Al Filreis  

on the uses of recorded poetry:
discussion with Steve Evans (April 23, 2007)
discussion with Richard Sieburth on the Pound recordings (May 22, 2007)
on PennSound's pedagogy (August 18, 2007)

introductions to and readings from 2008 book, Counter-Revolution of the Word:
reading from the book
Charles Bernstein introduction
Jessica Lowenthal & Jamie-Lee Josselyn introductions
miscellaneous

interviews/discussions:
with Laurie Anderson (March 25, 2003)
with John Ashbery (March 26, 2002)
with Charles Bernstein (as a part of the Close Listening series -- March 4, 2008)
with Cid Corman (co-moderated by Tom Devaney and Frank Sherlock) (November 19, 2001)
with Robert Creeley (April 2000) (20-minute excerpt in PennSound podcast)
with Donald Hall (April 17, 2007)
with June Jordan (June 23, 2001)
with Carl Rakosi (co-moderated by Tom Devaney) (October 30, 2002)
with Adrienne Rich (April 19, 2005)
with Jerome Rothenberg (April 28-29, 2008)
with Lyn Hejinian (February 22, 2005)
with Robert Grenier (October 27, 2009)

introductions:
Harvey Shapiro and Norman Finkelstein (September 29, 2005)
to Johanna Drucker (February 14, 2008) [LINK]
to Rae Armantrout (October 14, 2000)
to Greg Djanikian (February 20, 2007)
to Joan Retallack (February 28, 2001)
to "9 Poets Read Themselves through Modernism" (October 2000)
to "Poetry & Empire" reading (October 18, 2003)
to Marjorie Perloff (October 20, 1999)
to Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg (September 28, 1998)
to Lyn Hejinian (October 14, 2000)
to Harvey Shapiro & Norman Finkelstein (September 29, 2005)

moderator/host:
discussion with Kenneth Goldsmith and Jena Osman (December 9, 2004)
reading-performance by Edwin Torres (December 11, 1999)
discussion on Gertrude Stein with Marjorie Perloff and Bob Perelman (October 20, 1999)
discussion on William Carlos Williams' "To Elsie"Discussion MP3(July 8, 1999)
discussion on contemporary poetics with Ron Silliman, Jena Osman, Bob Perelman, and Brian Kim Stefans (December 7, 1999)
discussion of the work of Kenneth Goldsmith (February 9, 2006; with Barbara Cole, Joshua Schuster and Kenneth Goldsmith)

podcast series:
PoemTalk
PennSound Podcasts
Kelly Writers House podcasts

on poems & poets:
on Wallace Stevens's "Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself"
on Gertrude Stein's "Readings" (with Shawn Walker, 1999)
on Kathleen Fraser's "The Cars"
on Jackson Mac Low's "A Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore" (1 hr., 20 mins.; audio) - a class session of English 88, December 2, 2008
on John Ashbery (1 hr., 20 mins.; video) - a class session of English 88, November 13, 2008
on Ezra Pound's "Cantico del Sole" (with Charles Bernstein, Rachel Levitsky, Joshua Schuster)
on two poems by Emily Dickinson (November 10, 2008, with Jessica Lowenthal) (video)
on Marianne Moore after 9/11 ("Mending the Break in Time") (November 7, 2001) [This piece is also featured in a podcast.]
on George Oppen's "Ballad" (with Jessica Lowenthal, Linh Dinh, and Rachel Blau DuPlessi, PoemTalk #3)
on George Oppen's Antifascism: "Guilt in 'Myth of the Blaze'" (April 7, 2008)
on Adrienne Rich's "Wait" (with Jessica Lowenthal, Linh Dinh and Randall Couch, PoemTalk #2)
on Williams' "Between Walls" (with Jessica Lowenthal, Linh Dinh, and Randall Couch, PoemTalk #1)
on William Carlos Williams' "Flowers by the Sea" (with Shawn Walker) (2:52; RealAudio) (teaching video for English 88); audio (mp3) version
on Wallace Stevens' "The Snow Man" [mp3] (January 2005)
on Stevens' "The Snow Man" [video] (January 2009)
on Williams' "Lines" (with Shawn Walker) [mp3] (1999)
on Williams' "Red Wheelbarrow," a mini-lecture with slides for introductory modern poetics course (1999)
on Williams' "Portrait of a Lady," with Shawn Walker (5:05; RealVideo); mp3 audio-only version (teaching material for English 88)
on Williams' "To Elsie" and his attraction to the new "mixed" American culture website MP3
on Dickinson's "I dwell in possibility" (4:19) (teaching video for English 88)
on Williams' "Danse Russe" (4:24) (teaching video for English 88) [mp3 audio version]
an online class on Dickinson and Whitman, October 3, 1999 (1:51:43; RealVideo)
on William Vaughn Moody's "Gloucester Moors" (3:01; RealAudio) (teaching audio for English 88)
on Richard Wilbur's "Cottage Street, 1953," with reference to the appearance of the "doomed" Sylvia Plath in the poem (7:41: RealAudio) (teaching audio for English 88)
on William Carlos Williams' Paterson with Jessica Lowenthal and Randall Couch, interviewed by Joe Milutis

mini-lectures
on the decline of late Victorian poetry, with a note on the emergence of imagism (5:57; RealAudio)
on the transition from the poetry & poetics of the 1920s to that of the 1930s with examples from Isidor Schneider, Edna St. Vincent Millay and William Carlos Williams (14:10; RealAudio)
on three categories of "New York Poets" verse: anti-narrative, non-narrative, pastiche (3:06: RealAudio) (teaching audio for English 88)
introduction to the art book and a visual poetics, with reference to Tom Phillips' A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel (16:07; RealVideo [low quality]) (teaching audio for English 88)

praise:
by Adrienne Rich
by Tony Kushner

other:
on Robert Lucid (at the Lucid memorial, October 19, 2007)
Discussion with Bob Perelman and Ron Silliman after the Bob Cobbing celebration at the Kelly Writers House, October 11, 2007 (5:31)
on Matthew Abess as curator of the Bob Cobbing exhibit (October 10, 2007)
PhillyTalks #2, response to Jackson Mac Low and Andrew Levy (November 5, 1997)
radio interview on teaching poetry online (April 2001)
on "Gold" in Primo Levi's The Periodic Table (September 29, 2004)
on the end of the lecture (June 9, 1999)
introducing and reading with Amos Oz (October 17, 2004)
local TV news story on online advising for pre-matriculants (WPVI Philadelphia; Fall 1999)

Al Filreis on PennSound Daily

• March 22, 2008: "Two New Recordings from PennSound Co-Director Al Filreis"