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ModPo celebrates its first decade

Modern and Contemporary Poetry, free on Coursera, was founded by English Professor Al Filreis at Kelly Writers House in 2012 and now has 69,000 people enrolled from around the world.
Al Filreis holds up the Book "The Difference is Spreading" while seated at a long table with four other people to his left and a television screen with the faces of several other people to his right in front of an audience
English Professor Al Filreis holds up a copy of the just-published book “The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems,” during the ModPo webcast to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the free massive online open course Modern and Contemporary Poetry. 

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