Poem mentions me as “interlocutor-host”
Ian Morrisson sent me a chapbook of poems. It is in part a response to my essay on paraphonotextuality published a few years ago in AModern. Among Ian’s poems I found this one!
Category: Filreis scholarship
Jan Baetens reviews “1960” for “Leonardo”
A review of my book 1960 has been published in Leonardo — by Jan Baetens. It’s insightful and detailed and — I’m happy to say — really gets what I’m trying to do in this study of a turning-point year. HERE‘s the link to the review.
Filreis profiled in article titled “Dwelling in Possibility”
“Celebrating poetry and literature at Penn since 1985, Al Filreis, Kelly Family Professor of English, continues to create community at the home for writers he founded in a Locust Walk house a quarter-century ago.” The opening of a profile about me written by Louisa Shepard. HERE is your link to...
Iain Morrison’s poem about paraphonotextuality
I was pleased to receive and read a copy of Marque, a book of poems by Iain Morrison (of Edinburgh, Scotland). A note that came with the book informed me, gratifyingly, of Iain’s interest in episodes of PoemTalk. I am mentioned in several of his poems. “Phlox,” the book’s final...
Essay-memoir on the archive as a “fate of re-reading”
In September 2019 I returned to the Huntington Library, in San Marino, CA, to participate in a conference on the correspondence of Wallace Stevens. I had begun to work in the Stevens archive in 1982. My visits — several extended — to this magnificent archive (with its library, its botanical...
“Twenty-Two Bernsteinian Sentences for Charles”
Chris Mustazza, Orchid Tierney, and Ariel Resnikoff assembled a textual “mixtape” for Charles Bernstein to mark the occasion of retirement from teaching. My contribution is titled “Twenty-Two Bernsteinian Sentences for Charles.” A scan of this piece is here:
A few thoughts on why the New York intellectuals under-responded (it’s complicated)
A dear old friend asked me this morning for my opinion on why the so-called “New York intellectuals” under-responded to World War II and to the fate of the Jews in Europe. Here, in part, is how I responded: Some of them (Trilling, obviously) became literary Anglophiles as a means...
The atom bomb as a form of farewell
Back in 1986 I wrote a review of a book on Wallace Stevens by Charles Berger titled Forms of Farewell. I’ve made this old review available through the Scholarly Commons, so you can read it HERE. Berger’s most striking reading in this book is that of “Auroras of Autumn,” which he...
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, 