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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Tuesday, 1/1
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
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, 1/8
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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, 1/15
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, 1/16
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 Advanced Screenwriting with Kathy DeMarco
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 162.301 The 2008 Presidential Primaries with Dick Polman
- 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club meeting. For more information contact John Shea (John.Shea@uphs.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, 1/17
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The EMERGENCY reading series presents a reading and discussion with Matthew Rohrer and Dorothea Lasky.
Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005
Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman,
of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty.
He has appeared on NPR's "All Things Considered" and "The Next Big Thing." His first book, A Hummock in the
Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and
teaches in the undergraduate writing program at NYU.
Dorothea Lasky was born in St. Louis, MO in 1978. Her first full-length collection,
AWE, has just come out this fall of from Wave Books. She is the author of three chapbooks:
The Hatmaker's Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and
Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2004). Her poems have appeared in Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Delmar,
Filter,
Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Carve, among others. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where
she studies education at the University of Pennsylvania and co-edits the Katalanche Press
chapbook series, along with the poet Michael Carr. She is a graduate of the M.F.A. program
for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated
at Harvard University and Washington University.
A recording of the reading is available on PennSound's Emergency Series page, and as individual files on Dorothea Lasky and Matthew Rohrer's PennSound author pages.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 121 Writing for Children with Elizabeth Van Doren
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 209: English 130.402 Advanced Screenwriting with Mark Rosenthal
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, 1/18
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Lee Eisenberg
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, 1/19
- 12:00-7:00PM in the Pub Room: First Call meeting. For more information, contact Shira Bender (shiratb@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.
Sunday, 1/20
- 6:00 - 7:00 PM in Room 202: Brave Star Orientation. Contact Aichlee Bushnell: aichlee at 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, 1/21
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing with Karen Rile
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 Writers House Fellows Seminar with Al Filreis
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34h Street Poets meeting
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
- 6:00PM in the Arts Cafe: MACHINE presents "Language as Gameplay: From the Oulipo to the Jew's Daughter," a talk by Brian Kim Stefans.
Brian Kim Stefans was born in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1969.
His
most recent books of poetry are Kluge: A Meditation (Roof
Books,
2006) and What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory
School,
2006). A book of interviews and criticism, Before Starting Over,
was
published by Salt Books in 2006. Fashionable Noise: On Digital
Poetics, a book of experimental writings that both explored and
described the nexus between digital technology and poetry, appeared from
Atelos in 2003. He is an internationally recognized digital artist and
has run the website arras.net, devoted to
new media poetry and poetics, since 1998. He currently teaches new media
studies at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and lives in
Philadelphia, PA.
MACHINE showcases the literary uses of the computer. Poets, fiction
writers, and others have been combining the networked and computational
capabilities of digital machines with the workings of literature to
produce new sorts of writing that exists online and on-screen: writing
that plays on the context of the internet, requires interaction and input
from the reader, and brings many different media together in new ways.
MACHINE is a series in which writers of electronic literature come to the
Kelly Writers House to read from and demonstrate their work, and to
discuss the literary uses of the computer with area writers and members of
the Penn community. For information about past events, visit
writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/series/machine/.
A recording of this lecture (including links to all of the works mentioned) can be found on
PennSound.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 Poetry & Poetics/Experimental Writing with Tracie Morris
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word meeting. For more information, contact Kristen Williams at kew2@sas.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 202: Virginia Woolf Discussion Group. PLEASE NOTE: This meeting has been CANCELLED. For more information, contact Judith Allen at woolfgroup@mindspring.com.
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes Meeting. For more information, contact Pat Green patricia78@aol.com
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Appetit Meeting. For more informationm, contact Emma Morgenstern: emmarm at sas.upenn.edu.
- 8:00 - 10:00 PM in Room 202: Radium Meeting
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, 1/23
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 Advanced Screenwriting with Kathy DeMarco
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 162.301 The 2008 Presidential Primaries with Dick Polman
- 6:30 - 8:00 PM in Room 202: Lacanians Meeting. 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.
Thursday, 1/24
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Mind of Winter - A Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Gathering.
Each January the Writers House hub beats the midwinter doldrums with a community celebration of wintry writing and warming food. To hear a recording of this event or read about previous "Mind of Winter" celebrations, click here. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 121 Writing for Children with Elizabeth Van Doren
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 209: English 130.402 Advanced Screenwriting with Mark Rosenthal
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Appetit Meeting. For more informationm, contact Emma Morgenstern: emmarm at 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, 1/25
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Lee Eisenberg
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
- 12:00 - 3:00 PM in Room 202: Brave Star meeting. Contact Aichlee Bushnell: aichlee at 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.
Sunday, 1/27
- 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM in Room 209: Pennumbra, a science-fiction writing group. For more information contact Josh Henkin: joshum at sas.upenn.edu.
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM in Room 202: Auditions for the Excellano Project.
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
- LIVE at the Writers House tapes Youth Poets from the Arts
and Spirituality Center. Featuring: Cathy Cohen, Bernard Collins, and Magda Martinez, along with
students from the We the Poets program, and musical guests Marcy Francis and Jan Jeffries.
Founded in 2000 by the Tabernacle United
Church, the Arts and Spirituality Center of West Philadelphia has
evolved at an interfaith and non-profit community of artists and
activists through poetry, creative writing, visual arts, music, dance,
and other media. Activities for students of the Center involve any and
all of these media. Made up of community-building programs such as the
MasterPeace program, a program that has birthed the Teens United
Performing Arts Project, Drums for Peace, a program that teaches
traditional African percussion, and We the Poets, which teaches children
how to write, read, and present poetry, the Center has become a focal
point in the community. It has even sponsored publications, such as Hold
Open the World's Door, a literary magazine from the Interfaith Youth
Poetry Project (2006). All of the programs sponsored by the Center work
to emphasize the importance of community and bring individuals from
different religious, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds together through
art and expression.
LIVE at the Writers House is a long-standing
collaboration between the Kelly Writers House and WXPN FM (88.5). Six
times annually between September and April, Michaela Majoun
hosts a one-hour broadcast of poetry, music, and other spoken-word
art, along with one musical guest, all from our Arts Cafe onto the
airwaves at WXPN. LIVE is made possible by generous support from
BigRoc. For more information, contact Producer Erin Gautsche
(gautsche@writing.upenn.edu).
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing with Karen Rile
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 Writers House Fellows Seminar with Al Filreis
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM in Room 202: Auditions for the Excellano Project.
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, 1/29
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Mary Frank, introduced by Greg Djanikian. Co-sponsored by Creative Writing.
- 7:00 - 9:00 PM in Room 202: Dead Ringers film screening. Word.Doc Film Series in collaboration with the course "Medicine in Literature and Film, 1850-2000." For more information, contact Lance Wahlert at lwahlert@english.upenn.edu.
Mary Frank, over the course of her artistic career, has worked
with sculpture,
painting, drawing, and printmaking. Her work has been collected by
nearly every major American museum including The Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum
of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of
American Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has also
collaborated on several books, including Skies in Blossom: The
Mature
Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Jonathan Cott, editor, Mary Frank,
illustrator (Doubleday, 1995); Shadows of Africa, by Peter
Matthiessen
and Mary Frank (Abrams, 1992); and Desert Quartet, an Erotic
Landscape,
by Terry Tempest Williams and Mary Frank (Pantheon, 1995). She is, and
has been for most of her adult life, a committed advocate for social
and political change regarding such issues as the environment, AIDS,
nuclear disarmament, and human rights, both as an artist and an
activist.
Watch a five-minute video of the program here
Download a recording of this event here
(from Al Filreis' blog).
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 Poetry & Poetics/Experimental Writing with Tracie Morris
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word meeting. For more information, contact Kristen Williams at kew2@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, 1/30
7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: KWH Art Gallery opening for Eidophusicon: Letterpress Work by Matt Neff, with a special presentation on traditional and contemporary print methods by Robin McDowell.
type-high: experiments in ornament on letterpress is a four-month study of the production of new wood type designs in today's digital era. Traditional milling methods were used to prepare cuts of end-grain hard maple to type-high thickness (.9136 inches, the height of press rollers). The blocks were engraved with a Xerox architectural laser cutter to create reliefs of original ornamental letterform designs. These designs represented the names of friends and professors who influenced the course of the study. Hand-drawn sketches were scanned and translated into Adobe Illustrator files, readable by the laser cutter. The resulting blocks were shellac-sealed and printed with acrylic inks on Arches Cover rag paper on a Vandercook Universal SP60 letterpress at the University of Pennsylvania's Common Press. The broadsides and an accompanying narrative are housed in a custom-made folio.
type-high marks the beginning of a larger body of work exploring conventional and experimental forms of movable ytype production and printing methods.
Matt Neff is an artist specializing in printmaking, with a B.F.A. and B.A. from Indiana University and an M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a faculty member of Penn Design, Print Shop Manager, and is involved with the Common Press, a joint effort of the Kelly Writers House, the Library, and the Fine Arts program in the School of Design.
Robin McDowell is a senior Fine Arts major in the College of Arts and Sciences doing thesis work and independent study concerning press typography and ornament.
For more information, please contact Kaegan Sparks (kwhartgallery@gmail.com).
Download a recording of this event here
The artist's statement and curator's statement are also available here as a PDF.
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 Advanced Screenwriting with Kathy DeMarco
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 162.301 The 2008 Presidential Primaries with Dick Polman
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, 1/31
- 12 PM in the Arts Cafe: "The Business of Book Publishing," a lunch and conversation with book publisher Scott
Hoffman.
A refugee from the world of politics, Scott Hoffman is one of the founding partners of Folio Literary Management, LLC. Prior to starting Folio, Scott was at PMA Literary and Film Management, Inc. He has served as Vice-chairman of the Board of Directors of SEARAC (the only nationwide advocacy agency for Southeast Asian-Americans), a Board Member of Fill Their Shelves, Inc. (a charitable foundation that provides books to children in sub-Saharan Africa) and a member of the Metropolitan Opera's Young Associates Steering Committee. Before entering the world of publishing, he was one of the founding partners of Janus-Merritt Strategies, a Washington, DC strategic consulting firm. He holds an MBA from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and a BA from the College of William and Mary.
Seating is limited; please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: The podcast series "PoemTalk" records episode #6: Jaap Blonk.
Join PoemTalk moderator and host Al Filreis and three friends in the poetics community as they discuss a single poem from the PennSound archive. Episode #6 features a discussion of a sound poem by Jaap Blonk and a conversation with Josh Schuster, Tracie Morris and Kenny Goldsmith. PoemTalk is sponsored by the Writers House and CPCW in collaboration with the Poetry Foundation. For more, see http://poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com. If you would like to be a member of the live audience, rsvp to podcasts@writing.upenn.edu.
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Miles Ornette Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz" with Howard Mandel.
Author Howard Mandel presents three avatars of the avant garde in performance video clips, reading excerpts of his new book "Miles Ornette Cecil -- Jazz Beyond Jazz" and inviting audience participation in a discussion of the music and social contexts applicable to iconoclastic artistry from the origins of the musicians' careers to this day.
You can download a recording of this event here.Howard Mandel is the author of Miles Ornette Cecil -- Jazz Beyond Jazz (Routledge, 2008) and Future Jazz (Oxford University Press, 1999), senior editor of The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz and Blues, senior contributor to Down Beat, arts reporter for National Public Radio, adjunct faculty at New York University, and president of the Jazz Journalists Association. A Chicago native living in New York City since 1982, Mandel has lectured on jazz for the U. S. Department of State, at the New School Jazz and Contemporary Music program, the Guelph Jazz Colloquium of 2007, and elsewhere. He blogs at www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz, and maintains the website www.howardmandel.com.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 121 Writing for Children with Elizabeth Van Doren
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 209: English 130.402 Advanced Screenwriting with Mark Rosenthal
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.