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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).

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Monday, 5/1

• 24-Hour Writing Advising continues until 12 Noon today! (End of the year meeting, 12-2pm, in the dining room.)
• 5:15 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club: a creative writing workshop for Penn and Health Systems staff
• Reading Days

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Tuesday, 5/2

• 9:00 AM: Al Filreis and twenty Penn-affiliated young poets teach poetry to twenty second-graders from the Friends' Central School
• Reading Days
• 5:00-7:00 PM: Opening reception for art show by David Perrelli, Emily Cohen and Courtney Zoffness
  In May, Courtney Zoffness will be getting her BA in English, with a concentration in Creative Writing, and a Fine Arts minor. She along with Emily is the Co-founder and current Coordinator of Speakeasy: poetry, prose, and anything goes, an open mic nite for students at the Writers House. She mostly likes to paint and draw, and also enjoys photography. She'll be displaying work in almost every medium (including computer art, and 3-D...)
  David Perrelli is a junior majoring in English and is currently the Writers House's photographer. His passions are photography, playing the piano, cooking, and many other things that we shall not mention. At the moment, he is trying to start a literary magazine, and with much luck we shall see his product very soon. In leisure moments he can be found hanging out in La Colombe.
  From Emily Cohen: I am an English and Fine Arts double major with a drama and 2-d concentration. I work primarily with collage/ multi-media. Courtney and I co-founded Speakeasy at the Writers House and are very excited to be having our last art show together at the place where we first started working together in the first place.

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Wednesday, 5/3

• Reading Days
• 6:00 PM: Women's Long Poems Group meets to discuss Myung Mi Kim's Dura

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Thursday, 5/4

• 6:00 PM: End of the year Hub party. For more information, please see our End-of-Year Celebration website.
• Tentative: 8:00 PM: Virgin House Band last gig!

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Friday, 5/5

• Final Exam Period

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Saturday, 5/6

• 2:00-3:00 PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents Harry Humes and Louis McKee
• (Note: 1-5:00 PM: Reviews that Should Have Been Written: Poetry, the Press, and Literary History. A panel of distinguished poets and critics discuss the state of poetry reviews today. Panel discussion to be followed by readings and then a concluding reception. Featuring by Imamu Amiri Baraka, Charles Bernstein, Jennifer Moxley, Eileen Myles, Bob Perelman, Alan Golding and Steve Evans. Rosenwald Galleryl, 6th Floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, 3420 Walnut Street. Free admission. For more info call (800) 390-1829.)
• Final Exam Period

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Sunday, 5/7

• Final Exam Period

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Monday, 5/8

• 8:00-9:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: Al Filreis leads a special session on poetry with 7th graders from KIPP Academy, an experimental charter school based in Houston, Texas (and founded by Penn alumni)
• 9:00-10:00 AM: Modern poetry with 9th and 10th graders from Egg Harbor Township, led by Al Filreis
• Final Exam Period
• 7:00 PM: Reading by Lorene Cary's Nonfiction writing class in the Arts Cafe

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Tuesday, 5/9

• 3:00-5:00 PM: Ellen Braffman's last class (Selected Topics in Secondary Education, focusing on writing) meets in the Arts Cafe
• Final Exam Period

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Wednesday, 5/10

• Final Exam Period
• 7:00 PM: Prose Faculty gathering

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Thursday, 5/11

• Final Exam Period
• 2:00-4:00 PM: Peshe Kuriloff's class does a webcast run-through
• 5:30-7:30 PM: A reading and celebration of Penn student Shivani Tibrewala's play based on Tom Kromer's novel Waiting for Nothing. Shivani Tibrewala has written this play as an independent study project this semester with Professor Rita Barnard.
  
• 7:00-8:30 PM in Room 202: The Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar presents a special presentation on Lacanian Psychoanalysis, featuring Robert Levy. "Hating Your Neighbor As You Hate Yourself: The War Against Women"
  ROBERT LEVY is a practicing analyst in Paris, former member of the Ecole Freudienne de Paris, co-founder and former director of Analyse Freudienne (Paris), member of the Scientific Committee of the European Foundation for Psychoanalysis, and professor at the University of Paris XIII. He has been instrumental in the development of the Lacanian psychoanalytic movement in Spain. Robert Levy has published numerous articles on hysteria, antisemitism and the Shoah, ethnic cleansing, and violence against women. His most recent books include Le desir contrarie published both in French and Spanish. This event is organized by the Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar, co-sponsored by the Kelly Writers House, The Philomathean Society, The Undergraduate Psychology Society, and the French Institute of Culture and Technology.

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Friday, 5/12

• 4:00 PM: Suppose An Eyes: a poetry working group, in Room 209
• Final Exam Period

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Saturday, 5/13

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Sunday, 5/14

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Monday, 5/15

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Tuesday, 5/16

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Wednesday, 5/17

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Thursday, 5/18

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Friday, 5/19

• 1:00-3:00 PM: INSPIRED PROFS: A READING BY PENN'S CREATIVE WRITING FACULTY
  Join us at the Kelly Writers House for a reading from Penn's distinguished creative writing faculty. Don't miss the opportunity to hear from these talented writers and talk with them about their work. Featuring readings by novelists Lorene Cary and Albert DiBartolomeo and poets Greg Djanikian and Susan Stewart. The reading will be followed by conversation and refreshments in the Writers House living room.

  A downloadable recording of this event in mp3 format is available here.

  Lorene Cary is the author of Black Ice, a memoir, The Price of a Child, a novel about the Underground Railroad, and Pride, a novel that tells the story of four strong-willed and accomplished black women who learn loss and triumph. She is also the founder of Art Sanctuary, an African-American lecture and performance series designed to bring the creators of contemporary black arts and letters to the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia. Cary graduated with a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and earned an M.A. in Victorian Literature at Sussex University. A downloadable recording of Lorene's reading is available here.
  Albert DiBartolomeo is the author of the novels The Vespers Tapes and Fool's Gold. His short stories have appeared in VIA and Italian Americana, which also published an essay of his titled "The Literary Sensibility of Nicolo Sacco." He received his M. A. in Creative Writing from Temple University, where he studied with David Bradley and Toby Olson, and has received a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is currently working on a novel titled Cruel Spring. You can hear Albert's reading here.
  Greg Djanikian is Director of the Creative Writing Program. He has published three collections of poetry, The Man in the Middle, Falling Deeply into America, and About Distance, all with Carnegie-Mellon University Press. He has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry Magazine, and the Anahid Literary Award from the Armenian Center of Columbia University. A recording of Greg's reading is available here.
  Susan Stewart, the Donald T. Regan Professor of English, is a poet and critic. She teaches the history of lyric poetry, aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, and cultural studies. Her works of poetry are Yellow Stars and Ice, The Hive, and, most recently, The Forest. She has also published three books of criticism: Nonsense, On Longing, and Crimes of Writing. Her current research project is a study of the five senses in relation to the history of the lyric. Professor Stewart is the recipient of two grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award. Susan's reading is available here.

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Saturday, 5/20

• Alumni Day
• 6:00 PM: A celebratory reading by graduating senior Kirsten Thorpe
  Kirsten Thorpe is a Senior Creative Writing Major here at Penn who has devoted the last semester to a Senior Capstone Project involving a poetic and visual scrapbook of points of intersections between Philadelphia as a space, and her life as it relates. She has published poems in The Philadelphia Inquirer and CrossConnect and has appeared several (well, three) times on Live at the Writers House, a WXPN monthly radio program featuring poets and musicians, and often holds impromptu readings for her friends in her kitchen.
  Click here for a page devoted to her project.

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Sunday, 5/21

• 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House #12 airs on 88.5 FM WXPN

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Monday, 5/22

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Tuesday, 5/23

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Wednesday, 5/24

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Thursday, 5/25

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Friday, 5/26

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Saturday, 5/27

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Sunday, 5/28

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Monday, 5/29

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Tuesday, 5/30

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Wednesday, 5/31

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