WH Calendar: October 2000

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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Sunday, 10/1

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, 10/2

6:00-10:00 PM: Live at the Writers House: a one-hour word and music radio show. Join us in the live audience at 8:00 PM! This month's show features readings and performances by Carole Bernstein, Holly Johnson, Herman Beavers, Mytili Jagannathan, Cathy Crimmins, Peter Rock, Jenn McCreary, and musical guest Nancy Falkow.

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.

2-5:00pm in Room 209: English 116 (Lapadula)

2-5:00pm in Room 202: English 112 (Rile)

5:15-7:00 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club: a creative writing workshop for Penn staff

6:30-9:00pm in Room 209: English 10 (Sherin)

Tuesday, 10/3

6:00 PM: PhillyTalks #17 with poets Steve McCaffery and Lisa Robertson.
RSVP for dinner to follow to 215-746-POEM or wh@writing.upenn.edu. This program was recorded and is now available on the web here.
Steve 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).
Lisa Robertson's books and chapbooks include The Apothecary (Tsunami 1991), XEclogue (Tsunami 1993; rev. New Star 1999), The Badge (The Berkeley Horse/Mindware 1994), The Descent (Meow 1996), Debbie: an epic (New Star 1997) and Soft Architecture: A Manifesto (Artspeak/Dazibao 1999). Her recent poetry and criticism appears in American Book Review, Big Allis, Boundary2, Mix, Nest: a magazine of interiors, Raddle Moon, Sulphur, Stand and West Coast Line. "From the office for Soft Architecture" is serialized in Front magazine (December 1999-ongoing). A selection from The Weather is published in W #1.

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.

9-10:30 AM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-301 (Lamas)
10:30-12 PM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-303 (Lamas)
10:30-12 PM in Room 209: English 65 (Barnard)
3-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
5:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Jena Osman's Documentary Poetics class will be meeting in Room 202 this evening and attending the PhillyTalks program
7:00-10:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review meeting
9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Punchbowl meeting

Wednesday, 10/4

7:00 PM: The Alumni Visitors Series presents a reading and conversation with Brian Peterson.
Brian Peterson was born in Harrisburg, PA on December 24, 1971, and resided there until leaving for the University of Pennsylvania to study computer science and engineering in 1989. While at Penn he became very involved in the National Society of Black Engineers, Positive Images (a tutoring/mentoring program), The Vision (an independent paper on campus focussing on African-American concerns) and W.E.B. DuBois College House (his dormitory for 4 years). He graduated from Penn in 1993 with a BSE in Computer Science and Engineering and a minor in African American studies. He remained in the Philadelphia area after graduation and began working at Penn in a computer/technical support position. He eventually shifted departments and became the coordinator for the Residential Computing Labs at Penn (the position he currently hold). In 1995 he began taking classes again part time, and in 1997 he received his Master's in Secondary Education, specializing in Mathematics. During his time in graduate school, and for a few years to follow, he was fortunate enough to "return home" so-to-speak by joining the residence staff of DuBois College House. There, he was an Education Fellow and Graduate Associate, responsible for assisting in organizing cultural and academic programs for approximately 180 residents, as well as the broader African-American community at Penn. In January 2000, through his connection with the DuBois College House, he, along with several undergraduate students, began an African-centered Saturday school for area junior high students called Ase (ah-shay). He was on the development team and functioned as the mathematics instructor for the 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.

9-12:00 noon in Room 202: English 775 (Barnard)
12-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 589 (Filreis)
2-5:00 PM in Room 209: Documentary class (Hendrickson)
6:30-9:30 PM in Room 202: English 415 (Rock)

Thursday, 10/5

4:30 PM: "The Reading Behind the Writing," a conversation with poet Myung Mi-Kim. This visit is a collaboration with Temple University's Creative Writing Program. Myung Mi-Kim will be reading this evening at 8:00 PM at the Temple University Center City, 1616 Walnut Street, 16th floor, free and open to the public.
The reading behind the writing. Traced languages. First languages. Maps and lists. Procedures that announced themselves. Myung Mi-Kim will visit Writers House on October 5 to talk about her process -- and yours. She'll talk first about the process she came upon while writing her book-length poem Dura, in particular the sections "Cosmography" and "Thirty in Five Books." Come with a piece of your own where you are attempting a particular process or procedure, or a piece in which you found yourself using an unexpected way to structure your writing. Bring your questions about process and examples of your own work to share and discuss. The size of this discussion will be limited, so you must RSVP to 215-746-POEM or wh@writing.upenn.edu. Dinner will follow the program in the Writers House dining room (RSVP required).

This program was recorded and is available for free through PENNsound

4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: The Twentieth Century Reading Group ("Mods") presents Vicki Mahaffey on "How Modernism Ended."
7:30-9:00 PM in the dining and living rooms: Mellon Writing Group Meeting (Beth Pollard)

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.

9-10:30 AM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-301 (Lamas)
10:30-12:00noon in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-303 (Lamas)
3-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Twentieth Century Reading Group (Mods)
6:00-7:00 PM in Room 202: Mellon Writing Group meeting (Maria Gindhart)
7:30-9:00 PM in the dining and living rooms: Mellon Writing Group Meeting (Beth Pollard)
8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle

Friday, 10/6

3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Write-On Volunteer Planning Meeting

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, 10/7

7:00 PM: Xconnect Unveiling Party, featuring readings by Ben Miller and Rebecca Wolff
Ben Miller's fictions, poems and essays have appeared in many publications and new work can be found in recent or upcoming issues of McSweeney's, Other Voices, Seneca Review, VOLT, First Intensity, Spinning Jenny, Web Del Sol, New York Stories, American Letters & Commentary, Fence, Century, The Montserrat Review, and Happy. In addition, he has co-authored an adaptation of Alfred Jarry's "Ubu sur la Butte," mounted in 1999, at The Medicine Show theater in New York City. His awards include a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Rebecca Wolff is the editor of Fence. Her first book of poems, Manderley, is forthcoming from Provincetown Arts Press. Manderley was chosen by Robert Pinsky for the National Poetry Series and will be published by University of Illinois Press.

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, 10/8

8:00-10:00 in the Arts Cafe: a reading and discussion on Yom Kippur hosted by the Hillel Committee on Education

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, 10/9

During the day: Pete Cook hangs his October/November show (on display 10/10 through 11/30)
2:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular hosts Dorothea Olkowski on "Matter in Motion, The Cinema Image, Feminism and Architecture." In this talk, Dorothea Olkowski will range over a variety of artistic and philosophical questions in order to re-evaluate and revitalize the project of feminist philosophy. Like her most recent book, _Gilles Deleuze and the Ruins of Representation_ (California, 1999), which takes as its point of departure the work of artist Mary Kelly, Olkowski's talk will analyze the affective principles of cinema and architecture in order to conceptualize "life" (Deleuze) or "health" (Nietzsche) in a feminist context. Sponsored by the Kelly Writers House, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature.
Dorothea Olkowski teaches philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is the author, most recently, of Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation, and the editor of two recent volumes, Resistance, Flight, Creation: Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy and (with James Moreley) Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World.

7:30-10:00 PM in Room 209: The Fish Writing 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.

2-5:00pm in Room 209: English 116 (Lapadula)

2-5:00pm in Room 202: English 112 (Rile)

6:30-9:00pm in Room 202: English 10 (Sherin)

Tuesday, 10/10

4:30 PM: Planning Committee Meeting and Gathering
8:00-9:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: THE HOLLYWOOD CLUB Interested in Film? Want to meet other students interested in Film? Interested in working in Hollywood? Interested in Screenwriting? Acting? Directing? Editing? Cinematography? Producing? Come to this year's first meeting of THE HOLLYWOOD CLUB E-mail Marc Brunswick (marab@sas.upenn.edu) for more info.

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.

9-10:30 AM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-301 (Lamas)
10:30-12 PM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-303 (Lamas)
10:30-12 PM in Room 209: English 65 (Barnard)
3-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board
7:00-10:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review meeting
9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Punchbowl meeting

Wednesday, 10/11

12:00-1:30 PM in the Arts Cafe (seating cafe-style): Brown Bag Poetry Workshop for students. RSVP's are still being taken for this workshop. You are welcome to bring poems along to the workshop and share them with the group. The workshop is limited to 15 people, so please RSVP to reserve a space to wh@writing.upenn.edu or 215-746-POEM. (You can come to the noon workshop even if you haven't submitted work, and you should bring a lunch.)
3:30-5:00 PM: Lecture and discussion for local teachers on teaching creative writing. RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu or 215-746-POEM.
Jeff Knorr teaches creative writing and literature at Clackamas Community College in Oregon, including Latin American literature and a writing course specifically designed for Latino/a students called "Writing Ourselves: Writing and Reading the Latino/a Experience." He is also co-editor of the Clackamas Literary Review. His poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals, and he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 1998. Standing Up to the Day is his first collection of poems. He is also co-author of Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and Poetry and the co-editor of the anthology A Writer's Country. He received his M.A. in literature and creative writing from California State University.

8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes

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.

9-12:00 noon in Room 202: English 775 (Barnard)
12-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 589 (Filreis)
2-5:00 PM in Room 209: Documentary class (Hendrickson)
6:30-9:30 PM in Room 202: English 415 (Rock)

Thursday, 10/12

The Modernist Studies Association Conference: "New Modernisms II"--Nine Poets Read Their Work Through Modernism (also here)
On three nights during the Modernist Studies Association Conference taking place on Penn's campus, nine contemporary poets will read their work through the influence of a modernist. These readings will take place at Writers House and are free and open to the public. "New Modernisms II" is cosponsored by Penn's Department of English, Kelly Writers House, Penn Humanities Forum, School of Arts and Sciences, and Office of the Vice-Provost. The "Nine Poets" program is sponsored by The Writers House, Creative Writing Program, and Modernist Studies Association.
9:30 PM at the Writers House:
Ron Silliman on W.C. Williams
Joan Retallack on Stein and others
Lyn Hejinian on Stein

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.

9-10:30 AM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-301 (Lamas)
10:30-12:00noon in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-303 (Lamas)
3-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle

Friday, 10/13

The Modernist Studies Association Conference: "New Modernisms II"--Nine Poets Read Themselves through Modernism, continued:here)>
9:30 PM at the Writers House:
Charles Bernstein on W. Benjamin
Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Woolf
Erica Hunt on Beckett and Baldwin

Fall Break

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, 10/14

The Modernist Studies Association Conference: "New Modernisms II"-- Nine Poets Reading Themselves through Modernism, continued (also here)
9:30 PM at the Writers House:
Bob Perelman on Zukofsky
Jena Osman on Reznikoff
Rae Armantrout on Dickinson

Fall Break

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, 10/15

The Modernist Studies Association Conference
Writers House will only be open from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM (noon) today, and will then be closed until Monday morning. Writing Advising will resume Monday evening at 7:00 PM.
Fall Break
11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 FM WXPN. Tune in to an hour of Philly-based writing and music, featuring readings and performances by Carole Bernstein, Holly Johnson, Herman Beavers, Mytili Jagannathan, Cathy Crimmins, Peter Rock, Jenn McCreary, and musical guest Nancy Falkow.

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, 10/16

5:00-7:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Louis Schwartz: "The Corpse Inaction" (on the action movie and a geneology of recent writing on cinema's bodies)

Louis-Georges Schwartz teaches contemporary American cinema and film theory at the University of Iowa. His work to date has concentrated on, among other things, the use of film and video in United States courts. Previously, he taught at San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and U.C Santa Cruz.
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.

2-5:00pm in Room 209: English 116 (Lapadula)

2-5:00pm in Room 202: English 112 (Rile)

6:30-9:00pm in Room 202: English 10 (Sherin)
6:30-8:00pm in Room 209: Reviewing a Text Preceptorial with Karen Rile

Tuesday, 10/17

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.

9-10:30 AM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-301 (Lamas)
10:30-12 PM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-303 (Lamas)
10:30-12 PM in Room 209: English 65 (Barnard)
3-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
7:00-10:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review meeting
7:30-9:30 PM in Room 202: Write-On meeting

Wednesday, 10/18

4:30-5:30 PM: "The Uses of Doubt," a reading, talk, and conversation with novelist and essayist Stacey D'Erasmo, hosted by Pete Rock's English 415 class, the Kelly Writers House, Creative Writing, the College of General Studies, and the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center.
Stacey D'Erasmo is the author of the novel Tea. She was the senior editor at the Voice Literary Supplement for seven years. She has written articles for the New York Times Book Review and The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, The Nation, Details, and New York Newsday. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and the recipient of the Patty Willrich Fellowship at Stanford University, and she was the first Fiction Editor for Artforum. She was formerly a contributing editor to Out magazine. She lives in New York.

7:00-8:30 PM in Room 209: Lacanian Reading and Writing Group
Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar
You are welcome to join this study group. Issues of nationalism, identity, integration, and globalization will be addressed among other questions. The meetings are held at the Kelly Writers House in Room 209. (The reading material for the meetings can be photocopied from the originals at the Comparative Literature Office at Penn, 720 Williams Hall, 9:00 to 12:00 and 1:00 to 5:00). Please contact Patricia Gherovici at PGHEROVICI@aol.com to receive further information.

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.

9-12:00 noon in Room 202: English 775 (Barnard)
12-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 589 (Filreis)
2-5:00 PM in Room 209: Documentary class (Hendrickson)
6:30-9:30 PM in Room 202: English 415 (Rock)
8:30-10:00 PM in Room 209: Spanish Writing Advising

Thursday, 10/19

4:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, A Poetry Working Group. Open to all. Bring copies of your poem to share and discuss with the group!
5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: How To Do Your Thing At Writers House: a workshop & discussion
7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Write-On Student-Parent Kick-Off

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.

9-10:30 AM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-301 (Lamas)
10:30-12:00noon in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-303 (Lamas)
3-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
6:00-7:30 PM in Room 209: Mellon Writing Group meeting (Dan McLean)
6:30 PM in Room 202: Expressions of Soul Book Club

Friday, 10/20

2:30 PM, beginning in the Arts Cafe and spreading out throughout the House: First Write-On Session (Gear Up / Writers House program)
Note that the meeting previously scheduled for today has been CHANGED to Thursday, October 19, at 4:00 PM: Suppose An Eyes, A Poetry Working Group. Open to all. Bring copies of your poem to share and discuss with the 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.

2:30-3:30 PM in Room 202: Write-On coaches meeting
3:30-5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe, dining room, Room 209, living room and pub room: Write-On small group sessions

Saturday, 10/21

4:00 PM: The Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents readings by Paul Martin and Jerry Wemple
Paul Martin grew up in small towns in northeastern Pennsylvania, a first generation American of Slovak immigrant parents. He attended St. Francis College of Loretto and received an MA from Niagara University. Twice a recipient of a poetry fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, he has authored two collections of poetry, Green Tomatoes and Walking Away Waving (Yarrow 1998). His work has been included in several anthologies including Boundaries of Twilight: Czecho-Slovak Writing From the New World, Carrying the Darkness: Poetry of the Vietnam War among others. His poems have appeared in numerous journals including Green Mountains Review, Kansas Quarterly, Nimrod, Southern Poetry Review, Southern Humanities Review and Yankee. His current manuscript Closing Distances, was twice finalist in the National Poetry Series.
Jerry Wemple's first collection of poetry, You Can See It from Here, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa and Terry Blackhawk for the 1999 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. It was published by Lotus Press of Detroit. Jerry Wemple grew up in the central Susquehanna Valley of Pennsylvania, and spent part of his childhood in southwest Florida. He served in the US Navy and later worked as a newspaper reporter in the Boston area. He holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts. After a near 20-year absence, he returned to the Susquehanna Valley to teach at Bloomsburg University. His poetry and reviews have appeared in several publications including West Branch, 5 AM, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Mudville Diaries, an anthology of literary writing about baseball. He also received a Fellowship in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

6:00-8:00 PM: About Face: Portraits at Writers House. Join us for this reception celebrating photographs by Peter C. Cook on display on the first floor of Writers House from October 10-November 30.

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.

12:00 PM in Room 209: Dickinson Writing Group

Sunday, 10/22

6:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: Radio Drama session with Jerry Rudasill
An introduction to the art of scriptingf You Radio Drama through a conversation about script format, providing a sample script, and playing excerpts from Star Wars: the Original Radio Drama to show how the script and the sound effects work in conjunction to create the world of the story.

7:00 PM: Moving Voices -- Alexandra and Roger Pierce -- will present Walt Whitman's poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" at the Writers House on October 22 at 7:00 PM. This two-person ensemble not only speaks poems but focuses the meaning and heightens the intensity by moving and gesturing as they speak--an artistic rendering that has been called "sculpting" and "embodying" by audience members. They incorporate original music that reflects on the poetry. Moving Voices will be performing Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, a tribute to Abraham Lincoln and to the thousands of soldiers slain in the Civil War. It was written a few months after Lincoln's murder in the spring of 1865. The poem celebrates the dead by evoking our shared affection for the land they left to us, and goes on to explore thoughts and feelings about "sane and sacred" death itself. The British poet Swinburne called the poem "the most sweet and sonorous nocturne ever chanted in the church of the world." Over the the past 15 years, Moving Voices has performed in a wide variety of settings, including universities, museums, a YMCA conference center, a retreat center, churches, and retirement communities. They have presented Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Whitman's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, and An Evening of Poetry and Music by Women. Alexandra Pierce is Professor of Composition and Movement at the University of Redlands. Roger Pierce, was Professor of Theater Arts at UC Riverside and at Stanford University. The Pierces have collaborated on two books, Expressive Movement and Generous Movement. For more about the Moving Voices ensemble, click here.

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, 10/23

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.

2-5:00pm in Room 209: English 116 (Lapadula)

2-5:00pm in Room 202: English 112 (Rile)

6:30-9:00pm in Room 202: English 10 (Sherin)

Tuesday, 10/24

All-day: Phillip Lopate visits Penn's campus and the Kelly Writers House, hosted by the Penn Humanities Forum, the Kelly Writers House, English Writing Program, Writing Across the University, Creative Writing, and the English Department
12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch workshop for writing teachers in the Writers House Arts Cafe (cafe-style) by invitation only (maximum of 20)
2:30-4:00 PM: Afternoon writing workshop in the Writers House Arts Cafe (cafe-style) for current Penn students only (maximum of 20). No submission of work is required, just an RSVP.
5:00-6:30 PM: Reading and talk on Writing and Style at 3619 Locust Walk, open to the public. Co-sponsored with the Penn Humanities Forum
6:30-7:00 PM: Reception at 3619 Locust Walk, following Phillip Lopate's talk. RSVP to Jennifer Conway at conwayj@sas.upenn.edu, or call her at 215-898-8220.
Philip Lopate is responsible for the resurgence of the personal essay in America. By writing, teaching, editing and anthologizing this genre, he has brought the breadth and the possibilities of the personal essay to the attention of the American public. Among many articles, novels, and poetry collections, he is the author of three essay collections, Bachelorhood (1981), Against Joie de Vivre (1989), and Portrait of My Body (1996). His anthology The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) is widely regarded as the must-have handbook for this popular and growing genre. He has taught writing and literature at the University of Houston, Bennington College, and Columbia University, and is now a Lila Wallace Foundation writer-in-residence at Evansville, Indiana.

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.

9-10:30 AM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-301 (Lamas)
10:30-12 PM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-303 (Lamas)
10:30-12 PM in Room 209: English 65 (Barnard)
3-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
7:00-10:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review meeting
8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board

Wednesday, 10/25

6:00 PM: Women's Long Poem Discussion Group, discussing Fanny Howe's Forged and the introduction to Lynn Keller's book, Forms of Expansion.
6:30-8:00 PM in the dining and living room: Mellon Writing Group meeting (Beth Pollard)
8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes

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.

9-12:00 noon in Room 202: English 775 (Barnard)
12-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 589 (Filreis)
2-5:00 PM in Room 209: Documentary class (Hendrickson)
3:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: Writing Program Committee meeting (Filreis)
6:30-9:30 PM in Room 202: English 415 (Rock)
6:30-8:00 PM in the dining and living room: Mellon Writing Group meeting (Beth Pollard)
8:00-10:00 PM in Room 209: Spanish Writing Advising
8:30 PM in the dining room: Manuck-Manuck, a fiction writing group

Thursday, 10/26

4:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Grant Application Seminar for Women Poets. Prospective applicants to The Leeway Foundation are invited to join us for this informational seminar.
The Leeway Foundation will hold an informational session for women writers interested in applying for its 2001 Grants to Established and Emerging Artists in Poetry. Grants of $1,000 to $30,000 each will be offered to Philadelphia area women poets. To be eligible, applicants must be female, 20 years of age or older, current, permanent residents of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery or Philadelphia County in the state of Pennsylvania for at least two consecutive years by the application deadline of December 4, 2000, and must have had at least one poem published in a literary journal, anthology or other publication which regularly includes poetry as part of its format. Full-time students enrolled in an undergraduate degree granting program are not eligible. Additional criteria apply for specific grant categories.
Leeway's Program Staff will talk about the different grants offered, explain the application and jurying process and answer questions. Guidelines and grant applications will be available. For more information, please telephone Leeway at 215-545-4078 or visit our web site: www.leeway.org.
The Leeway Foundation supports outstanding, dedicated women artists in the Philadelphia five-county area and promotes their increased recognition and representation in the community. Grants to Established and Emerging Artists acknowledge artistic excellence, creativity and vision, are made in a selected visual or literary discipline each year. The Foundation's other grant programs include Window of Opportunity Awards and The Leeway Laurel.

4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Twentieth Century Reading Group (Mods)

7:00 PM: Diana Muir, author of Reflections in Bullough's Pond
Diana Muir is a writer and the author of four previous books. Her earlier work was on American social history, but her love for nature and an inherited sense of Calvinist guilt redirected her efforts toward environmental history. That lingering dose of Calvinism was not, however, quite strong enough to prevent her doing a very underhanded thing in the writing of Bullough's Pond. Bullough's Pond is both an economic and an ecological history, as an economic history it is being read by a large audience that does not read environmental books and does not choose to perceive that we have a problem here.
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.

9-10:30 AM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-301 (Lamas)
10:30-12:00noon in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-303 (Lamas)
3:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: Writing Program Committee meeting (Filreis)
3-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle

Friday, 10/27

2:30 PM, beginning in the Arts Cafe and spreading out throughout the House: Write-On Session (Gear Up / Writers House 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.

2:30-3:30 PM in Room 202: Write-On coaches meeting
3:30-5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe, dining room, Room 209, living room and pub room: Write-On small group sessions

Saturday, 10/28

1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative first session
Come one, come all! This Halloween, Arts House and Kelly Writers House are collaborating again to present the 2nd Annual Halloween Concert and Reading. This event will take place Saturday, Oct 28, starting at 8 pm at Kelly Writers House. We are looking for performers! Last year's inaugural concert/reading was a huge success, drawing over 100 people to the event. Students and faculty read poetry, short stories, sang songs, played the piano, guitar, double-bass, staged a monologue from "Devil's Advocate," and presented a multi-media production. (http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/archival/events/halloween1999/) If you would like to perform, please email arthouse@dolphin for more information. http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~arthouse/haloween2000/haloween2000.htm

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, 10/29

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, 10/30

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.

2-5:00pm in Room 209: English 116 (Lapadula)

2-5:00pm in Room 202: English 112 (Rile)

6:30-9:00pm in Room 202: English 10 (Sherin)
6:30-8:00pm in Room 209: Reviewing a Text Preceptorial with Karen Rile

Tuesday, 10/31

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.

9-10:30 AM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-301 (Lamas)
10:30-12 PM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-303 (Lamas)
10:30-12 PM in Room 209: English 65 (Barnard)
3-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
7:00-10:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review meeting
8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board

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