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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Thursday, 2/1
- 6:00 PM: The first annual Caroline Rothstein Oral Poetry Event, featuring
Taylor Mali. Click here to listen to an mp3 recording
of the entire event. Click
here to listen to a 15-minute
Writers House podcast about this event.
Taylor Mali (who was born on March 28, 1965) is a teacher and poet. Generally considered
to be the most successful poetry slam strategist of all time, having led six of his seven
national poetry slam teams to the finals stage and winning the championship itself a record
four times before anyone had even tied him at three, Mali was one of the original poets to
appear on the HBO original series "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry." He was also the
"golden-tongued, Armani clad villain" of Paul Devlin's 1997 documentary film "SlamNation," which
chronicled the National Poetry Slam Championship of 1996, the year of Mali's first national team
championship. A native of New York City and vocal advocate of teachers and the nobility of teaching, Mali himself spent nine years in the classroom teaching everything from English and history to math S.A.T. test preparation. He has performed and lectured for teachers all over the world. Mali received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in 2001 to develop "Teacher! Teacher!" a one-man show about poetry, teaching, and math which won the jury prize for best solo performance at the 2001 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival.
Formerly president of Poetry Slam Incorporated, the non-profit organization that oversees all poetry slams in North America, Taylor Mali makes his living entirely as a spoken-word and voiceover artist these days, traveling around the country performing and teaching workshops as well as doing commercial voiceover work. He has narrated several books on tape, including The Great Fire (for which he won the Golden Earphones Award for children's narration) and is also the author of several books and cds of original poetry and spoken word.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
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, 2/2
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
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, 2/3
- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM at the Kelly Writers House: Write-On! meeting with the students from the Penn Alexander School. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu).
- 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM in the Publications 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, 2/4
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.
Monday, 2/5
- 6PM in the Arts Cafe: Stencil Travels with Caroline Koebel and Kyle Schlesinger, introduced by Aaron Levy.
Using their book Schablone Berlin (Chax Press, 2005) as a point of departure, Caroline Koebel and Kyle Schlesinger examine stencil graffiti through a number of lenses,
including spectatorship and performance; space and urbanity; print culture and history; and art, commerce and the author(ities).The talk will feature abundant documentation
of street art in Berlin, Warsaw and San Juan.
An experimental poet, book artist and fine press publisher, Kyle Schlesinger's
love of the written word is apparent throughout his many projects. After
coming to Buffalo, NY to pursue a Ph.D. in English at SUNY Buffalo, he created
Cuneiform Press, a nonprofit publisher that specializes in handcrafted books.
Through this venture he has published the works of many local poets, including
his own and that of the late Robert Creeley. He received his BA from Goddard,
an experimental college in rural Vermont. Recent publications include
Schablone Berlin, (co-authored by Caroline Koebel) a study of the stencil
graffiti culture of Berlin, and Moonlighting, A Book of Closings & Mantle (in
collaboration with Thom Donovan). The codex-inspired installation Reading In
Bed was featured in the Vinyl Project Exhibition at the Cork International
Poetry Festival in the summer of 2005. His essays and poems have recently
appeared in Open Letter, The Chicago Review, Golden Handcuffs Review, Aufgabe,
Drill, P-Queue and The Artists Book Yearbook. With Sasha Steensen and Gordon
Hadfield, he edits Kiosk: A Journal of Poetry, Poetics and Prose. His next book, Insofar As,
will be published by BlazeVox in the Spring of 07.
Caroline Koebel's experimental practice roams between film, video, installation,
performance, net art, curating, and writing. Her postconceptual artworks often
confront the problematics of female being-in-the-world, the expression of
subjectivities at odds with commodity culture, and how individuals embody the
collective past. Other work -- i.e. I Want to Have Your Baby -- is birthed of the
need for creative, critical and communitarian resistance to the fanatic
authoritarianism of the US administration. Caroline has a serious commitment to
DIY ethos, a fruit of her tendency to daydream and also of her teenage days as a
punk in Columbus, Ohio. Her works have been shown across the USA, as well as in
Brazil, Ireland, Thailand, Macedonia, Japan, Cuba, and elsewhere. Her writings
on art and contemporary culture have appeared in Art Papers, Dialogue, Wide
Angle, and most recently, Furthertxt and the Brooklyn Rail, and include
Schablone Berlin, her recent collaboration with Kyle Schlesinger. In the
Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo, she teaches such classes as Art
Practicing the Body, Banned and Censored Cinema, Women Directors, and
Site-Specific Installation.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile.
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting. For more information contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.net)
- 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM in Room 202: Reality Writes meeting. For more information contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@earthlink.net).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 2/6
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents a lecture with Meredith Anne Skura.
Meredith Anne Skura is Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English at Rice University. Professor Skura is the author of Shakespeare: The Actor and the Purposes of Playing (Chicago, 1993) and The Literary Use of the Psychoanalytic Process (Yale, 1981), among many other essays, book chapters, reviews, and articles on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, psychoanalysis and literary theory. Her current book-length project is titled English Autobiographical Writing 1550-1700 and the Problem of Subjectivity.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group meeting. Contact Pat Green at patricia78@aol.com for more information.
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, 2/7
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Discussion with Gary Giddins, author of the column Weather Bird, and Nate Chinen, formerly the Assistant Coordinator here at the Kelly Writers House. A part of The New Thing series, in collaboration with Ars Nova Workshop.
- 8:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy! Poetry, Prose, Anything Goes!
Nearly 25 years ago, critic Martin Williams called Gary Giddins "probably the most impressive journalist ever to have written about music." Born in Brooklyn, New York, Giddins graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa, and the following year began working as a freelance writer. In 1973, he joined the Village Voice, and a year later introduced his column "Weather Bird," which he ended in December 2003, closing a 30-year run during which he received international recognition and won many prizes, including an unparalleled six ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for Excellence in Music Criticism.
Giddins' writings on music, books, and movies have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic, Grand Street, The Nation, and many other publications. He presently writes columns about music for Jazz Times and about film for the New York Sun. His first book, Riding on a Blue Note, appeared in 1981, and was followed by Rhythm-a-Ning, Faces in the Crowd, and critical biographies of Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong that he adapted into documentary films for PBS; he won a Peabody award for writing the PBS documentary, John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen. He has been nominated three times for Grammy Awards, and won in 1987 for his liner notes to Sinatra: The Voice.
In 1986, Giddins and the late pianist-composer John Lewis introduced the American Jazz Orchestra, which presented jazz repertory concerts for the next seven years—more than 35 concerts involving Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Bobby Short, Muhal Richard Abrams, Gerry Mulligan, Henry Threadgill, Jimmy Heath, David Murray, and many others. He also produced four concerts for Festival Productions at the JVC Jazz Festival, working with Roy Eldridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Gil Evans, Lee Konitz, Joe Williams, Carmen McRae, Johnny Hartman, and, in his New York debut, Bobby Mcferrin.
Nate Chinen (C'97) is a music critic who contributes regularly to the New York Times and JazzTimes, as well as Weekend America, a nationally syndicated public radio program. His work has also appeared in the Village Voice , the Philadelphia City Paper and various other publications. He is the recipient of two recent awards from the Jazz Journalists Association: the Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in Newspaper, Magazine or Online Feature or Review Writing, in 2006; and the distinction for Best Book About Jazz in 2004, for Myself Among Others, his collaboration with the jazz impresario George Wein. As an undergraduate at Penn, Nate was deeply involved with the Kelly Writers House, serving as Assistant Coordinator from 1997-98.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
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, 2/8
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The MACHINE series presents a Flarf Poetry
Festival, co-sponsored by Combo Arts.
Note that this program was recorded
for the PENNsound archive,
and is now available, as both the complete reading and also individual tracks for each poet, here.
Inappropriate, odd, disturbing and hilarious,
Flarf Poetry is an avant garde poetry movement of the late 20th and the early 21st centuries.
The program will feature several prominent Flarf practitioners, including
Nada Gordon, Mike Magee, Mel Nichols, Rod Smith, Sharon Mesmer, Gary Sullivan, and a film by
Brandon Downing.
Nada Gordon is the author of V. Imp., Are Not Our Lowing Heifers Sleeker than Night-Swollen Mushrooms?, Swoon (with Gary Sullivan), and foriegnn bodie. Folly is forthcoming from Roof Books in the spring. Access her blog at http://ululate.blogspot.com.
At this reading, Nada Gordon read these poems: "My Favorite Things Redux," "Lick My Face," "Fountain," and "I Love Men."
Mel Nichols lives in Washington, DC and teaches at George Mason University in Virginia. Recent poems have appeared in PipLit, Forklift Ohio, Anomaly, Gargoyle, and Fascicle. She is co-editor of the journal illuminated meat, and an editor of English Matters. With Kaplan Harris she curates the Ruthless Grip Poetry Series at Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center. Day Poems was published by Edge Books in 2005.
Rod Smith is the author of Music or Honesty, The Good House, Poèmes de l'araignée (France), In Memory of My Theories, The Boy Poems, Protective Immediacy, and New Mannerist Tricycle with Lisa Jarnot and Bill Luoma. His latest collection, Deed, will be published by the University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2007. A CD, Fear the Sky, came out from Narrow House Recordings in 2005. Smith's work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Anthology of New (American) Poets, The Baffler, The Gertrude Stein Awards, Java, New American Writing, Open City, Poésie, Poetics Journal, Shenandoah, and The Washington Review. He edits Aerial magazine, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC. The next issue of Aerial will focus on poet Lyn Hejinian. Smith is also editing, with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris, The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley, for the University of California Press.
Sharon Mesmer is the author of Vertigo Seeks Affinities (poems, Belladonna Books, 2006), In Ordinary Time (stories, Hanging Loose Press, 2005), Ma Vie à Yonago (stories, Hachette Littératures, France, in French translation, 2005), The Empty Quarter (stories, Hanging Loose Press, 2000) and Half Angel, Half Lunch (poems, Hard Press, 1998). Lonely Tylenol, an art book from Flying Horse Editions/University of Central Florida (2003), is a collaboration with the painter David Humphrey. Her forthcoming books are Annoying Diabetic Bitch (poems, Combo Books, 2007) and The Virgin Formica (poems, Hanging Loose Press, 2008). Her fiction and poetry have recently appeared in New American Writing, Abraham Lincoln, Big Bridge (online), Traffic (online), LIT, Combo, Van Gogh's Ear (France), Tears in the Fence (UK), Gargoyle, The Brooklyn Rail, and in the anthologies The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology, Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Heights of the Marvelous, Poems for the Nation (edited by Allen Ginsberg), Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Anthology, Unbearables and A Reasonable Affliction: 1001 Love Poems. She writes a seasonal column for the French magazine Purple Journal and music reviews for The Brooklyn Rail. She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Hawthornden Castle (Scotland) and Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain). She received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry in 1999. She has taught graduate and undergraduate writing and literature courses both live and online for the New School since Fall '95.
At this reading, Sharon read these poems: 1) I Accidentally Ate Some Chicken and Now I'm In Love with Harry Whittington; 2) Jack Gyllenhaal's Dog; 3) Famke Janssen; 4) Atomic Bitch Wax (a play); 5) Fourteen-Midget Man; 6) My Insecurities.Brandon Downing is a filmmaker, visual artist, and writer, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2000, he has lived in New York City. His books of poetry include Lazio (Blue Books, 2000), The Shirt Weapon (Germ, 2002), and Dark Brandon (Faux, 2005). Some of his photographic work can be seen at www.brandondowning.org. A new DVD Collection, Dark Brandon // The Filmi, is forthcoming in Spring 2007. He is currently finishing a monograph of his literary collages under the title Lake Antiquity.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
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, 2/9
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 3:30-5:30 PM at the Writers House: Write-On! meeting for students of the Lea School. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@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, 2/10
- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM at the Kelly Writers House: Write-On! meeting with the students from the Penn Alexander School. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu).
- 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM in the Publications 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, 2/11
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.
Monday, 2/12
- 6:30 Arts Cafe: [EVENT FULL. RSVP ONLY] Kelly Writers House Fellows presents John McPhee
John McPhee is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of
twenty-seven books on varied topics from Oranges (1967) to Uncommon
Carriers (2006). He is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of
literary non-fiction and helped to start the "New Journalism" movement.
He has won the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters as well as the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for
his book, Annals of the Former World.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile.
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, 2/13
- 10 AM: [EVENT FULL. RSVP ONLY] Kelly Writers House Fellows presents John McPhee
John McPhee is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of
twenty-seven books on varied topics from Oranges (1967) to Uncommon
Carriers (2006). He is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of
literary non-fiction and helped to start the "New Journalism" movement.
He has won the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters as well as the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for
his book, Annals of the Former World.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
- 5:00-6:30 PM in Room 202: Meeting of the American Literature Seminar. For more information contact Hannah Wells (hwells@english.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/14
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: a reading and discussion with Susan Howe, introduced by Charles Bernstein. This event is co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics, the Creative Writing Program, the Program in Comparative Literature, and the Women's Studies Program.
- 6:00-7:30 PM in Room 202: A Poetry Workshop On Voice, Autobiography And
The Life Of Poetry, led by Leonard Gontarek. Please RSVP to Leonard
Gontarek at
gontarekl@earthlink.net to reserve
a seat.
Leonard Gontarek's books of poems include Deja Vu Diner (Autumn House Press, 2006), Zen For Beginners (Green Bean Press, 2000), and Van Morrison Can't Find His Feet (My Pretty Jane Press, 1996). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, Field, Fence, Pool, and Exquisite Corpse.
Please note that this event is the first in a series of workshops to be held on February 14, February 28, March 14, March 28, April 11, and April 25.
Susan Howe is the author of several books of poems and
two columns of criticism. Her most recent poetry collections are
The Midnight (2003), Kidnapped (2002), The Europe of
Trusts (2002), and Pierce-Arrow (1999). Her books of
criticism are The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American
Literary History (1993), which was named an "International Book of
the Year" by the Times Literary Supplement, and My Emily
Dickinson (1985). Since 1989 she has been a professor of English
at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and is currently the
Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry and the Humanities. She was elected a
Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000.
This reading was recorded and is available on PennSound.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
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, 2/15
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents "'What Is This Crackling of Voices in the Mind': Edwards, Stevens, Howe", a lecture by Susan Howe, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics, the Creative Writing Program, the Program in Comparative Literature, and the Women's Studies Program.
Susan Howe is the author of several books of poems and two columns of criticism. Her most recent poetry collections are The Midnight (2003), Kidnapped (2002), The Europe of Trusts (2002), and Pierce-Arrow (1999). Her books of criticism are The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History (1993), which was named an "International Book of the Year" by the Times Literary Supplement, and My Emily Dickinson (1985). Since 1989 she has been a professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and is currently the Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry and the Humanities. She was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
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, 2/16
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 3:30-5:30 PM at the Writers House: Write-On! meeting for students of the Lea School. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@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, 2/17
- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM at the Kelly Writers House: Write-On! meeting with the students from the Penn Alexander School. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@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, 2/18
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.
Monday, 2/19
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A lunch program with Mark
Bowden, introduced by Dick Polman.
RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Mark Bowden is the author of Bringing the Heat and Doctor Dealer, as well as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has also written for Men's Journal, Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone. The original series of articles which became Black Hawk Down earned him the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award. He lives in Philadelphia.
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Hub meeting. Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Word.Doc presents a discussion of
narrative medicine with Jack Truten (GR '93).
After a career as an R.N. in Scotland, Jack Truten secred an M.A. in English at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a Ph.D. in English and Folklore from Penn in 1993. Truten developed interdisciplinary seminars in Literature and Medicine and Death and Dying during his sixteen years of teaching at Lafayette College. For 2005-2006, he accepted the Anderson Fellowship in Clinical Ethics and Medical Humanities at Allentown's Lehigh Valley Hospital. Recently, he has undertaken specialist training in Narrative Medicine and Balint Group Leadership.
An audio recording of this event is now available. To listen to it, click here.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile.
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting. For more information contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.net)
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Book Release "So I Will Till the Ground" (2007,Carnegie Mellon), Greg Djanikian's new poetry collection.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group meeting. Contact Pat Green at patricia78@aol.com for more information.
- 8:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: SPEAKEASY! A night of poetry and prose.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
- 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM in Room 209: Steak, a ficition group. For more information, contact Moira Moody at momoody@gmail.com.
- 6:00-8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: 7-Up on Bitter.
Seven-Up on Bitter features seven people speaking/performing/singing for seven minutes each about bitter things: bitter herbs, chocolate, relationships, the bitter-sweet & beer. Expect the unexpected! Featuring chocolate maker Kira Baker-Doyle, poet and hub member Julia Bloch, failed-relationship expert Meredith Broussard, Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann, philosopher and hub member Richard Lawrence, memoirist and hub member Jamie-Lee Josselyn, and Temple University Biology Department faculty member, Dr. Greg Smutzer.
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- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
- 5:00-6:30 PM in Room 202: Meeting of Mods, the Modernist Reading Group. For more information contact Laura Heffernan (laurah@sas.upenn.edu).
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 3:30-5:30 PM at the Writers House: Write-On! meeting for students of the Lea School. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu).
- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM at the Kelly Writers House: Write-On! meeting with the students from the Penn Alexander School. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu).
- 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM in the Publications Room: First Call meeting. For more information, contact Shira Bender (shiratb@gmail.com)
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House featuring Penn Grad Student Poets and musical guest Adam Arcuragi. LIVE at the Writers House is taped before an Arts Cafe audience in collaboration with 88.5 WXPN, hosted by Michaela Majoun.
Julia Bloch grew up in Northern California and Sydney, Australia. For nearly ten years she worked in independent and progressive publishing in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she held staff and freelance gigs at Tikkun, Curve, WireTap, Bitch, and elsewhere. Her poetry has appeared recently in the anthology Bay Poetics and in the journals Orpheus, Double Room, Sidebrow and Five Fingers Review. She is the recipient of the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and the the William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry, and she has been a finalist for the Bakeless Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Foundation Fellowship, and the California Voices Award. She's currently pursuing a Ph.D. in literature at Penn, where she studies twentieth-century poetry and poetics.
Caroline Noble Whitbeck holds a BA in Classics (Latin) from Harvard College and an MFA from Brown University. Born and raised in New York City, she currently resides in Philadelphia, where she is working toward a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her short play "Woof" was produced off-Broadway as part of the Young Playwrights Festival 2000, and her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Horse Less Review, Lumina, Elimae, Cab/Net, and Word For/Word. She is the is the 2006 winner of the Gatewood Prize; her first book, Our Classical Heritage: A Homing Device, is due out from Switchback Books in September 2007.
Shonni Enelow was born in Berkeley, California, and received a B.F.A. in Theatre from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her plays have been performed in New York and Los Angeles, at the Williamstown Theater Festival is Massachusetts, and at Small Press Traffic's "Poets' Theater Jamboree" in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in PomPom, Bird Dog, Readingground Magazine, and El Pobre Mouse. Her latest full-length play, The Late Education of Sasha Wolff, will debut in New York in May as part of the Breedingground Spring Fever Festival. Research interests include post-war French theory, critical animal studies, 20th century experimental drama, and contemporary poetics.
Dorothea Lasky was born in St. Louis, MO in 1978. Currently, she lives in Philadelphia, where she is a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and co-edits the Katalanche Press chapbook series. Her poems have appeared in Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Delmar, Phoebe, Filter, Knock, Drill, Lungfull!, and Carve, among others. 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). She is a graduate of the MFA program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and also has been educated at Harvard University and Washington University. Her first full-length collection, AWE, will be coming out in the fall of 2007 from Wave Books.
Jason Zuzga is a first-year student in the PhD program in English Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He was the 2005-2006 James Merrill Writer-in-Residence in Stonington, CT and recipient of a 2001-2002 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. He received an MFA in poetry and nonfiction from the University of Arizona in 2005, and previously worked in the editorial dept. of Alfred A. Knopf. His poetry and nonfiction has appeared in journals such as FENCE, LIT, VOLT, Seneca Review, jubilat, Tin House, and Forklift, Ohio, and he is currently nonfiction editor of FENCE.
Adam Arcuragi is a Philadelphia singer/songwriter. His self-titled debut was released this spring after years of hard work crafting the songs and the recordings, and was released on High Two records. Arcuragi's debut is an introduction to a bright new lyricist who combines the icy-melancholy of Red House Painters or Mark Lanegan, with the classic Americanism of Tom Petty or Bob Dylan, the sincerity of Elliott Smith or Damien Jurado, and the sophisticated use of words typical of the Mountain Goats or Neutral Milk Hotel. His unique form of free-flowing, introspective lyrics and compelling harmonies are certain to win fans from appreciators of bands like My Morning Jacket and the Shins.
A recording of this program in mp3 format is available here.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile.
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting. For more information contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.net)
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents a lecture by Fred Moten.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: The Play's the Thing. For more information, contact Christine Otis (plays.2006@hotmail.com).
- 7:30 PM in the Dining Room: Art Gallery Reception for "Borders and Veils: Outside
Looking In", an exhibition of Julia Blaukopf's photography.
Julia Blaukopf, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of the Arts, engages
unfamiliar and sullen scenes in her photography. Having traveled throughout Italy, Eastern Europe, and Kenya in
recent years, she works to expand the concept of travel photography, and, at the same time, to confront the role of
the photographer in a foreign place. "Borders and Veils: Outside Looking In" touches on these themes while at the
same time exploring the idea of borders and boundaries — how they define and affect a scene, how they delineate
what is inside and out, what is naturalized and foreign.This show will run from February 12 to March 28. For more information, contact curator Kaegan Sparks at kaegan@sas.upenn.edu.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 202: A Poetry Workshop On Voice, Autobiography And The Life Of Poetry with Leonard Gontarek. For more information, contact Leonard Gontarek at gontarekl@earthlink.net.
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Tuesday, 2/20
Gregory Djanikian is Director of the Creative Writing Program.
He has published four collections of poetry, The Man in the
Middle, Falling Deeply into America, About Distance, and
Years Later, all with Carnegie-Mellon University Press. His
poems have appeared in such publications as The American Scholar,
The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The Nation, Poetry, and in
over 25 anthologies and textbooks. His awards include a fellowship from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eunice Tietjens Prize and
Friends of Literature Award from Poetry/ magazine, and the
Anahid Literary Award from the Armenian Center of Columbia University.
You can hear an mp3 recording of the event at Greg Djanikian's PENNSound page. This event is featured as a Kelly Writers House podcast, a 25-minute excerpt of the reading, including responses from Djanikian's readers, colleagues and friends.
Falling Deeply into America: Djanikian is masterful in his
control of where a poem is going--and the reader with it. An excellent
second volume.
--Jim Elledge, Booklist
One of the most even-tempered and joyful collections I've encountered
recently.
--Henri Cole, Poetry
About Distance: It is Djanikian's sense of precision about
distances, his awareness of the riskiness of engaging nostalgia, his
willingness to step beyond cleverness, which makes his new book so
valuable.
--Alec Marsh, The Boston Book Review
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Wednesday, 2/21
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Thursday, 2/22
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Friday, 2/23
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Saturday, 2/24
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Sunday, 2/25
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Monday, 2/26
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Tuesday, 2/27
Fred Moten is Associate Professor of
English and the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity (where he is also director of African-American Studies) at USC.
Before joining USC in 2004, Moten previously taught in African-American and Film Studies at the University of
California-Irvine, in Performance Studies at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University, and in English at the
University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Iowa. Moten's critical writings include In The Break: The
Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and Stolen Life (forthcoming). He
has also published two chapbooks of poetry: Arkansas (2003) and Poems (2002, with Jim Behrle).
A recording of this lecture is available on PennSound.
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Wednesday, 2/28
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