BONUS Episode: ModPo's Davy and Anna on Teaching Online and Accessibility

The Poetry Vlog (TPV): A Poetry, Arts, & Social Justice Teaching Channel

Tune in for this podcast-only episode with host C. R. Grimmer and the instructors behind ModPo, Anna and Davy, as they discuss the importance behind open-access education around poetry. Accessibility takes on multiple valences in this conversation, from thinking about the disability or self-termed "crip" communities to accessible costs, to geographic location. ModPo also has a large international base of students and colleagues who are studying a largely Americanist archive; Davy and Anna are generous in this episode about dipping into the ethics and histories around how we teach a poetry archive, how we negotiate meaning, and ways we can both critique power dynamics and create new, more livable futures.

Find more about ModPo here:

Website: (http://modpo.org) // Instagram: (@mod_po) // Twitter: (@modpopenn) // Facebook: (@modpo) //

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About Davy:

Davy Knittle is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania who works in the fields of feminist, queer, and trans theory, environmental humanities, and multiethnic U.S. writing. His dissertation, "Queer with the City: Environmental Justice, Racial Capitalism, and the Poetics of Urban Change," uses literary accounts of gender, sexuality, and kinship as lenses for reading the relationship between natural and built environments in the globalizing U.S. city. His critical work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Women's Studies Quarterly, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Planning Perspectives, and Modern Language Studies. He is a reviews editor for Jacket2, curates the City Planning Poetics talk and reading series at the Kelly Writers House, and organizes with Penn's Trans Literacy Project.

About Anna:

Anna Safford is a teacher and writer based in Philadelphia. She teaches poetry and writing at the University of Pennsylvania and she is the overall course coordinator for ModPo, a free MOOC hosted by the Kelly Writers House and Coursera. Her poems and essays can be found at Cleaver, Peregrine, Tinge, and others.

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