Thursday, June 1, 2023

AL FILREIS ON "CHAPTER ONE"!

You're invited to read Al Filreis' contribution to Marsh Hawk's "Chapter One" project, "Notes toward a pedagogy of ModPo." You can see it HERE, but here's an excerpt:

Whenever I write these days about poetry I express an intense interest in the poem, poem by poem and poetic project by poetic project. Yet what comes through is an even keener concern about collaborative interpretation generally, about our uses and misuses of—and recently our panics over—the technologies that make such collaboration possible at a large scale. Pondering the origins of the interests that have made ModPo—a free, non-credit, open online course—possible, I realize that I am seeking to connect such a social or civic mode of reception with the supposedly difficult, putatively opaque poets and poems I admire and as an educator feel a strong instinct to share (and which I have presented in college classes and open public forums for forty years by now).



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