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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 1960: When Art & Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II & Remade the Modern (Columbia University Press, 2021). He is currently writing a book about online pedagogy. He has taught a massive open online course, "ModPo," to 265,000 participants in 192 countries since 2012.

Founder/Faculty Director, Kelly Writers House—intro video ][ events calendar

Convener/teacher, “ModPo.” an open online course on modern & contemporary U.S. poetry—overview of the course ][ intro video

Publisher of Jacket2 magazine—my Jacket2 commentary series ][ "First Readings"

Producer/host, PoemTalk podcast series—co-sponsored by Kelly Writers House & the Poetry Foundation

Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing—Creative Writing ][ RealArts internships ]

Co-founder & co-director of PennSound—50,000 files ][ 15 million downloads annually

Teacher & host, "Kelly Writers House Fellows"—since 1999 ][ Susan Sontag, John Ashbery, Jamaica Kincaid, Laurie Anderson, Adrienne Rich, Joan Didion, John Edgar Wideman & more

Teacher, "Representations of the Holocaust"—a course on survivor testimony ][ my holocaust site

Tweets by Afilreis

1] personal
2] Kelly Writers House
3] ModPo
4] PennSound
5] Jacket2

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