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Wednesday, 12/1
- 4:30 PM: 20th Century Reading Group in Room 202
- 6:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular hosts a talk by Peter
Canning: "Cosmological Immanence and the Creation of Possibility"
Peter Canning, former associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and the University of California (Berkeley), is one of the key figures in the burgeoning field of philosophical cosmology. Perhaps best known for what Shoshana Felman called his "remarkable analysis" of the Holocaust, Canning has published on widely Nietzsche, Klossowski, Lacan, Foucault, Spinoza, and Deleuze. Leaving academia in 1997, he has devoted himself to writing an "aesthetics of cosmology" in which the science of self-organization becomes the basis not only for theorizing the nature of art but also for formulating a new theory of ethics.
Listen to an audio recording of this event. - 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night
- 9:30 PM in Room 202: Sangria: The Artists' Group
Thursday, 12/2
- 4:30 PM: The Transparency Machine series at the Kelly Writers House
and the Temple University Creative Writing Department host a visit and
talk with Carla Harryman at Writers
House, followed by a reading downtown at 8:00 PM at the Temple Gallery
Carla Harryman is a poet, playwright, essayist and fiction writer whose works test and contest the boundaries between those genre categories. Her books include Animal Instincts, In the Mode of, Memory Play, and Vice. A collection of her hybrid writings can be found in There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn. She lives in Detroit.
This event was recorded and is available in MP3 and RealAudio format here.
Friday, 12/3
Saturday, 12/4
- 2:30-4:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative Recital
- 8:00 PM: Luljeta Lleshanaku
Luljeta Lleshanaku, born in Elbasan, Albania, began publishing her work in 1991 after the overthrow of the Stalinist regime. Her critically acclaimed books of poetry are The Sleepwalker's Eyes (1993), Sunday Bells (1994), and Half-Cubism (1996) for which she won the Eurorilindja Award for Poetry. English translations of her work have appeared in Grand Street, Quarterly West, Seneca Review, Fence, Tin House, Modern Poetry in Translation, Anthology of American Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry 1997, and Visions-International, for which they won the 1996 Translation Award. Ms. Lleshanaku's poetry has also been translated into German. She has been granted a residency at the MacDowell Colony for 1999 and is presently a resident at the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa.
Sunday, 12/5
- 6:00 PM in Room 202: Manuck! Manuck! a fiction writing workshop
Monday, 12/6
- 5:15 PM: Penn and Pencil Club Potluck, downstairs in the dining and living room. Penn and Pencil Club is a creative writing workshop for Penn and Health Systems staff.
- 8:30-9:30 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club; screenwriting Professor Marc Lapadula will speak
Tuesday, 12/7
- 7:30 PM: Ron Silliman, Bob Perelman, Jena Osman, and
Brian Kim Stefans
discuss contemporary poetry
before a live
audience as well as, by way of live "webcast," to fifty
participants worldwide. Moderated and hosted by Al Filreis.
This program is for Al Filreis's on-line poetry course, but others
are invited to join. More information and a recording of the live webcast is available
here.
Full recording of the event (1:51:06): .rm, MP3
Wednesday, 12/8
- 6:00-6:30 PM: Fiction writer Peter Rock reads. Rock is the
author of This is the Place and Carnival Wolves. He has
been the recipient of a Henfield Award and a Stegner Fellowship at
Stanford University.
- 9:30 PM in Room 202: Sangria: The Artists' Group
Thursday, 12/9
- Rescheduled to December 16: 7:00 PM: The Play is the Thing: a monthly play reading and thinking group
Friday, 12/10
- 1:30-2:15 PM: Celebratory Reading by the Fourth Grade Students of Drew Elementary School (after a semester of creative writing with Writers House'rs)
- Fall Classes End
Saturday, 12/11
- Reading Days
- Saturday Reading Cooperative
- 4:30 PM: Collaboration with Highwire Gallery: Webcast performance by and discussion with Edwin Torres, hosted by Al Filreis before a live audience. This special program, sponsored by Writers House and Al Filreis' on-line poetry course, will be presented to a small live audience and will be webcast live to Al's students and 25 others. Followed by a reading downtown at the Highwire Gallery (139 N. 2nd St.), with Mytili Jagannathan. A full description of this program is available here. A recording of the webcast of this program is available here and here. This program was recorded and is available through PennSound or can be downloaded as an MP3.
Sunday, 12/12
- Reading Days
- Beginning at 12 noon: 24 Hour Writing Advising!
- 6:00 PM Manuck! Manuck! a fiction writing group. End-of-the-semester dinner in the dining room.
Monday, 12/13
- Reading Days
- Ending at 12 noon: 24 Hour Writing Advising!
- 7:00-9:00 PM: Screening in the Arts Cafe of House of Games, a psychological thriller starring Lindsay Crouse and Joe Mantegna. Stick around for conversation after the film. Led by Thea Diamond's Writing about Drama class.
Tuesday, 12/14
- Reading Days
Wednesday, 12/15
- Final Exam Period
- 7:00 PM: End-of-the-semester reading by Kerry Sherin's Engl 010.601 Creative Writing class
Thursday, 12/16
- 7:00 PM: The Play is the Thing: a monthly play reading and thinking group
Friday, 12/17
- Final Exam Period
Saturday, 12/18
- 2:00-3:00 PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents David Acosta and B.J. Ward
- Final Exam Period
Sunday, 12/19
- Writers House closed today
Monday, 12/20
- Final Exam Period
Tuesday, 12/21
- Final Exam Period
Wednesday, 12/22
- Final Exam Period
Thursday, 12/23
- Writers House will be closed for winter break beginning Thursday, Dec. 23rd. We'll reopen January 10, 2000. Enjoy your break!
Friday, 12/24
Saturday, 12/25
Sunday, 12/26
Monday, 12/27
Tuesday, 12/28
Wednesday, 12/29
Thursday, 12/30
Friday, 12/31