[3] Filreis is also publisher of Jacket2 magazine[4] and host of a monthly podcast series called "PoemTalk",[5] a collaboration with the Poetry Foundation.

[8] 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.

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 as John Ashbery, Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens.

[11] Since the early days of the internet Filreis has also managed three thematic websites: on modern American poetry,[12] on representations of the Holocaust,[13] and on the cultural cold war of the 1950s.