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Monday, 3/1
- 5:30 PM: Penn and Pencil Club
- 7:00 PM: Philly Talks presents: Peter Gizzi and
Steve Farmer. Reading followed by conversation and dinner. RSVP
required for dinner.
Peter Gizzi was born in 1959 and grew up in western Massachusetts. His publications include Periplum (1992), Music for Films (1992), Hours of the Book (1994), and two recent chapbooks: Ledger Domain (1995) and New Picnic Time (1995). In 1994 he received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, selected by John Ashbery. His poems have recently appeared in the Best American Poetry 1995, Sixty Years of American Poetry and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative North America Poetry 1993-94 and again in 1995-1996. His editing projects have included o·blêk: a journal of language arts (1987-93) and the Exact Change Yearbook (1995). He currently teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Steven Farmer's recent books are World of Shields (w.n.f., 1993) and Medieval (Krupskaya, forthcoming Spring 1999.) More work can be seen in Crayon #2 (ed. Andrew Levy / Bob Harrison, forthcoming any day) and Object (ed. Robert Fitterman, NY.) Educated at the University of California San Diego and Sonoma State University (MA English), he now lives in the Bay Area.
This event was recorded and is available through PENNsound.
Tuesday, 3/2
Wednesday, 3/3
- 8:00-10:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night.
Thursday, 3/4
- 7:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Anson Rabinbach
speaking on "Why were the Jews Sacrificed?: Mimesis and Antisemitism in
Horkheimer and Adorno's "Dialectic of Enlightenment."
Anson Rabinbach is Professor of History at Princeton University specializing in 20th century European history, and German intellectual history. He is currently Director of European Cultural Studies and teaches courses on European intellectuals, fascism, and the history of technology. He is author of The Crisis of Austrian Socialism: From Red Vienna to Civil War, 1927-1934 (1983); The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity (California, 1992); and most recently, In the Shadow of Catastrope: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment (California, 1997).
Friday, 3/5
- Beginning of Spring Recess: Writers House closed.
Monday, 3/15
- End of Spring Recess
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House!
Listen to Kristen Gallagher's reading
Tuesday, 3/16
- 6:00 PM: Leslie Scalapino, hosted by the Creative Writing
Department. RSVP to wh@writing for dinner to follow.
Leslie Scalapino is the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and plays, as well as the novel Defoe (Sun & Moon, 1994). Among her books of poetry are way (1988), that they were at the beach--aeolotropic series (1985), and Considering how exaggerated music is (1982), all published by North Point Press.
Wednesday, 3/17
- 6:00-8:00 PM: Editor Nan
Talese, of Nan A. Talese books speaks on "What Its Like to have
Your Own Imprint: Cultivating Writers from First Novel to Booker
Prize."
Nan Talese is a Senior Vice President of Doubleday and President, Publisher and Editorial Director of Nan A. Talese books. Her most recent books are Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, which won the Booker Prize, Robert Mac Neil's Breaking News, Nine Below Zero by Kevin Canty, The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd, Chanel: Her Life and Her Style by Janet Wallach, and The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill. She and her husband, the author Gay Talese (Writers House Fellow, Spring 1999), have two daughters and live in New York City.
- 8:00-10:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes
Thursday, 3/18
- 5:00 PM: Reading by poet Barrett
Watten
Hosted by the Creative Writing Department
Part of Go West! Go International! 3rd Thursdays.
Barrett Watten is the author of Bad History, two long poems, Progress (1985) and Under Erasure (1991); Sun & Moon Press published Frame (1971-1990), a collection of eight previous works. He is also co-author of Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union (1991); former editor of "This" and publisher of This Press; co-editor of Poetics Journal; and author of Total Syntax (1984), essays on modern and contemporary poetics. He teaches modernism and cultural studies at Wayne State University, Detroit.
- 8:30 PM: Virgin House Band
Friday, 3/19
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Alumnae in Publishing presents: Caryn
Karmatz-Rudy
with a guest appearance by Cindy Spiegel
Co-sponsored by Career Services and the School of Arts and Sciences.
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. She is thrilled to be visiting Writers House for the first time and very jealous of those undergraduates who can benefit from this remarkable program.
Celina (Cindy) Spiegel is Co-Editorial Director at Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Putman. The nonfiction she has published includes Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, James McBride's The Color of Water, and the books of Kathleen Norris, the most recent of which is Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. The fiction she has published includes Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker, Pearl Abraham's Giving Up America, and The Romance Reader, Alex Garland's The Tesseract and The Beach, Aryeh Lev Stollman's The Far Euphrates, and Danzy Senna's Caucasia. Before coming to Riverhead in 1989 as a founding editor, she was an associate editor at Ticknor & Fields, and began her publishing career in the College Division of Random House/Knopf. She is also the co-editor, with Christine Buchmann, of the anthology Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible and, with Peter Kupfer, of Great First Lines: Literature's Most Memorable First Sentences.
Saturday, 3/20
- 2:00 PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents: Jeanne Murray
Walker. Jeanne Murray Walker was a 1998 Pew Fellow for poetry.
Her fourth book Gaining Time was published in the spring of 1998.
She currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Delaware.
- 2:00-5:00 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative
- 8:00 PM: David Lavin Group performs folk tunes and traditionals
Sunday, 3/21
- 1:00-3:30 PM: Harris Steinberg, sponsored by the Victorian Society
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 FM, WXPN
Monday, 3/22
- 7:00 PM: Poet Robin
Becker! Co-sponsored by B-GLAD: Bisexual Gay
Lesbian Transgender Awareness Days, Women's Studies, and the Young
Women's Advisory Group of Planned Parenthood.
Robin Becker is Associate Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. This fall she was Visiting Scholar at The Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at The City University of New York. She's currently working on new manuscript entitled Why We Fear the Amish.
The Young Women's Advisory Group of Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania is a group of young women between the ages of 18-30 committed to planning and hosting events in the Resource Center. These events are geared to women of the same age group with the purpose of informing and enriching their lives as young women today. Past events have included a women's self defense workshop, a poetry reading, and a forum on reproductive rights. Listen to and audio recording.
Tuesday, 3/23
- Writers House Low-Pulse Day! Come by and play chess in the living room, be mellow, read!
Wednesday, 3/24
- 2:00-3:00 PM: Maxine
Hong Kingston: "The Writing of Woman Warrior."
RSVP and short statement required by Friday, March 19, to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of two earlier books: The Woman Warrior -- Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction, and China Men, winner of the National Book Award for non-fiction. Tripmaster Monkey -- His Fake Book is her first novel. She lives in Oakland, California, and is married to Earll Kingston, an actor; they have a son Joseph Kingston, a musician. - 6:00 PM: Alumni Writers Series presents Sabrina Eaton:
"What Does It Mean to be a Washington Correspondent?"
Sabrina Eaton graduated from Penn in 1985. While she was at Penn, she reported for the DP, was the Editor-in-Chief for Street, was named a Columnist of the Year, and interned at Inside Magazine and Time Incorporated, among others. After graduation Eaton worked for a number of small papers, eventually becoming the Washington correspondent for the States News Service, where she covered the Missouri delegation for the St. Louis Sun and other newspapers for a combined circulation of 800,000. She has been the Washington correspondent for the Cleveland, OH Plain Dealer since 1990, covering the Ohio Congressional delegation and politics.
Thursday, 3/25
- 5:00 PM: Poet Stephen Dunn reads in the
Arts Cafe. RSVP to wh@writing for dinner to follow.
Stephen Dunn is the author of 10 collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Loosestrife, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996. His newest book, Riffs and Reciprocities,, is a collections of short, related prose pieces "which make us think," says Stephen Dobyns, "about the world, about language and ourselves in relation to both. One can ask no more of writing unless it be that it should touch our hearts, which these miniatures do in abundance." In 1995, Dunn received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also won the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine and fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey.Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 8:30 PM: Virgin House Band
Friday, 3/26
- The Humanities Forum presents:
A Celebration of Philadelphia Writers
All events are open to the public and free unless otherwise noted ($$). PLEASE NOTE! Unless noted, these events will not take place at The Writers House.8:00-10:00 AM: Breakfast at White Dog Cafe: "So, You Want To Get Published?" ($$)
10:00-12:00 AM: Communities and Writers (200 College Hall)
12:00-2:00 PM: Writing in Philly & Luncheon (Palladium Restaurant, Memorial Hall, Locust Walk & 36th Street)($$)**
2:00-4:00 PM: Philadelphia in Film (Logan Hall, Terrace Room, Locust Walk & 36th Street)
4:15-5:30 PM: Exhibition Opening and Book Signing (Rosenwald Gallery, Van Pelt Library)5:30-7:30 PM: Philadelphia Small Presses Dinner (Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Penn)
Philadelphia is experiencing a literary renaissance, thanks to the many dedicated poets and writers who run reading series, publish literary journals, and run small presses here in Philadelphia. Join some of Philadelphia's literary innovators at the Kelly Writers House for a roundtable conversation about Philadelphia's lively publishing scene.
Panelists include: Chris and Jenn McCreary of Ixnay Press Dave Deifer of Xconnect Michael Magee of Combo Heather Thomas, Alicia Askenase and other editors of 6ix Gil Ott of the Philadelphia Publishing Project and Singing Horse Press Louis Cabri of PhillyTalks Kristen Gallagher of Handwritten Press Jena Osman of Chain
8:00 PM: _The Chosen_, Arden Theatre ($$ Call box office for tickets: (215) 922-1122)
8:00PM-12AM: Interplay of Philadelphia Jazz and Poetry, Clef Club (736 S. Broad St.) ($$)**
10:00 PM-12:00AM: Open mike poetry jam hosted by Kelly Writers House, Clef Club (736 S. Broad Street) ($$)
Saturday, 3/27
- The Humanities Forum presents:
A Celebration of Philadelphia Writers
11:00AM-2:00PM: Philadelphia Readings and Exhibitions:
--Library of the American Philosophical Society, 105 S. Fifth Street (between Chestnut and Walnut - entrance on Library Street) NON-FICTION READINGS
--Edgar Allan Poe National Historical Site, 532 N. Seventh Street (at Spring Garden) POE READINGS
--Franklin Inn, 205 S. Camac Street (between Broad & 13th near Locust) HISTORICAL READINGS
--Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street (13th & Locust) FICTION READINGS
--Race Street Meeting House, 1501 Cherry Street (15th & Cherry) QUAKER READINGS
--Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2010 DeLancy Place (between Spruce and Pine near 20th) POETRY READINGS11:00AM-2:00PM: Poor Richards Walking Tours of "Literary Philadelphia" ($$)
Take a one-hour walking tour of literary Philadelphia, $5 donation per person.
11:00AM-12:00PM: Tour 1: "Print Culture in Colonial Philadelphia and the Early Republic"
12:00-1:00PM: Tour 2: "Literature and the Industrial Metropolis"
1:00-2:00PM: Tour 3: "The South Street Novels and Post-Industrial Philadelphia"11:00-1:00 PM: Readings by area writers at Xando Coffee and Bar cafes organized by Writers House
2:00-4:30 PM: Main Program (Free Library Auditorium) - 1:00-4:00 PM Greater Philadelphia Haiku
Workshop! Sponsored by the
Haiku Society of North America. Dr. Linda H. Chance, Associate Professor
of Japanese, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of
Pennsylvania will be speaking on "Writing Haiku as a
Buddhist Discipline." For more information and to let us
know that you'll be attending this afternoon-long program, please
e-mail Richmond Williams at rdwms@udel.edu.
Linda Chance is Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Pennsyvania. Chance's literary specialization is classical and medieval Japanese prose. Her main interest is in the form of Japanese writing, how it was read and interpreted over time, and what both those things might say about the culture. A book, Formless in Form: Kanko, Tsurezuregusa, and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. - 2:00-5:00 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative
- 5:00-7:00 PM: Javarama: Allies Style
A coffeehouse among allies supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people
- 8:00-10:00PM: Full Circle, an Open Mic for Philadelphia-area poets, hosted by Cecily Kellogg and Charlie O'Hay. Featuring Marilyn Lois Pollack and AnnAdele Wight. An open reading will follow.
Sunday, 3/28
Monday, 3/29
- 4:30 PM: Surrena Goldsmith
Surrena Goldsmith is a playwright, aspiring novelist, and poet. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan in 1996. Her play Blue was directed by John Russell Brown and performed in London in November 1998. She is currently completing a novel of the same name.
Listen to an audio recording of this event. - 8:00 PM: African Studies Poetry Night
Come listen to beautiful African poetry, writings, and essays. All those are invited who would like to share some of their own work. Refreshments will be served.
Tuesday, 3/30
- 6:00 PM: Reading by Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis has received NEA and Ingram Merrill fellowships for her fiction and translations, as well as a Whiting Writers' Award. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Bard College. The End of the Story and Break it Down are both published by Serpent's Tail/High Risk Books. Davis is also one of the foremost American translators of French, having translated work by Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Pierre Jean Jouve, Justine Levy, and Michel Leiris. She is currently working on a new translation of Proust's Swann's Way.
This program was recorded is available through PENNsound.
- 7:00 PM: Talking Film presents Kathy DeMarco
Kathy DeMarco is a writer and producer at John Leguizamo's film production company Lower East Side Films.
Wednesday, 3/31
- Passover
- 8:30-10:30 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night
