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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Tuesday, 11/1
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Alumni Visitors Series
presents a reading and conversation with Susan Senator.
Penn alumnus Susan Senator is a writer, activist and mother of three boys, the oldest of whom has autism. As an advocate for children and the disabled, Senator has published work in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Education Week, Teacher Magazine, and Exceptional Parent Magazine. In her compelling new memoir, Making Peace with Autism: One Family's Story of Struggle, Discovery and Unexpected Gifts, Senator describes her own journey as the mother of an autistic child, showing how she and her family have found the stamina, courage, humor and openness to cope successfully with the daily struggles of life with an autistic child.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.302 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (savettc@comcast.net).
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Extra Extra Journalism group. For more information, please contact Eric Karlan (karlan@sas.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@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.
Wednesday, 11/2
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading with novelist Rachel Pastan, hosted by Karen Rile and the Creative Writing Program.
Rachel Pastan's first novel, This Side of Married, was published by Viking in 2004 and was selected for Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers program. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines, including The Threepenny Review, The Georgia Review, and Mademoiselle. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Delaware Arts Council. She currently lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 5-6:00 PM in Room 202: The American Literature seminar. For more information, please contact Jarrett Anthony (janthon2@dept.english.upenn.edu).
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: STEAK, a fiction group. For more information, please contact MoMoody (momoody@sas.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: Pennumbra, a science fiction/fantasy writing group for Penn students. For more information, please contact Lucy Ho (ratofsumatra@gmail.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.
Thursday, 11/3
12:30 - 2:00 PM : Lunch and conversation with literary agent and Penn alum Loretta Barrett. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.POSTPONED until further notice!Loretta A. Barrett is a literary agent and president of Loretta Barrett Books, Inc. in New York. Prior to founding her own agency in 1990, she was Editor-in-Chief of Anchor Books and Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday. She is a member of the Association of Author Representatives, and has representation in every major foreign market, East and West. Ms. Barrett's nonfiction interests cover a wide range of topics. These include psychology, science and technology, religion, spirituality, current events, biography and memoir. She represents the New York Times bestseller Symptoms of Withdrawal, by Christopher Kennedy Lawford; the New York Times bestseller Mother Angelica, by Raymond Arroyo, and the international bestseller and New York Times Notable Book Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, by George Weigel. Other notable clients include Roni Cohen-Sandler, Ray Kurzweil, Ann Douglas, Wayne Muller, and Stephen Levine. Her fiction preferences are largely mainstream and contemporary. She is particularly drawn to women’s fiction and thrillers. Clients on her current fiction list include New York Times bestseller Mariah Stewart, Dr. Gary Birken, M.J. Rose, Laura Van Wormer, Carol Goodman, Jack Kelly, and Dora Levy Mossanen. For a complete list of clients, as well as submissions guidelines, please visit www.lorettabarrettbooks.com.
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: An event with Kenneth Goldsmith's "Writing Through Culture and Art" course: Naomi
Beckwith, the Whitney Lauder Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Naomi Beckwith is the Whitney-Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Her work focuses on identity and critical practices in contemporary art. Her Master's thesis on Adrian Piper and Carrie Mae Weems earned Distinction from the Courtauld Institute in London and, in addition to working in publishing and arts administration, she has been a Helena Rubenstein Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Independent Studies Program.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Modernist Reading Group; for more information, contact Benjy Kahan (kahan@sas.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: In Words meeting. For more information, contact Grant Potts (gpotts@ccat.sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 11/4
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@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, 11/5
- Homecoming
- 4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: First Annual Celebration of Alumni Nonfiction Writers!
To celebrate Penn's rich history of nonfiction writing, and the growing number of Writers House undergraduates captivated by nonfiction, we've decided to turn Homecomings at the Writers House over to a lively, annual panel discussion featuring Penn alumni in nonfiction! We hope you can join us for the kickoff of what promises to become a compelling and exciting tradition.
This year's panel will wrestle with some of the current legal and ethical controversies facing journalism, and how they might affect the future of non-fiction writing. Panelists will include best-selling author and Vanity Fair contributing editor Buzz Bissinger (C'76); New York Times White House correspondent Richard Stevenson (C'81); best-selling author and sports columnist at NPR and the Wall Street Journal Stefan Fatsis (C'85); and senior producer for broadcast standards for NBC News Lisa Green (C'82). Our intrepid moderator for the evening will be award-winning author and columnist Stephen Fried (C'79).
This event also celebrates the Nora Magid Mentorship Prize, an award given to a Penn undergraduate nonfiction writer each year in honor of the late and much beloved Penn writing teacher and mentor Nora Magid. Hearst Magazine's Editorial Talent Director Eliot Kaplan (C'78) will make a short presentation after the panel discussion.
A gala reception with plenty of time for informal conversations will follow! Please RSVP to 215.573.9748 or rsvphomecoming@writing.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, 11/6
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word (Pandora's Box) meeting. For more information contact Carrie Alexander (carriela@sas.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@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.
Monday, 11/7
- 5:00 PM: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Meeting and Gathering. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: HOLD for Word.Doc meeting.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 with Robert Strauss (straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.303 with Marion Kant (mkant2@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:20-7:20 in Room 202: Penn & Pencil Club, a writing workshop for Penn and Health Systems staff; For more information, email John Shea at (john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu).
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (savettc@comcast.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, 11/8
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents James Wetzel, Augustinian Chair in the Thought of St. Augustine,
Villanova University. "Wittgenstein's Confessional Voice: Augustine's Inauguration of the Later Philosophy."
Professor Wetzel received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. A distinguished scholar on Augustine and the Augustinian tradition, modern philosophy, and religious thought, he is the author of Augustine and the Limits of Virtue (Cambridge University Press, 1992), among other numerous works.
For a recording of the event click (here.)
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.302 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group; for more information, email Pat Greet at (patgreen@vet.upenn.edu).
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: Latitudes, a graduate reading group in the Department of English. For more information, please contact Jeehyun Lim (jlim2@english.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@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.
Wednesday, 11/9
- 12-1:30 PM in the Dining Room: Lunch with Rick Nichols, food writer for
the Philadelphia Inquirer. Rick Nichols appears at the Kelly Writers House
through Tom Devaney's Critical Writing course "Food for Thought."
Rick Nichols is a product of rowhouse Mayfair in Philadelphia's Northeast who soon moved to the suburbs and, then, New England. He went to college at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and, in the late 70s, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. For many years he was on the Editorial Board of the Inquirer and wrote a column on the culture of food for the Sunday Magazine. He still does columns twice a week, though in the broadsheet, the magazine having been put to sleep. He has won numerous journalism awards and had essays published for the last three years in the national anthology, Best Foodwriting 2004. Last year, with his wife Nancy Szokan, an editor at the Washington Post, he co-taught a seminar on "Truth-telling in the Age of Opinion" at the University of Montana in Missoula. Photo at right: Amy Gutmann (Penn's President), Rick Nichols, Al Filreis.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Kelly Writers House and the Creative Writing Program present a reading with John Irwin.
John Irwin is an accomplished poet and theorist at Johns Hopkins University, and has published three major works of criticism and two books of poetry. Irwin earned his doctorate from Rice University, and has been attached to Johns Hopkins since 1970--except for a brief tenure as editor of the Georgia Review. Returning to Johns Hopkins in 1974, Irwin held a joint appointment in both the English and Writing Seminars departments. Irwin continued on to chair the Writing Seminars Department for nineteen years and, in 1984 received an endowed chair as the John Decker Professor of the Humanities. His critical works include Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading of Faulkner, American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance, and The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story, which won the Christian Gauss Prize of the Phi Beta Kappa Society as well as the Aldo Scaglione Prize awarded by the Modern Language Association in 1994. His creative works include The Heisenberg Variations and Just Let Me Sat This About That, and a new book-length poem, As Long As It's Big.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 5-7:30 PM in Room 209: A Rimbaud Reading session, hosted by Writers House Director Jennifer Snead.
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes Meeting; for more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@earthlink.net).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@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, 11/10
- 4th annual "WRITERS HOUSE NEW YORK" at the Meisel Gallery in SoHo (141 Prince
Street). For the 4th consecutive year, Louis and Susan Meisel generously sponsor this benefit - for our
Young and Emerging Writers Fund. For more information on the readers and this event, click here.
- Kelly Writers House is cosponsoring the book signing of "GULAG MEMOIRS" with Gulag survivor and author R. Mottel Lifshitz at the Lubavitch House. For more information, please see http://www.localendar.com/public/lchaim
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 5:00 PM in Room 202: Theorizing planning committee meeting; for more information, please contact chantalh@sas.upenn.edu.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 11/11
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@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, 11/12
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, 11/13
- 6-9:00 PM in Room 202: CPCW movie screening.
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word (Pandora's Box) meeting. For more information contact Carrie Alexander (carriela@sas.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@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.
Monday, 11/14
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Reading and Scholarship Event for Children's Book Week
This open mic event for Penn and West Philly students is the culminating effort in Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority's effort to encourage creative writing among female Philadelphia middle and elementary school students. AKA asks that attendees bring a book to support Drew Elementary School and school supplies to support the students they have been working with throughout the semester.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 with Robert Strauss (straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.303 with Marion Kant (mkant2@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (savettc@comcast.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, 11/15
- 5-8:00 PM in Room 202: a workshop with Ken Kaufman, co-sponsored with Penn's Cinema Studies Program.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading and conversation with fiction writer Mary Kay Zuravleff, introduced by Max
Apple.
Mary Kay Zuravleff is the author of two novels. Her newest book, The Bowl is Already Broken, tells the story of Promise Whittaker, the reluctant acting director of the Museum of Asian Art in Washington, D.C., who must deal with her unexpected pregnancy, conniving colleagues, and the fate of the museum after a precious Chinese bowl tumbles down the museum's marble stairs.
Zuravleff's first novel, The Frequency of Souls, won the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the James Jones First Novel Award. Additionally, her short fiction has been published in Gargoyle and The Washington Review. Her work is included in the new anthology Grace and Gravity.
Download a recording of this event here.
Submissions required to attend. This small workshop hopes to help participants through the process of development - the creation of a film or television project from original idea to finished screenplay. What are helpful ways to think about your story? What's the "language" of the development process? How can you make your own work better?
For more information contact Peter Decherney at decherney@sas.upenn.edu
Kenneth Kaufman is president and chief operating officer of Patchett Kaufman Entertainment (PKE), a production company committed to developing and producing quality television for the worldwide entertainment marketplace. Kaufman has executive produced over 40 films for the broadcast and cable networks, most recently "Dean Koontz's Black River" for Fox starring Jay Mohr and the ABC mini-series "Widows" starring Mercedes Ruehl, Brooke Shields, and Rosie Perez.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.302 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 6-7:30 in Room 209: Talk Poets meeting
- 7:30-9 PM in Room 209: Fiction Writing Group. For more information, please contact Phil Sandick (psandick@writing.upenn.edu).
- 7:30-9 PM in Room 202: FISH group meeting
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@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.
Wednesday, 11/16
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Rimbaud translation event featuring Seth Whidden and Penn alumnus Wyatt Mason (C'91), cosponsored by The French Institute for Culture and Technology and the Creative Writing Program.
- 8 PM in the Arts Cafe: SPEAKEASY:
Poetry, Prose, Anything Goes!
Open Microphone evening at the Writers House. Come to perform or come to listen!
Seth Whidden's research focuses primarily on nineteenth-century French poetry. He is the co-editor of Parade sauvage: revue d'études rimbaldiennes, the scholarly journal of Rimbaud studies. His revised edition of Wallace Fowlie's translation of Arthur Rimbaud's Complete Works, Selected Letters was published by The University of Chicago Press in 2005. He has also published articles and translations on Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, and Krysinska, as well as on baseball for foreigners and French hip-hop culture (particularly rap music and graffiti). He is currently working on a book-length project, provisionally entitled Leaving Parnassus: The Lyric Subject in Rimbaud and Verlaine, a study of poetic innovation in response to the Parnassian poetry of the 1860s and 1870s. He is Assistant Professor of French at Villanova University.
Wyatt Mason is a contributing editor of Harper's magazine where his essays regularly appear. He also writes for the New Yorker, the New Republic, and the London Review of Books. Modern Library has published, in three volumes, his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud. Translations of Dante's Vita Nuova and Montaigne's essays are in progress, as is his book of essays about American fiction.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: STEAK, a fiction group. For more information, please contact MoMoody (momoody@sas.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: Pennumbra, a science fiction/fantasy writing group for Penn students. For more information, please €contact Lucy Ho (ratofsumatra@gmail.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.
Thursday, 11/17
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Kelly Writers House and
the English Department present: Teacher, Scholar, Friend: A Celebration
of Victorian Poetry in memory of David DeLaura
Readings by Rebecca Bushnell, Bob Lucid, Nina Auerbach, Wendy Steiner, Roger Abrahams, Stuart Curran, Ann DeLaura, Vicki Mahaffey and Al Filreis
This program was recorded and is now available in downloadable mp3 audio files. Click here.
David DeLaura himself helped us plan this event, which was to be--and will indeed be--a celebration of Victorian poetry. It was to be a program, featuring David himself and others, to honor the verse David loved and about which he thought deeply and constantly. Sadly, two days after the planning meeting, David died while visiting Portugal with his wife Ann. We at the Writers House are pleased to put on this event in honor of David's lifetime of teaching and scholarship and also, now, in his memory. Join us, his colleagues, family, and former students, for an evening of Victorian poetry in remembrance of this beloved teacher, scholar and friend.
Dr. DeLaura joined the Penn faculty in 1974. His area of expertise was Victorian literature and culture, and he had published many books and articles on important literary figures. From 1985 to 1990, Dr. DeLaura was chairman of the English department. Later he served as a university ombudsman, investigating complaints from students and staff. "He had patience and good judgment," said Peter Conn, his English department colleague. At the time of David's death, another colleague, Robert Lucid, said, "David was perhaps more interested in and open with other people than any academician I ever knew. "His friendliness was so irrepressible," Lucid added, that he would start up conversations with strangers on trains and planes. In 1998, Dr. DeLaura received the Ira Abrams Award for distinguished teaching in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences. After retiring in 1999, he continued to pursue academic studies, his son William said. A native of Worcester, Mass., Dr. DeLaura earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in English literature from Boston College. He earned a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin and then taught for 10 years at the University of Texas in Austin, where he met his future wife, Ann. Dr. DeLaura studied in London on a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and also received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship among many other distinctions.
Please note: There will also be a memorial service for Dr. DeLaura at 5:00 PM on Friday, November 18th, on the 6th Floor of Van Pelt Library. For more information contact Penn's English Department.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: In Words meeting. For more information, contact Grant Potts (gpotts@ccat.sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 11/18
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM in Room 209: Event with 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.
Saturday, 11/19
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: PLEASE LET ME LOVE YOU: a multimedia performance work-in-progress by Dan Fishback,
cosponsored by Penn's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
Michael Jackson loves children. George W. Bush loves Arabs. Christians love gays. Your psychotic ex loves you. Every conflict on the planet can be reduced to this ancient crisis: How do you love someone without obliterating them entirely? Through the eyes of Dan-as-Michael Jackson, we explore this violent landscape of self-deception and ontological terror, finding love in every evil and evil in every love. It's (going to be) really funny.
Dan Fishback is a performance artist/singer-songwriter from New York City. Past one-man shows include "Assholes Speak
Louder Than Words," "Boi With an I," "Deflowered!: a Lounge Act," and "Baggage Claim." Dan's essay, "Times Are Changing, Reb
Tevye" was featured in "MENTSH: On Being Jewish and Queer," an Alyson Books anthology. Dan's band, Cheese On Bread, has
received international praise for their album, "Maybe Maybe Maybe Baby" (Luv-a-Lot Records). With Cheese On Bread, Dan
has toured all over the United States and Canada. His solo debut, "Sweet Chastity" (Luv-a-Lot) was released in 2005, to
critical acclaim. Dan regularly plays clubs and performance venues in NYC, sharing the stage with such acts as Kimya Dawson,
Ween, Jeffrey Lewis, the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players, and the Dirty Projectors. Dan is the reinging (only) queer
performance artist in the East Village Anti-Folk scene. He runs the "Queer Theory" profile on Friendster. In 2003, Dan
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, an institution from which he often hid at Kelly Writers House."An anti-folk genius!" - Next Magazine
"A bouncy pop upstart!" - Time Out New York
"The sonic lovechild of Liz Phair and Spongebob Squarepants" - 34th Street Magazine
- 12-2:00 PM in Room 202: Event with 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.
Sunday, 11/20
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: F-Word (Pandora's Box) meeting. For more information contact Carrie Alexander (carriela@sas.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@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.
Monday, 11/21
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 with Robert Strauss (straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.303 with Marion Kant (mkant2@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Proposals Hublet meeting; For more information, contact Erin Gautsche at (gautsche@writing.upenn.edu).
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (savettc@comcast.net).
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Word.Doc meeting. For more information, please contact Kerry Cooperman (kerryc@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, 11/22
- 6:00 PM: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Thanksgiving Dinner. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.302 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group; for more information, email Pat Green at (patgreen@vet.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@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.
Wednesday, 11/23
- Thanksgiving Break begins at close of classes
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@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.
Thursday, 11/24
- Thanksgiving
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@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.
Friday, 11/25
- Thanksgiving Break
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, 11/26
- Writers House closed for Thanksgiving Break
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, 11/27
- Writers House closed for Thanksgiving Break
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, 11/28
- 5:30-7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Reading entitled Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out,
cosponsored by GET-UP, Greenfield
Intercultural Center, and the Queer Student
Alliance.
Dan Berger is a writer, activist, and graduate student living in Philadelphia. The grandson of Holocaust survivors, Berger, 23, has been involved in movements for social justice since the age of 14. He served as editor for two-and-a-half years of ONWARD, an internationally distributed quarterly newspaper that emerged out of the global justice movement. He has been involved in a variety of anti-racist, labor, and prison-related organizations. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of Resistance in Brooklyn, a New York City-based anti-racist organization. He is also the author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (AK Press, 2006). His writing has appeared in Z, Socialism and Democracy, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among elsewhere.
Kenyon Farrow is a 30-year-old Black Gay man, writing and organizing in Brooklyn, NY. He recently served as the Southern Regional Coordinator for Critical Resistance, a prison abolition organization, and continues to work in the New York City chapter. He has also served as an adult ally for FIERCE!, a queer youth of color community organizing project in New York City. Kenyon has written several articles and essays, the most widely circulated of which have been Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black?, Connecting the Dots: Michael Moore, White Nationalism and the Multi-racial Left with writer Kil Ja Kim, and most recently, We Real Cool?: On Hip-Hop, Asian-Americans, Black Folks, and Appropriation. Kenyon has also appeared on radio including Pacifica Stations in New York and Houston and Free Speech Radio, given many public lectures and served on many panels dealing with race and prison issues, and race and queer issues as well, including at Temple University, University of Wisconsin/Madison, and The University of New Orleans. He is currently editing a publication on the prison system in the military, as part of a series sponsored by the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, and The National Youth and Militarism Program of the American Friends and Service Committee (AFSC). Letters From Young Activists is his first book.
Kat Aaron is a 26-year-old New Yorker who runs RYSE for Justice, a resource center for youth working for economic justice. Kat is also a media activist and journalist. She is a host and producer with Rise Up Radio, a youth show on WBAI 99.5 FM.
Walidah Imarisha a 25-year-old Philly resident, is a spoken word sista and political poet. Part of the Human Rights Coalition, prisoners' families against the prison industrial complex, she helped found AWOL Magazine, the poetry duo Good Sista/Bad Sista, and hopes to help found an autonomous anti-state someday soon.
Tiffany King, 28, is an African American activist, educator, and writer living in Wilmington, Delaware. She is currently working with students in Wilmington's public Vocational and Technical High Schools, doing organizing work with women in "public" and federally subsidized housing, and is the founder of Resistahs.
Andy Cornell is an activist and writer attending graduate school in New York City. He has worked in labor, anti-prison, global justice, and other movements for more than a decade; he edits the 'zine The Secret Files of Captain Sissy.
gabriel olga khougaz sayegh, 29, works to eliminate prisons and end the war on drugs. A queer Arab/European-American, gabriel grew up in the small farmtown world of California's gorgeous central valley and now lives in Brooklyn, where the farm landscape has been traded for a brick and steel skyline.
For a recording of the event click (here.)
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 with Robert Strauss (straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.303 with Marion Kant (mkant2@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (savettc@comcast.net).
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Dovetail, a reading and discussion group. For more information, please contact Ellie Kane (kaneer@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, 11/29
- 12-1:00 PM on the First Floor: a farewell luncheon for Andrea Kushnick Rubin
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents Daniel Dayan, giving a talk entitled "The Genealogy and Obstretics
of Publics"
Daniel Dayan is director of the CNRS (Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des institutions et organisations sociales) and Professor of Sociology at l'Ecole des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. After completing studies at Stanford and at l'Ecole des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales (where he worked with Roland Barthes) he has taught at Stanford, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Paris II as well as the Universities of Oslo and Geneva. He has been a member of the American Film Institute and recently participated in the program "Changing Media, Changing Europe" for the European Science Foundation.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.302 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:30-9 PM in Room 209: Fiction Writing Group. For more information, please contact Phil Sandick (psandick@writing.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review meeting. For more information, please contact Scott Fishman (sfishman@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.
Wednesday, 11/30
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:30-8 PM in Room 202: Lacan Study Group; For more information, contact Patricia Gherovici at (pgherovici@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.