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Saturday, 4/1
Sunday, 4/2
- 7:30-9:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Rehearsal for Alex Minnaar's Noh drama
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 WXPN-FM! This month's show on Translation was produced by Shawn Walker.
Monday, 4/3
- (2:00-5:00 PM: Engl 285 in the Arts Cafe)
- 5:15 PM: Penn and Pencil Club: a creative writing workshop for Penn and Health Systems staff
- 7:00 PM: "De-Mythologizing Mobility: Migrants and the Search for El
Pueblo Libre," a reading and talk by Manuel Luiz Martinez, hosted by
La Casa
Latina and co-sponsored by the English Department and the Kelly Writers
House. Martinez will be reading from his new novel, Crossing and
giving a brief presentation from his upcoming book of literary criticism,
Countering the Counterculture: Rereading Postwar American Dissent
from Kerouac to Rivera.
Manuel Luis Martinez is a native Texan currently living in Bloomington, Indiana. He serves as an assistant professor of twentieth century American literature, American studies, Chicano/Latino studies, and creative writing at Indiana University. He began his education at St. Mary's University, San Antonio (BA, 1988), completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the Ohio State University in 1989, and earned a doctorate from Stanford University in 1997. He is currently working on a book of short stories entitled A Pound of Ojos, as well as a second novel entitled Brown Boy Running. His first novel Crossing was published in October of 1998 by Bilingual Press. It was chosen as one of ten outstanding books by a writer of color published in 1998 by PEN American Center in New York where Manuel Martinez read as part of the "In the Margins" reading series sponsored by PEN's Open Book Committee. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and the Premio Aztlan Fiction Award. His book on postwar American dissent and its literature, Countering the Counterculture: Rereading American Dissent From Jack Kerouac to Tomas Rivera, is forthcoming from Verso Press. He is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune in which he writes book reviews and literary essays.
Tuesday, 4/4
- 4-5:00pm: "U & S: Updike Reads Shakespeare"
In a prequel to John Updike's appearance on
campus on April 13, Dr. Dan Traister, Curator of Research
Services at the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library will present a
talk about Updike and Shakespeare on Tuesday, April 4 at 4 p.m. at the
Kelly Writers House.
DR. DANIEL TRAISTER is an English-language literature bibliographer in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library and curator for research services in the Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library on the sixth floor of Penn's main library. He holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance English literature from NYU and a master's degree in library service from Columbia University, where he concentrated on rare book and manuscript librarianship. Before coming to Penn in 1982, he was curator for special collections at Lehigh University, and he worked as a librarian in the Rare Book Division of The New York Public Library. An adjunct faculty member, Dr. Traister frequently teaches courses at the University of Pennsylvania on English and American literature and on the history of books and printing. He also teaches courses on pedagogy and on rare book librarianship at the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He has written articles on literature, bibliography, history, rare book librarianship, and library collection development in scholarly and professional publications. A voracious reader and avid acquirer of books, he is the program chair for the Philobiblon Club, an association of Philadelphia area book collectors and book lovers. - 6:00 PM: Steve McCaffery and Jed
Rasula, hosted by the
Creative
Writing
Department. Introduced by Bob Perelman. Reading and discussion of their
anthology, Imagining
Language.
Note that this reading and discussion was recorded and is available in free, downloadable MP3 files as part of the PennSound project.
Steve McCaffery's PENNsound page, Jed Rasula's PENNsound page.
Both STEVE MCCAFFERY and JED RASULA are well-known poets, important critics, and the anthology is a fabulous collection of the most remarkable language experiments of the last millennium, from Jacob Boehme to Gertrude Stein to Ronald Johnson, juxtaposing elegant lettristic crystallographies and kabbalistic unravelings of the Word with a great variety of Revolutions of the Word and pataphysical jacqueries. McCaffery is the author of numerous books, including *The Cheat of Words* (ECW Press), *The Black Debt* (Nightwood Editions), *North of Intention* (Roof), and *Panopticon* (Blewointmentpress). Rasula's books include *Tabula Rasula* (Station Hill) and *The American Poetry Wax Museum : Reality Effects, 1940-1990* (Refiguring English Studies).
Wednesday, 4/5
- 6:00 PM: Terry Mattingly: "Can a Christian be a
Journalist?"
Co-sponsored by the Orthodox Christian Fellowship at Penn.
Terry Mattingly is a religion columnist for Scripps Howard News Service (syndicated in more than 200 newspapers each week) and professor of journalism at Regent University (Alexandria, Virginia, campus). - Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. NOTE! Speakeasy will take place tonight at the Castle, 36th and Locust, at 9:30pm, as part of a coffeehouse benefit for Take Back the Night. There's a $5 cover charge, and there will be other performances as well. Check it out!
Thursday, 4/6
- 4:30 PM in Room 202: Twentieth Century Reading Group
- PLEASE NOTE! The following program has been
CANCELLED,
and we're hoping
to
reschedule for the fall. 6:00 PM: Agha Shahid
Ali, co-sponsored by the Kelly Writers House, Greenfield
Intercultural Center, and South Asian Regional Studies. RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu for
dinner to follow.
Agha Shahid Ali, a
Kashmiri-American, calls himself a
multiple exile.
Director of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst, he is a poet (his collections include The
Country
Without a Post Office, The Half-Inch Himalayas, A Walk
Through the
Yellow Pages, and A Nostalgist's Map of America), translator
(The
Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz), and critic
(T.S.
Eliot as Editor). A recipient from the Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts,
the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Ingram-Merrill Foundation, the New
York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, he has previously taught at the University of Delhi, the
Pennsylvania State University, the University of Arizona, and Hamilton
College.
Friday, 4/7
- 2:00 PM: Reading and discussion with Professor
Galit Hasan-Rokem
Galit Hasan-Rokem is the Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore at the Departments of Hebrew Literature and Jewish and Comparative Folklore at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her publications in English include Proverbs in Israeli Folktales: A Structural Semantic Analysis (Helsinki: Finnish Academy of Science 1982), The Wandering Jew: Interpretations of a Christian Legend (co-edited with A. Dundes; Indiana University Press 1986), Untying the Knot: Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes (co-edited with D. Shulman; Oxford University Press 1996), and most recently The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present (co-edited with S. Kaufman and T. Hess; The Feminist Press 1999). Forthcoming in the fall: Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature (Stanford: Stanford University Press fall 2000; originally published in Hebrew in 1996). Some of her work on contemporary folklore was published in Hebrew in 1993 in a book on proverbs of Gregorian immigrants in Israel analyzing the cultural interactions between immigrants and host culture. This book is in the process of being translated for publication in a Jewish Folklore series at Wayne State University Press. Hasan-Rokem also has two books of poetry in Hebrew: Lot's Wife (1989) and Voice Training Lesson (1998). She is teaching this semester at the Jewish Studies Program at the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department and the Graduate Center for Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania and working on her next book: Tales of the Neighborhood: Dialogue with Christianity in Late Antique Jewish Narratives of Gender and Territory. Chapters include: "Erecting the Fence: Theories and Strategies"; "Peeping through a Hole: Comparing and Borrowing"; "Opening the Gate: Influence and Shared Culture"; "Working the Land: Sweet Fruits, Bitter Fruits".
Saturday, 4/8
- 8:00 PM: Music from Penn undergrads and singer/songwriters Matt
Robusto
and Jamie Bard.
Songwriting has become an integral part of Matt Robusto's life in the last 7 or 8 years. Guitar, banjo, bass, and voice are his main creative instruments. It being his last year of college, he has made plans to move to Pittsburgh after he graduates and begin a life as a musician. This will be his first full performance at Penn since he arrival, so he will play songs from all seasons, times of day, periods of my life... happy, sad, mysterious, humerous, whatever. Matt's friend Paul Desman is coming here from Pittsburgh to accompany him. He will also play some intricate two-guitar fingerpicked songs and do a bit of improvisation. Matt and Paul have been playing together for about 2 years.
Jamie Bard wrote her first song on the piano in ninth grade and entered it in an earth day contest and, much to her surprise, the hiddeously cheesy thing won first prize, making it into a commercial on t.v and the radio. Since then, she started writing and began performing with her guitar, Camella, at Bowdoin College last winter. This is actually her first semester at Penn since she transferred from Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME). She is an environmental studies/urban studies major and a sophomore.
Sunday, 4/9
- 7:30-9:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Rehearsal for Alex Minnaar's Noh drama
Monday, 4/10
- 12:00 PM: Lunch with Cheryl Family and, tentatively, Randall
Lane
Cheryl Family is currently Vice President/Editorial Director of MTV Networks. In additon to overseeing all of the company's off-air print, video and multimedia creative materials, she is the creator and Editor-in-Chief of The Pages, MTV Networks' award-winning global magazine, both in print and online. Her creative work for MTV Networks and Viacom has earned all of the top honors in the field, including the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Broadcast Designers Association, Creative, Cable Television and Marketing Association and Promax awards. Ms. Family is also the author of Case #77 of the Nancy Drew Files, Danger on Parade, for MegaBooks/Simon & Schuster, and has created storylines for the Emmy-nominated Nickelodeon cartoon Doug. Her short story "Good Night, Pigskin" was a winner in Sassy Magazine's "Best Short Story in the World" contest, and appeared in the publication's July 1989 issue. Her magazine work has appeared in many publications, and she has done freelance advertising work for clients as diverse as Lifetime Television, Emporio Armani, Barnes and Noble and the Broadway show Rent, among many others. Ms. Family graduated cum laude from UPenn, where she was City Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. She recently served as Vice President of the newspaper's Alumni Board of Directors. Ms. Family also holds a Master of Arts Degree in Communications from New York University, where she was named a Centennial Scholar. - (2:00-5:00 PM: Engl 285 in the Arts Cafe)
- 3:30-5:00 PM: Conversation in the dining room with John
Simpson, Chief
Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Sponsored by the Library of
the University of Pennsylvania, in celebration of its 250th
Anniversary.
John Simpson is Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. Simpson has also edited other reference works for Oxford University Press, including the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs and (with John Ayto) the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang. He is a member of the English Faculty at Oxford, and a Fellow of Kellogg College. - 7:00 PM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows program presents Robert
Creeley
Robert Creeley is among the most accomplished and most influential living poets. He was born in Massachusetts in 1926 and as a young poet after WWII was strongly swayed by William Carlos Williams, who later praised Creeley has having "the subtlest feeling for the measure...except in the verses of Ezra Pound." Creeley helped launch Cid Corman's magazine Origin, conducted a huge and profound correspondence with Charles Olson, and soon joined Olson at Black Mountain College where he edited The Black Mountain Review. Olson admired how Creeley "lands syntax down the alley." His collections of poems include For Love (1962); Words (1967); Pieces (1969); The Finger (1970); A Day Book (1972); Thirty Things (1974); Away (1976); Later (1978); Memory Gardens (1986); Windows (1990). The Collected Poems, 1945-75 was published in 1983; So There: Poems 1976-83 appeared in 1998. He has lived in Guatemala, Finland, France and Spain, and served with the American Field Service in India and Burma. He was awarded the Horst Bienek Lyrikpreis from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, and, among many other honors, was New York State Laureate from 1989-91. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in Buffalo, New York. Edward Dorn praised Creeley as "the master of immediate speech," while Allen Ginsberg revered Creeley's "syllable by syllable intelligence." Robert Creeley held the Poetics Chair at SUNY Buffalo, prior to Charles Bernstein.
Recordings of this event that have been made available as part of the PENNsound project can be found here and here.
Tuesday, 4/11
- Morning: Interview by invitation only. The Kelly Writers House Fellows program presents Robert Creeley
- 6:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club hosts a conversation with John Hurwitz, a Wharton senior who recently sold a script to MGM, to speak about the process and development of screenwriting
- 7:00 PM: Richard Sieburth, hosted by French Institute for
Culture and Technology
Richard Sieburth teaches French and Comparative Literature at New York University. He previous translations include Friedrich Holderlin's Hymns and Fragments, Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diary, Michel Leris's Nights as Day, as well as texts by Blanchot, Michaux, Artaud and Roubaud. He is also the author Instigations: Ezra Pound and Remy de Gourmont and editor of Pound's Walking Tour in Southern France. He is currently preparing a translation of Maurice Sceve's Delie.
Wednesday, 4/12
- 1:30-2:30 PM in Room 202: Phillytalks presents a screening of Abigail Child's experimental work on film. This event is held in coordination with the Phillytalks reading and dialogue between poets Sianne Ngai and Abigail Child to be held the following day. See below for more information.
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6:00-7:30 PM: A reading and conversation with Samoan poetry and prose
writer Sia
Figiel, whose latest book Where We Once Belonged won the
Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book Award for the
Southeast Asia and South Pacific Region in 1997. Hosted by
GAASAM (Graduate Association of Asian American Students, Studies,
and Culture), Asian American Studies, GAPSA (Graduate and Professional
Student Assembly) and the Kelly Writers House.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
Thursday, 4/13
-
The Dean's Forum presents John
Updike. Mr. Updike will visit Writers House for a 11am-noon
webcast interview with novelist Lorene Cary, followed by
a buffet lunch. He will be give a public presentation at 4:30pm in
Logan Hall, Room 17. For more information, click here
JOHN UPDIKE is the great contemporary chronicler of the American middle class. He is the master of four genres: novel, short story, poetry, and essay. In each, he employs his exquisitely lyrical style and remarkable intellectual engagement with America's moral and spiritual problems to probe the inner lives of families and the mundane concerns with husband, wife, child, home and job. The author of numerous best-selling books, Updike has built a popular reputation on his work as a novelist. In his celebrated tetralogy about Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom,, he created on of the immortal characters of American literature. John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, PA. He was an English major at Harvard and editor of the Lampoon. The New Yorker published his first professional story in 1954 and continues to publish his poems, stories, essays, and reviews. In his most recent novel, Gertrude and Claudius, an imagined prequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet, Updike takes everything he has learned he has learned about modern familial dysfunction and masterfully applies it to Elsinore Castle. "The book," says Richard Eder of The New York Times, "illuminates questions about Shakespeare, about what a classic means and also the unexplored hills and forests that lie on either side of the path art pushes through then." - 4:30 PM in Room 202: Twentieth Century Reading Group
- 6:00 PM: PhillyTalks: a reading and dialogue
between
poets Sianne Ngai and Abigail Child, with dinner to
follow.
RSVP for dinner to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Sianne Ngai is a poet and critic, and the author of criteria (O Books), Discredit (Burning Deck), and My Novel (Leave Books). Her critical writings on contemporary poetry have appeared in Postmodern Culture, Open Letter, and The Poetry Project Newsletter (a review of Juliana Spahr's Response). Her essay "Raw Matter: A Poetics of Disgust" is also forthcoming in Tell It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s, an anthology edited by Mark Wallace and Steven Marks. Recent poetic work can be found in Object, edited by Rob Fitterman, Xcp (Cross-Cultural Poetics), edited by Mark Nowak, and a collaboration with Brian Kim Stefans in Interlope, edited by Summi Kaipa. She lives in Brooklyn, NYC.
Abigail Child is the author of several poetry books, including A Motive for Mayhem (Potes & Poets, 1989), Mob (O Books, c. 1995), and Scatter Matrix (Roof, 1996), as well as essays on contemporary theory in its relation to poetry and film that have appeared in journals including Poetics Journal and Raddle Moon. She is also an award-winning film- and videomaker who has exhibited her work extensively including the Whitney Biennial, the New York Film Festival, and the London Film Festival. She lives in New York City.
Friday, 4/14
- The Writers House Junior Fellows Program presents: I call it Art: Naming and Abstraction, organized by Writers House Resident and Junior Fellow Aaron
Levy and Professor Jean-Michel Rabate.
Click
>> here <<
for more information on the conference.
9:30am -- 5:00pm: This one-day conference and roundtable will specifically question the application of language to visual imagery. Of particular interest are the techniques by which we invent a specific language to represent abstract imagery. Participants include Alex Baker, Gregory Flaxman, Rayna Kalas, Aaron Levy, Jean-Michel Rabate, and Bernard Stehle.
Saturday, 4/15
- 2:00-3:00 PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents Lisa
Zeidner and Melisa Cahnmann
Lisa Zeidner (M.A., Johns Hopkins) teaches Creative Writing, Contemporary Fiction and Poetry at Rutgers University, Camden Campus. She is the author of three novels, Customs (Knopf, l98l); Alexandra Freed (Knopf, l983); and Limited Partnerships (North Point, l989); and two books of poetry, Talking Cure (Texas Tech, l982); and Pocket Sundial (Wisconsin), which won the l988 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Her fourth novel, Layover, is forthcoming (Random House). She has had fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews in GQ, Mademoiselle, The New York Times, Boulevard, Poetry, and other publications. Lisa is the recipient of the 1993 Warren I. Sussman Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Melisa Cahnmann is the author of a chapbook, Between Two Places (M-Press, 1997). She is currently on the editorial staff for the Painted Bride Quarterly, a literary magazine published in Philadelphia. Her work has been published in Bridges: A Jewish, Feminist Journal, Writing for Our Lives and has most recently appeared in the Community Voices section of the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer (9/5/99). She is now a doctoral student in Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the school experiences of urban, bilingual youth in North Philadelphia. When not studying or writing poetry, she is out on the field of Fairmount Park playing Ultimate frisbee.
Sunday, 4/16
- 7:30-9:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Rehearsal for Alex Minnaar's Noh drama
- 11:00 PM: Re-broadcast on 88.5 WXPN-FM of Live at the Writers House #5, featuring readings and performances by Lorene Cary, Aaron Yeats Perry, Ritchie Kikonyogo, Barbara Cole, Jeff Loo, Mike Magee, Acme Rock group, Holly Johnson, Louis Cabri, and Jessica Chiu.
Monday, 4/17
- (2:00-5:00 PM: Engl 285 in the Arts Cafe)
- 6:00 PM: The Creative Writing program hosts a reading by fiction writer
Matt
Klam.
Matthew Klam lives in Washington, DC. In 1999 he was named one of the twenty best young fiction writers in America by The New Yorker. He is an O. Henry Award winner, and his nonfiction has been featured in such places as Harper's and The New York Times Magazine. He has received grants from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, St. Albans School, American University and Stockholm University. His first collection of stories, Sam the Cat and Other Stories, will be released in March by Random House.
Tuesday, 4/18
- 6:00 PM: The Gay Talese Lecture Series presents Jay Parini,
"On Poetry, Prose, and Italy,"
at the Kelly Writers House, sponsored by the National Italian American
Foundation.
Jay Parini was born in 1948 in the anthracite mining country of
northeastern Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1970,
then got his PhD at St. Andrews in Scotland. While a graduate student in
Scotland he published his first book of poems, Singing in Time
(1972). Since 1972 Parini has published fourteen books, including
biographies of Theodore Roethke, Gore Vidal, John Steinbeck and Robert
Frost, four books of poems (the latest is House of Days), and five
novels. Parini is also the co-founder of New England Review. He
is the Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College. He is married
to Devon Jersild, a writer, and has three sons.
He lives in Weybridge, Vermont.
Wednesday, 4/19
- 12:00noon: Lunch with Lorene Cary, hosted by the African American Studies Program. RSVP required to Kirby Randolph at 215-724-2205.
- 4:00-6:00 PM: Reception for the Pottery and Photography programs Joint Student Show
Thursday, 4/20
- 4:00-5:00 PM: The APSC presents poet Chetana Jois speaking about Asian American Identity and reading from her poetry.
- 6:00 PM:
Theorizing in Particular hosts James English: "From Gift to Game:
Prizes in Contemporary Culture"
Jim English received his MA from the University of Chicago and his PhD from Stanford, specializing in modernist and postmodernist literature. His book Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain was published by Cornell in 1994. He is currently completing a book on prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value, with a working title of An Economy of Prestige. He is co-editor, with Lisa Brawley, of Postmodern Culture, an electronic journal distributed by Johns Hopkins University Press. Professor English has taught a range of courses in twentieth-century literature and culture, from general surveys of modernist and postmodernist literature to advanced seminars in postcolonialism and critical theory. He lives in Kingston, NJ, with his wife Eileen Reeves, a professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton, their sons Jimmy and John, and their dog Galileo. Jim English is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
Friday, 4/21
Saturday, 4/22
Sunday, 4/23
- 3:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Rehearsal for Alex Minnaar's Noh drama
Monday, 4/24
- (2:00-5:00 PM: Engl 285 in the Arts Cafe)
- 7:00 PM The Kelly Writers House Fellows program presents John Edgar
Wideman
John Edgar Wideman is the only person to have won the PEN/Faulkner Award twice -- in 1984 for Sent For You Yesterday and in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. His nonfiction book about his brother's conviction for murder, Brothers and Keepers, received a National Book Critics Circle Nomination. In the novel Two Cities (1998), a love story, Wideman explores the survival of an endangered black urban community. In Philadelphia Fire the settings include West Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s--the troubled social, political, academic landscape charred by the bombing of the Afrocentric MOVE house in 1985. Wideman is a graduate of Penn (1963), where he was an All-Big Five, All-Ivy basketball star, and earned both the Rhodes and the Thouron Awards for graduate study. After Oxford, he joined the faculty; he taught English and writing at Penn until 1972. "Wideman's writing," one critic has noted, "strides along in mesmerizing, gliding stretches."
More information available, or download an MP3 recording of the event.
Tuesday, 4/25
- 6:00 PM: Reading by poets Nicole Cooley, Abigail Susik, and
Nate
Chinen
Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and now lives in New York City where she teaches at Queens College, City University of New York. Previously she taught at Bucknell University where she co-directed the June Seminar for Younger Poets. Her first book of poetry, Resurrection, won the 1995 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and was publisished in 1996 by LSU Press. Poems from the book were also awarded a "Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Award. Her novel, Judy Garland, Ginger Love, was published in 1998 by Harper Collins. An excerpt of it was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Her current book in progress is titled The Afflicted Girls and is a book of poetry focusing on the Salem witch trials of 1692. For this project, she received a 1999 Creative and Performing Artists Fellowship from The American Antiquarian Society. The book was featured in the Missouri Review last fall, as part of their history and literature issue. Other poems from the book will appear or have been published in the recent anthology The New Young American Poets, The New England Review, Black Warrior Review, and Womens' Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. - A Conversation with John Edgar Wideman
More information available, or download an MP3 recording of the event.
Wednesday, 4/26
- 5:00 PM: Speakeasy OUTSIDE!: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night, 2nd annual Speakeasy Outdoors. Look for Speakeasy between 39th and 40th on the grass on Locust Walk -- just west of St. Mary's Church. Bring a poem or story to read!
- 8:00 PM: Sylvia at Court Green, a Noh drama written and directed by
by Alexandra Minnaar
Alex Minnaar is a senior at Penn and will graduate in May with a B.A. in English and Anthroplogy. She has an eclectic resume, with experiences that have ranged from a literary internship at the Wilma Theater to retail sales in a local Philly comic bookstore, from coursework in literary theory at Penn to ethnomusicology at University of Ghana, West Africa. Her play Sylvia at Court Green was written originally two years ago as the culmination of a class she took in Japanese Theater. It is a project in dramatic minimalism and poetry, its structure and stylization a reference the tradition of Noh (a classical form that developed in Japan around the mid-fourteenth century) and its subject matter a tribute to modern American poet Sylvia Plath.
Thursday, 4/27
- 4:30 PM in Room 202: The Twentieth Century Reading Group hosts a talk by Kerry Sherin
- 7:00-8:30 PM in Room 209: Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and
Seminar
Friday, 4/28
- Spring Classes End
- 6:00 PM: Emily Steiner end-of-the-semester class reading (small group in the Arts Cafe)
Saturday, 4/29
- 2:00-5:00 PM: End-of-the-year Ceremony for Saturday Reading Cooperative students and tutors
Sunday, 4/30
- Beginning at noon: 24 Hour Writing Advising
- 3:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, a poetry working group