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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Monday, 10/1
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House, a one-hour word and music radio show that tapes at the Kelly Writers House and airs on 88.5 WXPN. This month Live celebrates 125 Years of Women at Penn, featuring Carole Bernstein, Beth Kephart, Ruth Branning Malloy, Venise Battle, Jessica Lowenthal, Val Operielsky.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 112: Fiction Writing (Rile)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145.302: Advanced Nonfiction (Strauss)
- 4:30-9:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Live at the Writers House set-up, rehearsal, and show
- 5:15 PM in Room 202: Penn & Pencil Club
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Hollywood Club 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.
Tuesday, 10/2
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 202: English 283.401 (Cavitch)
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3 PM in Arts Cafe: Al Filreis office hours for Holocaust course
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:00 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
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, 10/3
- 6:00-8:00 PM: Mickey Pearlman leads a conversation on "How to
Write Memoir, and a few words about How to Read It."
Mickey Pearlman is the author of What to Read, the Essential Guide for Reading Group Members and Other Book Lovers (HarperCollins), Listen to Their Voices (Houghton Mifflin), and the co-author of A Voice of One's Own (w/ Katherine Usher Henderson) (Houghton), and Tillie Olsen (w/ Abby H.P. Werlock) (Twyne). She is the editor of American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space (Ky.), Mother Puzzles: Daughters and Mothers in Contemporary American Literature (Greenwood), The Anna Book: Searching for Anna in Literary History (Greenwood), Canadian Women Writing Fiction (Mississippi), Between Friends (Houghton Mifflin), A Place Called Home (St. Martin's), and A Few Thousand Words About Love (Griffin). One of her memoir essays appears in the recently published book, Father: famous writers celebrate the bond between father and child. Mickey Pearlman was born in Miami Beach, Florida and has lived in New York, Vienna, Berlin, Tel Aviv and Prague, all of which were "too far from Shea Stadium." She now considers herself a devoted New Jerseyan. She is the organizer of "A Celebration of Readers and Their Favorite Books," held annually at Mohonk Mountain House in upstate New York. She has taught memoir writing, the art of interviewing, and spoken about book clubs in the Split Rock Arts Festival at the University of Minnesota, Gemini, Ink in San Antonio, Recursos in Santa Fe, at the Virginia Festival of the Book and elsewhere. She has guest lectured at Vanderbilt, Oberlin, Oneonta, St. Olaf, Carleton and on many other campuses. The mother of a sculptor and a jazz musician, Pearlman earned a BA and an MA in English from City College of New York, and a Master's in Philosophy and a Ph.D in English and American Literature from the City University. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the Authors Guild and in June l994 was named one of Mirabella's "l,000 Women for the l990's."
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 12:00-3:00 PM in Room 209: English 589.301: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review Literary Magazine (Stephanie Langin-Hooper: smlangin@sas.upenn.edu)
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Al Filreis leads and teaches a preceptorial (mini-course) on modern poetry for the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education (SCUE)
- 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)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Film Studies 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, 10/4
- 5:30 PM: Planning Committee Meeting and Gathering
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 4:30-6:00 PM: Modernists' Group features Jeremy Braddock (Jeremy Braddock: braddock@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115: Advanced Fiction Writing (M. Apple)
- 8 PM in Room 209: Philosophy Circle: a group that meets weekly throughout the semester (Geoff Anders: ganders@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.
Friday, 10/5
- (Family Weekend at Penn)
- 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, 10/6
- (Family Weekend at Penn)
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, 10/7
- (Family Weekend at Penn)
- 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 Carole Bernstein, Beth Kephart, Ruth Branning Malloy, Venise Battle, Jessica Lowenthal, Val Operielsky.
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, 10/8
- 8:00 PM in The Arts Cafe: Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick: marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 112: Fiction Writing (Rile)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145.302: Advanced Nonfiction (Strauss)
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, 10/9
- 6:00 PM: Workshop and conversation with John Timpane, author of Poetry for Dummies, and Commentary Page editor for The
Philadelphia Inquirer.
This poem was recorded and is available through PENNsound.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3 PM in Arts Cafe: Al Filreis office hours for Holocaust course
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:00 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
- 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, 10/10
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8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything
Goes, an open mic
performance night. All are welcome!
This event featured writers and musicians from Penn and Philadelphia, including An Lam, Adrienne Mishkin, Rick Wilson, Jaime Bard, Pamela Zinn, Carlos Gomez, Rachel Suntheimer, Monique Gordon, E. Rebecca Stone, Sylvie Beauvais, Tom McCann, and Samuel Willcocks.
The event was webcast live. Recording: RealVideo
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 12:00-3:00 PM in Room 209: English 589.301: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review Literary Magazine (Stephanie Langin-Hooper: smlangin@sas.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Film Studies 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, 10/11
- 7:00 PM: Night of the Flamenco. Join us for a group reading of Southern Spanish & Andalusian poetry
connected to the flamenco and its music with a live flamenco performance by Fiesta Flamenco. Flamenco performers
include dancers Tomas Dura, Denise Shubin, Annelisse Mandell and guitar Juana Martin. Co-sponsored with the Greenfield
Intercultural Center and La Casa Latina as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Listem to an audio recording of this event.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115: Advanced Fiction Writing (M. Apple)
- 8 PM in Room 209: Philosophy Circle: a group that meets weekly throughout the semester (Geoff Anders: ganders@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.
Friday, 10/12
- Fall Break - House Closed
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, 10/13
- Fall Break - House Closed
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, 10/14
- Fall Break - House Closed
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, 10/15
- 3:00-4:30 PM Pew Fellowships in the Arts: Information meeting and 2001 guidelines and applications.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 112: Fiction Writing (Rile)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145.302: Advanced Nonfiction (Strauss)
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Study Group (Patricia Gherovici: pgherovici@aol.com)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Hollywood Club 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.
Tuesday, 10/16
- 7:00 PM: James Sadwith visits, hosted by the Talking Film /
Hollywood Club groups.
Jim Sadwith has been a writer, director and producer of television drama for 20 years. His first work -- produced in 1982 -- was TWO OF A KIND, the story of a recalcitrant nursing home resident (GEORGE BURNS) and his developmentally disabled grandson (ROBBY BENSON). Since then Jim's TV movies, miniseries, and series have been nominated for over 21 Emmy Awards and Golden Globes. Jim was nominated for a writing Emmy for his work on the miniseries BABY-M. He won the Emmy for Best Direction in 1992 for the five-hour miniseries SINATRA. In series television Jim has created CROSSROADS, a 1992 motorcycle road show with Robert Urich. In 1994 Jim directed the pilot for the CBS hit series TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL. Since then he has been involved in the creation of several series including GUN, produced with Robert Altman, which PEOPLE MAGAZINE called one of the two best series of 1997. The following year he created the American adaptation of the British crime drama CRACKER. THE NEW YORK TIMES called the adaptation "The best unwatched series of the season." Last year Jim served as consulting producer on the critically acclaimed but short-lived ABC-TV drama series WONDERLAND. Currently he is developing a series for HBO based on the motion picture COPLAND, which starred Sylvester Stallone, Robert DeNiro and Harvey Keitel. Jim has worked with such actors as Academy Award winning Marcia Gay Harden, Tony Award winning Brian Dennehy, Tony nominated Robert Sean Leonard, Cloris Leachman, Chris Cooper, Emmy winning Sopranos star James Gandolfini, Rosanna Arquette, Darryl Hannah, Sean Young, Jennifer Tilley, Gina Gershon, Randy Quaid, Martin Sheen, Peter Horton, and Josh Hartnett (who made his acting debut as a starring actor in CRACKER). After a twenty year sentence in Los Angeles, Jim escaped to South Woodstock, Vermont with his wife and two children in August 1998.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3 PM in Arts Cafe: Al Filreis office hours for Holocaust course
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:00 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
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, 10/17
- 12:30-2:00 PM: Small lunch with American author Dorothy Allison sponsored by the Judith Berkowitz Endowed Lecture in Women's Studies, and co-sponsored with the Kelly Writers House. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 4:30 PM: "Conversations with Dorothy Allison." Room 17 of Logan Hall; open to the public.
Dorothy Allison's first novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, was one of five finalists for the 1992 National Book Award. Her second novel, the critically acclaimed Cavedweller, was a New York Times Bestseller and won the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for fiction. Allison was born in Greenville, South Carolina and makes her home in Northern California. She lives with her partner Alix Layman, and her seven year old son, Wolf Michael. - 6:00 PM: PhillyTalks #19 reading and discussion featuring Allen
Fisher
(London, England) and Karen Mac Cormack (Toronto, Canada) hosted by
Matt Hart. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu for dinner to follow.
This program will be webcast live; for more information, write to
wh@writing.upenn.edu and see
our webcast web
page.
Allen Fisher, born in 1944, has been writing poetry since 1962. A painter, printer, publisher and editor he has produced 114 chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics, art documentation and essays. He is currently the editor of Spanner and he lives in Hereford, England.
Karen Mac Cormack, born in Zambia, is the author of eight collections of poetry including Straw Cupid, Quill Driver, Quirks and Quillets, Marine Snow and The Tongue Moves Talk. Mac Cormack’s work has been anthologized in such collections as Into the Nightlife and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North American Poetry, as well as the important Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK and Moving Borders. Mac Cormack continues to live, write, and edit in Toronto.
Click for a recording of the readings on PennSound.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 12:00-3:00 PM in Room 209: English 589.301: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review Literary Magazine (Stephanie Langin-Hooper: smlangin@sas.upenn.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)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Film Studies 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, 10/18
- 4:00 to 6:00 PM: Join us for a talk by Jacques Darras, "Writing/Translating Poetry" with Bob Perelman and Jean-Michel Rabate, hosted by the French Institute for Culture and Technology. The talk will be in English and Darras will talk about his translation of British and American poetry with specific examples. Darras is a poet, essayist and translator born in 1939. He has been working with actor Jacques Bonnaffé on a number of poetic and theatrical projects throughout Europe since 1997. Founder of the transnational poetical magazine In'hui in 1978, he has published a number of American poets in French translation. He now co-directs Aujourd'hui Poème, founded in 1999, with André Parinaud. Jacques Darras currently lives in Paris and is a professor at the University of Picardie.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115: Advanced Fiction Writing (M. Apple)
- 8 PM in Room 209: Philosophy Circle: a group that meets weekly throughout the semester (Geoff Anders: ganders@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.
Friday, 10/19
- 5:00 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, 10/20
- 4:00 PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents Valarie Martinez, Julianne Baggott, and Panna Niak.
- Listen to an audio recording of this reading.
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, 10/21
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.
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| Craig Saper, at left, discusses Fluxus art after his presentation on that topic (for more, click on image) |
- 4:30 PM: "Something Else Politics": University of the Arts Professor
Craig Saper presents
on the Fluxus movement.
Craig Saper has published 30 articles, chapters, and essays on new media, film, art, experimental poetry, and cultural theory. Recently his essays appeared in Directed by Alan Smithee (2001), edited by Penn grad students Stephen Hock and Jeremy Braddock, in Strategies, and as a program note for the 20th Anniversary of the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. His work on Fluxus is well known from his contribution to The Fluxus Reader. Saper has been the Director of the New Media Center and other administrative positions and is an Associate Professor at The University of the Arts. For more about Saper and this program--and about Fluxus--click here.
- 7:00-8:00 PM: Art Gallery Reception
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 112: Fiction Writing (Rile)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145.302: Advanced Nonfiction (Strauss)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: 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, 10/23
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing in Particular: Approaches to
Cultural Interpretation presents Juliet Flower MacCannell--"Woman's Way Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Sophie Calle."
Juliet Flower MacCannell is the Professor emerita of Comparative Literature at UC, Irvine where she has taught in the Critical Theory program and headed the research program on Woman and the Image. Her books are Figuring Lacan, The Regime of the Brother, and The Hysteric's Guide to the Future Female Subject. Recent publications include "Stage Left," an article on Ernesto Laclau, Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek for Umbra (2001) and "Las Vegas: The Post-Cinematic City" (2001) for Performance Research.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3 PM in Arts Cafe: Al Filreis office hours for Holocaust course
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:00 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
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, 10/24
- 5:00 PM: The Creative Writing program hosts a reading by poet Jay
Wright.
Jay Wright was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1935. His books of poetry include Transfigurations: Collected Poems, Boleros, Selected Poems of Jay Wright, Explications/Interpretations, Elaine's Book, Soothsayers and Omens (1976), and The Homecoming Singer (1971). In 1995 he was named a Fellow of The Academy of American Poets. He lives in Bradford, Vermont.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 12:00-3:00 PM in Room 209: English 589.301: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review Literary Magazine (Stephanie Langin-Hooper: smlangin@sas.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Film Studies 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, 10/25
- 5:00 PM: Material Poetics: Book Art & Printed Matter: A
reading
and symposium featuring the work of
Johanna Drucker
and Charles Alexander. Co-sponsored by the University of the Arts, Singing
Horse Press, and the Kelly Writers House.
This program was webcast live; a recording of the event is now available here.
Johanna Drucker is a printer and a scholar whose scholarship centers on visual representations of language and the history of experimental poetry, the alphabet, and artists' books. She is the author of The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination (Thames and Hudson, 1995); The Century of Artists' Books (Granary Books, 1995); and The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923 (University of Chicago Press, 1994). She is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.
Charles Alexander's books of poetry include Hopeful Buildings (Chax Press, Tucson, 1990) and arc of light / dark matter (Segue Books, New York, 1992), Pushing Water: parts one through six (Standing Stones Press, Morris, MN, 1998), and Pushing Water: part seven (Chax Press, Tucson. 1998), and Four Ninety Eight to Seven (Meow Press, San Diego, 1998). He edited Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, & the Book Arts (Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1996). He is the founder and director of Chax Press in Tucson, Arizona.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115: Advanced Fiction Writing (M. Apple)
- 4:30-6:00 PM: Modernists' Group features Kathy Lou Schultz and Ann Vickery (Jeremy Braddock; braddock@english.upenn.edu)
- 8 PM in Room 209: Philosophy Circle: a group that meets weekly throughout the semester (Geoff Anders: ganders@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.
Friday, 10/26
- 3:30 PM: Write On! Video Screening: "Poetic License" (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, 10/27
- 4:00 PM: Celebration of Gil Ott and the release of The Form of Our
Uncertainty, edited by Kristen Gallagher and published by Chax Press.
Gil Ott is a widely published essayist, poet, and editor of Singing Horse Press. He is the author of 11 books of poetry, and has won several awards, including
fellowships from the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Most recently, he has published The Whole Note, by Zasterle, and his
complete Traffic will appear soon from Chax. Singing Horse Press will soon publish its twentieth book, Norman Fischer's Success.
Listen to a recording of this event, as well as other Gil Ott audio, on PennSound.
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, 10/28
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, 10/29
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing in Particular: Approaches to
Cultural Interpretation presents Rich Doyle--"LSDNA: Consciousness Expansion and the Emergence of Biotechnology in America."
Rich Doyle is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of English at Penn State University. Dr. Doyle is the author of On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences, which argues that creative transformations of scientific language have been crucial to the rise, success and impacts of molecular biology in the 20th century; and Wetwares: Experiments in Post Vital Living, which researches the effects and promises of contemporary biotechnology on our practices of pleasure, identity and embodiement. Doyle has also completed a novel on science fiction author Philip K. Dick, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 112: Fiction Writing (Rile)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145.302: Advanced Nonfiction (Strauss)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Hollywood Club 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.
Tuesday, 10/30
- 4:00 PM: Write On! Information Session (Paige Menton:
paigem@english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30 PM in Room 202: Cid Corman Reading Group. Contact
wh@writing.upenn.edu for more information.
This event is featured in Eric Karlan's NOTES FROM THE GREEN COUCH, a series of summaries and analyses of Writers House events. Click on the image above. - 7:00 PM: Seminar on Holocaust survivor testimonies led by
Professor
Geoffrey
Hartman, hosted by the Kelly Writers House, Center for
Judaic Studies, and the CAS Pilot Curriculum. For more information about
the program, click here.
Geoffrey Hartman was born in Frankfurt. He was educated at Queens
College in New York and at Yale, where he earned a Ph.D. Dr. Hartman is the
recipient of numerous awards, and has been active in the creation of Jewish
Studies programs in American colleges. Among Hartman’s 21 books are three
watershed volumes on Holocaust memory: Bitburg in Moral and Political
Perspective, The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust, and
Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory. Dr. Hartman’s current
research continues his explorations in this area, looking at the realm of
culture in the inter-war period.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3 PM in Arts Cafe: Al Filreis office hours for Holocaust course
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:00 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
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, 10/31
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8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Halloween Style! Poetry, Prose, and Anything
Goes, an open mic
performance night. All are welcome! Come in costume, read a spooky story, and soak in the
atmosphere as
special guests from all over the area join us in celebrating Holloween. Check out pics from
the Halloween Speakeasy here.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 12:00-3:00 PM in Room 209: English 589.301: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review Literary Magazine (Stephanie Langin-Hooper: smlangin@sas.upenn.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.