Article marks the 200th episode of PoemTalk
Here’s a nice feature on PoemTalk — written on the occasion of the recording of our 200th episode: LINK
“It’s such an honor. I have been a listener to ‘PoemTalk’ from the early days right up to the present. So I came into the room feeling the weight and the buoyancy of that history,” Evie Shockley said in an interview after the recording. Two of Evie’s poems were the texts discussed in the 200th episode—with William J. Harris, Aldon Nielsen, and Tyrone Williams.
Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, Director of the Center
for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Co-Director of PennSound, and Publisher of Jacket2—all at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Secretaries of the Moon,
Wallace Stevens & the Actual World, Modernism from Left to Right, and Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60. His new book is 
Founder/Faculty Director, 