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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Wednesday, 9/1
Thursday, 9/2
Friday, 9/3
Saturday, 9/4
Sunday, 9/5
Monday, 9/6
Tuesday, 9/7
Wednesday, 9/8
Thursday, 9/9
Friday, 9/10
Saturday, 9/11
Sunday, 9/12
Monday, 9/13
Tuesday, 9/14
Wednesday, 9/15
Thursday, 9/16
Friday, 9/17
Saturday, 9/18

    Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.


Sunday, 9/19

    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, 9/20
  • 5:30 PM: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Meeting and Gathering. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)

Tuesday, 9/21
  • 7 PM : The Writers House community welcomes eminent poet, writer Ron Silliman. Reading and discussion. This event is part of the PennSound archive, thus downloadable MP3 files of each poem are available here.
    Photo by Jeff Hurwitz

    Ron Silliman has written and edited 25 books to date, most recently Woundwood. Since 1979, Silliman has been writing a poem entitled The Alphabet. In addition to Woundwood, a part of VOG, volumes published thus far from that project have included ABC, Demo to Ink, Jones, Lit, Manifest, N/O, Paradise, (R), Toner, What and Xing. Silliman was a 2003 Literary fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and was a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council as well as a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 1998. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works as a market analyst in the computer industry.

Wednesday, 9/22

    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.

  • 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
  • 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
  • 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@writing.upenn.edu)
  • 6:00 PM in Room 202: Word.Doc meeting. For more information, please email Kerry Cooperman at kerryc@sas.upenn.edu.

Thursday, 9/23
  • 4:30 PM: Hold for program hosted by Anthony DeCurtis in conjunction with his class, The Arts and Popular Culture.

  • 6:30 PM: A reading by author Nathalie Anderson

    Nathalie Anderson's first book, Following Fred Astaire, won the 1998 Washington Prize from The Word Works. Her two further collections - Crawlers and Quiver - are currently under consideration by publishers. Anderson's poems have been singled out for prizes and special recognition from the Joseph Campbell Society, The Cumberland Poetry Review, Inkwell Magazine, The Madison Review, New Millennium Writings, Nimrod, North American Review, and The Southern Anthology, and have also appeared in APR's Philly Edition, Cimmaron Review, Cross Connect, Denver Quarterly, DoubleTake, Louisville Review, Natural Bridge, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, The Recorder, Southern Poetry Review, and Spazio Humano; and in the Ulster Museum's collection of visual art and poetry titled A Conversation Piece. She has authored libretti for two operas - The Black Swan and Sukey in the Dark - and is currently at work on a third collaboration with the composer Thomas Whitman and Philadelphia's Orchestra 2001, an operatic version of Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia." A 1993 Pew Fellow, she serves currently as Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and she teaches at Swarthmore College, where she is a Professor in the Department of English Literature and directs the Program in Creative Writing.

    Download a recording of this event here.


Friday, 9/24

    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.

  • 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)

Saturday, 9/25

Sunday, 9/26
Monday, 9/27
Tuesday, 9/28
Wednesday, 9/29
Thursday, 9/30
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Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-746-POEM, wh@writing.upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania