Video archive

The Kelly Writers House presented its first webcast, an hour-long discussion of William Carlos Williams's poem "To Elsie", in the summer of 1999. Since then, Writers House has been inviting the outside world to a variety of our events here at the Kelly Writers House through live webcasts, and viewers from places like Los Angeles and Bejing have taken part. Here we have collected a video archive of these events.

If you're interested in viewing or participating in one of our live webcasts, please read these instructions.

Click on the images below for the biographies of the past visitors, information about the events, and links to the archived videos.

Visiting writers


Laurie Anderson
March 24-25, 2003


Roger Angell
February 28-March1 1, 2005


John Ashbery
March 25-26, 2002


Russell Banks
February 16-17, 2004


Walter Bernstein
March 17-18, 2003


Cid Corman
November 19 2001


Robert Creeley
April 10-11, 2001


Michael Cunningham
February 11-12, 2002


E.L. Doctorow
March 21-22, 2005


Thalia Field
March 22, 2000


Richard Ford
February 13-14, 2006


Ian Frazier
April 17-18, 2006


Charles Fuller
April 15-16, 2002


Kenneth Goldsmith
September 21, 2000


Donald Hall
April 16-17, 2007


Geoffrey Hartman
October 30, 2001


Lyn Hejinian
February 21-22, 2005


June Jordan
April 23-24, 2001


Jamaica Kincaid
March 19-20, 2007


Tony Kushner
February 12-13, 2001


David McCullough
March 31, 2004


James Alan McPherson
April 19-20, 2004


Rick Moody
September 28, 2000


Alice Notley
November 6, 2006


Jena Osman
November 7, 2001


Cynthia Ozick
March 20-21, 2006


Grace Paley
February 14-15, 2000


Carl Rakosi
October 30, 2002


Joan Retallack
February 28, 2001


Adrienne Rich
April 18-19, 2005


David Sedaris
March 5-6, 2001


Susan Sontag
April 21-22, 2003


Edwin Torres
December 11, 1999


John Updike
April 13, 2000


Roy Vagelos
October 7, 2004


Shawn Walker
September 18, 1999


John Edgar Wideman
April 24-25, 2000


Slavoj Zizek
September 18, 2000

 

Special events


To Elsie: Al Filreis, Bob Perelman, Kristen Gallagher & Shawn Walker
July 8, 1999


Perloff & Perelman on Stein
October 20, 1999


PhillyTalks 13: Watten & DuPlessis
November 15, 1999


Contemporary Avant-garde Poetry: Silliman, Osman, Perelman, & Stefans
December 7, 1999


PhillyTalks 17: Robertson & McCaffrey
October 3, 2000


Nine Poets Read Themselves through Modernism: Hejinian, Silliman, Retallack, Bernstein, DuPlessis, Hunt, Osman, Perelman, and Armantrout
October 12-14, 2000


Speakeasy
October 10, 2001


PhillyTalks 19:Fisher & Mac Cormack
October 17, 2001


Material Poetics: Alexander & Drucker
October 25, 2001


Finding the Words: Marianne Moore papers Bob Perelman, Susan Stewart, Greg Djanikian, Jena Osman, & Tom Devaney
November 7, 2001


Three Contemporary Women Writers Coultas, Richards, and Schultz
January 21, 2003