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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Sunday, 1/1
- The Kelly Writers House will close for Winter 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.
Monday, 1/2
- The Kelly Writers House will close for Winter 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.
Tuesday, 1/3
- The Kelly Writers House will be opened from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM for administrative hours only.
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, 1/4
- The Kelly Writers House will be opened from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM for administrative hours only.
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, 1/5
- The Kelly Writers House will be opened from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM for administrative hours only.
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, 1/6
- The Kelly Writers House will be opened from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM for administrative hours only.
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, 1/7
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, 1/8
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, 1/9
- Spring Semester classes begin.
- The Kelly Writers House re-opens for normal hours.
- 2:00-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis (afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 with Richard Polman
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 5:20-7:20 in Room 202: Penn & Pencil Club, a writing workshop for Penn and Health Systems staff; For more information, email John Shea at (john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu).
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (savettc@comcast.net).
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, 1/10
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents Svetlana Boym with a talk entitled "Estrangement and the
Architecture of Freedom: Kafka, Shklovsky, and Arendt."
Svetlana Boym is Curt Hugo Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Her selected works include The Future of Nostalgia (2001); Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (1991); Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (1994); "From Russian Soul and Post-Communist Nostalgia" (1995); "Socialist Realism and Kitsch" (1995); "Estrangement and Exile: Shklovsky to Brodsky" (1996).
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group; for more information, email Pat Green at (patgreen@vet.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, 1/11
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 795.401 with Bob Perelman (perelman@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.001 with Elizabeth Scanlon
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 209: Film 009.601: Hitchcock with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.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, 1/12
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 111.302 with Erica Hunt
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane McKinney-Whetstone (whetstones@comcast.net)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in room 202: A meeting of The Moderns. For more information, contact Benjy Kahan at (kahan@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.
Friday, 1/13
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@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.
Saturday, 1/14
- The Writers House is 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, 1/15
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, 1/16
- University holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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, 1/17
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: 7-Up on Ben
Join us for a lively celebration of the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin!
"7-Up on Ben" features seven members of the Writers House and Penn communities, speaking/performing/singing/telling stories
for seven minutes each on some aspect of Penn's multifaceted founder. Expect the unexpected! Featuring Penn History professor
Michael Zuckerman, Penn artist and print instructor Matt Neff, actress and hub member Sarah Giovaniello, poet and hub member Tom Devaney, Penn Professor of Religious Studies Ann Matter,
and Writers House friend Jerry Rudisill. The birthday festivities for Ben today will begin with a reception for the Brian Tolle exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (starting at noon) and continue with the opening celebration for the "Educating the Youth of Pennsylvania" exhibit on the 6th floor of Van Pelt Library (starting at 5:00 PM). "7-Up on Ben" at the Writers House will be followed by a reception in the Morgan Building to celebrate the "Franklin Press,"a letterpress project that is a collaboration of the Writers House, the Fine Arts Department, and Van Pelt Library.
This program was recorded. Free, downloadable mp3s are available here.
For more information about city-wide events celebrating Franklin's birthday, please click here. The photo at right was taken at the event by Julie Schneider: Ann Matter standing to the left, Ben Franklin seated to the right.
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Radium, a fiction group. For more information, please contact Phil Sandick (psandick@writing.upenn.edu).
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes Meeting; for more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@earthlink.net).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public âand some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 1/18
- 6:00 PM: Art gallery reception for "Future in the Past: Early Soviet
Propaganda in the Cold War", a collection of Soviet propaganda posters, co-sponsored by the Burrison Gallery
and
the Cold War Project. For more information, contact Peter Schwarz at hschwarz@sas.upenn.edu.
Future in the Past: Early Soviet Propaganda in the Cold War presents a selection of mid-20th Century reissued Soviet propaganda posters from the years directly following the October Revolution (1917-1921). By the 1950s, Soviet art and society had undergone successive epochal changes in which the re-editioning of revolutionary posters served the double purpose of restoring the optimism of early propaganda and compelling a comparison between the “backward” conditions of Russia c.1920 and its consequent political, cultural, educational and economic reconstruction. Reissuing these early posters broadcasted an exhortatory fervor at a time when the Soviet Union needed to enter a new era as a world superpower at the inception of the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, and the Space Race in which the zeal and boundless enthusiasm of the revolutionary era could neutralize the memory of Stalin’s oppressive rule while reviving the promise of a bright communist future the be achieved under the new leader, Nikita Khrushchev. “Future in the Past” gives unprecedented insight into a short but historically crucial time in early Soviet Russia, as well as it’s reinterpretation under a vastly different ideological regime decades later” Guest curator, Liliana Milkova.
This exhibition, with installation and advisory assistance provided by Peter Schwarz, is sponsored by the Kelly Writers House, Burrison Art Gallery, and The Cold War Project. For further information, contact Peter Schwarz (KWH Art Curator) at hschwarz@sas.upenn.edu.
- 8 PM in the Arts Cafe: SPEAKEASY: Poetry, Prose, Anything Goes!
Open-Mic night at the Writers House. Come to perform or come to listen!
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 795.401 with Bob Perelman (perelman@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.001 with Elizabeth Scanlon
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 209: Film 009.601: Hitchcock with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.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, 1/19
- 12:00 PM: Lunch with Andrea Scott, Art Editor of Time Out New York.
Andrea Scott is the Art Editor of Time Out New York. She is also the former executive producer of äda'web, an online research and development platform for artists to experiment with the web.
Listen to a recording of the event.
- 6:00 PM: "The Mind of Winter": a Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") gathering
Each January the Writers House hub beats the midwinter doldrums with a community celebration of wintry writing and warming food.
You can hear the recording of this program in mp3 format here. To read about previous "Mind of Winter" celebrations, click here. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 111.302 with Erica Hunt
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane McKinney-Whetstone (whetstones@comcast.net)
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: In Words meeting. For more information, contact Grant Potts (gpotts@ccat.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.
Friday, 1/20
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.
Saturday, 1/21
- 1:00 - 3:00 PM: Write On! Penn Alexander Parents' Meeting. For more information contact Danielle Rosenblatt at dmrosenb@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.
Sunday, 1/22
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, 1/23
- Luncheon with Penn alum and literary agent Randi Murray (W'78, WG'79). Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Randi Murray did her undergraduate and graduate (MBA) work at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. After graduate school she worked for Goldman Sachs in New York, in both investment banking and equity research as a vice president. After moving to San Francisco in 1987, Randi eventually became chief administrative officer of Cornerstone Research, a litigation consulting firm specializing in securities fraud cases. She is the founder of the Burlingame, California-based Randi Murray Literary Agency, where she works with writers on all aspects of the publication process. Murray represents fiction and nonfiction writers, including Ira Glass, Joyce Maynard and comedian David Brenner. She has also represented several debut writers, and will discuss the business of publishing. For more info on her agency go to www.murrayagency.com.
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Katharine Q. Seelye on "THE AUDIENCE STRIKES BACK: Writing in the age of
transparency"
New York Times reporter Katharine Seelye, who covers media trends, will talk about the decline of traditional newspapers and magazines, and the rise of the blogosphere as a tool that allows readers to make journalists more accountable--or, at worst, can be used to destroy reputations.
Katharine Seelye appears courtesy of Dick Polman's Advanced Journalistic Writing Course.
Listen to a recording of this program.
- 2:00-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis (afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 with Richard Polman
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (savettc@comcast.net).
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, 1/24
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents Dominick LaCapra with a talk entitled "Resisting Apocalypse and
Rethinking History"
Dominick LaCapra is currently Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature and is a member of the field of Romance Studies and the Program in Jewish Studies. LaCapra is a senior fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory (SCT), was SCT's Associate Director from 1996 to 2000, and since 2000 its Director. LaCapra has edited The Bounds of Race: Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance (1991) and with Steven L. Kaplan co-edited Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives. He has written Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Philosopher (1972), A Preface to Sartre (1978), "Madame Bovary" on Trial (1982), Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language (1983), History and Criticism (1985), History, Politics, and the Novel (1987), Soundings in Critical Theory (1989), Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma (1994), History and Memory after Auschwitz (1998), and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory (2004). (All the above books were published by Cornell University Press.) He has also written History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies (University of Toronto Press, 2000) and Writing History, Writing Trauma (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), and History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory (2004).
This lecture addresses the temptation when relating history and critical theory to participate in a prevalent tendency in Western thought and culture since the Romantics: to respond to a perceived disorder or excess in an excessive manner or in other words to overdose on the antidote. Resisting this tendency, Prof. LaCapra turns to an analysis and critique of two prevalent ways of conceptualizing the practice of history, each of which bears on practices in related humanistic disciplines: the documentary or self-sufficient research model and radical contructivism, two of whose foremost exponents are Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit. This lecture attempts to articulate problems differently in terms of an approach that relates a reconstruction of the past and a dialogic relation to it that works through one's necessary implication in the problems one treats. To this end, the problem of trauma and responses to it will be discussed in relation to the activity of the historian.
- 7:00 PM at International House: A showing of Winter Soldier, presented in Collaboration with The Kelly
Writer's House at the University of Pennsylvania and The Cold War Project.
Dir. Winter Soldier Collective, USA, 1972, BetaSP, 96 mins, b/w
Winter Soldier documents a controversial 1971 meeting organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War in which more than 100 veterans (including a young John Kerry) gathered to testify as part of an investigation into war crimes and atrocities. Produced by a collective of notable documentary filmmakers including Barbara Kopple (Harlan County U.S.A.), the film had almost no theatrical life in the US until now, when it is proving itself still thought provoking and remarkably timely.
$5 members, students + seniors; $7 general admission
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Proposals Hublet meeting. For more information, please contact Erin Gautsche (gautsche@writing.upenn.edu).
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group; for more information, email Pat Green at (patgreen@vet.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, 1/25
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Journalism, Civil Rights, and Social Justice: A Lunchtime Conversation with
Philadelphia journalist Acel Moore. RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Acel Moore, associate editor and director of recruiting, columnist and member of the Editorial Board of the Philadelphia Inquirer, is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a Nieman Fellow. He has been a staff member of The Inquirer since 1962 starting as a copy boy. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977, and the Heywood Broun, National Headliner, and the Robert F. Kennedy awards, for a series on abuse of inmates at Farview State Hospital in Farview, Pa. In 1979 he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. He is a former director of the American Society of Newspapers Editors. He is also a past president and founding member of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, and a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists. In his career, Moore has won more than 100 journalism excellence and community service awards. This year he was the recipient of the Robert C. Maynard Legend Award, given by The National Association of Minority Media Executives and The Legacy Award by the National Association of Black Journalists for his work on creating diversity in the newspaper industry. Many of his columns focus on people and how they are affected by public policy, how they deal with social problems, and what they do to make a difference.
This event is part of the Penn-wide Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium on Social Change, which features a week of events, programs, and volunteer opportunities. For more information about the Symposium, click here.
Listen to a recording of the event.
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 795.401 with Bob Perelman (perelman@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.001 with Elizabeth Scanlon
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 209: Film 009.601: Hitchcock with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 202: Lacan Study Group; For more information, contact Patricia Gherovici at (pgherovici@aol.com)
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: Pennumbra, a science fiction/fantasy writing group for Penn students. For more information, please contact Lucy Ho (ratofsumatra@gmail.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.
Thursday, 1/26
- 6:00 PM: A reading and discussion with literary critic and author Carlin Romano entitled "Sciascia and the
Metaphysical Novel of Politics."
Carlin Romano is the longtime literary critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Critic-at-Large of the Chronicle of Higher Education, and a former President of the National Book Critics Circle, the nationwide organization of more than 600 literary critics, editors and scholars. Before joining the Inquirer, Romano worked at the Washington Post and New York Daily News. He also served as Critic-at-Large of Lingua Franca and literary columnist at the Village Voice. Over the years, his criticism has appeared in the Nation, the New Yorker, Harper's, Slate, Salon, Tikkun and other national publications. Last spring he was one of three finalists, along with Frank Rich of the New York Times and Joseph Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal, for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. (Morgenstern won.) The Pulitzer Board cited Romano "for bringing new vitality to the classic essay across a formidable array of topics."
In his academic life, Romano has taught philosophy at Yale, Yeshiva University, Williams College, Bennington College, Temple University and Penn, where he is currently a Visiting Professor at the Annenberg School. During the 2002-2003 academic year, he was a Fulbright professor of philosophy at St. Petersburg State University in Russia. He has been a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard, a Freedom Forum and NAJP Senior Fellow at Columbia, a McCloy Fellow and Fulbright Scholar to Germany, and the first Eisenhower Fellow from the United States to Israel. He is a 3-time winner of the Society of Professional Journalists "First Prize" in Criticism, and a recipient of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Distinguished Arts Criticism Award.
- 7:00 PM at International House: A showing of Winter Soldier, presented in Collaboration with The Kelly
Writer's House at the University of Pennsylvania and The Cold War Project.
Dir. Winter Soldier Collective, USA, 1972, BetaSP, 96 mins, b/w
Winter Soldier documents a controversial 1971 meeting organized by Vietnam Veterans Against the War in which more than 100 veterans (including a young John Kerry) gathered to testify as part of an investigation into war crimes and atrocities. Produced by a collective of notable documentary filmmakers including Barbara Kopple (Harlan County U.S.A.), the film had almost no theatrical life in the US until now, when it is proving itself still thought provoking and remarkably timely.
$5 members, students + seniors; $7 general admission
Listen to a recording of the event.
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 111.302 with Erica Hunt
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane McKinney-Whetstone (whetstones@comcast.net)
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, 1/27
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: "King And Baldwin: Unity For Change" - A Reading with MLA students and Kathryn
Watterson (PRIZE-WINNING author of Women In Prison and Not by the Sword). Co-sponsored by the African American Resource Center. To RSVP for this luncheon, please email Robert
Carter (robertec@pobox.upenn.edu).
Martin Luther King, Jr. and his mission had a tremendous impact on James Baldwin, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century who portrayed passionate truths about poverty, racism, social justice, and transformation in America. Students and their professor Kathryn Watterson of the Fall 2005 graduate seminar "James Baldwin (1924-1987) & the Issues of His Time" will present James Baldwin's words and portions of his interview with Dr. King.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
Please RSVP to wh@writing.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.
Saturday, 1/28
- 1:00-3:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Penn Alexander School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Penn Alexander School to the Writers House on Saturday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@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.
Sunday, 1/29
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, 1/30
- 2:00-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis (afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 with Richard Polman
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (savettc@comcast.net).
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, 1/31
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@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.