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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Friday, 2/1
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes: A poetry working group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/2
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 2/3
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 2/4
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House: a one-hour word and music radio show. Join us in the live audience at 8:00 PM! This month's show is titled "Urban Voices: Spoken Word poetry by five East Coast women" and features readings and performances by Simone Eccleston, Monique Gordon, Linda DiFeterici-Stehling, Tonya Marie Evans, Marj Hanhe, and musical guest Dr. Ketchup.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)
- 4:30-9:30 PM: Live at the Writers House set-up, rehearsal, and show in
the Arts Cafe
- 5:15
in Room 202: Penn & Pencil Club
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 2/5
- 7:00 PM: Spring Local Spotlight
#2 featuring Charles O'Hay, Cecily Kellogg, and Jeffrey Lee with guests.
Charles O'Hay is the recipient of a 1995 fellowship in poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His work has appeared in over 100 journals, including Cortland Review, Gargoyle, and American Writing. His chapbooks Pure Filth and Curio were published in 1995 and 1996, respectively.
Cecily Kellogg's work has appeared in Plastic Tower, Sanskrit, The Poet's Attic, and the anthology Sounds Of A City. She has read her work extensively in the Philadelphia area, and is the former host of several poetry readings including the Dot dot Dot Readers series at Doc Watson's, and a series at the Writer's House. Cecily has taught poetry to children and has served as the Writer in Residence at two drug and alcohol treatment facilities, using creative writing as a tool of recovery.
Jeffrey Lee won the first Tupelo Press Literary Fiction Prize for The Autobiography of Somebody Else (forthcoming Spring 2002). He also has a CD, identity papers (December 2001) available from Drimala Records (www.drimala.com), which features percussionist Toshi Makihara and actress Lori-Nan Engler. He has also received a Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance grant, which is funding tonight’s performance. He also published strangers in a homeland (Ashland Poetry Press), and around 150 poems, essays, etc. in publications such as Crazy Horse, Many Mountains Moving, Green Mountains Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Barrow Street.
Lori-Nan Engler is a writer and actress whose credits include the daytime soap operas, The Doctors and All My Children.
Toshi Makihara has been a central figure in the vibrant improvisational new music scene in Philadelphia for the past decade.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:00-7:00 PM in Room 202: Free-lance Writers Career Workshop (Contact Sheryl Simons: sheryl.simons@wharton.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/6
- 6:00 PM: Poet Brian Kim Stefans will read from his work. Hosted by the Creative Writing Program.
This program was recorded and is available through PENNsound.Brian Kim Stefans lives in Brooklyn, New York. His book of poems, Angry Penguins, was published in 2000 by Harry Tankoos Books, along with a reprint of Gulf (Object Editions). Free Space Comix (Roof) appeared in 1998. His site, Arras, is http://www.arras.net.
- 9 AM-12 PM in Room 202: Graduate Course (Rita Bernard)
- 9 AM-12 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 589: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 2-5 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Fish Writing Group (Nancy Hoffmann: nhoffmann@earthlink.net)
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 2/7
- 4:30 PM: Planning committee meeting and gathering. (For information
about the "hub," write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 6:00 PM at the ICA 36th & Samson: The Poet/Painter Series presents Bob Perelman and Francie Shaw: Poems to Paintings co-sponsored by The Institute for Contemporary Art, 'A'A Arts and Chain Magazine.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
- 4:30 PM in Room 209: Eighteenth-Century Reading Group
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 2/8
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/9
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 2/10
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 FM WXPN. Tune in to an hour of Philly-based writing and music. This month's show is titled "Urban Voices: Spoken Word poetry by five East Coast women" and features readings and performances by Simone Eccleston, Monique Gordon, Linda DiFeterici-Stehling, Tonya Marie Evans, Marj Hanhe, and musical guest Dr. Ketchup. For a recording of this show, click here.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 2/11
- 6:30 PM: The Writers House Fellows Program hosts a reading by Michael Cunningham.
RSVP required to whfellow@english.upenn.edu
Michael Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1952 and grew up in Pasedena, California. He received his B.A. in English literature from Stanford University and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. His novel A Home at the End of the World was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1990 to wide acclaim. Flesh and Blood, another novel, followed in 1995. His worked appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Redbook, Esquire, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Metropolitan Home. His story "White Angel" was chosen for the Best American Short Stories in 1989.
Michael Cunningham received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award, both for The Hours, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1988, and a Michener Fellowship from the University of Iowa in 1982. He currently lives in New York City. A film version of The Hours is in production, directed by Stephen Daldry. It will feature Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep.
Michael Cunningham is the first Writers House Fellow of 2002. For more information about the Fellows, click here.
Watch the reading of this event here.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 2/12
- 10:00 AM: The Writers House Fellows Program hosts an interview and conversation
with Michael Cunningham. RSVP required to whfellow@english.upenn.edu.
Watch the discussion of this event here.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 209: Review setup for shoot
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 7-8:30 PM in Room 209: "Where's the Romance?" West Philly Women's Reading Group (Steph Strassel: strassel@ling.upenn.edu)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Room 202: Nonfiction Writers Workshop: for non-fiction writers who have been published or are serious about trying. The group will meet every other week for the semester. (Sylvia Auerbach: auersylvia@aol.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/13
- 10 AM: informal discussion, over brunch, with novelist and
freelance writer Rachel Solar-Tuttle. RSVP to
whsolar@english.upenn.edu.
Solar-Tuttle's new book
Number 6 Fumbles is being published
in February 2002. She is a graduate of the College (1992) and of Penn's law
school (1995). Students interested in writing as a career are invited to meet
her and discuss her career as lawyer, freelance writer, and novelist.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome!
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| Rachel Solar (at head of table) meeting with young writers at the Writers House, February 13, 2002 |
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 209: Review setup for shoot
- 9 AM-12 PM in Room 202: Graduate Course (Rita Bernard)
- 9 AM-12 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 589: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 2-5 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board (Marc Brunswick marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 2/14
- 1:30-3:30 PM in the Arts
Cafe: A reading by Israeli poet Meir Weiseltier. Weiseltier was born in Moscow in 1941. From 1946 to 1948 he
wandered with his family in Poland and occupied Germany. In May 1949 they arrived in
Israel, first to the Bet Lid immigrants' camp, then to Kibbutz Ramat
Hashofet, Netanya, and in 1955 to Tel Aviv. He studied philosophy, history,
and English at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Widely regarded as one
of the foremost contemporary Israeli poets, he has published some thirteen
books of poetry. During the 60s and 70s he edited a number of literary
magazines. From 1986 t0 1989 he was poetry editor at Am Oved Publishing
House. He has translated novels and plays, among them four of Shakespeare's
tragedies. He was awarded the Bialik Prize in 1995 and the Israel Prize in
2000. In 2002 University of California Press will publish a selection of
his poetry translated by Shirley Kaufman. Co-sponsored
by the Israeli Consulate.
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe:
Theorizing in Particular: Approaches to Cultural Interpretation presents
Arkady Plotnitsky
Arkady Plotnitsky is a Professor of English and a University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University, where he is also Director of the Theory and Cultural Studies Program. He is the author of several books and many articles on critical and cultural theory, continental philosophy, British and European Romanticism, and the relationships among literature, philosophy, and science. His new book, The Knowable and the Unknowable: Modern Science, Nonclassical Thought, and the "Two Cultures" is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
- noon through 4 PM in room 209: Writers House Video Archive, coordinated by Al Filreis. We will be recording interviews. Do not disturb.
- 5:30-7 PM in Room 209: Preceptorial on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series with Jennifer Snead (Meredith Chiaccio: chiaccio@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 2/15
- 3:15-5:00 PM: Write On! Workshop (Paige Menton: paigem@english.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/16
- 4:00 PM: Laughing Hermit
Reading Series presents Anne Colwell and Martha Rhodes.
Anne Colwell is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware Parallel Program in Georgetown. Her book, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997. Her first book of poems, Believing Their Shadows, has been a finalist for the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham Prize, the Anhinga Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize and the Quarterly Review of Literature. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including, most recently, California Quarterly, Evansville Review, Phoebe, Eclectic Literary Forum, Southern Poetry Review, and Writer's Voice. Poetry is also at the heart of her research interests and she has published several essays concerning American poets, including an article in Conneticut Review on Anne Bradstreet and Affliction/Conversion Narrative and an article in Journal X about Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Fish." She lives in Milton, Delaware.
Martha Rhodes is the author of two poetry collections: Perfect Disappearance (winner of the 2000 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press), and At the Gate (Provincetown Arts Press, 1995). Her poems have appeared in many anthologies, including The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Aizenberg and Belieu, eds., Columbia University Press, 2001); The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology (Michael Collier ed., University Press of New England, 2000); The KGB Bar Book of Poems (Lehman and Black, eds., Harper Collins, 2000); Last Call (Gorham and Skinner, eds., Sarabande, 1997), Urban Nature (Bosselaar, ed., Milkweed Edition, 2000). Her poems have appeared individually in many journals including Agni, American Poetry Review, Fence, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and others. She teaches Creative Writing at Emerson College in Boston and New School University in New York City, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine in 2001. She is a Founding Editor and the Director of Four Way Books, an independent literary press which also features established and emerging writers through The CCS Reading Series. She lives in NYC with her husband.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 2/17
- 7:00-10:00 PM in Room 203: Punch Bowl (pbowl@dolphin.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 2/18
- 7:00 PM: A reading by poets
Prageeta Sharma
and Anselm Berrigan.
Anselm Berrigan is the author of Integrity & Dramatic Life (Edge, 1999), and Zero Star Hotel, forthcoming in 2002. Recent work has appeared in Open City, milk.com, and Lungfull! He recently co-edited the first issue of POeP, an e-journal, with Edwin Torres, and currently works as a "communications consultant" at Baruch College and part-time lecturer at Rutgers in New Brunswick. Anselm Berrigan was introduced by Writers House Program Coordinator Tom Devaney.
Prageeta Sharma's work has appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Agni, Shiny, and Fence. She is the author of Bliss to Fill (subpress collective, 2000) and A Just-So Poem (Booglit, 2000). She is currently writing a poetry column for National Organization for Women. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Prageeta Sharma was also introduced by Tom Devaney.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)
- 5:00-7:00 PM in Room 202: Jena Osman's Class
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 2/19
- 4:30 PM: A talk by writer and rock critic Anthony DeCurtis. Anthony DeCurtis is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and host of "The A List With Anthony DeCurtis," a weekly interview show that appears on the GetMusic web site (www.getmusic.com/alist). He is the author of Rocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters; editor of Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture, and coeditor of The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll and The Rolling Stone Album Guide. He won a Grammy award for his essay accompanying the Eric Clapton box set, "Crossroads," and he holds a PhD in American literature.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/20
- 12:00 - 1:00 PM: The Poet &
Painter Series presents "Lightning Sketches," a performance by Matthew Freedman, senior
critic, artist, and writer. Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Fine Arts.
- 5:00 PM: A poetry reading by L.S. Asekoff and Susan
Stewart. Co-sponsored with The American Poetry Review and the Kelly Writers House.
L. S. Asekoff is director of the M.F.A Poetry Program and faculty associate of The Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Tikkun, Salamagundi, Triquarterly, and The American Poetry Review. He was featured on the cover of their May/June 1993 issue and has twice received their Jerome Shestack Prize. His two books of poetry are Dreams of a Work (1994) and North Star (1997), both published by Orchieses Press, Washington, D.C. A poem from North Star, "Rounding the Horn," was selected by James Tate and David Lehman for their anthology, The Best Poems of 1997. He has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Fund for Poetry. He has completed a third book of poems, Lyre, and is working on a poetry-prose journal, The White Notebook. L.S. Asekoff was introduced by Writers House Program Coordinator, Tom Devaney.
Susan Stewart is a poet and critic. She teaches the history of lyric poetry, aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, and cultural studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent books of poetry are The Forest(University of Chicago Press); a translation of Euripides's Andromache with Wesley Smith for the Oxford University Press new classics in translation series; and a translation of the poetry and selected prose of the Scuola Romana painter Scipione (Milano:Charta) with Brunella Antomarini. Her books of criticism include Poetry and the Fate of the Senses(forthcoming this winter from the University of Chicago Press); Crimes of Writing (Oxford UP and Duke UP); On Longing (Duke UP); and Nonsense (Johns Hopkins UP). She frequently writes on contemporary art as well and has collaborated with the installation artist Ann Hamilton and Penn composer James Primosch. In the Fall of 2000 she delivered the Beckman Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Stewart was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1997. She has received two grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award. Susan Stewart was also introduced by Tom Devaney.
- 9 AM-12 PM in Room 202: Graduate Course (Rita Bernard)
- 9 AM-12 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 589: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 2-5 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 2/21
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe:
Theorizing: Approaches to Cultural Interpretation presents
Catherine Liu
Catherine Liu received her Ph.D. in French Literature from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, and in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. From 1997-1999, she was awarded a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship at the University of Minnesota. She has published articles on psychoanalytic theory, issues in feminist criticism and French literature of the ancient régime, and Walter Benjamin, and Conspiracy Theory. She has curated exhibitions of contemporary art in New York City and Los Angeles, as well as having worked as a regular reviewer for Artforum, and Flash Art. In 1992, she edited a special issue of Lusitania, on issues of contemporary theory and cultural production called The Abject, America. In addition to having written and published on contemporary art and theory, she has also published a novel, Oriental Girls Desire Romance (Kaya Press, 1997). She is presently at work on a second novel, Suicide of an Assistant Professor. Her book, Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton, a collection of theoretical essays around the genealogy of the machine and technologies of difference, was published the University of Minnesota Press. She also translated Gérard Pommier’s Erotic Anger: A User’s Manual.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
- 4:30-6:30 PM: Modernist Group (Jeremy Braddock braddock@dept.english.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 2/22
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes: A poetry working group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/23
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 2/24
- 7-10 PM in Room 203: Punch Bowl
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 2/25
- 12:00 PM: A lunchtime program with Abe Brumberg reading new translations of
Yiddish/English poetry, hosted
by Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein and
co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures,
the Department of History, and the Department of Germanic Languages and
Literatures. Mr. Brumberg appears at Penn as part of a series with Gratz
College.
To RSVP contact: wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 PM: the Alumni Visitors Series presents Jim Gladstone. Jim Gladstone, the author of the new novel The Big Book of Misunderstanding, is a 1988 Penn graduate (SAS, American Civilization) and widely published critic and cultural commentator. His book critiques have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, and his coverage of travel, popular music, film, and the publishing world have appeared in over a dozen major daily newspapers and national magazines - from Billboard to P.O.V. As a Penn undergraduate, Gladstone was an editor at 34th Street, where his exposé on shady dealings in the phone sex industry attracted the attention of the Philadelphia Inquirer and led to the start of his professional writing career. Gladstone maintains a home in University City, but currently lives in Paris where he is working on a second novel and several non-fiction book projects.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 2/26
- 7:00 PM: A group reading by Masterman High School students hosted by David Meketon
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Room 202: Nonfiction Writers Workshop: for non-fiction writers who have been published or are serious about trying. The group will meet every other week for the semester. (Sylvia Auerbach: auersylvia@aol.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/27
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome!
- 9 AM-12 PM in Room 202: Graduate Course (Rita Bernard)
- 9 AM-12 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 589: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 2-5 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 8:00 in Room 202: The Film Advisory Board (Marc Brunswick marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Study Group (Carmen Lamas: lamasc@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 2/28
- 4:30 PM: "Dole Street: an essay on colonialism, naming and geography" A talk on poetry by Juliana Spahr author of Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You and editor of Chain Magazine. This program is cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program at Penn and in collaboration with Temple University's Creative Writing Program.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.