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The Classroom And The Crowd : Poetry And The Promise Of Digital Community
Al Filreis
Hardback Book  |  Literature & Poetry  |  25 Nov 2025
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For more than a decade, Al Filreis has taught a free online course about experimental poetry, known as "ModPo," that has drawn some 435,000 students from 179 countries. Online classes even a fraction of ModPo's size have been criticized as impersonal and unengaging. But the citizens of ModPo have formed a generous and enduring intellectual community as together they read poems typically dismissed as difficult and inaccessible.

In The Classroom and the Crowd, Filreis reflects on his decades of experience as a founder of participatory literary communities and teacher of online courses, demonstrating that student-centered education offers new possibilities for humane social networking. Introducing readers to ModPo participants and their open-ended, round-the-clock conversations, he shows how online learning can not only be accessible and educational but also deepen our commitment to democracy. Filreis argues that the emphasis on collaborative learning, space for discussion, and the inherent openness of poetry allows for a sense of community, continuity, and even intimacy that often eludes other online educational endeavors. ModPo embodies principles underlying both modern poetics and cooperative education: Writers and readers, like teachers and learners, create meaning together; many voices are clearer than one; and democracy is a creative practice. Proposing an optimistic vision of mass learning, this book contends that asynchronous education has surprising advantages over the traditional classroom, that panics about a crisis of attention and the death of reading are overblown-and that instead of logging off, we should all start reading with a crowd.

Title: The Classroom And The Crowd : Poetry And The Promise Of Digital Community

Format: Hardback Book

Release Date: 25 Nov 2025

Author: Al Filreis

Sku: 3532623

Catalogue No: 9780231221580

Category: Literature & Poetry


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