ModPo: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry - Neuroscientists Welcome!

Content from a sharable broadcast message from Al Filreis, Penn professor: Al Filreishttp://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis ModPo is a free, open, non-credit course on modern and contemporary U.S. poetry. It has been hosted since 2012 by the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. The new 10-week session opens on September 10. To enroll, simply go here:https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo For those who register, the site will be open all year, so if you cannot finish going through the week-by-week syllabus in the ten weeks between mid-September and mid-November, you can always go back and finish any time later. ModPo hosts weekly live interactive webcasts, and there are meet-ups organized in cities around the world as well as virtual discussion groups arranged around a wide range of interests and affinities. Each of the ModPo TAs hosts weekly office hours.ModPo is fully described —with an FAQ—here:https://www.coursera.org/learn/modpo This is the fifth year of ModPo. Some 150,000 people from 191 countries have participated since 2012. It is not like other MOOCs (massive open online courses) because it is entirely interactive. You can see more information about ModPo below. MORE ABOUT MODPO ModPo is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior experience with poetry) will learn how to read poems that are supposedly " ...
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