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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Thursday, 3/1
- 7:00-9:30 PM: The Afro-American Studies Program hosts a
reading and book-signing by Wharton professor Ken Shropshire, who
recently published America Above the Rim: Basketball Jones.
Kenneth L. Shropshire is professor and chairman of Legal Studies at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Acting Director of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania during the 1997-98 academic year. His research and teaching focus is on the legal, business and social aspects of sports and entertainment and race and the law. He has been a member of the Wharton School faculty since 1986. Shropshire is the author of six books, including Agents of Opportunity: Sports Agents and Corruption in Collegiate Sports, winner of a Choice magazine "Outstanding Academic Book Award"; The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas, and In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. That book won a 1996 Choice magazine "Outstanding Academic Book Award" as well as a 1997 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America Outstanding Book Award. His most recent book is the anthology Basketball Jones: America Above the Rim, focusing on basketball and American culture. As a commentator his views have appeared in USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, as well as on National Public Radio, ESPN, ABC World News Tonight and Nightline. He also writes the bi-weekly "Fair Game" column on sports for Africana.com After being awarded a football scholarship, Shropshire received his undergraduate degree in economics from Stanford University in 1977 and his law degree from Columbia University in 1980. He was born in Los Angeles and attended public schools in the city. He now resides in Philadelphia with his wife Diane and their children Theresa and Samuel.Listen to an audio recoding of this event.
- Virtual Book Group 7 for Penn alumni and Penn families starts today and
continues through February 15. Click here for
details.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 3/2
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 202: Greenhouse Project. The Greenhouse Project is co-sponsored by 88.5 WXPN and the Kelly Writers House.
- Afternoon throughout the House: Write-On, a writing program for 7th graders
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, 3/3
- 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative is a literacy-enrichment program for second-graders from Lea Elementary 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.
Sunday, 3/4
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, 3/5
- 6:30 PM: The Writers
House Fellows program features a
reading and talk by David Sedaris.
David Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever, Naked, Holidays on
Ice,
most recently of Me Talk Pretty One Day, and is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's "This American Life." Sedaris made his comic debut recounting his strange-but-true experiences of being a Macy's elf clad in green tights, reading his "SantaLand Diaries" on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. Sedaris' sardonic humor and social critique have since made him one of NPR's most popular commentators. At the end of each of these commentaries, Sedaris was identified as an apartment cleaner in New York City. But Sedaris isn't "just a working Joe who happens to put out these perfectly constructed pieces of prose," as Ira Glass has put it. The great skill with which Sedaris sliches through euphemisms shows that he is becoming a master of satire. Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name The Talent Family and written several plays which have been produced at La Mama and at Lincoln Center in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award, and Incident at Cobbler's Knob. Sedaris has taught writing at the Art Institute of Chicago, and his essays appear regularly in the New Yorker. He lives in Paris.
David Sedaris For further information, go to www.writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/fellows
Watch the reading of this event here.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 381.401 (Cary)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.302 (Rile)
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club, a staff writing workshop
- 7:30-10:00 PM in Room 209: Fish Writing Group
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, 3/6
- FULL HOUSE. No more rsvp's being taken. Morning: Writers House Fellows Program features David Sedaris
- 6:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Matthew
Biro, "Raoul Hausmann's Revolutionary Media: Dada Performance,
Photomontage, and the Development of the Cyborg in Germany."
Matthew Biro is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan, where he teaches courses and seminars on modern and contemporary art and methodology. The author of Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger (Cambridge UP, 1998), Professor Biro has also published in New German Critique, Art Criticism, New Art Examiner, and Clio. His current book project examines the figure of the cyborg in Dada art in Germany.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 (Hendrickson)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Rooms 202 and 209: Nonfiction Writing Group meeting
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film 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.
Wednesday, 3/7
- RESCHEDULED TO APRIL 2: 5:30 PM: The Poets and Painters Series
presents a reading and discussion with poet Geoffrey Young and
painter John Moore. The Poets & Painters Series is co-hosted
by the Graduate School of Fine Arts and the Kelly Writers House.
John Moore is the Chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1970, he has had 28 solo exhibitions, and he is represented by Hirschl and Adler Modern Galley in New York. His paintings can be found in public collections from the Met in New York to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and have been published in a monograph, Inventing Reality: The Paintings of John Moore. Geoffrey Young is a poet and a professor of the Graduate School of Art at Yale University. His poetry and essays have appeared in Art at Yale University. His poetry and essays have appeared in Sulfur, New American Writing, Shiny, Broadway 2, O-blek, and Village Voice. His most recent books include The Dump and Skate for Lunch. He is the founding editor and publisher of the small press The Figures. - 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115 (Cary)
- 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Manuck-Manuck, a fiction writing group
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, 3/8
- 6:00 PM: Planning Committee Meeting & Gathering
Planning Committee Meetings are open to any member of the University of Pennsylvania community: students, staff, faculty. At these meetings we discuss the building blocks of the House, upcoming events, and other House business.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 4:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, A Poetry Working Group
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 3/9
- Afternoon throughout the House: Write-On, a writing program for 7th graders
- The Kelly Writers House will close on Friday, March 9, at 6:00pm for Spring Break and will re-open Monday, March 19, at 10:00am. Have a peaceful and relaxing week!
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, 3/18
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, 3/19
- Spring Break ends and classes resume
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House: a one-hour word and music radio show. Join us in the live audience! The theme for the March Live at the Writers House show is "Writers At Work." This month on "Live" we will talk about what artists do to support their art and the connection (or lack of it!) between their jobs and their writing. "Live" will feature readings and performances by KIMMIKA WILLIAMS WITHERSPOON, ANDREW ZITCER, JEFF LOO, TOSHI MAKIHARA, LORI-NAN ENGLER, VENISE N. BATTLE, DEB BURNHAM, PAIGE MENTON, MICHELLE MEYERS, KERRY SHERIN, and AUDREY SMITH-BEY.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 381.401 (Cary)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.302 (Rile)
- 7:00-10:00 PM in the Pub Room: Penn Review layout
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, 3/20
- 5:00-7:00 PM: Latin-American Connection: poets Marco Antonio
Campos (from Mexico) and Jose Antonio Mazzotti (from Peru).
Co-sponsored by the GSAC (Graduate Students Association Council), the Latin American Cultures Program, the Creative Writing Program, Festival Latino and La Casa Latina. This program will also include readings of Campos' and Mazzotti's work by Elisabeth Austin and Dierdra Reber, both doctoral students in the Department of Romance Languages with a specialization in Contemporary Latin American Literature. There will be conversation and a reception following the readings.Marco Antonio Campos is one of the most important critics in Mexico and he was one of the people more involved in the 1968 movement when few people talked about it. His writing often focused on the events having major social impact in Mexico, such as the 1985 earthquake. He's had enormous influence supporting and communicating the work of other Mexican writers. He was the head of publishing for Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).
Poet Jose Antonio Mazzotti led a new movement of Peruvian writers that brought their writing to the United States. He was born in Lima in 1961, and has had a great impact on new generations of Peruvian artists. He is an Assistant Professor at Harvard University and general editor of Asaltoalcielo publishing house.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 8:30 PM: Penn Review/34th Street writing competition reception
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 (Hendrickson)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Rooms 202 and 209: Nonfiction Writing Group meeting
- 7:00-10:00 PM in the Pub Room: Penn Review layout
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film 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.
Wednesday, 3/21
- 12:30 PM in the living room: A Planning Committee-led discusion of work by Ben Hollander, Ammiel Alcalay, and Murat Nemet-Nejat, in advance of their visit on Thursday the 22nd. All are welcome!
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115 (Cary)
- 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group hosts a presentation by Rita Barnard
- 7:00-10:00 PM in the Pub Room: Penn Review layout
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Manuck-Manuck, a fiction writing group
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, 3/22
- 12:00-1:30 PM: Lunchtime conversation with John
Banville. RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu. Organized
in collaboration with the Walnut Street West Branch of
the Philadelphia Free
Library.
Born in Wexford, Ireland, John Banville has published 12 highly regarded novels. His 1989 novel The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was awarded the Guiness Peat Aviation Award. He writes for the Irish Times and lives in Dublin. - 5:00-7:00 PM: An evening of UN-AMERICAN POETRY at the Writers
House. Join us for a conversation about writing, translation,
globalization, politics in the Middle East, the foreign poet's
relation to language, the foreigner's relation to nation,
contemporary American, Israeli, Turkish and Bosnian poetry, and more
as we welcome poets and scholars Ammiel Alcalay, Ben
Hollander, and Murat Nemet-Nejat for a reading and
discussion. RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu or 215-746-POEM for
dinner to follow. To view this program via webcast, please email
wh@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a space on the server.
Poet Murat Nemet-Nejat has translated the work of a number of modern and contemporary Turkish poets. His book of translations of the poet Orhan Veli, called I, Orhan Veli, was published by Hanging Loose Press. Sun and Moon Press has just published his translation of Ece Ayhan's books, A Blind, Black Cat, and Orthodoxies. Nemet-Nejat's own works include The Bridge, a book of poems, a collection of essays entitled A Question of Accent, and another called The Peripheral Space of Photographs.
Ammiel Alcalay is a a poet, translator, critic and scholar. He is the author of After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture, and The Cairo Notebooks. He edited and co-translated Zlatko Dizdarevic's Sarajevo: A War Journal and Portraits of Sarajevo. He has also translated two books by the Cuban poet Jose' Kozer, Projimos / Intimates and The Ark Upon the Number.
Benjamin Hollander was born in Israel and emigrated to New York City in 1958, at the age of six. He has lived in San Francisco since 1978. His books include The Book Of Who Are Was, How to Read, and Translating Tradition: Paul Celan in France (editor). His letterpress long poem "Levinas and the Police, Part 1" is forthcoming from Chax Books. Click here for a glimpse of the poem. Hollander's journal credits include work in Sulfur, Sagetrieb, Hambone, Five Fingers Review, Boxkite, and Raddle Moon. In 1993, he visited the Fondation Royaumont in Paris, where selections of his work were collectively translated into French. His work has also appeared in anthologies of French poetry, including Tout Le Mond Se Ressemble, Uner Anthologie de Poesie Contemporaine, edited by Emmanuel Hocquard. Hollander served as an associate editor of David Levi Strauss' Acts: A Journal of New Writing throughout the eighties. He currently teaches critical thinking, writing, and specialty courses at Chabot Community College in Hayward, California.
For recordings of the readings and the discussion, visit our Un-American Poetry page on PennSound.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 7:00-10:00 PM in the Pub Room: Penn Review layout
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 3/23
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 202: Greenhouse Project. The Greenhouse
Project is co-sponsored by 88.5 WXPN and the Kelly Writers House.
This week the Greenhouse Project welcomes Richard
Gorelick.
Richard Gorelick was most recently the Chief Strategy Officer at Deja.com. In December, the company sold its comparison shopping business to Half.com, a subsidiary of eBay. In February, the company sold its remaining Usenet discussion service to Google. As Chief Strategy Officer, Richard was responsible for all of the company's commercial operations, including sales, marketing, business development, finance, legal and administration. Richard led the negotiation and structuring of Deja.com's deals to sell its businesses to Half.com and Google. Richard joined Deja.com in March 1999, as the company's first General Counsel. Prior to Deja.com, Richard was a corporate and intellectual property attorney in Coudert Brothers' New York office. Richard has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. - Afternoon throughout the House: Write-On, a writing program for
7th
graders
- 2:00 PM: The Alumni Visitors Series presents "The Book Deal
and Beyond: Alumni Speak about the Publishing Process"
featuring Meg Lenihan
and Caryn Karmatz-Rudy. A reception will follow the program,
and all are welcome!
Come hear Caryn Karmatz Rudy discuss: * Finding an agent * Submitting proposals, what publishing houses are looking for * Working with an editor * The editorial process * Book layout/jacket design, etc. Meg Lenihan will focus her talk on what happens after the editorial process: * Bringing the book to market and what the author's role is * marketing strategies * Publicity strategies * how to work with online retailers * how to work with booksellers
A 1991 graduate of UPenn with a degree in English, Meg Lenihan began her publishing career in 1992 as promotion assistant at Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House. After 2 years of learning the publicity and marketing ropes, she moved onto Putnam Penguin where she worked as publicist for several bestselling authors including, Charles Kuralt, Bebe Moore Campbell and Anchee Min. A few years later, she moved onto Viking Penguin as a Senior Publicist, working on the publicity campaigns for authors such as Anna Quindlan and William Kennedy. After six years in the New York City publishing scene, Meg decided to make a change and moved across the country to San Francisco. There, she became the Associate Publicity Director at HarperSanFrancisco, an imprint of HarperCollins. At HarperSanFrancisco, Meg ran the publicity department, became more involved with various marketing activities, and worked on the publicity campaigns for celebrities such as Johnny Cash and Sidney Poitier. After two and half years at Harper, Meg decided to join the dot com arena. Currently, she is Senior Product Marketing Manager for Fatbrain.com, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble.com. Meg is responsible for all merchandising and marketing activities on their General Interest and Business bookstores.Caryn Karmatz Rudy is a Senior Editor at Warner Books, a highly commercial trade publishing house in Manhattan. Her areas of focus are women's interest non-fiction and women's commercial fiction; over her six years in publishing she has worked on books ranging from Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach and The Rules by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider to a lot of novels and works of nonfiction. Caryn was an English major at Penn, and graduated in 1992.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 10:00 AM-1:00 PM in the Pub Room: Penn Review layout
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, 3/24
- 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative, a literacy-enrichment program for second-graders from Lea Elementary School
- 4:00 PM: The Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents readings
by Henry
Braun and Leonard Kress
Henry Braun has studied at University of Buffalo, Brandeis University, and Boston University. He taught for 25 years at Temple University in the English Department. His book of poems, The Vergil Woods was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His poetry has appeared in many magazines, including The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, The Colorado Review, and the Painted Bride Quarterly. He and his wife Joan live in Maine.
Leonard Kress was born in Toledo, Ohio and grew up in and around Philadelphia. He has studied religion at Temple, Slavic languages and literature at Indiana University and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and writing at Columbia University. He has received grants in both poetry and playwriting from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. His poetry, fiction, and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, and Missouri Review. He has published one chapbook, The Centralia Mine Fire and one collection, Sappho's Apples. He currently teaches art history and religion and writing at Owens College in northwest Ohio and runs HarrowGate Press, a poetry, fine arts and book arts press, with printmaker Mania Dajnak in Perrysburg, Ohio.
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, 3/25
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 FM WXPN. Tune in for "Writers at Work": how artists balance employment, their daily obligations and their creative work. One hour of Philly-based poetry and music airing on 88.5 WXPN Philadelhia, 88.1 WXPH Harrisburg, 104.9 Lehigh Valley, and 90.5 WKHS Wharton/Baltimore. Also available on the web through www.wxpn.org. Featuring readings & performances by KIMMIKA WILLIAMS WITHERSPOON, ANDREW ZITCER, JEFF LOO, TOSHI MAKIHARA, LORI-NAN ENGLER, VENISE N. BATTLE, DEB BURNHAM, PAIGE MENTON, MICHELLE MEYERS, KERRY SHERIN, and AUDREY SMITH-BEY. Hosted by Michaela Majoun, produced by Kerry Sherin and Venise Battle, directed by Kim Junod, and engineered by Peter Holst.
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, 3/26
- 5:30 PM: Gertrude Stein scholar Ulla Dydo visits Writers House. In addition to groundbreaking research and writing on Gertrude Stein, Dydo has taught and spoken on Stein to a vast audience: to people in the theatre, poets, musicians, and others. Her newest book on Stein will be published by Northwestern at the end of 2001.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 381.401 (Cary)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.302 (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, 3/27
- 5:30 PM: THE KUTCHIN JEWISH STUDIES SEMINARS, DEPARTMENT OF GERMANICS,
CENTER FOR ADVANCED JUDAIC STUDIES and KELLY WRITERS HOUSE invite you to a
YIDDISH POETRY & PROSE SLAM. Come and hear distinguished literary scholars
from Europe, America, and Israel read and discuss Yiddish Poetry in the
original language and translated into English, Hebrew, German, Dutch, and
Russian. The program itself will last about 1 hour, followed by
refreshments. For more information, contact the Jewish Studies Program:
jsp-info@ccat.sas.upenn.edu.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 (Hendrickson)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film 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.
Wednesday, 3/28
- 5:00 PM: B-GLAD (Bisexual Gay Lesbian Transgender Awareness Days)
hosts a reading of student writing with featured
student writers. Come enjoy an afternoon of poetry and prose by some of
Penn's talented queer writers. Featuring readings by Joshua Helms '03,
Jennifer Armstrong, '02, Ninah Harris '01 and Greg Steirer '01.
Refreshments will be served. For more info please contact Ninah Harris
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115 (Cary)
- Tentative: 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group
- 7:00-8:30 PM in Room 209: The Lacanian Reading and Study Group
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, 3/29
- 7:00 PM: A reading by C.K. Williams, co-sponsored by the
Creative
Writing Department and the School of Arts and Sciences. Preceded by
6:00pm buffet reception. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
An alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, C.K. Williams is the author of over 15 books of poetry, essays, and translations from Sophocles, Euripides, and the French prose-poet Francis Ponge. He has edited The Selected and Last Poems of Paul Zweig, as well as The Essential Gerard Manley Hopkins. His many honors include Guggenheim and National Endowment Fellowships, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award for literature, and the PEN/Voekler Career Achievement Award in poetry. His poetry collection, Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987, and his latest book of poetry, Repair, won the Los Angeles Times Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for 2000. He teaches writing and literature at Princeton University.Recordings of this event that have been made available as part of the PENNsound project can be found here.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 3/30
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 202: Greenhouse Project. The Greenhouse Project is co-sponsored by 88.5 WXPN and the Kelly Writers House.
- Afternoon throughout the House: Write-On, a writing program for 7th graders
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, 3/31
- 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative, a literacy-enrichment program for second-graders from Lea Elementary 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.