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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Tuesday, 1/1
- Happy New Year! The Writers House is closed for programs until Monday, January 14. We look forward to seeing you soon.
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, 1/2
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.
Thursday, 1/3
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, 1/4
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, 1/5
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, 1/6
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, 1/7
- Spring Classes begin
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.
- 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)
Tuesday, 1/8
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.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)
Wednesday, 1/9
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.
- 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.
Thursday, 1/10
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.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.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 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).
Friday, 1/11
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.
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes: A poetry working group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.com)
Saturday, 1/12
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, 1/13
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, 1/14
- Kelly Writers House opens for spring 2002 programs!
- 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
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.
- 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)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick: marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
Tuesday, 1/15
- 7:00 to 8:00 PM: Spring Local Spotlight #1 featuring Don Riggs, Maralyn Lois Polak, & Daniel Moore. The Spring Local Spotlight will feature writers from around the Philadelphia area and from the Writers House community.
Don Riggs has been writing verse, if not always poetry, since the 6th grade. He participated in the Chapel Hill mid-70's poetry renaissance, and returned to school to study writing at Temple University in the mid-90's, where Susan Stewart was his professor. He now writes the regular column "On Poetry" for the Drexel Online Journal (www.drexel.edu/doj), regularly takes part in the La Tazza readings, and reads through the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. His poetry has most recently appeared in the Philly Edition of theBoog Reader.
Maralyn Lois Polak is a Philadelphia-based performance poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, editor, workshop leader, and radio personality. She is the author of a number of books including her latest, a multi-media CD-Rom, Miranda Pear's Brazen Bedtime Stories: Un-PC Fairytales for Grown-Ups," available from BooksOnScreen.com and by special order at Borders and Barnes and Noble. She's also the author of the collection of literary profiles, The Writer as Celebrity: Intimate Interviews, and several volumes of poetry, including The Bologna Sandwich and Other Poems of LOVE and Indigestion.(Meridian)
Daniel Moore was born in 1940 in Oakland, California. His first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964. His second book,Burnt Heart / An Ode to the War Dead, was published in 1972. For ten years he traveled throughout Morocco, Spain, Algeria and Nigeria, and landed in California, where he published The Desert is the Only Way Out, and Chronicles of Akhira. His recent books are The Ramadan Sonnets (1996), and The Blind Beekeeper (2001). He presently lives in Philadelphia.
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.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.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)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Room 202: Nonfiction Writers Workshop: for non-fiction writers who have been published or are serious about trying. The group will meet every other week for the semester. (Sylvia Auerbach: auersylvia@aol.com)
Wednesday, 1/16
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome!
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.
- 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.
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Fish Writing Group (Nancy Hoffmann: nhoffmann@earthlink.net)
- 8 PM in Room 202: The Film Advisory Board (Marc Brunswick marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
Thursday, 1/17
- 10-12:00 PM: Staff Webcast Training in the Arts Cafe
- 5:30 PM: Art Gallery Reception: PAFA at Penn
Group works by Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts students completing their BFAs at Penn. On view at Writers House from January 14-February 9
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.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.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 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).
Friday, 1/18
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.
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes: A poetry working group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.com)
Saturday, 1/19
- 4:00 PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents Almitra David and Lia Purpura.
Almitra David was born in Pittsburgh in 1941. She studied for a year at the University of Madrid, received a B.A. in Spanish from Dickinson College in 1963, and an M.A. from Kutztown University in 1974. She currently teaches Spanish at Friends Select School in Philadelphia. Her poems and translations have been published in various journals. Her publications include a chapbook, Building the Cathedral (Slash & Burn Press, 1986) and Between the Sea and Home (Eighth Mountain Press, 1993), and her most recent collection, Impulse to Fly, was published by Perugia Press in 1998.
Lia Purpura's collection of lyric essays, Increase, won the 1999 Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in October 2000. Her second collection of poems, Stone Sky Lifting, won the 2000 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award and was published in December 2000. A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Teaching/Writing Fellow, she has published poems, essays, translations and reviews in many magazines, including American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review and Ploughshares. She is a regular poetry and nonfiction reviewer for Antioch Review. In 1992, Lia Purpura was granted a Fulbright Fellowship to Poland to translate the work of four contemporary poets. A collection of her translations, Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash, was published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 1998. Her first collection of poems, The Brighter the Veil, was published in 1996 by Orchises Press. Purpura was awarded a Millay Colony Fellowship, multiple fellowship residencies at The MacDowell Colony, and at Blue Mountain Center. She is the winner of the Visions International Prize in Translation, the Randall Jarrell Prize for poetry given by the North Carolina Writers' Network and chosen by Mary Oliver, and, for The Brighter the Veil, The Towson University Prize in Literature, given by Towson University in MD in recognition of a literary work published that year by a writer under 40. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize numerous times, including this year. Recently, she was Poet-in-Residence at The Chautauqua Institute and at The St. Mary's Poetry Festival, St. Mary's MD, a featured reader at the Associated Writing Programs Conference in Palm Springs, CA, and a guest reader/lecturer at the First Annual Writers' Conference at the University of North Carolina. She has served as judge for the AWP Intro Journals Award in Creative Nonfiction, and for the Gertrude Lucille Robinson Award for best undergraduate writing at Ohio State University. Lia Purpura teaches writing at Loyola College in Baltimore, MD, where she lives with her husband and son.
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, 1/20
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 WXPN. For a recording of this show, click here
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, 1/21
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day : Writers 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.
Tuesday, 1/22
- 5:00-7:00 PM: Alumni Visitors Series presents a lecture and workshop led by Sheryl Simons on "The Business of Writing." Ms. Simons will discuss building a freelance writing career and provide an Overview of marketing, web-based strategies, contracts and copyrights. This program is designed as an introductory workshop. Handouts will be available.
Sheryl P. Simons is a foreign correspondent with EPN World based in Paris and a regular contributor to Faulkner Information Services. She has interviewed many of the top executives in high tech including Patrick J. Spain, CEO of Hoover's Online, Peter DePasquale, CEO of DW Interactive, and Rob Granader, CEO of Marketresearch.com. Her publishing credits include: VAR Business Magazine, Intelligent Enterprise, InfoCommerce Reports, American Writer Magazine, Collaboratek, The Kauffman Group and SAP America's Portal. For radio, on behalf of Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline, she has written more than 100 features which are heard in 660 US markets and 140 countries through the Armed Forces Radio Network. Representing the Philadelphia Local, she was a delegate to the National Writer's Union annual convention in 2001. She earned her MBA from the Wharton School.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.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)
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Punch Bowl Staff Meeting
Wednesday, 1/23
- 4:30 PM: Miriam Cooke reads from her book Hayati: My Life.
Miriam Cooke has traveled and researched in Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco and Syria. Her first book dealt with the writings of one of Egypt's leading intellectuals of the twentieth century, Yahya Haqqi. Subsequently, her work focuses on the writings of women, especially those dealing with issues of war, gender and Islam in the postcolonial Arab world. Cooke's most recent book is Hayati: My Life, a novel which gives voice to three generations of Palestinian women whose lives are torn apart by war, rape, dispossession and poverty. During the past three years, Cooke has chaired the Mediterranean Studies Group, a basin group of the Oceans Connect project. In the spring semester of 2000 she directed a program on Mediterranean studies based in Tunis. Since fall 1999, with Bruce Lawrence, she has co-directed the Muslim Networks Project.
Co-sponsored by the Middle East Center and Women's Studies.
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.
- 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.
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
Thursday, 1/24
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing: Approaches to Cultural Interpretation presents Joseph Masheck
Joseph Masheck studied art history under Meyer Schapiro at Columbia and proceeded to the doctorate under Rudolf Wittkower and Dorothea Nyberg. A former editor-in-chief of Artforum, (1977-80), he has taught at Columbia, where he was also a member of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and at Harvard and Hofstra. Masheck recently completed an M.Litt. in aesthetics at Trinity College Dublin, and is working on a cluster of essays on Adolf Loos. Recent books and parts: Building-Art: Modern Architecture Under Cultural Construction (Cambridge, 1993); Van Gogh 100 (ed.; Greenwood, 1996); centenary ed. of Arthur Wesley Dow's Composition (California, 1997); "The Vital Skin: Riegl, the Maori and Loos," in Richard Woodfield, ed., Framing Formalism: Riegl and the History of Art, Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture (G+B Arts International, 2001); Marcel Duchamp in Perspective (ed.; 1975), repr. (DaCapo, forthcoming). Recent articles: "On a Crypto-Corbusianism in Breton's Nadja," Annals of Scholarship, 13 (1999); "A Pre-Bretonian Case of Automatic Drawing: Spare and Carter's 'Automatic Drawing (1916),'" Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 38 (Autumn 2000); "Karel Teige: Functionalist and Then Some," Art in America, December 2001.
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.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.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 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).
Friday, 1/25
- 3:15-5:00 PM: Write On! Workshop (Paige Menton: paigem@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.
Saturday, 1/26
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, 1/27
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, 1/28
- 5:00 PM: Melba Joyce Boyd, co-sponsored with the Center for Black Literature and Culture. Join poet/editor/professor of Africana Studies Melba Joyce Boyd (along with several Penn student poets) for a collective reading from and discussion of Boyd's striking new anthology, Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001. Click HERE to view a flyer about this event. For more about this event, see writing.upenn.edu/wh/archival/events/2002/boyd.php.
Melba Joyce Boyd is the author of six books of poetry: Cat Eyes and Dead Wood, Song for Maya, Thirteen Frozen Flamingoes, The Inventory of Black Roses, Letters to Che, and Mi, The Province of Literary Cats (2001). She is the co-editor of Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001 (Wayne Sate University Press, 2001). In 1994, Wayne State University Press published her bio-critical study of a nineteenth century poet-activist, Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911 which has been widely reviewed and acclaimed. In 1996, Boyd completed a documentary film, The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and Broadside Press. Her poetry, which has been translated into German, Italian and currently into Spanish, and her essays, which deal with the complexity of identity in the African American experience, have appeared in academic and cultural journals, as well as in anthologies in the U.S. and Europe. She served as the Assistant Editor at Broadside Press (1972-77) and she has also published over 20 articles on African American literature, film, and the discipline of African American Studies. In the 1983-84 academic year, she was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Bremen in Germany. Similarly, she has given lectures and poetry readings throughout the U.S. and Europe. She received a B.A.(1971) and a M.A.(1972) in English from Western Michigan University and a Doctor of Arts in English from the University of Michigan (1979). She has held professorial positions at the University of Iowa, Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan-Flint, where she was the Director of the African American Studies Program, and adjunct professor at the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Wayne State University and an Adjunct Professor for the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, where she teaches film. She is the co-editor for the African American Life Series of the Wayne State University Press, where she also serves on the Advisory Board.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 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)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
Tuesday, 1/29
- 6:00 PM: Poet Jennifer Moxley, author of Imagination Verses, will read from her work. Hosted by the Creative Writing Program.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.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)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Room 202: Nonfiction Writers Workshop: for non-fiction writers who have been published or are serious about trying. The group will meet every other week for the semester. (Sylvia Auerbach: auersylvia@aol.com)
Wednesday, 1/30
- 4:00 PM: Planning meeting at Civic House for Writers House/Civic House fall 2002 Reading Collaborative.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome!
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.
- 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.
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Film Advisory Board (Marc Brunswick marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
Thursday, 1/31
- 5:30 PM: "The Mind of Winter" - A Planning Committee Gathering celebrating wintriness, with readings by members of the Writers House community. For much more information about this event--including several poems written for the occasion and read there--please see our "Mind of Winter" page.
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.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.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 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).
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