT MIT...

IN STEREO...

Tomorrow at 5:30pm here at MIT, Al Filreis himself will speak about his 
ModPo course and writing community in conversation with Nick Montfort -- 
please join us!


Monday December 10
5:30pm in 6-120

Al Filreis
Teaching Modern & Contemporary American Poetry to 36k

Al Filreis has taught his "ModPo" course at Penn for years; in Fall 2012 
he offered a 10-week version of the course online, via Coursera, to more 
than 36,000 students. The course, as in its previous versions, does not 
include lectures, being based instead on discussion - the collaborative 
close readings of poems. The course grows out of Filreis's work at the 
Kelly Writers House; he has been Faculty Director of this literary 
freespace since its founding in 1995. Filreis is also co-founder of 
PennSound, the Web's main free archive of poetry readings, publisher of 
Jacket2 magazine, and producer and host of "PoemTalk," a podcast/radio 
series of close readings of poems. In conversation with Nick Montfort, 
Filreis will discuss ModPo and his perspective on writing, teaching, and 
digital media.

Filreis is Kelly Professor of English and Director of the Center for 
Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is 
the author of Wallace Stevens and the Actual World, Modernism from Right 
to Left, Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on 
Modernism, 1945-60, and other works. He was chosen as Pennsylvania 
Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation in 2000.

Part of the Purple Blurb series
http://nickm.com/if/purple_blurb

Co-sponsored by the SHASS Dean's Office and the Literature Section.

All Purple Blurb events are free and open to the public. The Purple Blurb
series is supported by the Angus N. MacDonald fund and Writing and
Humanistic Studies.

  -Nick