Al Filreis

Al Filreis serves as the Kelly Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching since 1985. He is the founder and faculty director of the Kelly Writers House, director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, and co-director of PennSound alongside Charles Bernstein. Additionally, he publishes Jacket2 and hosts the podcast series PoemTalk, in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House, PennSound, and the Poetry Foundation. His notable works include Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60, Wallace Stevens and the Actual World, and Modernism from Right to Left. He has also edited Secretaries of the Moon, a collection of letters between José Rodríguez-Feo and Wallace Stevens, and introduced a new edition of Ira Wolfert's Tucker's People. Currently, he is working on a book examining poetry and poetics in 1960. Filreis has received numerous teaching awards at Penn, including being named Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation in 1999-2000. His course ModPo is rooted in English 88, which he has taught for three decades.