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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Monday, 4/1
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House, a one-hour word and music radio show that tapes at the Kelly Writers House and airs on 88.5 WXPN. This month features an All Letters Reading with Edmund Bacon, Fergus "Fergie" Carey, Julie Gerstein, John Moore, Meredith Broussard, Jane Ludin, Jennifer Snead and more.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.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.
- 4:30-9:30 PM: Live at the Writers House set-up, rehearsal, and show in the Arts Cafe
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick
marcab@sas.upenn.edu)
Tuesday, 4/2
- 6:30 PM: Theorizing: Approaches to
Cultural Interpretation presents Vladislov Todorov
Vladislav Todorov currently lectures in literature and cultural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Recently published work includes Red Square, Black Square: Organon for Revolutionary Imagination (Suny, 1995), and two collections of essays and creative works in Bulgarian, The Adam Complex (1991) and The Paradox of Theater and Other Figures of Life (1998). He has also contributed to a representative collection of experimental prose, Post-theory, Games, and Discursive Resistance: The Bulgarian Case (SUNY, 1995). A piece of short fiction, "The Four Luxemburgs," appeared in Postmodern Culture (1993); philosophical critical essays have been published by journals including the Yale Journal of Criticism, L'infini and College Literature. His work has been translated into French, German, Russian, Czech and Hungarian. He holds a Ph.D. in Aesthetics (1987) from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a Ph.D. in Russian Studies (1996) from the University of Pennsylvania.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Room 202: Nonfiction Writers Workshop: for non-fiction writers who have been published or are serious about trying. The group will meet every other week for the semester. (Sylvia Auerbach: auersylvia@aol.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 4/3
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Reading by poets Elizabeth Robinson and Beth Anderson
Elizabeth Robinson's previous publications include in the sequence of falling things (paradigm, 1990) and Bed of Lists (Kelsey St., 1990) and numerous chapbooks. Robinson's work has been included in the anthologies Writing from the New Coast; 49+1 Poetes Americains; American Poetry: The Next Generation; and The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry. She received a Masters of Creative Writing from Brown University and a Masters of Divinity from the Pacific School of Religion. Robinson lives in Berkeley, CA.
Beth Anderson received her MFA from Brown in 1994. Her first book, The Habitable World, was recently published by Instance Press. Poems from this book appeared in journals and anthologies including An Anthology of (American) Poets (Talisman House), The Germ, Arshile, The Baffler, and HOW2. Anderson has authored four chapbooks, including The Impending Collision and Hazard (The Germ's chapbook series 2002). Anderson is one of the editors of the Subpress Collective, a cooperative press.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome!
- 9 AM-12 PM in Room 202: Graduate Course (Rita Bernard)
- 9 AM-12 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 589: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 2-5 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Film Advisory Board (Marc Brunswick marcab@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.
Thursday, 4/4
- 1:00 PM: Lunchtime talk/reading
featuring poet Stephen Dunn,
sponsored by The
Philadelphia Free Library. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu required.
Stephen Dunn is the author of Different Hours, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Among his other 10 collection of poetry are Loosestrife (National Book Critics Circle finalist, 1996); New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994; Landscape at the End of the Century; and Between Angels. He is also the author of Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs and Walking Light: Essays and Memoirs. Dunn is a Trustee Fellow in the Arts and Professor of Creative Writing at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. In 1995 he received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other awards are the Levinson Award from Poetry magazine and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation.
- 5:00 PM: A poetry reading by John Yau, co-sponsored by Graduate School of Fine Arts.
John Yau has published books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, as well as contributed essays to many catalogues and monographs. Collections of poetry include Forbidden Entries (Black Sparrow, 1996); Berlin Diptychon (Timken Books, 1995); and Edificio Sayonara (Black Sparrow, 1992). Books of criticism include In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (Ecco Press, 1993) and The United States of Jasper Johns (Zoland, 1996). He edited an anthology of fiction, Fetish (Four Walls, Eight Windows, 1998), organized a Retrospective of Ed Moses's paintings and drawings for MOCA, LA (1996), and contributed a long essay on Robert Creeley's poetry and poetics to the catalogue In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations (University of North Carolina Press, 1999). He has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, General Electric Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Manhattan is his home base. John Yau was introduced by Writers House Program Coordinator Tom Devaney. Yau's reading began with his poem "830 Fireplace Road".
- 8:00 PM: Stephen Dunn reading at the Free Library as a part of the Rebuilding the Future series: Montgomery Auditorium, Central Library, 1901 Vine Street.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Meeting for the Hollywood Club
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, 4/5
- 3:15-5:00 PM: Write On! Workshop. Penn students and local writers work with Lea School 8th graders to enhance expository writing capabilities and explore creative writing genres. Participants include Janet Mason, Maurice Henderson, Eileen D'Angelo, Lamont Steptoe, Frank Sherlock, Deborah Richards, Andrew Brenza, Kathleen Volk Miller, Al Mills, Veronica Corpuz, Nnamdi Chukwuocha, and Craig Czury. For more info, contact Paige Menton at paigem@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.
Saturday, 4/6
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 4/7
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 WXPN
- 6-8 PM in Room 202: Dickinson Writers Group (Dixie Palmer: DixieTabbPalmer@aol.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 4/8
- 5:30 PM: The Alumni Visitors Series presents New York Times best selling author Lisa Scottoline. Lisa
Scottoline will read from her recent fiction and talk about practical publishing
and the writing career.
Lisa Scottoline is a New York Times best selling author who writes legal thrillers, which draw on her experience as a trial lawyer at a prestigious Philadelphia law firm and also her clerkships in the state and federal systems of justice. She is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and its law school, where she was associate editor of the Law Review. Scottoline won the premier award in suspense fiction, the Edgar Award, for her second legal thriller, Final Appeal. Her books are used by bar associations for the issues of legal ethics they present and she has lectured on the subject at law schools around the country. Her book Rough Justice was People Magazine's "Page-Turner of the Week" and Legal Tender was chosen as Cosmopolitan magazine's premier book club selection. A native Philadelphian, she lives with her family in the Philadelphia area.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)
- 5:15 in Room 202: Penn & Pencil Club
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick marcab@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.
Tuesday, 4/9
- 6:00 PM at 3619 Locust Walk: The Creative Writing Program proudly presents "An Evening with
Pulitzer
Prize-Winning Biographer Edmund Morris." He will be speaking about his new, bestselling
biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex. This is a free event that is open to the
public.
Edmund Morris was born and educated in Kenya and went to college in South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before immigrating to the United States in 1968. His biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award in 1980. After spending several years as President Reagan's authorized biographer, he published the national bestseller Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan in 1999. Theodore Rex is the second volume in a projected three-volume series about former President Roosevelt. He has written extensively on travel and the arts for such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Harper's Magazine. Edmund Morris lives in New York and Washington with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris.
- 7:00 PM: Spring Local Spotlight #4 featuring Jenn McCreary,
Kelly McQuain, and
Kyle Conner
Jenn McCreary lives and works in Philadelphia where she co-edits ixnay press and ixnay magazine. She is the author of two chapbooks, errata stigmata (Potes and Poets, 1999) and four o'clock pocket chiming (Beautiful Swimmer Press, 2000). Her work has most recently appeared in Tool a Magazine, Pom Pom, Combo, and So to Speak.
Kelly McQuain's writing has appeared in the anthologies Men on Men 2000; Rebel Yell, Vol. 2; Best American Erotica; and Obsessed. He's also published fiction in such magazines as the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review, The Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, The James White Review, and elsewhere. He has had two of his stories staged as part of InterAct Theatre's Writing Aloud performance series, and has twice been a winner in the City Paper's annual writing contest. A graduate of Temple University's creative writing program, he now coordinates the annual Spring Poets and Writers Series at the Community College of Philadelphia where he teaches writing.
Kyle Conner received his M.A. in Creative Writing from Temple University. His chapbooks include Songs for South St. Bridge and Banjo #1 with CA Conrad. Other work has appeared in MASS AVE, St. Mark's Poetry Project, and The Hat. He is the co-founder (with Greg Fuchs) of the Highwire Reading Series (now La Tazza Series) in Philadelphia.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 7-8:30 PM in Room 209: "Where's the Romance?" West Philly Women's Reading Group (Steph Strassel: strassel@ling.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, 4/10
- 7:00 PM: The Creative Writing Program hosts a reading by poet
Eleanor
Wilner.
Eleanor Wilner was born in Ohio in 1937. She has published several collections of poems, most recently Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon,1998), Otherwise (1993), and Sarah's Choice (1989), as well as a book on visionary imagination, Gathering the Winds (1975). Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 1990 and The Norton Anthology of Poetry. She is the former editor of The American Poetry Review, a contributing editor of Calyx, and her work has appeared in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and the Southern Review. Among her awards are the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Juniper Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She holds a B.A. from Goucher College and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She is the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in Residence at Smith College and has taught poetry writing at the University of Chicago, the University of Utah, Northwestern, the University of Iowa, and the University of Hawaii. Eleanor Wilner is also on the faculty of the MFA Program in Writing at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. She lives in Philadelphia.
- April 10-12 at Frost Valley in the Catskills: Al Filreis teaches
a
two-night, three day workshop on modern poetry, sponsored by the Writers
House in conjunction with Frost Valley. For much more about this program,
see
www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/poetry.html
- 7:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. The Annual Outdoor Speakeasy will take place in the Writers House garden. All are welcome!
- 9 AM-12 PM in Room 202: Graduate Course (Rita Bernard)
- 9 AM-12 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 589: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 2-5 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 7:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: The Fish Writing Group (Nancy Hoffman: nhoffmann@earthlink.net)
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@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.
Thursday, 4/11
- 6:30 PM: Theorizing: Approaches to
Cultural Interpretation presents Christine Marran
Christine Marran is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington. Forthcoming from the journal Film History is "Tracking the Transcendental: Kore'eda Hirokazu's Maboroshi." Her recent contribution, "Body Circuitries in Nineteenth Century Japanese Books of Nature" to a volume on Japanese women's texts (ed. Janice Brown), is part of a larger project on technology and gender. She has written extensively on female deviancy and cinematic sexuality in contemporary Japanese film and literature and is currently completing a book manuscript The Allure of the Poison Woman in Japanese Modernity.
- April 10-12 at Frost Valley in the Catskills: Al Filreis teaches a two-night, three day workshop on modern poetry, sponsored by the Writers House in conjunction with Frost Valley. For much more about this program, see www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/poetry.html
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 4/12
- 12-1:30 PM: A reading and informal workshop by author David Jauss. Lunch provided. Please
RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
The most recent of David Jauss's five books are Black Maps (UMass Press, 1996), a collection of stories which won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction, and Improvising Rivers (Cleveland State U Press, 1995), a collection of poems that was runner-up for the CSU Poetry Prize. His stories, poems, and essays have been published in numerous magazines, including The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, The Iowa Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, The California Quarterly, and The Writer's Chronicle. His poems and stories have been reprinted in twenty-some anthologies, most notably the Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize, and Pushcart Prize annual collections. His awards include an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a James A. Michener Fellowship, and fellowships from the Arkansas and Minnesota state arts councils. Jauss teaches creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and in the MFA Writing Program at Vermont College.
- April 10-12 at Frost Valley in the Catskills: Al Filreis teaches a two-night, three day workshop on modern poetry, sponsored by the Writers House in conjunction with Frost Valley. For much more about this program, see www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/poetry.html
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes: A poetry working group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.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.
Saturday, 4/13
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Write On! End of Semester Celebration
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, 4/14
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 4/15
- 6:30 PM: The Writers House Fellows Program hosts a reading by Charles Fuller. RSVP required to whfellow@english.upenn.edu. For more information, click here.
Playwright Charles Fuller co-founded the Afro-American Arts theater in his hometown, Philadelphia, in 1967.
Fuller
first received critical acclaim in 1969 for his play, The Perfect Party. He won an Obie award for The Zooman
and the Sign in 1980 and in 1982 he won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his A Soldier's Play. The play was
adapted into a film,
A Soldier's Story, in 1984. Charles Fuller's visit is co-sponsored by Temple University and Art Sanctuary
Watch the reading of this event here.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick marcab@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.
Tuesday, 4/16
- 10:00 AM: The Writers House Fellows Program hosts an interview and conversation with Charles Fuller. RSVP required to whfellow@english.upenn.edu. For more information, click here.
Watch the discussion of this event here.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Room 202: Nonfiction Writers Workshop: for non-fiction writers who have been published or are serious about trying. The group will meet every other week for the semester. (Sylvia Auerbach: auersylvia@aol.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 4/17
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome!
- 9 AM-12 PM in Room 202: Graduate Course (Rita Bernard)
- 9 AM-12 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 589: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 2-5 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: Preceptorial on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series with Jennifer Snead (Meredith Chiaccio: chiaccio@sas.upenn.edu)
- 6:30 - 8:00 PM in Room 202: Lacan Reading Group (Carmen Lamas: lamasc@sas.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Film Advisory Board (Marc Brunswick marcab@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.
Thursday, 4/18
- 6:00 PM: A reading by Greg Djanikian's English 113 Poetry Workshop
in the Arts Cafe.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 4/19
- Last day of Spring classes
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, 4/20
- 4:00 PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents Nancy
Mitchell and Mary Brownell.
Nancy Mitchell teaches Creative Writing in the English Department and Honors Program at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland and is guest lecturer for Delmarva Discussions on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware and Virginia. She has received grants from the Artist in the Schools Programs in Arlington, Virginia and a residency fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbrier, Virginia. Her poems have appeared in Agni, The Marlboro Review, Salt Hill Journal, Louisville Review, North Atlantic Review, Last Call, an anthology by Sarabande Books and on the Poetry Society American website Poetry Daily. The Near Surround, her first book of poetry, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in spring 2002. She lives in Salisbury, Maryland.
Mary Brownell received a Leeway Foundation grant for her poetry in 2001. She has also received a PA Council on the Arts fellowship in poetry. She has published poems in The American Poetry Review, Comstock Review, and Red Rock Review, among others.
- 12:30-3:30 PM in Arts Cafe: English 10: Creative Writing (Rebecca Grossman) Class Reading and Celebration! tentative
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, 4/21
- 7:00 PM: Penn Review Literary Magazine Reading, featuring work from winners of the Penn Review Literary Magazine and 34th Street Magazine Spring 2002 contest.
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, 4/22
- reading day for exams
- 7:00 PM: Real Lives on Paper: Documentary Stories from English 155, hosted by Paul Hendrickson and featuring Andrew Armstrong, Jeffrey Barg, Maria Catrickes, Mara Hvistendahl, Stacy Humes-Schulz, Jordana Kafka, Jennifer Lee, Bradley Olson, Abby Perkiss, Jeffrey Shenton, and Kristina Wallitsch.
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, 4/23
- reading day for exams
- 9:30 AM to noon, Arts Cafe, living room, dining room: Penn
poets tutor the young poets of
Friends'
Central School's 4th grade, hosted by Al Filreis and teacher Ginger
Fifer.
Anyone at Penn is invited to work with individual 4th graders on writing
poetry. Please write to afilreis@english.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 PM: A celebratory reading by winners of the annual Creative Writing Contest, hosted by Professor Greg Djanikian and the Creative Writing Program
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, 4/24
- reading day for exams
- 12:00-2:00 PM Downstairs: Mellon Writing Groups Final Meeting
- 7:00 PM: A poetry reading by Herman Beavers and Major
Jackson co-sponsored by The Afro-American Studies Program.
Major Jackson was introduced by
Herman Beavers, and Herman Beavers was introduced by
Major Jackson.
Herman Beavers is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his doctoral studies at Yale University in American Studies, where he also received an M.A. in Afro-American Studies. Prior to his graduate work at Yale, he completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Brown University, and B.A. degrees in Government, Sociology, and Creative Writing at Oberlin College. Professor Beavers is the author of two books, a chapbook of poems entitled A Neighborhood of Feeling (Doris Publications), and Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson (University of Pennsylvania Press). He is currently completing work on Prodigal Allegories: Constructions of 20th Century Black Masculinity in Literature and Culture and a collection of poems,Still Life With Guitar. His poems have appeared in The Painted Bride Quarterly;Cave Canem Anthology I, II, and III; Whiskey Island; Black American Literature Forum; The Cincinnati Poetry Review; Dark Phrases; The WPFW Paper; and Rain Magazine. He has lectured widely at institutions across the United States, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Duke Universities. Professor Beavers is also a member of the Cave Canem Poetry Workshop and serves on its Board of Directors.
Major Jackson was born in Philadelphia, PA, and earned degrees from Temple University and University of Oregon. His first book of poems, Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia, 2002), was selected by poet and novelist Al Young to receive the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet. A member of the Dark Room Collective, his poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Callaloo, and The New Yorker, among other journals. His poetry also appears in the anthologies Beacon's Best of 1999: Creative Writing By Men and Women of All Colors (Beacon Press: 2000) edited by Ntozake Shange; Spirit & Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (Syracuse: 1997); and Xconnect: Writers of the Information Age (Xconnect: 1996). He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Cave Canem, The MacDowell Colony, Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as a commission from The Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Formerly the Literary Arts Curator of the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, Major Jackson is currently an assistant professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana and a member of the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program faculty at Queens College in Charlotte, North Carolina.
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@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.
Thursday, 4/25
- Final Exams begin
- 5:30 PM: Art Gallery Reception: 4th Annual Penn Student Pottery and Photography show. Opens April 3rd.
- 4:00 PM in Room 209: Eighteenth-Century Reading 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.
Friday, 4/26
- 12-3:00 PM in Room 202: Heart Sense meeting
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes: A poetry working group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.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.
Saturday, 4/27
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, 4/28
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, 4/29
- 10:00 AM - in the Arts Cafe -
Modern Poetry
Symposium presented by Al
Filreis for
seventh-grade students visiting Philadelphia from The KIPP
Academy. Former Penn student Elliott Witney has taught with the KIPP
Academy, a special charter school for urban children, for several years.
Witney was among the founding members of the Writers House "hub" or Planning
Committee in 1995-96. Each year Witney and his colleagues visit Penn and are
taught by several members of the faculty, and there is an annual visit to
the Writers House. Members of the Writers House community are welcome to
join this symposium. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 5:30 PM until ??? - Annual Writers House hub party (by invitation). For more information, please see our End-of-Year Celebration website.
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, 4/30
- 2:00 PM: The French Institute for Culture and Technology presents David Applefield. David Applefield is the Paris-based author and publisher of the international literary and art journal FRANK, and will be in the United States to talk about "Publishing in Paris: Promoting International Culture from the City of Light." Applefield, author of two novels, Once Removed (1997) and On a Flying Fish (2002), has published over 1000 writers, poets, and translators from over 30 countries in FRANK, which functions in the great tradition of expat literary life in Paris. The journal features a lead interview in each issue called "Fiction & America: a Literary Conference Call," and has featured Raymond Carver, Robert Coover, Rita Dove, George Plimpton, James Salter, Edmund White, Duff Brenna and Thomas E. Kennedy. In FRANK's celebrated Foreign Dossiers, Applefield has researched and published the creative work of writers from the Congo, the Philippines, China, Pakistan, French-speaking Belgium, Turkey, Switzerland, and "Anglophone Paris," in which FRANK updates the story of expat writers in Paris today. Applefield will present his journal with selected readings from its pages and his own work. As a self-proclaimed cultural guerilla, Applefield promises to address the larger issue of "getting published" today and how literary-minded people can pursue their cultural projects on both sides of the Atlantic. Applefield is also the author of Paris Inside Out, The Unofficial Guide to Paris, and the editor of the www.paris-anglo.com web site and newsletter.
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Room 202: Nonfiction Writers Workshop: for non-fiction writers who have been published or are serious about trying. The group will meet every other week for the semester. (Sylvia Auerbach: auersylvia@aol.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.