Marianne Moore’s “Poetry” Part 1

Al Fireis and Anna Safford of the Kelly Writer’s House in the Marianne Moore room at The Rosenbach with Librarian Elizabeth Fuller. Presented and recorded on September 27, 2018. 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. He is currently writing a book on the art & avant-garde of 1960. He has taught a massive open online course, "ModPo," to 165,000 participants in 192 countries since 2012. Anna Strong Safford is curriculum specialist and faculty member in Penn's division of Professional and Liberal Education. She received a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in literature from Boston College, and an MFA in poetry from Temple University. She teaches creative writing, critical writing, and modern and contemporary American poetry and poetics. Her poems and essays have appeared in Supplement, Cleaver, and Peregrine, among other journals. Elizabeth E. Fuller is the Librarian at The Rosenbach.