Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, and Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-founder and co-director of PennSound. His books include "Stevens and the Actual World," "Modernism from Right to Left," "Secretaries of the Moon" (with Beverly Coyle) and "Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry." He is currently writing a book about poetics in 1960.