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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Friday, 3/1
- 3:15-5:00 PM: Write On!
Workshop (Paige Menton: paigem@english.upenn.edu)
Write On! Penn students and local writers work with Lea School 8th graders to enhance expository writing capabilities and explore creative writing genres. For more info, contact Paige Menton at paigem@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.
Saturday, 3/2
- 2:00-4:00 PM: A group reading of poetry from Shrinkwrapped Magazine, hosted by editor Brian Cope.
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, 3/3
- 7-10 PM in Room 203: Punch Bowl
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, 3/4
- 8:00 PM:
Live at the Writers House, a one-hour word and music
radio show that tapes at the Kelly Writers House and airs on 88.5 WXPN. This month
features a McSweeney's roundtable with Neal Pollack,
Amy Fusselman, and musical guest Ted Casterline's Ninja
Academy.
Neal Pollack is the author of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, now available in a glorious new paperback edition and as a 3-CD spoken-word "experience" from HarperAudio and Bloodshot Records. He will soon be the author of Poetry and Other Poems, a book of poetry, and My Life In Rock, a novel. He lives and loves in Philadelphia.
Ted Casterline, a.k.a Ninja Academy, got in his start musically in Philadelphia, while attending Tyler School of Art. He now resides in Brooklyn, where he writes and performs music with two groups, Krakatoa and The Hong Kong. Krakatoa has been described as "baroque cartoon music" or "symphonic art rock," while The Hong Kong mines the areas between Phil Spector's 60s girl groups and early 80s new wave and punk. For his set at the Kelly Writers House, he'll be performing several songs on acoustic guitar, accompanied by Ben Freeman on keyboards and toy piano. Ted Casterline works as a truck driver in New York City.
Amy Fusselman's book, The Pharmacist's Mate, was published by McSweeney's in June of 2001. It will be released in paperback this fall. She edits the website Surgery of Modern Warfare.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)
- 4:30-9:30 PM: Live at the Writers House set-up,
rehearsal, and show in the Arts Cafe
- 5:15 in Room 202: Penn & Pencil Club
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick marcab@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.
Tuesday, 3/5
- Kelly Writers House Director and Program Coordinator House In-Service Day.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Kids Corner and WXPN will hold a general meeting for Stimulus Theater.
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, 3/6
- 6:00 PM: A reading by Eileen Myles, hosted by the Creative Writing Program
Eileen Myles is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Chelsea Girls, Maxfield Parrish and School of Fish, all published by Black Sparrow Press. She has also written a novel, Cool for You, published by Soft Skull Press. Myles has worked as a teacher and editor and even ran for president in the 1992 election. She is also the former director of the world-renowned St. Marks Poetry Project. With Liz Kotz, she edited The New Fuck You: Adventures in Lesbian Reading (Semiotext(e), 1995), which received a Lambda Book Award. She is also a frequent contributor to The Nation, Art in America and Seattle's Stranger.
- 9 AM-12 PM in Room 202: Graduate Course (Rita Bernard)
- 9 AM-12 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 589: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 2-5 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Fish Writing Group (Nancy Hoffmann: nhoffmann@earthlink.net)
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@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.
Thursday, 3/7
- 5:30 PM: Art Gallery Reception: exhibit of five artists from Ingenue Arts, a student artists' collective at Penn.
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A performance by singer/songwriter
Michele
Palamidy
With a voice of strong, earthy sweetness, Michele Palamidy has written and performed her own songs for many years. She has been everywhere and done everything: a dialysis nurse, an attorney, the mother of two, and, of course, a performer of her own folk and blues songs. Come to the Writers House to hear her remarkably powerful sound in our "Arts Cafe" set up cafe-style. Click here to listen to mp3 recordings of several of the songs she sang that night: The Boxer, Bright Angel.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
- 4:30-6:30 in Room 202: The Modernist Group (Jeremy Braddock braddock2dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30 PM in Room 209: Eighteenth-Century Reading 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.
Friday, 3/8
- Spring Recess begins at close of classes
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes: A poetry working group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.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.
Saturday, 3/9
- Writers House closed / spring recess
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, 3/10
- Writers House closed / spring recess
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 WXPN: McSweeney's roundtable featuring Neal
Pollack, Amy Fusselman, and musical guest Ted Casterline's
Ninja
Academy.
For a recording of this event, click here." Ted Casterline, aka Ninja Academy, got in his start musically in Philadelphia, while attending Tyler School of Art. He now resides in Brooklyn, where he writes and performs music with two groups, Krakatoa and The Hong Kong. Krakatoa has been described as "baroque cartoon music" or "symphonic art rock", while The Hong Kong mines the areas between Phil Spector's 60s girl groups and early 80s new wave and punk. For his set at the Kelly Writers House, he'll be performing several songs on acoustic guitar, accompanied by Ben Freeman on keyboards and toy piano. Ted Casterline works as a truck driver in New York City.
Neal Pollack is the author of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, now available in a glorious new paperback edition and as a 3-CD spoken-word "experience" from HarperAudio and Bloodshot Records. He will soon be the author of Poetry and Other Poems, a book of poetry, and My Life In Rock, a novel. He lives and loves in Philadelphia.
Amy Fusselman's book, The Pharmacist's Mate, was published by McSweeney's in June of 2001. It will be released in paperback this fall. She edits the website Surgery of Modern Warfare.
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, 3/11
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, 3/12
- Writers House closed / spring recess
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, 3/13
- Writers House closed / spring recess
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, 3/14
- Writers House closed / spring recess
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, 3/15
- Writers House closed / spring recess
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, 3/16
- Writers House closed / spring recess
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, 3/17
- Writers House closed / spring recess
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, 3/18
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: The Modernist Group (Jeremy Braddock braddock@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick marcab@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.
Tuesday, 3/19
- 7:00 PM: Spring Local Spotlight #3 featuring Eli Goldblatt,
Laura Goldstein and
Chris McCreary .
Eli Goldblatt is Associate Professor of English and University Writing Director at Temple University. He is both a poet and a compositionist. His poems have appeared in journals such as Another Chicago Magazine, Hambone, Louisiana Literature, Hubbub and 6ix, and his book-length collections include Sessions 1-62 (Chax P, 1991), Speech Acts (Chax P, 1999), and Without a Trace (Singing Horse P, 2001). He has also published two children's books and a verse play. His book ORound My Way: Authority and Double-Consciousness in Three Urban High School Writers (U of Pittsburgh P, 1995) draws on his six years of high school teaching in urban Philadelphia. His work on composition instruction, literacy autobiography, and service learning has appeared in College English, College Composition and Communication, Linguistics and Education, Writing on the Edge, and the Journal of Peace & Justice Studies.
Laura Goldstein is a poet finishing up her M.A. in Creative Writing at Temple and received her undergraduate degree at Penn. She currently instructs an undergraduate poetry workshop at Temple and works as the Direct Service Coordinator for the Young Scholar's Program in Temple's Department of School and Community Partnerships. She is working on her first book of poetry and is in the process of planning a Philadelphia Poetry Collective in which area poets share their work and bring their expertise to the community.
Chris McCreary is the co-editor of ixnay press (www.durationpress.com/ixnay) and the author of the chapbooks clockwork and Sansom Agonistease. His work is forthcoming or has appeared in Antennae, Big Allis, Facture, Rhizome, Ur-Vox, and elsewhere.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Room 202: Nonfiction Writers Workshop: for non-fiction writers who have been published or are serious about trying. The group will meet every other week for the semester. (Sylvia Auerbach: auersylvia@aol.com)
- 7-8:30 PM in Room 209: "Where's the Romance?" West Philly Women's Reading Group (Steph Strassel: strassel@ling.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, 3/20
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome!
- 9 AM-12 PM in Room 202: Graduate Course (Rita Bernard)
- 9 AM-12 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 589: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 2-5 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 5:00-7:00 PM in Room 202: Bob Perelman's class
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Study Group (Carmen Lamas: lamasc@sas.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Film Advisory Board (Marc Brunswick marcab@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.
Thursday, 3/21
- 5 PM: Planning committee meeting and gathering. (For information about the "hub," write to wh@writing.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Modernist Group (Jeremy Braddock braddock@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 7-8:30 PM in Room 209: Preceptorial on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series with Jennifer Snead (Meredith Chiaccio: chiaccio@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, 3/22
- 3:15-5:00 PM: Write On!
Workshop (Paige Menton: paigem@english.upenn.edu)
Write On! Penn students and local writers work with Lea School 8th graders to enhance expository writing capabilities and explore creative writing genres. For more info, contact Paige Menton at paigem@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.
Saturday, 3/23
- 4:00
PM: Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents Moira
Burns and Lia Purpura.
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Moira Burns is a poet and non-fiction writer. Her work has been
published
in
Poet Lore,Calvert Review, Architectural Digest, and
Potomac Review. She
serves as the Director and Host of The Word Works/Strathmore Hall Arts
Center/Cafe Muse Literary Reading series in Bethesda, Maryland, and
presents
a monthly writers' reading series at the Mariposa Center for Artistic
Expression in College Park, Maryland. She has taught creative writing
seminars at Gallaudet University and at University College/University of
Maryland, where she received her B.A. in English Literature/Humanities in
1982.
She has given readings of her work at various Washington-metropolitan area
venues, including: the University of Maryland, Gallaudet University, the
Folger Library and Phillips Collection (under the Mid-day Muse Series),
and
the Joaquin Miller Cabin series. She was a featured reader at the
Cornelia Street Cafe Reading Series in NYC in December 2001.
Lia Purpura's collection of lyric essays, Increase, won the 1999 Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in October 2000. Her second collection of poems, Stone Sky Lifting, won the 2000 Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award and was published in December 2000. A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she was a Teaching/Writing Fellow, she has published poems, essays, translations and reviews in many magazines, including The American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review and Ploughshares. She is a regular poetry and nonfiction reviewer for Antioch Review. In 1992, Lia Purpura was granted a Fulbright Fellowship to Poland to translate the work of four contemporary poets. A collection of her translations, Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash, was published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 1998. Her first collection of poems, The Brighter the Veil, was published in 1996 by Orchises Press. Purpura was awarded a Millay Colony Fellowship, multiple fellowship residencies at The MacDowell Colony, and at Blue Mountain Center. She is the winner of the Visions International Prize in Translation, the Randall Jarrell Prize for poetry given by the North Carolina Writers’ Network and chosen by Mary Oliver, and, for The Brighter the Veil, The Towson University Prize in Literature, given by Towson University in MD in recognition of a literary work published that year by a writer under 40. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize numerous times, including this year. Recently, she was Poet-in-Residence at The Chautauqua Institute and at The St. Mary’s Poetry Festival, St. Mary’s MD; a featured reader at the Associated Writing Programs Conference in Palm Springs, CA; and a guest reader/lecturer at the First Annual Writers’ Conference at the University of North Carolina. She has served as judge for the AWP Intro Journals Award in Creative Nonfiction, and for the Gertrude Lucille Robinson Award for best undergraduate writing at Ohio State University. Lia Purpura teaches writing at Loyola College in Baltimore, MD, where she lives with her husband and son.
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, 3/24
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, 3/25
- 6:30 PM: The
Writers House Fellows
Program hosts a
reading by John Ashbery. RSVP required to whfellow@english.upenn.edu.
Born in Rochester, New York, in 1927, John Ashbery is the author of over 20 books of poetry. In 1984, his book A Wave won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. For Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), he recieved the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Some Trees (1956) was selected by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poet Series.
John Ashbery and Al Filreis during the March 26, 2002, Writers House Fellows discussion, webcast live. At Cornell University an entire class of students taught by Jonathan Monroe and Joel Kurzai participated. At Eastern Michigan University Randal Baier (shown above) made the Writers House webcast available to students and faculty at EMU's Halle Library. He has recieved a long list of other awards, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, the English Speaking Union Prize, the Feltrinelli Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, two Ingram Merrill Foundation grants, the MLA Common Wealth Award in Literature, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Frank O'Hara Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the Fulbright Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. He is also a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
To view recordings of John Ashbery's March 25 reading and the discussion with Ashbery led by Al Filreis, click here. To read a newspaper story about the visit, click here.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)
- 5:00 PM in Room 202: Jena Osman's Class
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club (Marc Brunswick marcab@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.
Tuesday, 3/26
- 10:00 AM: The Writers House Fellows Program hosts an interview and conversation with John Ashbery conducted by Al Filreis. Seating is limited. The program will also be webcast live. RSVP required to whfellow@english.upenn.edu.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (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.
Wednesday, 3/27
- 4:30 PM: The Poet & Painter Series presents Bill Berkson and Trevor Winkfield: a conversation between poet and painter.
Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Fine Arts and the Creative Writing Program.
Poet and art critic Bill Berkson was born in New York in 1939 and became
Bill Berkson and Trevor Winkfield (click on the image)
active in the literary and art worlds there in his early twenties. He is the author of 14 books and pamphlets of poetry, including Saturday Night: Poems 1960-61, Shining Leaves, Recent Visitors, Enigma Variations (with drawings by Philip Guston), Blue Is the Hero, Lush Life and most recently, Serenade (with drawings by Joe Brainard) and Fugue State (cover by Yvonne Jacquette). Another new volume, Hymns of St. Bridget & Other Writings, comprising Berkson's collaborations with Frank O'Hara 1960-64, just appeared from The Owl Press with a cover by Alex Katz. His work has been included in many literary journals and anthologies. He is also a Corresponding Editor for Art in America and a regular contributor to Artforum, Modern Painters, Art on Paper, American Craft and other magazines. From 1971-78, he was editor-publisher of Big Sky magazine and books. He has received awards and grants for poetry from the Poets Foundation, the Fund for Poetry, the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, the Briarcombe Foundation, and Marin Arts Council, and in 1990 was given an Artspace Award for Art Criticism. In recent years he has also curated exhibitions of individual artists such as George Herriman and Ronald Bladen and of contemporary painting, and served as an adjunct curator for "Facing Eden:100 Years of California Landscape Art" at the Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco. He has taught and directed the public lectures program at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1984. He lives in San Francisco.Trevor Winkfield was born in Leeds, England in 1944, and attended Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London where he was self-taught as a painter. Since 1969 he has lived in New York City. He is a painter and the author of In The Scissors' Courtyard and in January had a one-man show at the Tibor de Nagy gallery called "Vocations."
- 8:00 PM: Bill Berkson will read at Temple University Center City Campus, 1515 Market Street (Room 222)
- 9 AM-12 PM in Room 202: Graduate Course (Rita Bernard)
- 9 AM-12 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 589: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
- 2-5 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@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.
Thursday, 3/28
- 5:00 PM: A reading by poet Gerald Stern, hosted by the
Creative Writing Program.
Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925. His books of poetry include Last Blue: Poems (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000); This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), which won the National Book Award; Odd Mercy (1995); Bread Without Sugar (1992), winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize; Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems (1990); Two Long Poems (1990); Lovesick (1987); Paradise Poems (1984); The Red Coal (1981), which received the Melville Caine Award from the Poetry Society of America; Lucky Life, the 1977 Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and Rejoicings (1973). His honors include the Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Award, the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Prize, four National Endowment of the Arts grants, the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. For many years a teacher at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, he lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, and New York City. Gerald Stern was introduced by Writers House Program Coordinator, Tom Devaney. Read the text of his introduction here.
- 10:30-12:00 in Room 209: English 282.301: Early American Lit: Gothic Americas (Joan Dayan: jdayan@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Modernist Group (Jeremy Braddock braddock@dept.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.
Friday, 3/29
- 1:30-3:30 in Room 209: Eighteenth-Century Reading Group (Brett Wilson: bwilson@english.upenn.edu)
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes: A poetry working group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.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.
Saturday, 3/30
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, 3/31
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.