Al Filreis

Al Filreis (born 1956) is the Kelly Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, and Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. With Charles Bernstein, he founded PennSound in 2003; PennSound is a large archive of recordings of poets reading their own poetry. Filreis is also publisher of ''Jacket2'' magazine and host of a monthly podcast series called "PoemTalk", a collaboration with the Poetry Foundation. Among his books are ''Stevens and the Actual World'', ''Modernism from Right to Left,'' and ''Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960.'' Provided by Wikipedia