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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Friday, 2/1
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Lee Eisenberg
- 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM: WriteOn! Meeting. For more information, contact Emily Ozan: ejozan at 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, 2/2
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.
Sunday, 2/3
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.
Monday, 2/4
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") meeting. Please RSVP to jalowent@writing.upenn.edu.
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing with Karen Rile
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 Writers House Fellows Seminar with Al Filreis
- 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club meeting. For more information contact John Shea (John.Shea@uphs.upenn.edu).
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34h Street Poets 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.
Tuesday, 2/5
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A poetry reading by Rachel Blau DuPlessis.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Temple University, is an American poet-critic, whose long poem project,
begun in 1986, is collected in Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt Publishing, 2007) as well as in Drafts 1-38, Toll
(Wesleyan U.P., 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004).
In 2006, two books of her innovative essays were published: Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work (2006),
and the ground-breaking The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice ([1990] 2006) both from
University of Alabama Press. Other critical writing includes Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in
Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Earlier work includes
Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers (1985)
and H.D.: The Career of that Struggle (1986), as well as an edition of
The Selected Letters of George Oppen (1990). She has coedited three anthologies including
The Objectivist Nexus and The Feminist Memoir Project.
Her website is http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/duplessis.
A recording of this reading is available on PennSound, and you can watch selected video excerpts here.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 Poetry & Poetics/Experimental Writing with Tracie Morris
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word meeting. For more information, contact Kristen Williams at kew2@sas.upenn.edu.
- 7:00 - 9:00 PM in Room 209: The Play's the Thing
- 8:00 - 10:00 PM in Room 202: Radium 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.
Wednesday, 2/6
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 Advanced Screenwriting with Kathy DeMarco
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 162.301 The 2008 Presidential Primaries with Dick Polman
- 7:30-9:30 in Room 209: Writers Workshop meeting. For more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmyer65@eathlink.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.
Thursday, 2/7
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A conversation and lunch with novelist
Jonathan Rosen, cosponsored by the Jewish Studies program.
Jonathan Rosen is the author of
the novels Eve's Apple and Joy
Comes in the Morning, and of a work of non-fiction, The Talmud and the
Internet: A Journey Between Worlds. Rosen, who has received the Edward
Lewis Wallant Award, the Chaim Potok Prize, and the Reform Judaism Award
for fiction, is editorial director of Nextbook, published by Nextbook/Schocken, where he edits the "Jewish Encounters"
series. He created
the culture section of the Forward newspaper, which he oversaw for ten
years. His essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The
New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker and several anthologies.
His book about birdwatching, The Life of the Skies, will be published
later this month by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. About that book, Harvard
biologist Edward O. Wilson wrote: "Birding is so much more than just
outdoor recreation. Its sources are woven into history and legend, and
its pleasures are ultimately spiritual. Jonathan Rosen has captured all
this to deliver a rare and beautiful piece of literature."
Download a recording of this event here.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Theorizing event with Bruce Holsinger on The Gods
of Theory and the Work of God: Liturgy in Theory, Practice, and Theory of Practice. Co-sponsored by the Comparative Literature and Theory Program,Department of Music and Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA).
Bruce Holsinger is Professor of English, Music and Chair of the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia. He received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University; MA in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from University of Minnesota; and BMusA in clarinet performance from University of Michigan. Professor Holsinger specializes in musical and literary relations in the European Middle Ages, with particular interests in liturgical studies, the history of sexuality, and the premodern roots of modern critical thought. His first book, Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer (Stanford UP, 2001), won the AMS's Philip Brett Award, the Modern Language Association's Prize for a First Book, and the Medieval Academy of America's John Nicholas Brown Prize. His second book, The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory (U of Chicago P, 2005), explores the shaping role of medievalism and medieval studies in the work of Georges Bataille, Pierre Bourdieu, Roland Barthes, and other members of the critical generation in postwar France. Articles and review essays have appeared in Speculum, Journal of Plainsong and Medieval Music, GLQ, Journal of Medieval Latin, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, and elsewhere. His current projects include a book on post-9/11 medievalism and the rhetoric of international relations as well as a very long-term project, The Work of God: Liturgical Culture and Vernacular Writing in England, 650-1550, examining the institutional and aesthetic impact of liturgy on the history of musical and literary writing from the Venerable Bede to the Reformation. He has held or currently holds research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 121 Writing for Children with Elizabeth Van Doren
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 209: English 130.402 Advanced Screenwriting with Mark Rosenthal
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, 2/8
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Lee Eisenberg
- 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM: WriteOn! Meeting. For more information, contact Emily Ozan: ejozan at 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, 2/9
- 12:00-7:00PM in the Pub Room: First Call meeting. For more information, contact Shira Bender (shiratb@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.
Sunday, 2/10
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, 2/11
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Counter-Revolution of the Word: a book release party for Al Filreis. Join us for a reading and discussion, followed by a reception.
During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit - if not destroy - the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist antimodernists," as Alan Filreis dubs them, joined associations such as the League for Sanity in Poetry to decry the modernist "conspiracy" against form and language. In Counter-revolution of the Word, Filreis narrates the story of this movement and assesses its effect on American poetry and poetics.
A recording of this event is available on PennSound.
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing with Karen Rile
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 Writers House Fellows Seminar with Al Filreis
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets 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.
Tuesday, 2/12
- 1:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A workshop with playwright/director/teacher Ed Shockley, cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading by Kaya Press authors Ed Lin and Lisa Chen, cosponsored by the Asian American Studies Program.
- 7:00 - 9:00 PM in Room 202: Titicut Follies film screening. Word.Doc Film Series in collaboration with the course "Medicine in Literature and Film, 1850-2000." For more information, contact Lance Wahlert at lwahlert@english.upenn.edu.
Ed Shockley is a playwright, theater artist, arts activist, and teacher. He is author of more than 50 plays, which have enjoyed both commercial and critical success, as well as numerous professional articles and educational materials on the arts of playwriting and directing. Shockley is best known for the record-setting musicals Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues and Bobos (co-authored with James McBride). Other notable works include The Liars' Contest (winner of the HBO New Writers Competition) and the stage adaptation of Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. He is the recipient of the Stephen Sondheim Award for Outstanding Contributions to American Musical Theatre, the $25,000 Richard Rodgers Award (presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters), the New Professional Theatre Writers Festival prize, the American Minority Playwrights contest prize, two Pennsylvania State Arts Council fellowships, the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Production Fellowship, and numerous other awards. He has designed and taught theater courses at Temple University, NYU, Nassau Community College and continues to teach play/film writing and world theater history at the University of the Arts and Rutgers Camden.
Ed Lin is
the author of two
novels. His debut novel,
Waylaid (Kaya, 2002), became the basis of the nationally
screened indie film The Motel. Lin's second novel, This is a Bust has just been published by Kaya Press. Lin was born in New York and grew up in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Currently an editor at Barron's Online, he has worked in journalism for many years including positions at Forbes.com and Dow Jones News Service. He is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent. He now lives in New York City.
Lisa Chen's debut collection of poetry, Mouth, has just been published by Kaya Press. Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her work has been published in Hanging Loose, ZZYZVA, Prairie Schooner, and Threepenny Review. She lives in New York and works as a media and communications consultant for progressive organizations and campaigns.
Founded in 1994, Kaya Press is a not-for-profit independent publisher of Asian, Pacific Islander, and API diasporic fiction, poetry, critical essays, art, and culture. Kaya is dedicated to the publication of new and innovative literature and the recovery of important and overlooked work from Asia, the Pacific, and the API diaspora. They are committed to publishing works of excellent literary merit that feature unique voices; new and alternative perspectives; accomplished experimental writing; and beautiful, thoughtful book design. In so doing, they aim to expand the vision of what Asian American literature is and how it is received; they also aim to make available fine work from Asia, the Pacific, and the API diaspora outside of the United States, including writing in translation.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 Poetry & Poetics/Experimental Writing with Tracie Morris
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word meeting. For more information, contact Kristen Williams at kew2@sas.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes Meeting. For more information, contact Pat Green patricia78@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, 2/13
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The 2008 Bernheimer Symposium, "Writing Books: what writers learn from making their work into books," a lunchtime program and discussion with Johanna Drucker. Co-sponsored by Common Press and Fine Arts Program. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 1:30-4:30 PM at the Common Press, Morgan Building: "Exquisite Printwork," a collaborative writing and printing workshop with Johanna Drucker. The size of this workshop is strictly limited. For more information, contact Erin Gautsche at gautsche@writing.upenn.edu
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Ben Ratliff discusses his new biography Coltrane: The Story of a Sound. Presented in collaboration with Ars Nova Workshop.
Click here to listen to program.
Johanna Drucker is currently the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and Professor in the Department of English. In 2000, she helped establish the Speculative Computing Laboratory, a research group dedicated to exploring experimental projects in Humanities Computing. Her recent work focuses on aesthetics and digital media, particularly graphical communication and the expressive character of visual form. She is well known for her publications on the history of written forms, typography, design, and visual poetics. Her critical study, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity was published by the University of Chicago Press in Spring 2005. She is working with a curatorial team at the University of Virginia Art Museum on a major exhibition of contemporary art to open in September 2006 titled Complicit! that explores the issues of dialogue between mass media and contemporary art that are central to Sweet Dreams. She is completing the draft of a critical history of graphic design in collaboration with Emily McVarish to be published by Prentice Hall in January 2008. Her manuscript on digital projects and aesthetics, SpecLab, is currently in revision. She has held faculty positions at the University of Texas (1986-88), Harvard University (1988-89), Columbia Uniersity (1989-1994), Yale University (1994-99), SUNY Purchase (1998-99), and the University of Virginia ( 1999 to the present).
Her scholarly books include: Theorizing Modernism (Columbia University Press, 1994), The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art (University of Chicago Press, 1994); The Alphabetic Labyrinth (Thames and Hudson, 1995), and The Century of Artists' Books (Granary, 1995). Her collection, Figuring the Word, was published in November, 1998, (Granary Books).
In addition to her scholarly work, Drucker is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. Her work has been exhibited and collected in special collections in libraries and museums including the Getty Center for the Humanities, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Marvin and Ruth Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, the New York Public Library, Houghton Library at Harvard University, and many others. Recent titles include Narratology (1994), Prove Before Laying (1997), The Word Made Flesh (1989; 1995) The History of the/my Wor(l)d (1990; 1994), Night Crawlers on the Web (2000), Nova Reperta (JABbooks, 1999), Emerging Sentience (JABbooks 2001), the last two in collaboration with Brad Freeman. A Girl's Life, a collaboration with painter Susan Bee, appeared from Granary Books in Spring 2002, and Damaged Spring (Druckwerk) appeared in Summer 2004.
Her most recent letterpress book, Testament of Women, was produced at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center in 2006. A work of critical visual poetry, From Now, was published by Cuneiform Press in 2005. Her other project is the development of a networked resource for the study of artists' books, ABsOnline (www.artistsbooksonline.org).
A recording of her lecture and an image of the broadside created at her workshop are available on PennSound.
Ben Ratliff has been a jazz critic at The New York Times since 1996.
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 Advanced Screenwriting with Kathy DeMarco
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 162.301 The 2008 Presidential Primaries with Dick Polman
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, 2/14
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Release party for F-Word Magazine.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 121 Writing for Children with Elizabeth Van Doren
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 209: English 130.402 Advanced Screenwriting with Mark Rosenthal
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 202: Word.doc 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.
Friday, 2/15
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Lee Eisenberg
- 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM: WriteOn! Meeting. For more information, contact Emily Ozan: ejozan at 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, 2/16
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.
Sunday, 2/17
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, 2/18
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents
Art Spiegelman. RSVP only; please RSVP to
whfellow@writing.upenn.edu
or call 215-573-9749.
Art Spiegelman has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992
he won the Pulitzer Prize for his Holocaust narrative Maus, which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Maus
II continued the story of his parents' survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. His comics are best
known for their shifting graphic styles, their formal complexity, and controversial content. Spiegelman believes that in our
post-literate culture the importance of the comic is on the rise. "Comics echo the way the brain works," he says.
Spiegelman was a staff artist and writer at The New Yorker from 1993 to 2003. He has published the Little Lit series and other comics anthologies for children. In 2004 he completed a two-year cycle of broadsheet-sized color comics pages, In the Shadow of No Towers, which was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the year's 100 Notable Books. In 2005, Spiegelman was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The Los Angeles Times has written that Spiegelman's illustrations "are meant not just to be plainly understood but also to reach up and tattoo your eyeballs with images once unimaginable ... Art Spiegelman's cartoons don't fool around."
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing with Karen Rile
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 Writers House Fellows Seminar with Al Filreis
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34h Street Poets 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.
Tuesday, 2/19
- 10:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents
Art Spiegelman. RSVP only; please RSVP to
whfellow@writing.upenn.edu
or call 215-573-9749.
Art Spiegelman has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992
he won the Pulitzer Prize for his Holocaust narrative Maus, which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Maus
II continued the story of his parents' survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. His comics are best
known for their shifting graphic styles, their formal complexity, and controversial content. Spiegelman believes that in our
post-literate culture the importance of the comic is on the rise. "Comics echo the way the brain works," he says.
Spiegelman was a staff artist and writer at The New Yorker from 1993 to 2003. He has published the Little Lit series and other comics anthologies for children. In 2004 he completed a two-year cycle of broadsheet-sized color comics pages, In the Shadow of No Towers, which was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the year's 100 Notable Books. In 2005, Spiegelman was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The Los Angeles Times has written that Spiegelman's illustrations "are meant not just to be plainly understood but also to reach up and tattoo your eyeballs with images once unimaginable ... Art Spiegelman's cartoons don't fool around."
- 7:00 - 9:00 PM in Room 202: Hospital film screening. Word.Doc Film Series in collaboration with the course "Medicine in Literature and Film, 1850-2000." For more information, contact Lance Wahlert at lwahlert@english.upenn.edu.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 Poetry & Poetics/Experimental Writing with Tracie Morris
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word meeting. For more information, contact Kristen Williams at kew2@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, 2/20
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 Advanced Screenwriting with Kathy DeMarco
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 162.301 The 2008 Presidential Primaries with Dick Polman
- 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 202: Lacanians Meeting. Contact Patricia Gherovici at PGHEROVICI@aol.com.
- 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM in Room 209: Writers Workshop meeting. For more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmyer65@earthlink.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.
Thursday, 2/21
4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: The podcast series "PoemTalk" records episode #7: Jerome Rothenberg, "A Paradise of Poets."
Join PoemTalk moderator and host Al Filreis and three friends in the poetics community as they discuss a single poem from the PennSound archive. Episode #7 features a discussion of "A Paradise of Poets" by Jerome Rothenberg and a conversation with Bob Holman, Randall Couch and Jessica Lowenthal. PoemTalk is sponsored by the Writers House and CPCW in collaboration with the Poetry Foundation. For more, see http://poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com. If you would like to be a member of the live audience, rsvp to podcasts@writing.upenn.edu.
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6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading and conversation with
experimental novelist and essayist Michael Martone.
Michael Martone was born and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He
attended Butler University and graduated from Indiana University. He
holds the MA from The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University.
His newest book is Double-wide, his collected stories. Michael Martone, Unconventions and Rules of
Thumb were published last
year. His book of essays, The Flatness and Other Landscapes, won the
AWP Award for Nonfiction. With Lex Williford, he edited The Scribner
Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction.Martone has won two Fellowships from the NEA and a grant from the Ingram Merrill Foundation. His stories have won awards in the Italian Americana fiction contest, the Florida Review Short Story Contest, the Story magazine Short, Short Story Contest, the Margaret Jones Fiction Prize of Black Ice Magazine, and the first World's Best Short, Short Story Contest. His stories and essays have been cited in Pushcart Prize, The Best American Stories and The Best American Essays.
He is currently a Professor at the University of Alabama where he has been teaching since 1996. He has been a faculty member of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since 1988. He has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University, and Syracuse University.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 121 Writing for Children with Elizabeth Van Doren
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 209: English 130.402 Advanced Screenwriting with Mark Rosenthal
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, 2/22
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Lee Eisenberg
- 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM: WriteOn! Meeting. For more information, contact Emily Ozan: ejozan at 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, 2/23
- 12:00 - 7:00 PM in the Pub Room: First Call meeting. For more information, contact Shira Bender (shiratb@gmail.com).
- 12:00 - 3:00 PM in Room 202: Brave Star meeting. Contact Aichlee Bushnell: aichlee at 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, 2/24
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, 2/25
- 11:30 AM in the Arts Cafe: A lunch program with Karen Abbott, introduced by Dick Polman. RSVP required, wh@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9748.
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House features Leeway Award Winners Rachel Goffee, Wadzanai Mhute, Michelle Posadas, Judith Trustone, and musical guest PaperTrees.
Philadelphia native Karen Abbott got her start as a local journalist, spending six years on the staff of Philadelphia magazine and Philadelphia Weekly as well as contributing to publications like Salon.com. For the past three years, she worked full time researching her latest book, Sin in the Second City. Set in the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, one of America's most famous brothels, Abbott writes about the history of American brothels as a means to view America's transition from Victorian-era to a 20th century modern landscape. She is currently working on her second book and lives in Atlanta with her husband and two African Gray parrots, Poe and Dexter.
Download a recording of this event here.
The Leeway Foundation is committed to art making as an integral part of social change, to movement building, and anti-oppression work where Leeway is accountable, accessible, part of and governed by, the communities Leeway's programs support. Leeway is guided by the values of fearlessness in action, speech, and self-examination and commits to breaking down boundaries and barriers with creativity, respect, and openness to the process. All performers on this LIVE at the Writers House are winners of Leeway's Transformation or Art and Change grants.
With her Art and Change grant, Rachel Goffe will create an oral narrative of the stories of long-term residents of neighborhoods impacted by Philadelphia's changing real estate market and land use policies. She will work with community youth and organizers to create this narrative of Brewerytown and West Kensington. Through stories collected from residents, she will highlight the impact of rising property values, controversial property tax policies, and eminent domain abuse on the lives of residents.
Wakzanai Mhute, with her Leeway Foundation grant, will return to her native country of Zimbabwe to document attitudes on the circumstances of women and how they have changed over the last 27 years since the country achieved its independence. She will write a series of articles to be published in Mimi Magazine, an online publication targeted toward young African women, which will serve as the basis for a forthcoming novel.
Michelle Posadas is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes puppetry, performance, sculpture, photography, illustration, video, web design, and installation. She creates art that directly responds to issues she is deeply moved by on topics ranging from the war in Iraq to the gentrification of her neighborhood. Her previous work has been around her identity and she is moving toward making work that engages directly with organizations and becomes part of activist campaigns about the Philippines, queerness, being bi-racial, politics in Philadelphia, and the 2008 United States presidential election. Michelle is a teaching artist and has worked with Bread and Puppet Theater, Spiral Q Puppet Theater, and Dream Community in Taiwan.
Judith Trustone is a writer whose work focuses largely on advocating and inspiring others to creative expression. She has worked with diverse groups of imprisoned and free writers, artists and musicians through Sagewriters, a national, non-profit group she founded that has published so far eight books of literary and social merit by prisoners. Celling America's Soul: Torture & Transformation in Our Prisons and Why We Should Care has been called "the best book in print about prison from most every perspective." Sagewriters Senior Editor, lifer Patrick Middleton, Ph.D., is the first prisoner in America to earn his B.A., M.A. and PhD behind bars, 34 years so far.
With her Art and Change grant, Kameelah Waheed will present "The Castor Ave. Project," a presentation of the historical origin of hip hop, poetry and urban rock music told through workshops and live performances presented by community artists for young people in Camden at the Powell Elementary School. The goal of this project is to reach young people and share the roots of urban music with them to help raise awareness of the social issues music can address and bring forward.
Papertrees is a constantly evolving band. Papertrees began with Allison Polans writing songs, strumming a guitar, and vocalizing some songs, but has now grown into a family of sounds (formerly known as Allison Polans & Friends but now papertrees!) The core crew also consists of Deirdre Kelly on cello and Alec Meltzer on drums/percussion/keys. Recently joined up are Shane Leddy (upright and electric bass) and Andrew Lipke (keyboards). "...a budding songwriter backed by familiar faces and soon to be plagued by Cat Power comparisons." (Doug Wallen) - Philadelphia Weekly
LIVE at the Writers House is a long-standing
collaboration between the Kelly Writers House and WXPN FM (88.5). Six
times annually between September and April, Michaela Majoun
hosts a one-hour broadcast of poetry, music, and other spoken-word
art, along with one musical guest, all from our Arts Cafe onto the
airwaves at WXPN. LIVE is made possible by generous support from
BigRoc. For more information, contact Producer Erin Gautsche
(gautsche@writing.upenn.edu).
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing with Karen Rile
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 Writers House Fellows Seminar with Al Filreis
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, 2/26
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: the first annual Cheryl J. Family Fiction Program, featuring Samuel Delany and Adrian Khactu.
Samuel R. Delany is a critic and novelist, with essays and interviews collected in seven volumes, the most recent three of which are Silent Interviews (1994), Longer Views (1996) and Shorter Views (1999). His award winning autobiography The Motion of Light in Water (1988) and his novel Hogg (1995) were returned to print in 2004. His novel Phallos was reviewed in the Village Voice as "a lapidary, digital-age Pale Fire, tonally redolent of Valery's Epilinos." His other fictions include The Mad Man (1995), and Atlantis: Three Tales (1993). A multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, Mr. Delany is also a recipient of the Pilgrim Award for outstanding scholarship in science fiction studies, and a winner of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to Lesbian and Gay Literature. His scholarly interests include Walter Pater and the Oxford aesthetic movement and its influence on high modernism, as well as questions of race, gender, queer studies, and literary theory. After eleven years as a comparative literature professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a year and a half as an English professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Mr. Delany began as a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in January 2001.
Adrian Khactu's work has been published or is forthcoming in the Atlantic Monthly, Carve, Heritage, and
In/Vision (or HOOT! as those in the know pronounce it). He has won the Richard Moyer Prize in Fiction and the Ezra
Pound Prize in Literary Translation, as well as fellowships from Clarion West and Vermont Studio Center. Adrian currently lives, studies, and works in Philadelphia, and he holds shiny, though not entirely profitable, creative writing degrees from Stanford and Temple Universities (where he was a student of Samuel Delany).
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 Poetry & Poetics/Experimental Writing with Tracie Morris
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word meeting. For more information, contact Kristen Williams at kew2@sas.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes Meeting. For more information, contact Pat Green patricia78@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, 2/27
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a lunch talk with journalist and Penn alumna Nancy Cordes (C'95), hosted by Dick Polman, co-sponsored by The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
Hold for KWH Art Gallery opening. For more information, please contact Kaegan Sparks ( kwhartgallery@gmail.com).
Based in Washington, D.C. Nancy Cordes (C'95) is a corespondent for CBS News, where she is currently covering the Presidential primaries. Before joining CBS, Cordes was an ABC News correspondent based in New York, where she reported for all ABC News broadcasts and covered many major news stories, including Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and the 2004 election. Before that, she was a Washington-based correspondent for NewsOne, the affiliate news service of ABC News (2003-04). Cordes has also reported for WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. (1999-2003), where she covered the Sept. 11 attack on the Pentagon, the 2000 Presidential race, the D.C.-area sniper attacks, and peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia. Cordes began her career as a reporter for KHNL-TV in Honolulu (1995-97).
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 Advanced Screenwriting with Kathy DeMarco
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 162.301 The 2008 Presidential Primaries with Dick Polman
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, 2/28
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A lunch program conversation with Beth Kephart. Co-sponsored by Creative Writing. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A poetry reading by Fred Moten, introduced by Tracie Morris, the 2007-08 CPCW Fellow in Poetry and Poetic Practice .
Local author Beth Kephart is the critically acclaimed author of Slant of the Sun, Into the Tangle of Friendship, Still Love in Strange Places, and Seeing Past Z: Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World. Her new book, Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River, is a creative life story of the Schuylkill River. It shows Philadelphia's strong connection to the Schuylkill, the river having been a source of power, industry, and beauty since the birth of the city.
Fred Moten is Associate
Professor of English and the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity (where he is also director of African-American
Studies) at USC. Before joining USC in 2004, Moten previously taught in African-American and Film Studies at the University
of California-Irvine, in Performance Studies at the Tisch School of Arts at New York University, and in English at the
University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Iowa. Moten's critical writings include In The Break: The
Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and Stolen Life (forthcoming). He
has also published two chapbooks of poetry: Arkansas (2003) and Poems (2002, with Jim Behrle).
Tracie Morris is a multi-disciplinary poet who has worked in theater, dance, music and film. She has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. Primarily known as a "musical poet," Tracie has worked with an extensive range of internationally recognized musicians and other artists. She has participated in a dozen recording projects. Her sound poetry has most recently been featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial.
She is the recipient of numerous awards for poetry including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Creative Capital Fellowship, the National Haiku Slam Championship and an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship. She is the author of two poetry collections, Intermission and Chap-T-her Won.
Tracie's poetry has been anthologized in literary magazines, newspapers and books including 360 Degrees: A Revolution of Black Poets, Listen Up!, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Caf., The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Soul. Her words have also been featured in commissioned pieces for several organizations including Aaron Davis Hall, the International Festival for the Arts, The Kitchen, Franklin Furnace and Yale Repertory Theater for choreographer Ralph Lemon.
Tracie holds degrees from Hunter College and New York University. She also holds certificates from the Cave Canem Summer Institute and the Hempispheric Institute of NYU. She teaches at Eastern Michigan University.
A recording of this reading is available on PennSound
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 121 Writing for Children with Elizabeth Van Doren
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 209: English 130.402 Advanced Screenwriting with Mark Rosenthal
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, 2/29
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Lee Eisenberg
- 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM: WriteOn! Meeting. For more information, contact Emily Ozan: ejozan at 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.