Learner Reviews & Feedback for Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”) by University of Pennsylvania
About the Course
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 "difficult." We encounter and discuss the poems one at a time. It's much easier than it seems! Join us and try it!
ModPo is open all year, so you can enroll now, or any time, and join us. Each year we host a lively, interactive 10-week session, in which we
move together through the ten-week syllabus. The next live 10-week session of ModPo will begin on September 1, 2024, and ...
Top reviews
S
Nov 9, 2024
Best-curated course on American poetry in symposium mode. Thank you ModPo, Prof. Al Filreis & University of Pennsylvania.
JW
Dec 4, 2022
This is a great course. The course is very interactive with great discussions and unique insights. JohnJohn Wang, PhD CRE MBB
226 - 238 of 238 Reviews for Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”)
By Shandana N k
•Dec 24, 2023
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By Alfredo F
•Mar 18, 2025
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By Tamara S
•Sep 16, 2024
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By Rohit V
•Dec 14, 2020
The course is enriched with tremendous content. It takes all the full hours, days and months to complete this course. As the Coursera is giving opportunity to do multitasking while learning from anywhere, this course seems a bit lengthy and demands full time attention. One may miss the link if one remains irregular. Poetry is a vast filed of thoughts and ideas. Indeed the course opens many new ranges of thoughts and ideas.
What I liked the most about the course is live discussion of the poems. Many poems were very difficult to understand but when more than two people get together to churn and decipher the words beyond their face value, any difficult poem becomes easy to grasp.
By NADENE A K
•Apr 6, 2021
This course was easy to manage as a self-paced course. I appreciated options to look at additional materials. I liked the interaction in the discussion.
By Ehud S
•May 21, 2020
The course is approachable for people with little to no knowledge in poetry yet is interesting and challenging. It is well explained and manageable.
By Tammy P
•Apr 2, 2020
The professor interrupts the panel so much it’s incredibly distracting and it makes even the transcript hard to read.
By Dr. A P R
•Feb 5, 2023
Gone through unexplored knowledge about American Poetry in the new era
By Spony H
•Sep 7, 2023
Es largo, pero vale totalmente la pena
By Husna Q
•Apr 21, 2022
it is good
By Suresh D
•Nov 19, 2016
not bad!
By GARGI C
•Nov 26, 2020
I am Gargi Choudhury. I have taken this course and I would like to share my expeeience with the world. I would anyone who wants to impove their thought process in english literature should take this course. It was quiet helpful for me.
By Christos V
•Jan 18, 2017
Al Filreis is an excellent instructor and very charismatic, unfortunately the poetry taught consists of only one worldview: secular humanist. Its too bad, otherwise I would offer 5 stars.