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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Friday, 11/1
- 3-6 PM ALUMNI FACULTY EXCHANGE
Penn's Office of Alumni Relations and the Kelly Writers House invite Penn alumni of all ages to meet and reconnect with some of the University’s most well-regarded Professors during this first ever Homecoming event.
Nina Auerbach, John Welsh Centennial Professor of English, Tom Childers, Professor of History, Sheldon Hackney, Professor of US History, Penny Marcus, Mariano DiVito Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Romance Languages, Director of the Center for Italian Studies, and Director of Film Studies, Tukufu Zuberi, Professor of Sociology, and Michael Zuckerman, Professor of History will speak to Alumni and take questions about their current research and writing projects, with a reception and opportunity for informal discussion to follow. Don’t miss this chance to greet your former professors and hear about their recent work.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write On! Seventh graders from Lea School in West Philadelphia visit the Kelly Writers House for a year-long writing workshop series. Students read, write and revise in small writing groups comprised of three Lee students and two Penn student coaches. Write On! is supported by Gear Up and the Writers House Esther T. Saxon Term Fund. (Sara Coelho: scoelho@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.
Saturday, 11/2
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, 11/3
- 6:30 PM in Room 202: Film screening of "Boyz 'n the Hood" for English 012 "Writing about Film"
- 6-7 PM in Room 209: The Undergraduate Writing Advising Program (contact R.J. Lehman at rlehman@seas.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, 11/4
- Art Gallery Show Opens. The reception for Indigene's show will be on 11/13 and the show runs from 11/04 to
12/07/02.
- 5:00 PM in the Art's Café: Songwriting workshop SOS, Sharing Our Songs meets in the Arts Café. For more information, contact Dan Fishback at fishback@sas.upenn.edu.
- 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)
- 5:15 to 7:00 PM in Room 202: The monthly meeting of the Penn & Pencil Club, the writing group for employees of the University and Health System. For more information contact: john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Fish Writing Group (Nancy Hoffmann: nhoffmann@earthlink.net)
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, 11/5
- 5:30 PM: The French Institute for Culture and Technology presents
Serge Fauchereau
Serge Fauchereau is a French poet and art critic born in 1939. He has been a Professor of American literature at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY). He was appointed curator of International Exhibitions at the Pompidou Center (Beaubourg) in Paris. He has been part of various artistic committees linked to the European Parliament in Brussels. Serge Fauchereau is a prolific author who has written mostly on 20th-century art, in collaboration with artists such as Fernand Léger or Georges Braque, to name a few. "Complete Fiction" will be published by Black Square Editions in November 2002, translated by Ron Padgett.
- 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)
- 6:00-8:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eye, a poetry writing group (Pat Green patgreen@vet.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, 11/6
- 5:00 PM: Alumni Visitors Series presents author John Norton.
John Norton's recent output might be called borderworks, pieces that deny easy categorization into poetry or prose. An experimental novella Re: Marriage (San Francisco: Black Star Series) was published in 2000. A book of prose poems and sketches The Light at the End of the Bog (San Francisco: Black Star Series, 1989, 1992) won an American Book Award. Both books are distributed by Small Press Distribution. A critical introduction to the Bog as well as excerpts have appeared in a variety of publications including The Before Columbus Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990 published by W. W. Norton. A language-oriented chapbook Posthum(or)ous was published by e. g. press.
Other pieces have appeared in a variety of literary and online magazines, including New American Writing, Xconnect, Kayak, Oxygen, Beatitude, Blue Unicorn, Onthebus, and Processed World.
Works in progress include Nondisclosure Statements, an aleatory hypertext narrative, and Mental Reservations, a collection of new and selected poems.
From 1990 through 1996 John was Board President of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, a non-profit organization in San Francisco. He currently serves on the Board of the Irish Arts Foundation.
John Norton did graduate work in eighteenth-century literature at the University of Pennsylvania (M.A., Ph, D) and taught at the University of California, Riverside. He currently works as a technical marketing writer and editor.Listen to a recording of this event.
- 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 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, 11/7
- 6:00 PM: A
Form of Time and a Moment of Kairos"
Theorizing presents Mikhail Iampolski.This lecture is about the suspension of time and the moment that doesn't belong to temporality. It is a moment of suspended meaning, which paradoxically opens the way to sense. Materials explored include works by Lukacs, Kracauer, Andre Bazin and a few films. Mikhail Iampolski is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Russian and Slavic Studies Habilitation, 1991, Moscow Institute of Film Studies; Ph.D. 1977 (French philosophy), Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences; B.A. 1971, Moscow Pedagogical Institute.
- "Writers House New York" at the Meisel Gallery in Soho. For more about this event, click here.
- 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 in 202: Mods: Penn Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group
(Matt Hart: matthart@english.upenn.edu). Cynthia
Port, "The Spoils of Sacrifice: May Sinclair's Victorian Modernism."
- 5:15-7:00 PM in Room 209: Eighteenth-Century Reading Group (Brett Wilson: bdwilson@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, 11/8
- 1:00-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: A Training Workshop for Write On! with Temple University's Writing Director Dr. Lori Salem.
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write On! Seventh graders from Lea School in West Philadelphia visit the Kelly Writers House year-long writing workshop series. Students read, write and revise in small writing groups comprised of three Lee students and two Penn student coaches. Write On! is supported by Gear Up and the Writers House Esther T. Saxon Term Fund. (Sara Coelho: scoelho@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.
Saturday, 11/9
- 4:30-6:00 PM: Reception for the College of General Studies Annual Writers' Conference at Penn. For Conference information see: www.upenn.edu/writconf
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, 11/10
- 6:30 PM in Room 202: Film screening of "Girls Town" for English 012 "Writing about Film"
- 6-7 PM in Room 209: The Undergraduate Writing Advising Program (contact R.J. Lehman at rlehman@seas.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, 11/11
- 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. Featuring poets John Timpane, Deborah Burnham, Bob Perelman, Harriet Levin Millan, Hassen &
musical
guest Kenn Kweder and writer Joey Sweeney.
John Timpane is the author of Poetry for Dummies, and Commentary Page editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Deb Burnham is from northeast Ohio though she's lived in Philadelphia her whole adult life. She directs the expository writing program at Penn, and teaches poetry and prose writing to high school kids, college students and adults.
Many of her poems have praised or wondered about city life, but her recent work is a bit less attached to place. She's not sure this is a good thing. She also writes fiction, including a novel set in the Viet Nam era, and essays, which are sometimes a bit cranky.Bob Perelman is the author of numerous books of poetry, including *The Future of Memory* and *Ten to One* (selected poems); and two books of criticism, *The Marginalization of Poetry* and *The Trouble with Genius*. *Playing Bodies*, a poem/painting collaboration with painter Francie Shaw will be published this coming spring. He teachers at Penn.
Harriet Levin Millan is the author of The Christmas Show, (Beacon Press, 1997), winner of the Barnard New Women Poet's Prize, selected by Eavan Boland, and winner of The Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. New work appears in The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Pennsylvania English, and this month's online Electronic Poetry Review. Was a PEW disciplinary winner in Poetry. Presently, teaches writing at Drexel University and University of Pennsylvania.
Hassen writes poetry & fiction & lives near Philadelphia. Poems have appeared in Skanky Possum, Nedge, Hammers, & Barque Press' 100 Days anthology.
Kenn Kweder is a product of a working-class neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia. He made his mark in the mid-1970's with his storied band, the Secret Kidds. Combining sometimes brittle, sometimes frightening visions with the awesome rock 'n' roll of the Secret Kidds, Kweder single-handedly created Philadelphia's original rock music scene and paved the way for the emergence of any number of Philly-based acts who have achieved anational profile.
Though courted by major record labels, Kweder didn't find fame and fortune worth the sacrifices in style and temperament that the record companies demanded he make. Thus, for the past 30 years, Kweder has continued playing writhing and performing in at least 20 different rock bands he helmed, putting on live performances, which have been described as "a circus," "a riot," and even "a religious experience." Kenn Kweder has transformed that energy, intelligence, and passion onto at least 11 albums and CD's that reaffirm his unique position in Philadelphia music.Joey Sweeney has been writing about music in fits and starts - but mostly fits - since 1988, when he landed a gig as a cub reporter for the long-missed B-Side Magazine. Sensing that a Cameron Crowe-esque boy-genius-deflowered-by-Fairuza-Balk fate would most certainly elude him in that line of work, he turned to his other, earlier love: making music of his own.
Throughout the early '90s, Sweeney led the beloved Barnabys, and followed up that band with two critically acclaimed solo records before returning to writing about music and popular culture full time, winning honors from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) and the Pennsylvania Keystone Awards.
When, in 1998, director Hal Hartley tapped him for a track to use in the movie The Book of Life, it was just the kick in the ass Sweeney needed to get back to making music. Since then, he's led the appropriately named The Trouble With Sweeney, whose debut album Dear Life won critical acclaim everywhere from Spin to Copper Press - all while stalling the writing process for what might, after all, become his first book of essays, tenatively titled Your Money Is Like Candy From Space. In May, he was awarded top honors for music criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN), and also appears in Da Capo Press's Best of Music Writing 2001, edited this year by Jonathan Lethem. He is currently hard at work on a record of new songs.
- 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)
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, 11/12
- 5:00 PM: A reading by poet Forrest Gander hosted
by the Creative Writing Program.
Forrest Gander is the author of five poetry books, including Torn Awake
and
Science & Steepleflower, both from New Directions. He is the editor of
Mouth
to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women and the translator,
most
recently, of No Shelter: Selected Poems of Pura Lopez Colome and (with
Kent
Johnson) Immanent Visitor: The Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz. With his
background in geology, Gander has developed an innovative poetic style
concerned with a phenomenological inquiry that notably intertwines
conceptual
and erotic experience. The recipient of two Gertrude Stein Awards for
Innovative North American Writing, NEA Fellowships in poetry, and The
Whiting
Award for Writers, Gander has written critical essays for numerous
journals,
including The Nation, The Boston Review, and The Providence Journal.
With
poet C.D. Wright, he co-edits the literary book press Lost Roads
Publishers
and keeps a small orchard outside of Providence, Rhode Island. Gander is
Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the
Graduate
Program in Literary Arts at Brown University
- 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, 11/13
- 5-6:30 PM: Art Gallery Reception. The show runs from 11/04 to 12/07/02.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything
Goes, an open mic
performance night. All are welcome!
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 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.
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar (Carmen Esther 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, 11/14
- 4:30-5:30 PM in Room 202: Writing Outside the Lines: Visiting writers for Anthony DeCurtis's "Writing About the Arts"
class features Robert Levine, Senior Editor of Wired.
Robert Levine is a Senior Editor at Wired. Previously, he was a Senior Editor at New York magazine, where he oversaw the music covereage, as well as numerous features. He has written about music and pop culture for Rolling Stone, Spin, Details, and the Los Angeles Times. He has a B.A. in politics from Brandeis University and a M.S.J. from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.
- 6:00 PM: A reading by Nathaniel Tarn and Toby Olson, co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program
Nathaniel Tarn is a poet, translator (Pablo Neruda, Victor Segalen, the Maya Rabinal Achi, many younger poets) critic, educator and anthropologist (Maya area; South East Asia etc.). His main works are "The Beautiful Contradictions"; "A Nowhere for Vallejo;" "Lyrics for the Bride of God;" "Alashka" (with Janet Rodney), "Views from the Weaving Mountain: Selected Essays in Poetics & Anthropology." His most recent books are "The Architextures" (Chax Press); "Three letters from the City: the St.Petersburg Poems" (Weaselsleeves Press and the Borey Arts Center, St.Petersburg, Russia) and "Selected Poems: 1950-2000" (Wesleyan University Press). He is a contributing editor and contributor to a large number of magazines; has been translated into some 15 foreign languages and has given hundreds of readings in national and international venues. Tarn has lived north west of Santa Fe, New Mexico for some seventeen years.
The poet, novelist and essayist Toby Olson was born in Berwyn, Illinois in 1937, and received degrees from Occidental College and Long Island University. A prolific writer, he has published numerous books of poetry including Changing Appearance: Poems 1965-1970 (1975) and We Are the Fire: A Selection of Poems (1984). On the subject of poetry, Olson comments: "For me poetry is no less than good talk about important things, and this good talk has as its end the telling and presentation of truth." Olson is also the author of several works of fiction, including The Life of Jesus (1976), the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Seaview (1982), and Write Letter to Billy (2000). Experimental stylistically, yet accessible to a general audience, Olson's work resists easy classification. Currently, he lives in Philadelphia with his wife Miriam.
- 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).
- 4:30-5:30 in Room 202: Writing Outside the Lines
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, 11/15
- 3:30 PM in 209: Writers House Talk Poets (Bob Perelman perelman@english.upenn.edu)
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write On! Seventh graders from Lea School in West Philadelphia visit the Kelly Writers House year-long writing workshop series. Students read, write and revise in small writing groups comprised of three Lee students and two Penn student coaches. Write On! is supported by Gear Up and the Writers House Esther T. Saxon Term Fund. (Sara Coelho: scoelho@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.
Saturday, 11/16
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, 11/17
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 WXPN featuring poets John Timpane, Deborah Burnham, Bob
Perelman, Harriet Levin Millan, Hassen, writer Joey Sweeney &
musical guest Kenn Kweder.
John Timpane is the author of Poetry for Dummies, and Commentary Page editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Deb Burnham is from northeast Ohio though she's lived in Philadelphia her whole adult life. She directs the expository writing program at Penn, and teaches poetry and prose writing to high school kids, college students and adults.
Many of her poems have praised or wondered about city life, but her recent work is a bit less attached to place. She's not sure this is a good thing. She also writes fiction, including a novel set in the Viet Nam era, and essays, which are sometimes a bit cranky.Bob Perelman is the author of numerous books of poetry, including *The Future of Memory* and *Ten to One* (selected poems); and two books of criticism, *The Marginalization of Poetry* and *The Trouble with Genius*. *Playing Bodies*, a poem/painting collaboration with painter Francie Shaw will be published this coming spring. He teachers at Penn.
Harriet Levin Millan is the author of The Christmas Show, (Beacon Press, 1997), winner of the Barnard New Women Poet's Prize, selected by Eavan Boland, and winner of The Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. New work appears in The Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Pennsylvania English, and this month's online Electronic Poetry Review. Was a PEW disciplinary winner in Poetry. Presently, teaches writing at Drexel University and University of Pennsylvania.
Hassen writes poetry & fiction & lives near Philadelphia. Poems have appeared in Skanky Possum, Nedge, Hammers, & Barque Press' 100 Days anthology.
Joey Sweeney has been writing about music in fits and starts - but mostly fits - since 1988, when he landed a gig as a cub reporter for the long-missed B-Side Magazine. Sensing that a Cameron Crowe-esque boy-genius-deflowered-by-Fairuza-Balk fate would most certainly elude him in that line of work, he turned to his other, earlier love: making music of his own. Throughout the early '90s, Sweeney led the beloved Barnabys, and followed up that band with two critically acclaimed solo records before returning to writing about music and popular culture full time, winning honors from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) and the Pennsylvania Keystone Awards. When, in 1998, director Hal Hartley tapped him for a track to use in the movie The Book of Life, it was just the kick in the ass Sweeney needed to get back to making music. Since then, he's led the appropriately named The Trouble With Sweeney, whose debut album Dear Life won critical acclaim everywhere from Spin to Copper Press - all while stalling the writing process for what might, after all, become his first book of essays, tenatively titled Your Money Is Like Candy From Space. In May, he was awarded top honors for music criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN), and also appears in Da Capo Press's Best of Music Writing 2001, edited this year by Jonathan Lethem. He is currently hard at work on a record of new songs.
Kenn Kweder is a product of a working-class neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia. He made his mark in the mid-1970's with his storied band, the Secret Kidds. Combining sometimes brittle, sometimes frightening visions with the awesome rock 'n' roll of the Secret Kidds, Kweder single-handedly created Philadelphia's original rock music scene and paved the way for the emergence of any number of Philly-based acts who have achieved anational profile.
Though courted by major record labels, Kweder didn't find fame and fortune worth the sacrifices in style and temperament that the record companies demanded he make. Thus, for the past 30 years, Kweder has continued playing writhing and performing in at least 20 different rock bands he helmed, putting on live performances, which have been described as "a circus," "a riot," and even "a religious experience." Kenn Kweder has transformed that energy, intelligence, and passion onto at least 11 albums and CD's that reaffirm his unique position in Philadelphia music.
- 6-7 PM in Room 209: The Undergraduate Writing Advising Program (contact R.J. Lehman at rlehman@seas.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, 11/18
- 7:00 PM: Local Spotlight Series presents Rochelle Owens and George Economou.
Rochelle Owens is the author of sixteen books of poetry and plays, the most recent of which are Plays by Rochelle Owens(Broadway Play Publishing, 2000) and Luca, Discourse on Life and Death(Junction Press, 2001). A pioneer in the experimental off-Broadway theatre movement and an internationally known innovative poet, she has received Village Voice Obie awards and honors from the New York Drama Critics Circle. She has held fellowships from the NEA, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and numerous other foundations. Rochelle Owens was introduced by Kathy Lou Schultz. A downloadable recording of Rochelle's reading in mp3 format is available here.
George Economou is the author of seven books of poetry, the latest of which is Century Dead Center(Left Hand Books, 1997), and numerous translations from ancient and modern Greek and medieval European languages. A critic and scholar of medieval literature, he was also a founding editor of The Chelsea Review and co-founder of Trobar and Trobar Books. He has been awarded fellowships from the Rockefeller and other foundations and has been named twice as an NEA Fellow in Poetry. He recently retired after 41 years of teaching. George Economou was introduced by Randall Couch; a downloadable recording of George's reading is available 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)
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, 11/19
- 12:30-2:00 PM: A reading and talk by poet Josey Foo. Co-sponsored by
PAACH the Pan-Asian American Community House.
Josephine Foo (Josey Foo), a Chinese native of Malaysia, immigrated to the United States in the mid-1980s. She was an undocumented alien for a few years after attending college and worked in New York City in carpentry, restaurant work, and other trades. The undocumented period ended when she received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brown University in 1990. In 1997 she obtained a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and now works as a lawyer-advocate in Shiprock on the Navajo Nation. Portions of her first book of prose, poems and a picture story of a three-legged traveling beagle, Endou (Lost Roads) were included in The Best American Essays 1995. Her second book Tomie's Chair will be out from Kaya in Spring, 2002. An evening-length concert dance piece set to her poems is forthcoming from the Leah Stein Dance Company, funded by DanceAdvance and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. She is published in various journals including The World, The American Voice, Open City, Upstairs At Duroc's (Paris), and the Philadelphia edition of The American Poetry Review. In addition to the NEA, she has received a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and an Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award. A two-time Yale Series of Younger Poets finalist, she lives in Farmington, New Mexico where she and her husband Richard Ferguson run Crooked Shelf Books.
- 6:00 PM: Theorizing presents Nina
Cornyetz: Naming Desire:
Mishima Yukio and the
Politics of "Sexuation"
Nina Cornyetz's teaching and research interests range from critical, literary and filmic theory, intellectual history, gender and sexuality, to cultural studies, with a specialization in Japanese culture. Among her publications are Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers, Fetishized Blackness: Hip Hop and Racial Desire in Contemporary Japan, and Bound by Blood: Female Pollution, Divinity and Community in Enchi Fumiko's Masks. Her courses include a culturally comparative inquiry into Japanese aesthetics and fascism in Aesthetics, Fascism and Culture; ethics and cinematography in Hong Kong gangster films and their Japanese and American counterparts in Beyond Good and Evil: Gangsters, Violence and the Urban Landscape; and a class in Zen Buddhism that combines hands-on introduction to some Zen arts and practices with the study of historical and contemporary texts on Zen. She is currently writing a book on modern Japanese aesthetics and homosociality. (NYU, Gallatin School) B.A. 1980, CUNY; M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1991, Columbia.
This talk will analyze the problematic of the prolific and contradictory articulations of desire in Mishima Yukio's corpus as theatrical re-enactments of existing terms that culturally inhere in his (homo) sexual identity and its inverse, and in complex relation to the death drive, the heteronormative mores of the real (material) world, and the anxiety produced by the unfixing of sexual identity.
7:30 PM at the Gershman Y, at Broad & Pine on the Avenue of the Arts: The Gershman Y hosts a series of programs featuring Philadelphia arts and culture centers. Tonight's program features the Kelly Writers House--a presentation led by Professor Al Filreis, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, with comments and readings by Blake Martin, An Lam, Venise Battle, and Kathy Lou Schultz. For more information about the event, contact Gila Robinson at grobinson@phillyjcc.com.
Al Filreis is Class of 1942 Professor of English at Penn, author of, among other works, Modernism from Right to Left and Wallace Stevens and the Actual World, editor of Secretaries of the Moon and Ira Wolfert's Tucker's People. In 1999-2000 he was named Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation. Blake Martin is a writer and photographer, has long been affiliated with the Writers House and is currently on the Writers House staff. Venise Battle, a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences at Penn, is co-producer of "Live at the Writers House," a monthly program broadcast on WXPN 88.5, and is undertaking a study of urban poetics. An Lam is a poet who has been featured in various spoken-word programs and has been widely published at Penn. The poet Kathy Lou Schultz's most recent book is Some Vague Wife (Atelos Press, 2002). She is co-editor of Lipstick Eleven and is a third-year doctoral student at Penn and member of the Writers House Planning Committee.
- 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, 11/20
- 5:00 PM: The Alumni Visitor Series presents novelist Susan Shreve
Susan Shreve has written 12 novels, the latest of which, PLUM & JAGGERS was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and is out now in paperback from Picador. She's also written 25 children's books for Knopf and co-edited four anthologies of original works of fiction on Race, Justice, Progress and Education. She is a professor of English in the MFA program at George Mason University and was a visitor for three years at Princeton in fiction and four years at Columbia Graduate School of the Arts. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She's presently working on a new novel A STUDENT OF LIVING THINGS.
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- 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 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, 11/21
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6:00 PM: The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) and Writers House present their joint annual
Gay Talese Lecture Series, with Bill Tonelli.
Bill Tonelli is the author of the 1994 non-fiction book, The Amazing Story of the Tonelli Family in America: Twelve Thousand miles in a Buick in Search of Identity, Ethnicity, Geography, Kinship and Home (Addison-Wesley, out of print) and an Assistant Managing Editor of Rolling Stone. He is Abruzzese by blood and South Philadelphian by birth, temperament, and allegiance.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
Frank Lentricchia was originally scheduled for this event, but was unable to attend. Lentricchia gave the Gay Talese Lecture the following year of which details and a recording can be found here.
- 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).
- 5:15 in Room 209: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group discusses James McPherson's Fingal of Ossian (1761-62) For more information or to join, contact Brett Wilson: bdwilson@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, 11/22
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write On! Seventh graders from Lea School in West Philadelphia visit the Kelly Writers House year-long writing workshop series. Students read, write and revise in small writing groups comprised of three Lee students and two Penn student coaches. Write On! is supported by Gear Up and the Writers House Esther T. Saxon Term Fund. (Sara Coelho: scoelho@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.
Saturday, 11/23
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4:00 PM: MONTPELIER ROUNDTABLE: A Reading by Faculty and Philly-area Grads of Vermont College MFA in Poetry program -- Featuring Richard Jackson and Natasha Sajé along with Barb Daniels, Aaren Perry, Lynn Levin, Ron Mohring, Mike Steffen, Deidra Greenleaf Allan, David Mook plus others. Representatives from "Hunger Mountain" literary magazine and from the Slovenia Summer Writers Program will also be present.
Richard Jackson is the author Heartwall (UMass, Juniper Prize '00), Alive All Day (Cleveland State Prize, '92), and Selected Poems in Slovene. Jackson's poems have been translated into a dozen languages. He has edited two anthologies of Slovene poetry: The Fire Under the Moon (Black Dirt, '99) and Four Slovenian Poets (Aleph, '93). Jackson is also the author of a book of criticism, Dismantling Time in Contemporary American Poetry (winner of the Agee Prize), and Acts of Mind: Interviews With Contemporary American Poets (winner of Choice Award). He has been a member of the Sarajevo Committee organized by P.E.N. Int'l and has worked with various groups concerning the Balkan wars and fund raising for refugees. In 2000 he was awarded the Order of Freedom Medal for literary and humanitarian work in the Balkans by the President of Slovenia. He has received Guggenheim NEA, NEH, and two Witter-Bynner Fellowships, a Prairie Schooner reader's Choice Award and is the winner of four Pushcart Prizes and appeared in Best American Poems 1997. Jackson teaches at UT-Chattanooga where he directs the Meacham Writers' Conference and at Vermont College's MFA program.
Natasha Sajé's first book of poems was Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994). Her second book, Bend, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. Her work has been honored by the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize and the Robert Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, New Republic, Parnassus, Shenandoah, and The Writers Chronicle, among others. Sajé teaches at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, and in the Vermont College MFA in Writing program.
- 1:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eye, a poetry writing group (Pat Green patgreen@vet.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.
Sunday, 11/24
- 6-7 PM in Room 209: The Undergraduate Writing Advising Program (contact R.J. Lehman at rlehman@seas.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, 11/25
- 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)
- 5:00-6:30 in 202: Mods: Penn Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group (Matt Hart: matthart@english.upenn.edu). Matthew Merlino, "Infinite Rehearsals: River Travel and Spatial History in Wilson Harris' The Place of the Peacock.
- 12:30 PM in the Dining Room: Meeting for The Saturday Morning Reading Coop.
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, 11/26
- 5:00 PM: Planning Committee meeting and gathering. (For more information about the "hub," write to wh@writing.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, 11/27
- Thanksgiving break begins--house closes at 5pm
- 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)
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, 11/28
- Thanksgiving 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.
Friday, 11/29
- Thanksgiving 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, 11/30
- Thanksgiving 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.