never knowingly without a pen
This post was originally published on 12 February 2015 but I'm going to keep adding to it as I hear of new courses. Here are the courses with links to registration forms and blurb from each site. I might see some of you in class! NEW! Ten Premodern Poems by Women - Stanford University - March 31 - June 9 Course… Continue reading Free online poetry courses
Finally caught up with ModPo by plugging in my netbook in the kitchen. Quite difficult to hear Al, Amarise, Emily, Molly, and the gang - they feel like old friends now - over the sizzling, splashing sounds of cooking dinner and washing up. Admittedly this isn't model student behaviour but at least I'm up to… Continue reading ModPo in the kitchen
Speeding through ModPo and I could do with a few 36 hour days and/or a better brain. I seem to be spending more time watching discussions about poetry rather than reading poetry and I am starting to feel like a child at the fairground trying to catch up with the merry-go-round. One of the disadvantages… Continue reading ModPo: Seven chapters in and flagging a bit
ModPo is racing on; we are now starting Week Five of this ten week course. My highlights last week were listening to a Penn Sound recording of Gertrude Stein reading her poem If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1912) and watching an extract from Shutters Shut, a dance choreographed by Paul Lightfoot… Continue reading The music of Gertrude Stein
Waking at 3am on Saturday and finding myself unable to get back to sleep, I came downstairs in my pyjamas, made a cup of tea and plugged into the final readings for Week 3 of ModPo. I love this course! Hilda Doolittle (known as H.D.), Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams were the poets we… Continue reading Modern and Contemporary American Poetry: Catching Up at 3AM
My main news is that, along with 30,000 other people world-wide, I've signed up for, and am into my second week of, the free, on-line, ten-week taster course in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, or ModPo, offered by the University of Pennsylvania using the Coursera on-line platform and featuring the charismatic and hugely knowledgeable Professor of Literature,… Continue reading 30,000 students but no-one has to share a desk!
Josephine Corcoran 