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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).

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Monday, 1/10

• 5:15 PM: Penn and Pencil Club: a creative writing workshop for Penn and Health Systems staff (possible potluck on this evening, in the dining room)

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Tuesday, 1/11

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Wednesday, 1/12

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Thursday, 1/13

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Friday, 1/14

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Saturday, 1/15

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Sunday, 1/16

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Monday, 1/17

• Spring Classes Begin
• (2:00-5:00 PM: Engl 285 in the Arts Cafe)
• 6:00 PM: Planning Committee Meeting and Gathering

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Tuesday, 1/18

• 6:00 PM: PhillyTalks: a reading and dialogue between Diane Ward and Kevin Davies, with dinner to follow. RSVP for dinner to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
  Diane Ward's work has appeared in many magazines including The World, Ribot, Big ALLIS, Raddle Moon, Tripwire and Crayon. Work has also appeared in several anthologies including Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women (Talisman), Out of Everywhere: linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & UK (Reality Studios) and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. A new book, Portraits & Maps is due out from ML & NLF in Italy and is a bilingual (Italian & English) edition as well as a collaboration with Los Angeles visual artist Michael McMillen. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
  Kevin Davies was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia in the waning days of the Eisenhower administration and lived through Carter, Reagan, and most of Bush in Vancouver and Toronto. Since late Bush in New York. Formerly a member of the Kootenay School of Writing Collective. Books include Pause Button (Tsunami Editions, Vancouver, 1992) and the forthcoming /Comp./ (Edge Books, DC, 2000).
  Listen to an audio recording of this event.

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Wednesday, 1/19

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Thursday, 1/20

• 5:00-9:00 PM: A Winter Literary Feast at the Kelly Writers House, as part of Go West! Go International! Third Thursday.
  Featuring readings by the Philadelphia Inquirer's West Philadelphia reporter, Karen E. Quinones Miller, reading from her new novel, Satin Doll, and West Philadelphia poet Shawn Walker, reading from her book The Purchase of a Day.
  Shawn Walker is also the owner of the new books and crafts shop in West Philly, Yunomi, on 46th and Springfield Streets.
  Karen Miller's novel Satin Doll tells the tale of a woman from Harlem who escapes poverty and self-destructive behavior, finds respectability and success in Philadelphia, but then faces the prospect of her checkered past coming back to haunt her.

  These readings will be followed by music from Third Policeman, and an open mic led by Speakeasy.

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Friday, 1/21

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Saturday, 1/22

• 2:00-3:30 PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents Nathalie Anderson and Barb Daniels
  Nathalie Anderson is a Professor of English Literature and the Director of the Program in Creative Writing at Swarthmore College. Her first collection of poems, Following Fred Astaire, was the 1998 winner of the Washington Prize, awarded by The Word Works. Nathalie Anderson's poems have appeared in such journals as APR's Philly Edition, CrossConnect, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Madison Review, Nimrod, Spazio Humano, and Paris Review. She was the librettist for the opera The Black Swan, a collaboration with the composer Thomas Whitman, which premiered in the fall of 1998 in a production directed by Sarah Caldwell. Nathalie Anderson was a fellow at Yaddo in 1986, and in 1993 she was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.
  Barb Daniels' chapbook, The Woman Who Tries to Believe, received the Quentin R. Howard Prize from Wind Magazine. Her poems have appeared in The Seattle Review, The Massachusetts Review, Poet Lore, Laurel Review, Maryland Poetry Review, Slant, and elsewhere. She received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts / Department of State for 1998 and teaches at Camden County College in Blackwood, New Jersey.

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Sunday, 1/23

• 6:00 PM in Room 202: Manuck! Manuck! a fiction writing group

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Monday, 1/24

• (2:00-5:00 PM: Engl 285 in the Arts Cafe)
• 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House: a one-hour word and music radio show. Produced this month by Kirsten Thorpe, and featuring poets Daisy Fried, KD Morris, Paul Elsberg, Andy Hahn, and Nate Chinen, and four young poets from University City High School plus music from singer-songwriters Deidre Flint and John Faye of the John Faye Power Trip. Join us in the audience at 8:00pm!

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Tuesday, 1/25

• (5:30-7:00 PM: Mellon Writing Group meeting in the dining room)
• 7:00 PM: The Craft of Screenwriting: a Alumni-Student Workshop, featuring alumni screenwriters Stuart Gibbs and David Stern. Hosted by the Talking Film Series, Student Performing Arts, and the Kelly Writers House.
  Stuart Gibbs has written "Disaster Area" for Fox, "Witchhunt" for MGM, "See Spot Run" for Warner Brothers, and "Mickey's Three Musketeers" for Disney animation. Two of his films, "The Return of the World's Most Rotten Lover" and "Repli-Kate" are being financed independently by international investors, and he is at work on "The Random Games" for New Line Cinema. Despite all this, the only big budget feature work he's done that has made it to the screen was the lines he wrote for Bartok, the animated bat in Fox's "Anastasia." (They were pretty funny lines, though.)
  David Stern began his career working in the New York theater for Director/Lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr. During his tenure with Maltby, he worked on the Broadway productions of "Miss Saigon", "Nick & Nora", and "Big" as well as a myriad of other smaller projects. Simultaneously, he began his theater writing career. He wrote the Rodgers and Hammerstein revue "Some Enchanted Evening" (Tour), the plays "Dreams & Stuff" (John Houseman Theater) and "Finders of Lost Luggage", the radio program "The 1990's Radio Hour and a Half" (National Public Radio), and the musical "Snapshots" (Westport Country Playhouse, Virginia Stage). David took a small detour into directing with the New York revival of "Starting Here, Starting Now" (nominated for a MAC Award) and a stint with The American Project at Circle in the Square. After his six years in New York, David migrated west to Los Angeles. There he wrote "Geppetto" for The Wonderful World of Disney (starring Drew Carey and Julia Louis-Dreyfus), "The Muppets Return", and "Wish" (for director Ivan Reitman). He is currently writing "Gettysburgville" for Disney and director Jon Turtletaub. All that being said, David's proudest accomplishment is writing the December 1997 Harper's Magazine cryptic crossword puzzle with his co-conspirator, Stephen Schwartz.
• 9:00 PM: The Hollywood Club meets in Room 202

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Wednesday, 1/26

• 5:00 PM in Room 202: Fellowship Writing Workshop hosted by Perspectives in Humanities
• 6:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Gregg Lambert: "John Guillory and that Obscure Object of English Desire"
  Assistant Professor of English & Textual Studies, Syracuse University, Gregg Lambert has written and published on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, contemporary literary theory, aesthetics, and current debates regarding the fate of the Humanities' disciplines in the contemporary university. This lecture is a reply to Guillory's earlier article "(Pre)Professionalism: What Graduate Students Want" (MLA: Profession '97). It is drawn from an article that will soon appear in a special issue of the minnesota review on "Academostars," and is part of a forthcoming book project titled Report to the Academy on the university in the age of theory.
• 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night
• 9:00 PM in Room 202: Sangria: An Artists' Group

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Thursday, 1/27

• 6:00 PM: Reading by Greg Djanikian from his new book of poems, Years Later (Carnegie Mellon). RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu for dinner to follow.
  Gregory Djanikian is the author of three books of poetry, The Man in the Middle (1984), Falling Deeply into America (1989) and About Distance (1995), all from Carnegie Mellon University Press. His new book, Years Later, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon this fall. His poems have appeared in such journals as The American Scholar, Poetry, Georgia Review, Iowa Review and The Nation and in many anthologies including Unsettling America (Penguin), The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and Hummers, Knucklers and Slow Curves (Illinois). He directs the undergraduate creative writing program at Penn.

  Recordings of this reading that have been made available as part of the PENNsound project can be found here.

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Friday, 1/28

• 12:00 PM: Dr. Judith Feher-Gurewich speaking on "Masculine Mystique, Feminine Mistake, and the Desire of the Analyst"
  Dr. Judith Feher-Gurewich is a Lacanian analyst and doctor in the social sciences. She recently edited The Subject and the Self: Lacan and American Psychoanalysis with Michel Tort (Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson, 1996) and is editor of the Lacanian Clinical Field Series at Other Press, New York. She is Director of the Lacan Seminar at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University, member of Espace Analytique, Association de Formation Psychanalytique et de recherches Freudiennes (Paris), member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, and a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychology. This event is organized by the Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar and hosted by the Kelly Writers House.
  Listen to an audio recording of this event.

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Saturday, 1/29

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Sunday, 1/30

• 7:00 PM: Writing Advising begins, second floor, Writers House!
• 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on WXPN

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Monday, 1/31

• (2:00-5:00 PM: Engl 285 in the Arts Cafe)
• 6:00-8:00 PM: Opening reception for two-artist student show: Brooke Wyatt and Brooke Kelly