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Can You Study Modern Poetry Via A MOOC? One Writer Says Yes
We appreciated this essay by the young writer Dorian Rolston on what’s it like to take a humanities MOOC from Coursera…. on the topic of modern poetry of all things. He writes elegantly and thoughtfully about his experience in the online daily version of the Paris Review.
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