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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Thursday, 11/1
- 7:00-8:30 PM: The Kelly Writers House and the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) present their joint annual Gay Talese Lecture Series, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Italian Studies: Camille Paglia and Richard Benedetto
speaking on "Tony Soprano, the Media and Popular Culture," moderated by Dr. A. Kenneth Ciongoli. The program will take place in Logan Hall, Room G17
and will be followed by a private reception at the Kelly Writers House.
Camille Paglia is a scholar and culture critic whose books include Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale University Press, 1990); Sex, Art, and American Culture (Vintage Books, 1992); Vamps & Tramps: New Essays (Vintage Books, 1994); and The Birds, a study of Alfred Hitchcock published in 1998 by the British Film Institute in its Film Classics Series. She has contributed innumerable articles on art, literature, popular culture, feminism, and politics to publications around the world, including Salon.com, for which she was a columnist for six years (1995-2001). She has also lectured and appeared on television and radio extensively in the United States and abroad. She received her B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1968 and her M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University in 1971 and 1974 respectively. She is University Professor and Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she has taught since 1984. She is currently completing a study of poetry to be published in 2002 by Pantheon Books.
Richard Benedetto is a national political correspondent and columnist for USA TODAY and Gannett News Service. A member of USA TODAY’S founding staff, the lead reporter and analyst on all political polling with CNN, and a weekly political columnist for the Gannett News Service’s 85 daily newspapers, he has covered local, state, and national government and politics in the United States for the past 30 years. He covered the 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Presidential campaigns and served as a White House correspondent from 1989-1993. He was also the state legislative correspondent in the Albany, N.Y. bureau of the Gannett News Service, where he covered state government and politics during the Hugh Carey administration. From 1971-1976, he was the city government and political reporter/columnist for the Utica (N.Y.) Observer-Dispatch. He also taught newswriting and reporting at Utica College of Syracuse University from 1974-1976. He holds a B.A. from Utica College of Syracuse University, an M.A. in journalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Syracuse University.
Dr. A. Kenneth Ciongoli is a University of Pennsylvania graduate (C '64, GRM '74) and the author/editor of three books: Beyond the Godfather (New England University Press), Passage to Liberty (Regan Books/HarperCollins), and Let Me In. He has contributed many articles to scientific literature and has also written on popular culture. He has appeared on John McGaughlin's One on One and The Dennis Wholly Show, and on radio. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and immediate past President of the National Italian American Foundation and its current National Vice Chairman. He is the originator of this lecture series.
- Virtual Book Group 10 for Penn alumni and Penn families starts today
and
continues through February 15. Click here for
details.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115: Advanced Fiction Writing (M. Apple)
- 8 PM in Room 209: Philosophy Circle: a group that meets weekly throughout the semester (Geoff Anders: ganders@wharton.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, 11/2
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Inspired Profs: A Reading by Penn's Writing & Creative
Writing
Faculty. Join us at the Kelly Writers House for a reading by Penn's
distinguished creative writing faculty. Readers include: Greg Djanikian, Deb Burnham, Paul Hendrickson & Michael
Vitez. Don't miss the opportunity to hear from these talented writers and talk with them about their work. The
reading will be followed by conversation and refreshments in the Writers
House living room.
Listen to an audio recording of this event. - 4:45-6:00 PM: 125th Celebration of Women at Penn--Wrap-up & Resource exhibit at Houston Hall.
- Homecoming Weekend
- 3:00 PM: Write On! Information Session (Paige Menton: paigem@english.upenn.edu)
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes: A Poetry Working 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.
Saturday, 11/3
- 12:00-6:00 PM: The Kelly Writers House and WXPN Open House. The students and community of the Kelly Writers House and WXPN radio station invite you to visit the Kelly Writers House, Penn's innovative literary arts and music space. Drop by for refreshments before, during, or after the game.
- Homecoming Weekend
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, 11/4
- Homecoming Weekend
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, 11/5
- 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's show features CA Conrad, Fran Ryan, Greg Fuchs, Ethel Rackin, Frank Sherlock, Cassandre Xavier, Molly Russakoff and Magdalena Zurawski. A recording of this show can be found here.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 112: Fiction Writing (Rile)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145.302: Advanced Nonfiction (Strauss)
- 4:30-9:30 PM: Live at the Writers House set-up, rehearsal, and show in the Arts Cafe
- 5:15 PM in Room 202: Penn & Pencil Club
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: 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, 11/6
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing in Particular: Approaches to Cultural Interpretation presents Julie Klein teaches early modern European philosophy at Villanova University. Her main research interests are in the history of materialism and other non-Cartesian paradigms. Her other areas of work include medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, contemporary continental thought, and psychoanalysis.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3 PM in Arts Cafe: Al Filreis office hours for Holocaust course
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:00 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
- 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, 11/7
- 5:00-7:00 PM: Afro-American Studies Program presents "Book Talk" on White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil
Rights Era by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. Book signing and reception to follow.
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva teaches in the Department of Sociology at Texas A&M University. - 7:30 PM: Finding the Words: Responses to crisis from the Marianne
Moore papers & Philadelphia poets. Co-sponsored with the Rosenbach
Museum and Library.
Featuring a reading by poets from the Kelly Writers House: Bob Perelman, Susan Stewart, Greg Djanikian, Jena Osman, and Tom Devaney--and introduced by Writers House Faculty Director Al Filreis This program was webcast; a recording is available here. For more information, click here
During the Second World War, the American poet Marianne Moore sent and
received letters describing the thoughts, fears, and actions of a people in
crisis. H.D. writes from a London wracked by the Blitz. Joseph Cornell
recounts his commute to a munitions factory. Elizabeth Bishop laughs about
her inept volunteer work for the Navy. And William Carlos Williams
explains the uses of art at a time of disaster. On November 7, The
Rosenbach Museum & Library will share these letters with poets from The
Kelly Writers House. Reading work that addresses the themes of Moore's
correspondence--witness, anger, humor, home life, and uses of
art--the poets will provide a voice for our own responses to the
current crises.
With the Writers House poets, the program will include a reading and exhibition of the Moore letters. On November 11, an expanded exhibition will open at The Rosenbach Museum & Library. It will include additional letters from the Moore archive, as well as documentation of the poets' readings and response, and Al Filreis's introduction. After the event Tom Devaney wrote this message to the Writers House "hub," a word of thanks.
The Rosenbach Museum & Library houses the literary papers, library, and furnished living room of Marianne Moore. The Rosenbach is at once a historic house, a museum with a regular schedule of changing exhibitions and programs, and a research library that attracts international scholars. This 1865 townhouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and holds a world-renowned collection of rare books, manuscripts, and fine and decorative arts.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 12:00-3:00 PM in Room 209: English 589.301: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review Literary Magazine (Stephanie Langin-Hooper: smlangin@sas.upenn.edu)
- 6:45-8:00 PM: "A CLoser Look": Film Lecture with Professor Millicent Marcus (Leslie Davison: ldavison@sas.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Film Studies 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, 11/8
- 7:00 PM: A reading of Penn Graduate Students, hosted by Kathy Lou Schultz. Amina Gautier’s fiction has appeared in Mosaic, African Voices, Crab Orchard Review, B&A: New Fiction and The Iconoclast and is forthcoming in Timber Creek Review and Shrinkwrapped. Matt Hart has a chapbook, a compass or centre, from Puddleduck Press; recent poems and critical prose can be found at www.phillytalks.org. Carmen Higgins is a fifth-year PhD student in English specializing in Latino Caribbean literature. Jessica Lowenthal’s poems have appeared in a variety of journals, including Apex of the M, The Germ, and Talisman. Kathy Lou Schultz is the author of two collections of poems: Re dress (San Francisco State University), which won the Michael Rubin Award, and Genealogy (a+bend press). Lance Wahlert is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 202: English 283.401 (Cavitch)
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115: Advanced Fiction Writing (M. Apple)
- 4:30-6:00 PM: Modernists' Group features Louis Cabri (Jeremy Braddock: braddock@english.upenn.edu)
- 8 PM in Room 209: Philosophy Circle: a group that meets weekly throughout the semester (Geoff Anders: ganders@wharton.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, 11/9
- 3:30 PM in Room 202: Mod's Group with Louis Cabri
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, 11/10
- 4:00-5:30 PM: Reception for the College of General Studies Annual Writers' Conference at Penn. For Conference information see: www.upenn.edu/writconf
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, 11/11
- 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 airing on 88.5 WXPN Philadelphia, 88.1 WXPH Harrisburg, 104.9 Lehigh Valley, and 90.5 WKHS Wharton/Baltimore. Featuring readings & performances by CA Conrad, Fran Ryan, Greg Fuchs, Ethel Rackin, Frank Sherlock, Cassandre Xavier, Molly Russakoff and Magdalena Zurawski.
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, 11/12
- 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM: From
Manuscript to Book: the Author, the Agent, and the Editor. An author, a
literary agent, and an editor talk about book publishing from manuscript
to store shelf. Question and answer session and reception to follow. With
author Cathy Crimmins, literary agent Loretta Barrett, and
editor Patricia Smith. Co-sponsored with Career Services.
Cathy Crimmins has written 18 books, including When My Parents Were My Age, They Were Old (Simon & Schuster), Curse of the Mommy (Putnam) and Newt Gingrich Bedtime Stories for Orphans (Dove Books). Her book about traumatic brain injury, Where is the Mango Princess?, published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 2000, received the Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA). Where Is the Mango Princess? was issued in paperback by Vintage in October 2001. Crimmins' articles have appeared in The Village Voice, Redbook, Parents' Digest, Success, Hysteria, Glamour, Working Woman, Funny Times, Philadelphia Magazine, Working Mother, and many other publications. Her works have been anthologized in Women's Glib: The Best Contemporary Women Humor, Fathers, Mondo Canine, Creme de la Femme, Pandemonium, Portable Curmudgeon Redux, Mirth of a Nation, and other collections. National television and radio appearances include Fresh Air, NPR Weekend Edition, The Diane Rehm Show, Geraldo, Sonya, Bertice Berry, Today in New York, CNN Overnight, NBC Source Report, and Midday. Crimmins received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature in 1987. She holds an M.A. in Old and Middle English from the University of Pennsylvania. She also works as a consultant to science museums across the country and has developed exhibits on various topics, including astronomy, geology, and technology.
Loretta Barrett is president of Loretta Barrett Books, Inc. in New York, a literary agency she founded in 1990. Formerly she was Editor-in-Chief of Anchor Books and Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday & Co. At Doubleday she published, among others, social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, former First Lady Betty Ford, Steven Levine, artist Judy Chicago, entertainer Betty White, Esther and Richard Shapiro, creators of Dynasty, historian Ann Douglas, as well as such novelists as Paul West and Chinua Achebe. The novelists Ms. Barrett represents include Laura Van Wormer, author of several best sellers including Trouble Becomes Her (Mira) and Riverside Drive (Doubleday/Mira); Mariah Stewart, author of a number of novels published by Pocket Books including Brown-Eyed Girl and Voices Carry; Jack Kelly, author of the neo-noir thriller Line of Sight (Hyperion); and M.J. Rose, author of several novels, including In Fidelity (Pocket Books), and the intensely discussed Lip Service (Pocket Books), the first ever novel originally published on the internet to become a book club selection for the Doubleday Direct and Literary Guild book clubs prior to its hardcover publication, and co-author with Angela Adair-Hoy of the definitive guide How to Publish and Promote Online (St. Martin’s Press). Ms. Barrett serves on the national boards of Reading Is Fundamental, the Nathaniel Wharton Fund, and The Grandparenting Foundation, and is a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s Trustees Council of Penn Women and Women's Media Group of New York. She is a member of the Association of Author Representatives.
Patricia Reynolds Smith received a Master’s Degree in English literature from Temple University in 1973 and then did everything but the dissertation for a doctorate, with specializations in early and modern American literature and modern British literature. While she was in graduate school and for a couple of years after, Patricia taught Freshman Composition and Introduction to Literature at Temple and at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. She entered the world of publishing in September of 1980, when she took a job as a sales representative for Harlequin, and in March of 1982 she moved to Silhouette (which was owned at that time by Simon & Schuster) as an editor. Patricia left Simon & Schuster in August of 1984 to work as Promotions Manager at the University of Pennsylvania Press. After a year in Marketing, she transferred to Acquisitions, where she assumed responsibility for acquiring manuscripts in women’s studies, the history and sociology of medicine, anthropology, folklore. While there she created lists in popular culture and media studies and in academic life. She also expanded the anthropology list to include a series on the ethnography of political violence. For several years after she left Silhouette, Patricia continued to acquire romances for them on a free-lance basis, and, after a brief return to Silhouette (September, 2000 to June, 2001), she is once again working as a free-lance contractor for them. During her years as an editor of romances, she has worked with many very talented authors, including Sandra Brown, Barbara Delinsky, Jayne Krentz, and Elizabeth Lowell. At present her list of authors includes Annette Broadrick, Stella Cameron, Anne McAllister, and Alexandra Sellers. Patricia has also reviewed romances for Publisher’s Weekly.
- 7:00 PM: A reading by poets Michael Magee and
Louis
Cabri.
Louis Cabri's The Mood Embosser will be published this Fall by
Coach House Books (Toronto). Curdles, a chapbook, was published by
houspress (Calgary) last year. Recent poetry and prose has appeared in
the magazines Crayon and Shark (NYC), The Capilano
Review and W (Vancouver),
(orange) and dANDelion (Calgary), and The Queen Street
Quarterly (Toronto). He is an editor of two special issues of
Open Letter magazine, featuring
open letters to/from poets, soon to be published, and is a publisher of
hole books (hole's recent chapbook, by Jackson Mac Low, will be
available at the reading). Louis is completing a dissertation at the
University of Pennsylvania on poetry and political economy, where also,
at the Kelly Writers House, he edits the poets'
dialogue series, "PhillyTalks." Currently he lives in Calgary, Canada,
and teaches at the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Michael Magee was an active Writers House squatter from 1995-1999. His
new book, Morning Constitutional, is out from Handwritten Press
and available through www.spdbooks.org. He has new poems out or
forthcoming in New American Writing,Callaloo, Xconnect
and Lungfull!, plus articles on American literature in Raritan,
Review, and Contemporary Literature. He edits the poetry
journal COMBO, lives in Rhode Island with wife Susanna and 1 year old
daughter Anabella, and teaches at Rhode Island School of Design.
To hear a recording of this program in mp3 format, please click here.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 112: Fiction Writing (Rile)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145.302: Advanced Nonfiction (Strauss)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Hollywood Club 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.
Tuesday, 11/13
- 6:30 PM: The Alumni Visitors Series presents author Melissa Goldstein Ms. Goldstein's
compelling first book Travels with the Wolf (Ohio State University Press, 2000) is an autobiographical account
of her experiences with chronic illness, coming of age--becoming a young woman, a writer and a teacher in the presence
of severe, often debilitating disease (lupus). The book explores relationships with family and friends as the illness
progresses and records Goldstein's struggle to maintain independence and identity.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome!
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3 PM in Arts Cafe: Al Filreis office hours for Holocaust course
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:00 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
- 5:00-6:00 PM in Room 202: Write-On! Training Meeting (Paige Menton: 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.
Wednesday, 11/14
- 4:30 PM: Planning Committee Meeting and Gathering
- 6:00 PM: Reading by poet Allen Grossman. Hosted by the
Creative Writing Department.
Allen Grossman is a poet, a collector of old pots, and a professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. He has published eight books of poetry and four volumes of prose, including Of the Great House, The Long Schoolroom: Lessons on the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle, The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground, and The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers,. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Grossman holds his B.A. and M.A. from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. from Brandeis. He taught at Brandeis for thirty-five years, and in 1991 began teaching at Johns Hopkins as its Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities. Among other accolades, he has received the Garrison Award for Poetry, the Prize of the American Academy of Poetry, three Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim, and the A.B. Cohen Award for Teaching at Brandeis. He has been named the CASE Massachusetts State Professor of the Year as well as a National Gold Medalist, and has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 12:00-3:00 PM in Room 209: English 589.301: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review Literary Magazine (Stephanie Langin-Hooper: smlangin@sas.upenn.edu)
- 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)
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: Film Studies 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, 11/15
- 7:00 PM: A reading by recipients of The Leeway Foundation
Awards for Poetry featuring Melisa Cahnmann, Mytili
Jagannathan, and Lisa Sewell.
Intended to honor Philadelphia-area women artists, Leeway's Grants to
Emerging and Established Artists are awarded annually in a selected visual
or literary discipline and range from $2,500 to $30,000. Their work will
also appear in the November/December issue of The American Poetry Review and
in a series of readings throughout the Philadelphia area in November.
For more information on the other readings in the series or on other Leeway programming, visit www.leeway.org.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 2-4 PM in the Arts Cafe: Al Filreis and the "continuum of learning" committee meet
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115: Advanced Fiction Writing (M. Apple)
- 4:30-6:00 PM: Modernists' Group features Emily Zinn (Jeremy Braddock: braddock@english.upenn.edu)
- 8 PM in Room 209: Philosophy Circle: a group that meets weekly throughout the semester (Geoff Anders: ganders@wharton.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, 11/16
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes: A Poetry Working 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.
Saturday, 11/17
- 4:00 PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents
Leslie McIlroy, Aaren Yeatts Perry.
Leslie Anne McIlroy is assistant editor for Creative Nonfiction and managing editor/cofounder of HEArt - Human Equity Through Art - the nonprofit publisher of HEArt, the nation's only journal of contemporary literature and art devoted to confronting discrimination and promoting social justice. Her awards include the Word Press Poetry Prize for her full-length poetry collection Rare Space, July 2001; the Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for her chapbook Gravel; and first place in the Chicago Literary Awards Competition judged by Gerald Stern. Leslie's poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies including American Poetry: The Next Generation, Henry's Creatures: Poems & Stories About the Automobile, the Emily Dickinson Award Anthology, the Eclectic Literary Forum, The Ledge, Main Street Rag, The MacGuffin, The Mississippi Review, The Pittsburgh City Paper, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pittsburgh Quarterly and Potpourri. Her poems are forthcoming in Harpweaver and the Red Brick Review.
Aaren Yeatts Perry: Born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1962 I moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1982 to work as a poet, researcher/writer and teacher. I have since made Philadelphia my home and base of operations for local, national and international professional projects. He studied directly with a number of writers including James Baldwin, Jared Carter, Mark Doty, Etheridge Knight, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Sonia Sanchez. He says" I write love and pastoral poetry as well as a poetry of conscience that allows the reader to confront injustice on a personal level. While my work is predominantly narrative, I work with the silence between the words to create music with poetry." He teaches poetry and writing to all ages at schools and colleges throughout the mid-Atlantic region. He has published in Critique Magazine, Mad Poets Review,Tyme Anthology, Xconnect, Magazine, Blue Guitar, Painted Bride Quarterly, Long Shot Review, and other magazines. His work has appeared on National Public Radio and on regional televisionbroadcasts. His publications are POETRY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: An Action Guide for Elementary Teachers (Allyn & Bacon, 1997), and a spoken word CD titled MERCURY CALLING (MelodyVision, 2000).
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, 11/18
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.
Monday, 11/19
- 9:00 PM: Audiocast program and conversation featuring Cid
Corman
A conversation with CID CORMAN via live audiocast - 9 PM (eastern time), Monday, November 19, co-moderated by Frank Sherlock, Fran Ryan, Tom Devaney & Al Filreis. Join us for a reading and conversation with this legendary poet, who will join us from his home in Kyoto, Japan. The program will be audiocast live worldwide. You can join us by coming to the Kelly Writers House at 3805 Locust Walk in Philadelphia, where an audience will converse directly with Corman by an amplified telephone connection. That conversation will be audiocast, and thus you can also join us, wherever you are, by making a simple connection to the web. Audiocast participants will be able to pose questions for Cid Corman via email. If you intend to participate, please write to whcorman@english.upenn.edu and be sure to indicate if you will attend at the Writers House or will participate from a distance through the audiocast. For much more about Corman and this event, see writing.upenn.edu/wh/archival/events/2001/corman.php.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 112: Fiction Writing (Rile)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145.302: Advanced Nonfiction (Strauss)
- 5:45-8:00 PM in Room 202: Lacan Study Group (Patricia Gherovici: pgherovici@aol.com)
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 209: Paul Hendrickson's writing class speical session
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: 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, 11/20
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3 PM in Arts Cafe: Al Filreis office hours for Holocaust course
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:00 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
- 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)
- 7:30-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Lecture: Phillipe Met on "Children of the Night" (Leslie Davison: ldavison@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.
Wednesday, 11/21
- Thanksgiving break begins--house closes at 5pm
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 12:00-3:00 PM in Room 209: English 589.301: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review Literary Magazine (Stephanie Langin-Hooper: smlangin@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, 11/22
- Thanksgiving break--house closed
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115: Advanced Fiction Writing (M. Apple)
- 8 PM in Room 209: Philosophy Circle: a group that meets weekly throughout the semester (Geoff Anders: ganders@wharton.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, 11/23
- Thanksgiving break--house closed
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, 11/24
- Thanksgiving break--house closed
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, 11/25
- Thanksgiving break--house closed
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, 11/26
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 112: Fiction Writing (Rile)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145.302: Advanced Nonfiction (Strauss)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Hollywood Club 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.
Tuesday, 11/27
- 4:30 PM - Charles Bernstein, "Poetic Invention and the Art
of Immemorability."
Charles Bernstein is David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of The Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo. Bernstein's has been a voice in experimental poetry since the 1970's as one of the founders of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E and is the author of over twenty books of poetry and criticism including the recently edited collection Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word. Recent books of poetry includeRepublics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 2000) Log Rhythms, with Susan Bee (New York: Granary Books, 1998) Little Orphan Anagram, with Susan Bee (New York: Granary Books, 1997) The Subject (Buffalo: Meow Press, 1995) & Dark City (Los Angles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994).
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3 PM in Arts Cafe: Al Filreis office hours for Holocaust course
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:00 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)
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, 11/28
- 3:00-4 PM in the Arts Cafe: Frank O'Hara Reading: Writing About Cities with History 009-304, hosted by Fran
Ryan.
- 5:30 - 6:45 PM: Artists Reception: Ilaria Arpino and
Catherine Gontarek
Ilaria Arpino has studied at the Instituto per Illustratori in Torino, Italy and the Visual School of Art in New York City. Her work has been used in posters for national radio-station advertising campaigns, and her most recent shows include solo exhibits at the Philadelphia Ethical Society and the Philadelphia Art Alliance.
Catherine Gontarek is the art director of the The Pennsylvania Gazette. She has shown her work previously in a solo exhibit at City Book Shop and in juried exhibits at the Manayunk Art Center and the Sketch Club.
- 7:00 PM: Is there a poetry scene in Philadelphia? A panel
discussion hosted by Leonard Gontarek and featuring Gil Ott,
Kerry Sherin, Eileen D'Angelo, and Frank Sherlock.
Leonard Gontarek is the author of three books of poems: Zen for Beginners, Van Morrison Can't Find His Feet and St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris. His poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, American Poetry Review, The Quarterly, American Writing, Mudfish, Exquisite Corpse, Xconnect, among others. He is a recipient of a poetry fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is the editor of two books of children's poetry and is a contributing editor for the American Poetry Review. He has coordinated 500 poetry events in the Philadelphia area since 1991. He lives in West Philadelphia with his family of humans and cats: Catherine, Maxwell, Simone and Isabella.
Kerry Sherin is a writer and the Director of the Kelly Writers House. She is currently on leave from the Writers House to finish her dissertation, on subjectivity and gender in the early poems of T.S. Eliot.
Eileen D'Angelo coordinates for the Mad Poets Society.
Gil Ott's books of poetry include Traffic, The Whole Note, and The Yellow Floor, among many others. He is the founder of Singing Horse Press.
Frank Sherlock is co-coordinator of the La Tazza reading series.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 260: Linguistics: Writing About Narrative (Labov)
- 12:00-3:00 PM in Room 209: English 589.301: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review Literary Magazine (Stephanie Langin-Hooper: smlangin@sas.upenn.edu)
- 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)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Film Studies 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, 11/29
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing in Particular: Approaches to Cultural Interpretation presents Richard Shusterman. Mr. Shusterman completed his doctoral studies in philosophy at St. John's College, Oxford University. Winner of Senior Fulbright and NEH Fellowships, he has taught in many countries and is currently Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Temple University, Philadelphia and at the Collge International de Philosophie, Paris. Outside the ordinary range of university pursuits, Shusterman is directing a project for UNESCO on urban culture, and he runs a monthly book discussion series, "Dialogues on the Square," at the Barnes and Noble bookstore on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia.
- 10:30-12:00 noon in Room 209: English 003.314: Literature and Society (Stephanie Harzewski: sharzews@english)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 197.009.301: Writing About Narrative (Gautier)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115: Advanced Fiction Writing (M. Apple)
- 4:30-6:00 PM: Modernists' Group features Joe Clarke (Jeremy Braddock: braddock@english.upenn.edu)
- 8 PM in Room 209: Philosophy Circle: a group that meets weekly throughout the semester (Geoff Anders: ganders@wharton.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, 11/30
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes: A Poetry Working 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.