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November December 2000 January 2001
All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
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Friday, 12/1
- 12:00-2:00 PM in the Writers House Arts Cafe: A roundtable lunchtime conversation with visiting writer Mark Doty. Space is limited, and a RSVP for this program is required, to wh@writing.upenn.edu or 215-746-POEM.
Mark Doty's visit to campus is made possible by the Penn Center for AIDS Research, which is hosting a public talk, "Hopelessless and Hope: One Writer's Narrative of the AIDS Epidemic," by Doty commemorating World AIDS Day from 3:30-5:30pm at the ARCH, 36th and Locust Street. For more information about this public program, contact Monique Howard at 215-573-9286. Mark Doty's visit is co-sponsored by the Penn Center for AIDS Research, Connaissance, FLASH (Facilitating Learning about Sexual Health), Office of Health Education, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center, Kelly Writers House, English Department, and GAPSA (Graduate and Professional Students' Association).
Mark Doty's five books of poems -- which include My Alexandria and Sweet Machine -- have received the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Whiting Writers Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Britain's T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry. He is also the author of two memoirs, Heaven's Coast, and Firebird. Heaven's Coast won the PEN Martha Albrand Prize for Nonfiction, and was named a Notable Book of the Year by the The New York Times Book Review. Firebird, published in 1999 by HarperCollins, was hailed by Salon magazine as an American classic. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and, in 2000, a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers Award. He teaches in the graduate writing program at the University of Houston. A new prose book, Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, will appear in January 2001 from Beacon Press.
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- 2:30 PM, beginning in the Arts Cafe and spreading out throughout the House: First 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, 12/2
- Afternoon: Saturday Reading Cooperative
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, 12/3
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.
- 7:00-10:00 PM: Undergraduate Writing Advising in the 2nd floor library
Monday, 12/4
- 5:15-7:00 PM in the dining room: Penn & Pencil end-of-the-semester potluck and workshop session
- 7:00 PM: Random Piccadilly Jumping in Dog: An end-of-the-semester reading by the students of Kerry Sherin's English 10 creative writing class. Featuring readings by Trivik Bhavnani, Lenya Bloom, Grace Chen, Namrata Choudhury, Yolanda Easley, Faye Ip, Tamara Kushnir, Howard Lopez, Eboni Mckay, Stephanie Sherman, Lauren Rile Smith, Brian Rosenzweig, Tom Swan, and Akiko Takahashi.
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.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 116 (Lapadula)
- 2:00-5:00 PM 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
- 6:30-9:00 PM in Room 209: English 10 (Sherin)
- 6:30-7:30 PM in Room 209 and in the Pub Room (Room 203): Hebrew Literacy Crash Course
- 7:00-10:00 PM: Undergraduate Writing Advising in the 2nd Floor Library
Tuesday, 12/5
- 7:00 PM: Eight Philadelphia Stories: Writing in the Documentary Tradition. The students of English 155, Writing in the Documentary Tradition, taught by Paul Hendrickson, present and read from their semester-long work. Refreshments to follow. Come and celebrate the hard work of this talented class with us! Featuring readings by Susie Cook, Becky Davidson, Jennifer Fried, Katie Maloney, Blake Martin, Rachael Ryan, Sara Shahriari, and Aliya Sternstein.
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, 12/6
- 12:00-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Poet Ron Silliman is a guest in Al Filreis' Graduate Seminar on American Poetry (others are invited; contact Al Filreis at afilreis@english.upenn.edu if you'd like to sit in.)
- 7:30-9:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Hollywood Club 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.
- 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)
- 7:00-8:30 PM in Room 209: Lacanian Reading and Writing Group
- 8:30-10:00 PM in Room 209: Spanish Writing Advising
Thursday, 12/7
- 4:30 PM: Planning Committee Meeting and Gathering
- 6:30 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Ed O'Neill: "Can the Time-Image Be Postmodern? Deleuze, Titanic and The Matrix." Co-sponsored by Theorizing in Particular, the Seminar in Comparative Cinema Studies, the Graduate Student Associations Council and Student Association of Graduate Educators and Scholars.
Edward R. O'Neill earned his Ph.D. from UCLA Film School in 1998. Since then he has held a fellowship in Social Thought at the UCLA Sociology Department and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Film and New Media Studies at Bryn Mawr College's History of Art Department. He has published extensively on queer theory, identity politics and authorship. His current project examines computers as a medium of cultural production.
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, 12/8
- 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, 12/9
- 12:00-2:00 PM: Write-On end-of-semester Reading & Celebration
In this community project at the Writers House, Penn students work with Lea School 7th graders to enhance expository writing capabilities and explore creative writing genres. "Writing coaches" and 7th graders meet for two hours on Fridays with one hour dedicated to improving already completed school-related assignments, and another to self-expression through creative writing. The goal of this pilot program is for the kids to strengthen their skills, to gain confidence in their writing, and to see writing as an exciting way to express themselves. This month features an end-of-the-semester reading -- please join us as we celebrate the work of these students and coaches!- Afternoon: Saturday Reading Cooperative
- 4:00 PM: The Laughing Hermit Reading Series, curated by Robin Hiteshew, hosts a reading by Alumni of the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, organized by poet Deb Burnham, Chair of the Writing Department at the School. Featuring readings and poems by Sarah Schecter, Kevin Dugan, Collyn Hinchey, Amy Knight, Nicholas Hall, Kacie Fagan, Lauren Kubiak, Sarah Smith, Rebecca Steffy, Sara Watson, Alison Shaffer, and Dan Klotz.
Sarah Schecter graduated in 2000 from Swarthmore College with a major in English and a serious committment to community-based social justice. She is currently working at Penn, finishing a documentary film and planning a long-term investigation of religious life in small towns.
Kevin Dugan is a senior at Philadelphia's High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. He has been writing poetry since childhood, focusing on family, neighborhood and classic African-American themes including the responsibility of the writer to his community.
Collyn Hinchey is a high school senior from Wilkes Barre. Her work is narrative, almost anthropological in its depth of detail. She presents a sympathetic view of young people who feel isolated and ignored by family and community.
Amy Knight is a senior at Conestoga High School. Her years of ballet and music study have affected the shape and sounds of her poetry. She is particularly interested in negotiating the lines between formal and free verse.
Poems by the following students will be read by those present if they cannot come:
Nicholas Hall is a student at the Creative and Performing Arts High School in Pittsburgh. He writes about finding oneself in a new place, or in old places with new demands. He has mastered the craft of revision.
Kacie Fagan, finishing high school in northwest Pennsylvania, gives voice to those who live at the extremes of quiet fear: her narrators are afraid of dogs, and of people with wrists.
Lauren Kubiak will graduate this spring from Seneca Valley High School. Her poems explore the intersection of landscape and consciousness, sometimes showing that a field or street holds visible marks of the pain left there by human presence.
Sarah Smith draws her generous and patient stories from a city family transplanted to the country, and her rhythms from their speech, and the jazz she pumps from her trombone.
Rebecca Steffy writes from the overlap of worlds in Lancaster County -- the suburban high school, the economic and emotional deprivation of the city, and her Mennonite family. She can draw our attention to those we usually ignore, and she can make us laugh.
Sara Watson's musical short-lined poems make us wonder if it's ever necessary to go on at length. She writes of veterans who can't forget the war, kids who will never forget their friends who died on the road, and families who can't remember good times.
Alison Shaffer applies an athlete's discipline to language. Her poems grow from the eyes of an observor who does not interrupt, who pays close and precise attention to light, whispers and the movement of muscle and bone.
Dan Klotz makes poems from his work -- building houses in Central America, playing soccer, mowing and cutting, camping and listening. If there is ever an Eagle Scout badge for poetry, he will be the first winner. He can write poems that are clearly about himself, and, just as easily, write from the point of view of someone twice his age.
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, 12/10
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, 12/11
- Fall Classes End
- 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 Simone Zelitch, Lenya Bloom, Bruce Niedt, Stephen Marmel, Dristine Grow, Johnathan London, Heather Thomas, Siani Taylor, and Tahneer Oksman.
- 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, 12/12
- Starting at 12 Noon today and continuing until 12 Noon on Wednesday: 24 Hour Writing Advising!
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.
- 6:30-7:00 PM in the dining room: Mellon Writing Group meeting (Beth Pollard)
- 7:00-10:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review meeting
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board
Wednesday, 12/13
- Until 12 Noon today: 24 Hour Writing Advising continues on the second floor of Writers House
- 5:30 PM: Novelist and Writers House hub member Peter Rock shares a new story, "What Went Wrong on Highway 6," with his students and others in the Arts Cafe
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.
- 1:00-2:00 PM in the dining room: Writing Advisor's lunch
- 6:00-9:00 PM in the dining room: Deb Burnham's class watches a movie
- 6:30-9:30 PM in Room 202: English 415 (Rock)
- 7:00-8:30 PM in Room 209: Lacanian Reading and Writing Group
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 209: Spanish Writing Advising
Thursday, 12/14
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.
- 12:00-1:00 PM in the dining room: Peshe Kuriloff's class lunch
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
Friday, 12/15
- Final Exams begin
- 4:00 PM: 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, 12/16
- Afternoon: Saturday Reading Cooperative
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, 12/17
- 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 & performances by Simone Zelitch, Lenya Bloom, Bruce Niedt, Stephen Marmel, Dristine Grow, Johnathan London, Heather Thomas, Siani Taylor, and Tahneer Oksman.
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, 12/18
- Writers House is closed for programs from Monday, December 18, through Tuesday, January 16.
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, 12/19
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.
Wednesday, 12/20
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, 12/21
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, 12/22
- Final Exams end
- Writers House closes at end of day until January 2.
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, 12/23
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.
Sunday, 12/24
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.
Monday, 12/25
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 209: English 10 (Sherin)
Tuesday, 12/26
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, 12/27
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.
Thursday, 12/28
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Friday, 12/29
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Saturday, 12/30
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Sunday, 12/31
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