Kelly Writers House
In 1995, Filreis founded the Kelly Writers House, a non-profit, community organization dedicated to creative writing and the literary arts. The three-story cottage in the center of the University of Pennsylvania campus hosts a variety of programs and projects open to the public, including poetry readings, seminars, film screenings, lectures and art exhibits. Filreis also directs the Kelly Writers House Fellows Program, a program that brings different writers such asPennSound
In 2003, Filreis and poet Charles Bernstein started PennSound, a website that serves as an archive of recordings of poets reading their own work. PennSound allows viewers of the site to listen to high quality MP3s of both individual poems and complete modern and historic readings from poets such asTeaching style
In the late 1990s, Filreis became known as an experimenter in online learning. As a 2001 article in the ''Philadelphia Inquirer’s Sunday Magazine'' describes, students in Filreis’s classes prepare for discussions by using listservs and online social media to respond to videos, reading materials, and even cartoons compiled on websites Filreis creates for his classes. Filreis, who believes that real learning occurs through guided discussion and not through lectures, “uses technology to free class time for discussion.” Since the early days of the internet Filreis has also managed three thematic websites: on modern American poetry, on representations of the Holocaust, and on the cultural cold war of the 1950s. The sites provide links to reference material, academic criticism, and primary sources related to each site’s respective subject matter.Bibliography
Books
* ''Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60'' (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). * ''Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, & Literary Radicalism'' (Cambridge University Press, July 1994) * ''Wallace Stevens and the Actual World'' (Princeton University Press, 1991) * ''Tucker's People'', by Ira Wolfert (first pub. 1943), University of Illinois series, ''The Radical Novel in the U.S. Reconsidered'' (1997). (The novel was republished as ''The Underworld'' in 1950.) * ''Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens and Jose Rodriguez Feo, with Beverly Coyle'' (Durham: Duke University Press, 1986)Articles
* "The President of This Sentence: Bob Perelman's History" ''Jacket'' 39 (2010), special issue ed. Kristen Gallagher * "Modernist Pedagogy at the End of the Lecture," in ''Teaching Modernist Poetry'', eds. Nicky Marsh & Peter Middleton (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). * "Stevens Regarding the Pain of Others," in "Selecting Three Poems by Wallace Stevens: A Roundtable Discussion" (with George Lensing, J. Donald Blount, Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, Stephen Burt & Eleanor Cook), ''Wallace Stevens Journal,'' Fall 2009, pp. 252–57 * "Descriptions without Places" (foreword), in ''Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens'', eds. Dennis Barone and James Finnegan (Iowa City, IA: Iowa University Press, 2009) * "The Stevens Wars," boundary 2 36, 3 (Fall 2009), ''American Poetry after 1975'', Duke University Press, 978-0-8223-6719-2, 225 pages. Ed. Charles Bernstein. * "Believing in the World Because It Is Impossible" n George Oppen ''Jacket'' 36 (late fall 2008) * "Sounds at an Impasse," Wallace Stevens Journal, special sound issue edited by Natalie Gerber, Spring 2009, pp. 16–23. DF; Scholarly Commons link* "Om PennSound" (or "Audio Archiving"), ''Audiatur Poetry Festival Magazine'', ed. Paal Bjelke Andersen, September 2007, Bergen (translated into Norwegian). * "Modern Poetry and Anticommunism," in ''A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry'', ed. Stephen Fredman (Blackwell, 2005), pp. 173–90. Selected Works* "What's Historical about Historicism," ''Wallace Stevens Journal'' (Fall 2004). * "Stevens and Communism," ''Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of Wallace Stevens'', ed. John Serio (Cambridge University Press, 2007). * "Kinetic Is as Kinetic Does: On the Institutionalization of Digital Poetry," in ''New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories'', ed. Adelaide Morris and Thomas Swiss (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006), pp. 123–140. * "Tests of Poetry," ''American Literary History'' 15, 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 27–35, "A Cambridge Literary History of the US Forum: Poetry." * "Stevens/Pound in the Cold War," ''Wallace Stevens Journal'' 26, 2 (Fall 2002), pp. 181–193; special "Pound/Stevens Revisited" issue, ed. Glen MacLeod. * "Some Remarks on the Institutionalization of E-Poetries," NC1 (Spring/Summer 2002), pp. 84–88; part of "New Media Literature: A Roundtable Discussion on Aesthetics, Audiences, and Histories." * "Making Good Books Possible: Remembering Jerre Mangione", ''Pennsylvania Gazette'', November–December 1998 * "Spirit--a Word I Never Use': A Response to Jackson Mac Low and Andrew Levy", ''Phillytalks'' 12 (Autumn 1999) * "On Frets about the Death of the Book", ''CrossConnect,'' vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall 1995). * "Conflict Seems Vaguely Un-American": Teaching the Conflicts and the Legacy of Cold War", Review, volume 17 (1995), pp. 156–71. * "'This Posture of the Nerves': Modernism's Partisan Center," ''Journal of Modern Literature'' 18, 1 (Winter 1992): 49-64. * "Stevens, 'J. Ronald Lane Latimer,' and the Alcestis Press," ''Wallace Stevens Journal'' 17, 2 (Fall 1993), 180-202. * "Modernism from Right to Left: Stevens, Radicalism, and the 1930s" hapter 2, part 1 of the book bearing that title ''George Arent Library Courier'' 27, 2 (Spring 1992), 3-23. * "'Beyond the Rhetorician's Touch': Stevens's Painterly Abstractions," ''American Literary History'', Spring 1992, 230-63. * "Stevens's Home Front," ''Wallace Stevens Journal'' 14, 2 (Fall 1990), 99-122. * "Still Life without Substance: Wallace Stevens and the Language of Agency", ''Poetics Today'', "Art and Literature" issue, ed. Wendy Steiner 10, 2 (Summer 1989), 345-72. * "Voicing the Desert of Silence: Stevens' Letters to Alice Corbin Henderson," ''Wallace Stevens Journal'' 12, 1 (Spring 1988), 3-20. * "Words 'With All the Effects of Force': Cold War Interpretation," a review-essay on Peter Steinberg's The Great 'Red Menace' (1984) and Ellen Schrecker's No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism & the Universities (1986), ''American Quarterly 39'' (Summer 1987), 306- 12. * "Wallace Stevens and the Strength of the Harvard Reaction," ''New England Quarterly'' 58 (March 1985), 27-45. * "Wallace Stevens and the Crisis of Authority," ''American Literature'' 58 (December 1984), 560-78.References
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