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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Sunday, 4/1
- 6:00 PM: The Play's the Thing will be meeting on Sunday, April 1st, at 6:00pm. From Peter Schwarz (hschwarz@sas.upenn.edu): "Please meet me downstairs in the livingroom. During this meeting we will be discussing "Waiting for Godot" and "Rhinoceros". Any experts are more than welcome. I will also bring up ideas for the group's future during the summer and fall. If you can't attend the meeting, please email me, and if you have any ideas regarding the future please don't hesitate to interject. After all, theater is a collaborative affair."
- 6:00-9:00 PM in the dining room: "Clothing and Identity" preceptorial led by English professor Peter Stallybrass
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, 4/2
- (Rescheduled from March 22): 5:30 PM: The Poets and Painters
Series presents a reading and
discussion with poet Geoffrey Young and painter John
Moore. The Poets & Painters Series is co-hosted by the Graduate
School of Fine Arts and the Kelly Writers House.
Listen to an audio recording of this program.
John Moore is the Chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1970, he has had 28 solo exhibitions, and he is represented by Hirschl and Adler Modern Galley in New York. His paintings can be found in public collections from the Met in New York to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and have been published in a monograph, Inventing Reality: The Paintings of John Moore. Geoffrey Young is a poet and a professor of the Graduate School of Art at Yale University. His poetry and essays have appeared in Art at Yale University. His poetry and essays have appeared in Sulfur, New American Writing, Shiny, Broadway 2, O-blek, and Village Voice. His most recent books include The Dump and Skate for Lunch. He is the founding editor and publisher of the small press The Figures. - Cancelled and will be rescheduled: Grad School of Education session on teaching and sub-matriculating into the Grad Ed program. Featuring a talk by Ellen Braffman, and ample opportunity for questions.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 381.401 (Cary)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.302 (Rile)
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club, a staff writing workshop
- 7:30-10:00 PM in Room 209: Fish Writing 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.
Tuesday, 4/3
- 6:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Daniel
Libeskind on
"Architecture: The Future of Memory"
Listen to and audio recording of this program.
"The experience of the mystery of Architecture occupies an important place in the work of Daniel Libeskind. In his view architecture is seen as a spiritual domain, a realm that cannot be visualised, an area of invisible presence since it deals with the unspeakable. Without spiritual content and without a contribution to a deeper understanding of our Being there can be no significance in any building. His work shows us a sensibility that is in agreement with the depths of the human soul. Libeskind has a profound desire for a new time in which the experience of architecture aims at the liberation of space. Here, literature, mathematics, music, astrology, philosophy are all part of the world of human knowledge and it is the task of architecture to map this knowledge and to add something that did not exist previously. We are living in the world after the holocaust and after Hiroshima and "we are all survivors, we have transformed death". It is rational thinking that has led to this endpoint and obviously it failed. Therefore it is the inevitable conclusion that this instrument is not the appropriate one with which one could reach a fundamental insight into human Being. From now on, every human creation will have to come about in a totally different manner. Another way of thinking needs to be started, constructed with different methods and based on different principles. Our relationship with the Spirit should not be reinstated, but reinvented from a different point of view, bearing in mind the experiences of the twentieth century. Although times are dark and complex, there is Hope and we might be at the verge of a tremendous creative era. Libeskind does not search for a synthesis of solutions, rather he tries constantly to intensify the mystery." - Marc Schoonderbeek.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 (Hendrickson)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Rooms 202 and 209: Nonfiction Writing Group meeting
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board
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, 4/4
- 5:00 PM: Planning Committee Meeting and Gathering
- 7:00 PM: The Afro-American Studies hosts a reading by Michael
Harper. This reading is a part of the "Brave Testimony:
African-American Poets in the 21st Century" series, organized by the
Afro-American Studies program.
MICHAEL S. HARPER is University Professor and Professor of English at Brown University, where he has taught since 1970. He is the first Poet Laureate of the State of Rhode Island, a term he held from 1988-1993. In 1991 he was Visiting Scholar, at large for Phi Beta Kappa, visiting nine campuses. He has published ten books of poetry, two of which were nominated for the National Book Award (1970 & 1977), DEAR JOHN, DEAR COLTRANE and IMAGES OF KIN, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. IMAGES OF KIN won the Melville-Cane Award from the Poetry Society of America; HISTORY IS YOUR OWN HEARTBEAT, 1971, won the Black Academy of Arts & Letters Award for poetry. He has edited the COLLECTED POEMS of Sterling A. Brown, which he selected for the National Poetry Series, 1979. He is co-editor of CHANT of SAINTS, an anthology of African-American Art, Writing and Scholarship, and also co-editor of the ``Ralph Ellison'' special issue of the _Carleton Miscellany_, winter 1980. He was guest editor of a special issue on Robert Hayden for _Obsidian_, 1981. In 1990 he received the Robert Hayden Poetry Award from the United Negro College Fund. He has been honored with honorary doctorates in Letters from Trinity College (Hartford, CT), Coe College (Cedar Rapids, LA), Notre Dame College (Manchester, NH), Kenyon College (Gambier, OH). He is co-editor of EVERY SHUT EYE AIN'T ASLEEP, an anthology of Poetry by African Americans since 1945 to the present. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1995. Bowdoin College hosted the ``Celebrating Harper'' Festival from October 24th through the 27th in 1996. He is the winner of the George Kent Poetry Award, 1996, presented by Gwendolyn Brooks for HONORABLE AMENDMENTS, and the Claiborne Pell Award for excellence in the Arts, in 1997. - 7:00 PM outside on College Green (in front of the Library), Speakeasy Outside! Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes. E-mail whspeakeasystaff@english.upenn.edu if you'd like to sign up in advance to read.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115 (Cary)
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Manuck-Manuck, a fiction writing 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.
Thursday, 4/5
- Tentative: 12-1:30 PM in
the dining room: Lunch and conversation with visiting writer Nathasha
Trethewey. RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 7:00 PM:
Afro-American Studies hosts a reading by Nathasha Trethewey.
Natasha Trethewey, an assistant professor of English at Auburn University, is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Agni, The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2000, Callaloo, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, and The Southern Review, among other journals and anthologies. Her first book, Domestic Work (Graywolf 2000), won the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Currently, she is a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her second collection, Bellocq's Ophelia, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. - 5:00 PM in Room 202: The Twentieth Century Reading Group presents Rita Barnard discussing her essay, "_Disgrace_ and the post-apartheid pastoral." The paper is a revised version of "Coetzee's 'Country Ways,'" which she presented at the MLA, and she has described the essay as a coda to her 1996 article "Dream Topographies."
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 12:00-1:30 in the dining room: Lunch conversation with visiting writer Nathasha Trethewey.
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 4:30-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group (mods)
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 4/6
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 202:
Greenhouse Project. The Greenhouse Project is co-sponsored by 88.5 WXPN and
the Kelly Writers House.
- 2:00-4:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular
presents Stephen David Ross on "The Earth as Aesthetic Phenomenon:
Images of Myself."
Stephen David Ross is Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University in the State University of New York, where he founded and continues as director of the program in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture (PIC). His many books include: Inexhaustibility and Human Being: An Essay on Locality, The Limits of Language, and Locality and Practical Judgment: Charity and Sacrifice, all published by Fordham University Press, as well as other books and articles. He is now embarked on a multi-volume project on giving and the good. The first volume was published by SUNY Press in 1996 as The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art; the second in 1997, as The Gift of Truth: Gathering the Good; the third in 1998 as The Gift of Touch: Embodying the Good; the fourth in 1999 as The Gift of Kinds: The Good in Abundance, an ethic of the earth; a fifth in 2001 as The Gift of Property: Having the Good, betraying genitivity, economy and ecology, an ethic of the earth. He is now working on The Gift of Self: Subjecting the Good, exposure, abjection, betrayal, an ethic of the earth.
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, 4/7
- 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative, a
literacy-enrichment
program for second-graders from Lea Elementary School
- 4:00-6:00 PM: Write-On End-of-Session Celebration
- 7:00 PM: The Poets and Painters Series presents a reception and
reading featuring the work of painter Mitch Magee and poet Michael
Magee.
Listen to an audio recording of this program.
Michael Magee received his PhD at Penn where he wrote a dissertation, "Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz and Experimental Writing," and was very active at the Writers House. His articles on American Literature are out or forthcoming in REVIEW, CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE and RARITAN; his poems in NEW AMERICAN WRITING, CALLALOO, WASHINGTON REVIEW, LUNGFULL!, XCONNECT, IXNAY and elsewhere. He edits the poetry journal COMBO, teaches at Wheaton College and lives in Pawtucket, RI with his wife Susanna and his daughter Anabella.Mitchell Magee is a graduate of Cornell University and received a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions in and around New York and he performs regularly with the improv comedy group "Monkey Dick" at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
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, 4/8
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.
Monday, 4/9
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House: a one-hour word and music
radio
show performed before a live audience. This month's show features readings
and performances
by Melissa Duclos, Anne Kaier, DuEwa Fraiser, Jaime Bard, Jackie
Morfesis, Amy Miller, Blake Martin, and special guest fiction writer
Kelly McQuain.
Kelly McQuain, a West Virginia native now living in Philadelphia, is the only writer to win The Philadelphia City Paper Writing Award in both Poetry and Fiction. He now teaches writing at the Community College of Philadelphia, and his stories have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, The Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, The James White Review, and several anthologies, including Best American Erotica 1999, Obsessed, and the forthcoming Rebell Yell Volume 2. On Live at the Writers House he will be reading the opening section of his south Philadelphia story, "Erasing Sonny," about a boy who gets a very unfortunate tattoo and then tortuously tries to have it removed once his mother discovers it. "Erasing Sonny" originally appeared in the Plume anthology Men on Men 2000, edited by David Bergman and Karl Woelz.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 381.401 (Cary)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.302 (Rile)
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, 4/10
- 7:00 PM: The Afro-American Studies program hosts a reading by poet
Toi
Derricotte
Listen to an audio recording of this program.
TOI DERRICOTTE, born in Detroit, Michigan, has published four books of poetry and a memoir. Her latest book, TENDER (University of Pittsburgh Press), received the Paterson Poetry Prize for 1998. Her memoir, THE BLACK NOTEBOOKS, published in 1997, was chosen by the New York Times to be a notable book of the year. It received the _Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award in Non-Fiction_ in 1998, and the Anisfield-Woolf Book Award for non-fiction from the Cleveland Foundation, under the judgement of Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr, Rita Dove, Stephen Jay Gould, Joyce Carol Oates, and Simon Schama. It was also nominated for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Her second book, NATURAL BIRTH, was republished by Firebrand Press in February 2000. To quote Sharon Olds: "This is one of the most beautiful and necessary voices in American Poetry today." Among her many honors and awards, Toi is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1085, 1990) recipient of the United Black Artists USA Incorporated Distinguished Pioneering of the Arts Award, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and two Pushcart Prizes. She is a professor in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh and has taught in the graduate creative writing programs at NYU, George Mason University, Old Dominion University, and Mills Colelge. She has been a workshop leader at many summer writing workshops throughout the country, including Breadloaf and Squaw Valley Community of Writers. In 1999-2000 she was the Delta Sigma Theta endowed chair of Poetry at Xavier. She is the co-founder of Cave Canem, the historic workshop retreat for African-American poets.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 (Hendrickson)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board
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, 4/11
- 5:00 PM: Reading by Paul Auster, hosted by the
Creative
Writing Department. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
American novelist, essayist, translator, and poet, Paul Auster's novels are often concerned with the search for identity and personal meaning. After graduating from Columbia University (M.A., 1970), Auster moved to France, where he began translating the works of French writers and publishing his own work in American journals. He gained renown for a series of experimental detective stories published collectively as The New York Trilogy (1987). It comprises City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986), and The Locked Room (1986). Other books that feature protagonists who are obsessed with chronicling someone else's life are the novels Moon Palace (1989) and Leviathan (1992). The Invention of Solitude (1982) is both a memoir about the death of his father and a meditation on the act of writing. Auster's other writings include the verse volumes Unearth (1974) and Wall Writing (1976), the essay collections White Spaces (1980) and The Art of Hunger (1982), and the novels The Music of Chance (1990), Mr. Vertigo (1994), and Timbuktu (1997). He also wrote the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film Smoke (1995).
This reading was recorded and is available for free through PENNsound. - 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night
- A full recording of this event is available here.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115 (Cary)
- Tentative: 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th 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.
Thursday, 4/12
- Penn student Pottery and Photography Show hanging during the day today
- 7:00 PM: The Afro-American Studies program hosts a reading by poet
Terrance
Hayes.
Terrance Hayes' debut collection, Muscular Music (Tia Chucha Press, 1999) won both a Whiting Writers award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and has received favorable reviews in the Washington Post Book World, Black Issues Book Review, and various other literary journals. One of his new poems was selected from the Poem Finder Online Database of 50,000 full text poems to be among the best published last year. Other poems have recently appeared in Harvard Review, Chelsea, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review and in numerous anthologies of emerging writers, including Kevin Powell's Steps Into A World: A Global Anthology of The New Black Literature. He is currently an assistant professor of English at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he lives with his wife, poet Yona Harvey, and their daughter, Ua Pilar.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 4/13
- April 13-May 4: Penn student Pottery and Photography Show on the
Writers House Gallery walls
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 202: Greenhouse Project. The Greenhouse
Project is co-sponsored by 88.5 WXPN and the Kelly Writers House.
- 2:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Charles Long on "The Secret of the Cargo: Problematics For A Study of W.E.B. DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk." Charles H. Long was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. He volunteered for the United States Army Air Forces and served in World War II. Matriculating at the University of Chicago in 1949, he received the D.B. and Ph.D. degrees from that institution. At the University of Chicago he studied with the pioneer of the development of the discipline, History of Religions (Religionswissenschaft) in the United Sates, Professor Joachim Wach, and joined with Professors Mircea Eliade and Joseph Kitagawa in establishing the international journal, History of Religions; Professor Long remains a member of its editorial board. Along with a group of his colleagues at the University of Chicago, he also established the first curriculum for the study of religion in the College of the University of Chicago. He has been involved in the training of three generations of scholars in religion and African American studies. Some of his many positions and titles include: President of the American Academy of Religion as well as the Society for the Study of Black Religion. Long has also written and edited many books; his latest was Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Study of Religion (1986, 2nd ed., 1999). Prior to his retirement in September, 1996, he held faculty positions as Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago, North Carolina, Duke University and Syracuse University. He has served as a visiting faculty member at universities nationwide. From 1991 to 1996 he served as Director of the Research Center for Black Studies and Professor of History of Religions at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He retired from the University of California in 1996.
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, 4/14
- 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative, a
literacy-enrichment
program for second-graders from Lea Elementary School
- 4:00 PM: The Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents readings by
Julianna Baggott and J.C. Todd
Julianna Baggott received her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1991. The recipient of fellowships from the Delaware Division of Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, she has placed poems and short stories in dozens of literary journals including Poetry, The Southern Review, Chelsea, Cream City Review, Quarterly West, as well as the acclaimed anthology Best American Poetry 2000. Her novel, Girl Talk, was published by Simon and Schuster's Pocket Books in February 2001. Girl Talk will also be published by six publishing houses overseas. Her collection of poems, This Country of Mothers, was published in April 2001 by Southern Illinois University Press. Her second novel, The Miss America Family, will also be published by Pocket Books; a publication date has not yet been set. She lives in Delaware with her husband, poet David G.W. Scott and their three young children.J.C. Todd is the author of two collections of poems, Entering Pisces (Pine Press, 1984) and Nightshade (Pine Press, 1995). She has been featured in many publications for both poetry and prose, including The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Review, and Puerto del Sol. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards in several states, as well as being recognized as a distinguished teacher artist.
- 7:00 PM: The Writers House Junior Fellows Program presents
Aural Text In(au)gu(ral) Reception
Aural Text is a series of multimedia installations that will be exhibited in the Kelly Writers House from April 14-21. Join us for this in(au)gu(ral) reception on Saturday April 14 at 7 pm. Aural Text is a commentary on memory, place, voice and sound/silence made manifest in recorded audio and image. A blend of high- and low-tech methods are being used to generate, gather, and recombine Aural Texts. / Aural Text is being created by: 2000-2001 Junior Fellow Andrew Zitcer, Diana Prescott, Aaron Levy, Kyle Bartlett, Jeremy Braddock, Douglas Boyce. / to visit Aural Text on the web, go to http://slought.net/exp/aural and explore some of our writings and projects-in-process. / Things to look for: "reclining spiral" a glimpse of West Philly through maps, math and collecting--"60 words" an open text for four voices and mixing board--"|cage:aura|", an interactive book installation featuring the wit and wisdom of John Cage--a fantasy for Viewmaster and Discman--and some splendid films of a secret nature...
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, 4/15
- 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, featuring readings & performances by Melissa Duclos, Anne Kaier, DuEwa Fraiser, Jaime Bard, Jackie Morfesis, Amy Miller, Blake Martin, and special guest fiction writer Kelly McQuain.
- Virtual Book Group 8 for Penn alumni and Penn families starts today and continues through February 15. Click here for details.
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, 4/16
- 2:30-4:00 PM in the dining room: Conversation with
Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, author of The Journey of
Little Gandhi, hosted by the Middle
East Center. Spaces limited; RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 5:00-7:00 PM: Reception for the (3rd Annual) Student Pottery and Photography Show. Work by Penn Pottery and Photography students will on view in the Writers House dining room and living room through May 4.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 381.401 (Cary)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.302 (Rile)
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, 4/17
- 4:30 PM: "Why -- and How? -- Should I Teach?" Ellen Braffman,
Coordinator of Secondary Education at Penn's Graduate School of Education,
will talk about opportunities in high school teaching and the submatriculant
masters program at Grad Ed. Hear how you can get your teaching certificate
and earn a masters in education while you're here at Penn!
- 7:30-9:30 PM: "Words Meet Music: a discussion of collaboration," a Poets & Composers program organized by the Kelly Writers House and the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Composers Forum. Featuring a conversation with J.C. Todd, Andrew Zitcer, and others. Join us -- we're looking forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences!
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 (Hendrickson)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Rooms 202 and 209: Nonfiction Writing Group meeting
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board
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, 4/18
- 12:00-1:00 PM: Webcast interview/conversation with Dean's Forum
visiting writer Tom Wolfe, interviewed by Penn professor
Paul Hendrickson. RSVPs are required for this
program to wh@writing.upenn.edu. Later in the day,
at 4:30 PM, Tom Wolfe will be
giving a reading at the Harrison Auditorium in the University Museum at
33rd and Spruce Streets. This Dean's Forum Lecture is hosted by the
School of Arts and Sciences and is free and open to the public.
Tom Wolfe is recognized around the world as the pre-eminent social commentator of our time. For over three decades he has chronicled and forecast American mass culture with a wit and insight that eludes most futurists. His runaway bestseller The Bonfire of the Vanities stands as a brilliant evocation of both the peculiar class structure and politics of New York City, and the economic excesses of the 1980s. His most recent novel, A Man in Full, has received both outstanding critical and popular success. Hailed by Time and The Wall Street Journal as even better than its phenomenally successful predecessor, it had an unprecedented first-run printing of 1.2 million copies and was nominated for the National Book Award four weeks prior to publication. As Newsweek states, "no writer--reporter or novelist--is getting our world on paper better than Tom Wolfe."Paul Hendrickson was a staff feature writer in the Style Section of The Washington Post for twenty-three years, from 1977 to 2001. He now has a full-time appointment in the creative writing program of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches a workshop in advanced narrative nonfiction and also a course in the prose documentary form. His last book, The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War, was published by Knopf and was a 1996 finalist for the National Book Award. He has authored two other nonfiction books as well, and one was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1999 he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for his current nonfiction work, which is a study of the legacy of racism in the families of seven Mississippi sheriffs of the 1960s. The entire work grows out of a single black-and-white photograph.
- 7:00 PM: End-of-semester Celebration of the Greenhouse Project. The
Greenhouse
Project is co-sponsored by 88.5 WXPN and the Kelly Writers House.
- 9:00 PM: Coffee break and Writers House tour with newly admitted Penn students, Class of 2005, led by Justin Ginnetti
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115 (Cary)
- Tentative: 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Manuck-Manuck, a fiction writing 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.
Thursday, 4/19
- 7:00 PM: The Afro-American Studies program presents a reading by
Tracie Morris
TRACIE MORRIS is a multi-disciplinary performance poet who has worked in theatre, dance, music, and film. She has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Primarily known as a musical poet, Tracie has worked with an extensive range of artists including Donald Byrd, Graham Haynes, Melvin Gibbs, Mark Batson, Leon Parker, Vernon Reid, DD Jackson, Cecilia Smith, The Oliver Lake Quintet and the David Murray Big Band. Tracie's poetry has been extensively anthologized in literary magazines, newspapers, and books including _360 Degrees: A Revolution of Black Poets_, _Listen Up!, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe_, _The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Soul_. Her words have also been featured in commissioned pieces for several organizations including Aaron Davis Hall, the International Festival for the Arts, The Kitchen, Franklin Furnace and Yale Repertory Theatre for choreographer Ralph Lemon. Tracie has participated in over a dozen recording projects to date. She is the recipient of numerous awards for poetry including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Creative Capital Fellowship, the National Haiku Slam championship and an Asian Cultural Council Gellowship. She is the author of two poetry collections, Intermission and Chap-T-her Won. In addition to being a working artist, Ms. Morris teaches performance poetry at Sarah Lawrence College.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 4/20
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 202: Greenhouse Project. The Greenhouse
Project is co-sponsored by 88.5 WXPN and the Kelly Writers House.
- 2:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Paul Hegarty on "Bataille, Agamben, and the Holocaust." Paul Hegarty is associate professor at University College Cork, Ireland, where he has taught in the French Department since 1996, specialising in C20 thought and visual culture. He is also involved with the new 'art history' programme and has taught in the schools of architecture and critical theory at the University of Nottingham in England. He has published articles and a book on Georges Bataille, and other articles on performance art, architecture and conceptual art. He is currently working on a book on Agamben and a further book on Bataille. Articles arriving in the near future include one on 'Japanese noise music', and another on New York/Paris and the time of modernity. In the meantime, he has become a 'practising sound artist' with installation and performance work.
- 4:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, A Poetry Working 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.
Saturday, 4/21
- 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative, a literacy-enrichment program for second-graders from Lea Elementary School
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, 4/22
- Tentative: 6:00 PM: The Play's the Thing
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Dickinson Memoir Writing 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.
Monday, 4/23
- 11:30-1:00 PM: Penn-Edison program holds a student lunch in Room 202
- 6:30 PM: The Writers House Fellows Program presents June
Jordan. RSVP to let us know that you're coming to
wh@writing.upenn.edu. Please get here by 6:15 in order to get a seat!
June Jordan's visit is co-sponsored by Art Sanctuary.
June Jordan, poet, novelist, essayist and political activist, is one of the world's most articulate and essential voices. She has been included in more than 30 collections such as the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Homegirls: Anthology of Black Feminism and The Village Voice Anthology. Her books include Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (Basic Books, 2000), Affirmative Acts: New Political Essays (Doubleday, 1998), Kissing God Goodbye: Poems (Doubleday, 1997), June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint (Routledge, 1995), and I Was Looking At The Ceiling and Then I Saw The Sky: the Libretto and Lyrics, Earthquake/Romance (Scribner, April 1995). NOTE: This program is available as a webcast recording. For more information, click here.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 381.401 (Cary)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.302 (Rile)
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, 4/24
- Morning: The Writers House Fellows Program presents June
Jordan. RSVP required for morning program to
whfellow@english.upenn.edu. June Jordan's visit is co-sponsored by Art
Sanctuary. For
more information, click here.
- 6:00 PM: Creative Writing Celebratory Student
Reading.
On April 24 we'll hear readings by some of the poetry and fiction winners of the 2001 Penn Creative Writing Contest. The full list of categories and winners follows. Please join us on Tuesday evening for a celebratory reading featuring some of these talented student writers!Listen to an audio recording of this program.
CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST SELECTIONS, 2001 The William Carlos Williams Prize from The Academy of American Poets awarded for the best original poems by a graduate student Judge: Jeanne Murray Walker Winner: Dan Edelstein The College Alumni Society Poetry Prizes awarded to the best original poems by an undergraduate Judge: Jeanne Murray Walker First: Brian Cope Second: Shaleigh Kwok Third: Yevgeniya Traps Honorable Mentions: Julie Brown, Joe Breslin, Lauren Rile Smith, Seung-Hae Park The Phi Kappa Sigma Fiction Prizes awarded for the best original fiction by an undergraduate Judge: Jon Volkmer First (tie): Jeff McCall / Aaron Couch Second: Morgan Molinoff Third: Jason Beerman The Judy Lee Award for Dramatic Writing awarded to a graduate or undergraduate for the best script (stage, screen, television, or radio) Judge: Marian X First: Laura Sieh Chu Second: Jeff McCall Third: Joshua Rosenberg The Lilian and Benjamin Levy Award awarded for the best review by an undergraduate of a current play, film, or book Judge: Cynthia Baughman Winner: Aaron Couch The Ezra Pound Prize for Literary Translation awarded for the best translation from any language of either verse or prose by a graduate or undergraduate Judge: Carolyne Wright Winner: Seung-Hae Jasmine Park
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 (Hendrickson)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board
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, 4/25
- 5:00 PM: Join us for a visit by cartoonist Robb Armstrong.
Mr. Armstrong is a reknowned syndicated cartoonist whose comic strip,
"Jumpstart," appears in over 200 newspapers and publications. He has won
numerous awards, including the Wilbur Award, and has been recognized by the
Governor of Pennsylvania, The Senate, House of Representatives, Department
of Justice and Nestle's "Men of Courage" program for his tireless community
outreach. His work has also appeared in the New Yorker, and he has
been featured in "Good Morning America," MSNBC, and other television
programs. Please checkout Mr. Armstrong's work and biography on the United
Media
website at http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/jumpstart/.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115 (Cary)
- 7:00-8:30 PM in Room 209: The Lacanian Reading and Study Group
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Hollywood Club meeting --> Last meeting of the semester!!
- 9:00-10:30 PM in Room 202: Punch Bowl meeting
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, 4/26
- 3:15-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: a reading and conversation with poet
Harryette Mullen. RSVP requested to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Harryette Mullen is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Muse & Drudge, published by Singing Horse in 1995. Her other books include Tree Tall Woman (Energy Earth, 1981), Trimmings (Tender Buttons, 1991) and S*PeRM**KT (Singing Horse, 1992). Her work has been included in several anthologies including Trouble the Water and the Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Poetry and African-American Literature edited by Al Young and Ishmael Reed. She has worked in the Texas Commission on the Arts' Artists in the Schools program and taught at Cornell University. Harryette Mullen currently teaches African-American literature and Creative Writing at the University of California at Los Angeles. - 6:00 PM: A Celebration of Old English, organized by Professor Emily Steiner, and featuring new poems written and read by Bob Perelman, Susan Stewart, Herman Beavers, and Kathy Lou Schultz, and as well as translations of Old English elegies written by students in Professor Steiner's class: Timur Aksoy, Jessica Bonder, Caedmon Haas, Michael Lin, Alexie Kolpak, Sarah Koplik, Kyle O'Neill, and John Tepe.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group (mods)
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 4/27
- Last Day of Classes
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, 4/28
- 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative, a literacy-enrichment program for second-graders from Lea Elementary School
- 8:00 PM: Singer-songwriter and Penn undergrad Jaime Bard
shares her latest songs in the Writers House Arts Cafe
Listen to an audio recording of this program.
Jaime Bard -- folk musician, Penn student, Environmental studies and urban studies major -- is somewhat small and has red hair. "I wrote my first song for an earthday contest and lo and behold I won it and so my very first song was made into a commercial on tv and the radio." She has performed in coffee houses from Colorado to Maine and Philly, and recently played on Live at the Writers House, hosted by Michaela Majoun. Come hear her new songs!
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, 4/29
- 6:00 PM: The Play's the Thing meets to discuss Jean Genet's The Balcony.
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Private meeting in the House
- 3:00 PM: Staff Field Day
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, 4/30
- Beginning at 12noon today: 24-Hour Writing Advising!
- 7:00 PM: Eight Documentary Stories: Real Lives on Paper. This reading will feature readings by the eight students of Paul Hendrickson's Writing in the Documentary Tradition Spring 2001 class. Please join us in celebrating their semester-long projects! Featuring Ejim Achi, Jeffrey Berman, Mark Glassman, Richard Haggerty, Jenny Hurwitz, Eric Moskowitz, Melanie Signorile, and Eric Tucker. Listen to an audio recording of this program.
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.