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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Thursday, 4/1
- 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: Second session of screenwriting structure
workshop with alumnus David Stern.
David Stern will work with six students on developing their scripts, on March 31 and April 1. For more information on how to apply email whstern@writing.upenn.edu. (rsvp required: email wh@writing.upenn.edu for more information)
- 5:00 PM: An evening of "Ukrainian Poetry & Songs," in the Arts Cafe, hosted by The Ukrainian Society at Penn.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6 PM in Room 202: The Mods meeting. For more information contact Matt Hart (matthart@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, 4/2
- 3:30-5:30 PM throughout the House: Write On! Workshop
Write On! volunteers are Penn students who work with eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School on Friday afternoons at the Writers House, building creative writing and reading skills. For more information or to participate, email Rachel Kreinces.
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 12-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Critical Writing Fellow Training Session
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, 4/3
- 1-4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Write On! End of Year Celebration
- 4:30 PM: "The Philadelphia Reading Series at Kelly Writers House" with Leonard Gontarek, Kristine Grow,
Daniel Abdal Hayy Moore, and Lamont Dixon
Leonard Gontarek is the author of 4 books of poetry, including Zen for Beginners and the forthcoming Irregular Prayer. His poems have appeared recently in Fence, Volt, Field, American Poetry Review, Exquisite Corpse and Drexel Online Journal. He was a PEW finalist in 2003 and received a Poetry Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for 2004. He coordinates The Philadelphia Reading Series, The Philadelphia Poetry Festival and PeaceWorks: Philadelphia Poets for Peace.
Kristine Grow runs the Kristine Grow workshop at the Bookcorner in Philadelphia. Her poetry has apepared in several magazines, including Ixnay, American Writing and Poetry Fury. She has read at venues that include The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Bar Noir and Live at the Writer's House. She has published one book, titled Long Draw.
Daniel Abdal Hayy Moore's first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964. He became a Muslim/Sufi in 1970, performed the Hajj in 1972, and lived in Morocco, Spain, Algeria and Nigeria. In 1996 he published The Ramadan Sonnets, and in 2001 a new book of poems, The Blind Beekeeper. He lives in Philadelphia.
In 1995, Lamont Dixon published a collection of his poems; Urban beats & Ghetto blues. Currently he is still blazing the poetry scene in Philadelphia and New York. He is founder and host of The Poet's Den, a monthly jazz-poetry series located in Camden, New Jersey. He regularly shares his poetry on various area radio programs. He has been published in New York's African Voices Magazine and The Phylaxis.
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, 4/4
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, 4/5
- 5:30 PM in the Dining Room: Planning Committee Meeting and Gathering
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House will tape in the Arts Cafe,
featuring Venise Battle, Adam Fieled, Caroline Rothstein, F. Omar Telan, Amma Asare,
Nicole Tabolt, and musical guest Guy
Ramsey.
Venise Battle is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in English and Urban Poetry. Venise is a Minnesota native and has enjoyed her four years in Philadelphia. This fall, she will attend the Teacher Training Course at the Shady School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She plans to teach middle school English. Ultimately, Venise aspires to be an author, public speaker, and lifelong educator.
Adam Fieled has released two albums: Darkyr Sooner (all music) on mp3.com, and Raw Rainy Fog (spoken word) on Radio Eris Records. He is the creator of This Charming Lab, an artist's co-op that has produced musical and literary events, with local, national, and international acts, at venues including the Khyber, La Tazza 108, the Pontiac Grille, the Killtime Warehouse, Book Corner, Molly's Books, and the Kelly Writers House. He is in the midst of recording his third album, Ardent, to be released later this year.
Caroline Rothstein is a sophomore in the College at Penn from Wilmette, Illinois. She is majoring in Classical Studies, focusing on languages (especially Latin) and minoring in Theatre Arts. She has never been published as a poet in professional works, but in high school she worked on and was published in her school's literary magazine; when she went to boarding school her senior year and for a postgraduate year, she founded a literary magazine where again, she worked as editer-in-chief and was published. As a kid she was a quick learner with how-to books and can make balloon animals, origami, and crochets.
F. Omar Telan is an Asian American writer, poet, performance artist. He attended Emerson College where he earned his BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing. He has performed around the country in venues including Seattle’s Northwest Asian American Theatre, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and Suffolk University in Boston. Telan is a member of several arts collectives including the FiLatino Tour, the louderARTS Project, the Asian Arts Initiative, and the Rhinoceros group.
Amma Asare is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences class of 2006. Born in Ghana she has spent the majority of her life in the states, living in various places on the east coast. She is a member of U.Penn's only on campus performance poetry collective, the Excelano Project.
Nicole Tabolt is a sophomore English major at the University of Pennsylvania. Born and raised in Boston, her poetry often deals with city life and current political issues. She has been published in The Rising Times, Teen Voices and the Penn Review. Nicole plans to return to Boston upon graduating and enter the field of education.
Guy Ramsey is a Specialist in African-American and American music, jazz, cultural studies, and film studies. He is the recipient of the Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship and W.E.B. DuBois Institute Fellow. Ramsey's latest book, Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip Hop, which explores meaning in contemporary black music, was published by University of California Press in 2003. Ramsey lectures widely and has published in Black Music Research Journal, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Journal of the American Musicological Society, The New York Times, and The Village Voice. He has served on the executive board of the Society for American Music. A pianist, he performs widely in local venues (including a weekly local gig at Zanzibar Blue), and throughout the United States and abroad.
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.302 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 2-5:00 PM in Arts Cafe: English 285 with Al Filreis (afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club. For more information, or to join, contact John Shea at john.shea@uphs.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, 4/6
- 7:00 PM:
Greek Spring, a collaboration with Penn's Theater Arts Program
THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED"Greek tragedy in the Time of Terror: Translations/Adaptations/Interrogations"
THE LOVE OF THE NIGHTINGALE by Timberlake WertenbakerWertenbaker's play is a feminist-pacificist play based on the Greek myth of Philomele. Borrowing from the traditions of Greek tradition, Wertenbaker's play is about being silenced, and depicts "the violence that erupts in societies when they have been silenced for too long." This reading is part of the Theatre Arts Program's spring series on adaptations of Greek tragedy, which will culminate in a site specific production of Charles Mee's THE TROJAN WOMEN: A LOVE STORY, to be staged at the University Museum April 22-25.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 209: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter or Jared Richman.
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: The Fish Writing Group; for more information email Nancy Hoffman at nhoffmann@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.
Wednesday, 4/7
- 6:00 PM: Theorizing presents a talk by Jean Comaroff,
"Criminal Obsessions"
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 10.302 with Daisy Fried (daisyf1@juno.com)
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 202: American Literature Group, please contact Martha Schoolman for more information.
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@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.
Thursday, 4/8
- 12:00-2:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Philomathean Society Theatre Workshop with
Critic/Director/Drama Scholar David Fox.
Bring your questions about the art of playwriting, the theatre industry, possible career paths, and anything else to the Philomathean Society Theatre Workshop. Held in honor of one of America's greatest playwrights' visit to Penn, Arthur Miller, this workshop will give students and aspiring playwrights advice, answers and guidance. Lunch provided. Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 PM: A reading with D.A. Powell and Stephanie Strickland,
introduced by Kathy Lou Schultz and Nick Monfort.
For a copy of Kathy Lou Schultz's introduction of D.A. Powell, please click here. For a copy of Nick Monfort's introduction of Stephanie
Strickland, please click here. This program is part of the MACHINE series of programs showcasing the literary uses of the
computer. For more information about MACHINE events at the Writers House, see here.
D. A. Powell's most recent book is Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004). His awards include fellowships from the NEA and the James Michener Foundation, the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Larry Levis Prize from Prairie Schooner. He teaches at Harvard University.
Stephanie Strickland's poem, V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una (Penguin 2002) was selected by Brenda Hillman for the Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her earlier book of poems, True North, was chosen by Barbara Guest for the same award. V exists in print and on the Web as one work in many parts. It has been praised by Johanna Drucker as "radical in integrating new technology, not as a novelty or special effect, but as a way of thinking." Strickland is also the author of The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil, winner of the Brittingham Prize. As the McEver Chair in Writing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, she created and produced TechnoPoetry Festival 2002. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and serves on the Board of Directors of both the Electronic Literature Organization and the Hudson Valley Writers' Center.
This program was recorded and is available through PENNsound - 9:00 PM: Live at the
Writers House will air on WXPN 88.5-FM, featuring Venise Battle,
Adam Fieled, Caroline Rothstein, F. Omar Telan, Amma
Asare, Nicole Tabolt, and musical guest Guy Ramsey.
Venise Battle is a senior at the University of Pennsylvania with a double major in English and Urban Poetry. Venise is a Minnesota native and has enjoyed her four years in Philadelphia. This fall, she will attend the Teacher Training Course at the Shady School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She plans to teach middle school English. Ultimately, Venise aspires to be an author, public speaker, and lifelong educator.
Adam Fieled has released two albums: Darkyr Sooner (all music) on mp3.com, and Raw Rainy Fog (spoken word) on Radio Eris Records. He is the creator of This Charming Lab, an artist's co-op that has produced musical and literary events, with local, national, and international acts, at venues including the Khyber, La Tazza 108, the Pontiac Grille, the Killtime Warehouse, Book Corner, Molly's Books, and the Kelly Writers House. He is in the midst of recording his third album, Ardent, to be released later this year.
Caroline Rothstein is a sophomore in the College at Penn from Wilmette, Illinois. She is majoring in Classical Studies, focusing on languages (especially Latin) and minoring in Theatre Arts. She has never been published as a poet in professional works, but in high school she worked on and was published in her school's literary magazine; when she went to boarding school her senior year and for a postgraduate year, she founded a literary magazine where again, she worked as editer-in-chief and was published. As a kid she was a quick learner with how-to books and can make balloon animals, origami, and crochets.
F. Omar Telan is an Asian American writer, poet, performance artist. He attended Emerson College where he earned his BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing. He has performed around the country in venues including Seattle’s Northwest Asian American Theatre, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and Suffolk University in Boston. Telan is a member of several arts collectives including the FiLatino Tour, the louderARTS Project, the Asian Arts Initiative, and the Rhinoceros group.
Amma Asare is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences class of 2006. Born in Ghana she has spent the majority of her life in the states, living in various places on the east coast. She is a member of U.Penn's only on campus performance poetry collective, the Excelano Project.
Nicole Tabolt is a sophomore English major at the University of Pennsylvania. Born and raised in Boston, her poetry often deals with city life and current political issues. She has been published in The Rising Times, Teen Voices and the Penn Review. Nicole plans to return to Boston upon graduating and enter the field of education.
Guy Ramsey is a Specialist in African-American and American music, jazz, cultural studies, and film studies. He is the recipient of the Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship and W.E.B. DuBois Institute Fellow. Ramsey's latest book, Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip Hop, which explores meaning in contemporary black music, was published by University of California Press in 2003. Ramsey lectures widely and has published in Black Music Research Journal, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Journal of the American Musicological Society, The New York Times, and The Village Voice. He has served on the executive board of the Society for American Music. A pianist, he performs widely in local venues (including a weekly local gig at Zanzibar Blue), and throughout the United States and abroad.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Mods meeting featuring English PhD candidate Adam Hotek, who will be speaking about his paper, Toomer Unbound: Notes on the Failure of a Lyrical Genius. This event is co-sponsored by the American Literature Reading Group. For more information, email Matt Hart (matthart@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, 4/9
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 12-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Critical Writing Fellow Training Session
- 2:00 PM in Room 209: Talk Poets meeting - for more information, contact Jessica Lowenthal (jalowent@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.
Saturday, 4/10
- 4:30 PM: Philly Journal Present featuring nine poets from three local magazines. Hinge Online, Mad Poets Review, and Philadelphia Poets will each be presenting three poets that have appeared in their pages. This reading is presented as a part of the Verve poetry festival. Verve is a monthlong celebration of local poetry to coincide with National Poetry Month.
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, 4/11
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.
Monday, 4/12
- 7:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A conversation with writer and
documentary filmmaker Dayton Duncan
(NOTE: This program has been pushed back from 7:00 to 7:30 PM)
Dayton Duncan is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker. He has written
nine books, including Out West: A Journey Through Lewis & Clark's America (a
Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection and finalist for the Western Writers of America's
Spur Award), Grass Roots: One Year in the Life of the New Hampshire Presidential
Primary, and Miles from Nowhere: In Search of the American Frontier. His most
recent book is Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Reflections on Lewis & Clark, a
collection of essays released in conjunction with the Lewis & Clark bicentennial. He has
also written two books on the American west for young readers, and has published articles in
The New York Times, the Boston Globe, and many other publications. Duncan has
worked for many years with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, as a consultant for Burns's
documentaries "The Civil War," "Baseball," and "Jazz." He is the writer and producer of
"Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery," a four-hour documentary broadcast in
November 1997 that won a Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, a Spur
Award from the Western Writers of America, and a CINE Golden Eagle, among others. He is the
co-writer and producer of "Mark Twain," a four-hour film biography of the great American
humorist which was broadcast on PBS in 2002. His most recent collaboration with Burns is
"Horatio's Drive," about the first transcontinental automobile trip. Duncan served as chief
of staff to New Hampshire governor Hugh Gallen, deputy national press secretary for Walter
Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, and national press secretary for Michael Dukakis's 1988
presidential campaign. Duncan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, and was
also a Fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
President Clinton appointed him chair of the American Heritage Rivers Advisory Committee and
Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt appointed him as a director of the National Park
Foundation. He holds honorary doctorates from Franklin Pierce College and Drake University.
For the last thirty years he has lived in New Hampshire with his wife, Diane, and their two
children.
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.302 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 2-5:00 PM in Arts Cafe: English 285 with Al Filreis (afilreis@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.
Tuesday, 4/13
- 10:00 AM in the Dining Room: Brunch and conversation with writer and documentary filmmaker Dayton Duncan - RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu
- 5:00 PM: Kenneth Goldsmith
Kenneth Goldsmith is the author of some of the most outrageously perspicuous conception poetry works of the past two decades, including Day, Soliquy, Fidget, No. 111 2.7.93-10.20.96 and 73 Poems , a collaboration with vocalist Joan La Barbara. His visual works have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. Goldsmith is the editor of UbuWeb Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry, a DJ at 91.1 WFMU in New York City, and a music critic at New York Press. Goldsmith will be teaching "Uncreative Writing" (aka English 111) in the Fall as the first CPCW Fellow in Poetics & Poetic Practice.
This program was recorded and is available thourgh PENNsound.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, a poetry workshop. Any interested in writing poetry is welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Pat Green (patgreen@vet.upenn.edu).
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 202: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter or Jared Richman.
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, 4/14
- 4:30 PM
in the Dining Room: "Brave Testimony in the Classroom:"A workshop for teachers on strategies for teaching Elizabeth Alexander, hosted by Penn professor Herman Beavers. Co-sponsored by the Penn Community Arts Partnership. To register or for more information, contact Carolyn Chernoff.
THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN CANCELLED - 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Brave Testimony Reading
Series, featuring Elizabeth Alexander, cosponsored
by The Center for
Africana Studies.
Held during National Poetry Month (April), Brave Testimony was started in 2000 as an annual event that deliberately and formally celebrates poetry of the African diaspora. Former participants include Sonia Sanchez, Michael Harper, and Toi Dericotte, as well as poets from the Cave Canem Poetry Workshop, notably Natasha Trethway, Terrence Hayes and Tracie Morris. This year we are pleased to present Elizabeth Alexander.
Celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander has taught and lectured on African American art and culture across the country and abroad for nearly two decades. She received a B.A. from Yale University, an M.A. from Boston University, and the Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.
Alexander is an acclaimed professor, who currently teaches in the English and African American Studies Departments at Yale University. She has taught at Haverford College, the University of Chicago, where she won the University’s top teaching prize, and Smith College, where she was the Grace Hazard Conkling Poet-in-Residence and first director of the Poetry Center at Smith College. In the summers, she is a faculty member at Cave Canem Poetry Workshop.
Her play, Diva Studies, was produced at the Yale School of Drama in May 1996.
Her most recent collection of essays on African-American poetry, painting, and popular culture, The Black Interior, was published in January 2004. In her introduction to this work, she describes "the black interior" as "an idea, a metaphor, of...black life and creativity behind the public face of stereotype and limited imagination." Widely touted, her book examines a wide spectrum of subject matter, from the role of literary heavyweights such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Michael Harper to Denzel Washington’s career as complex black male icon to the collective memory of racial violence.
Her three previous collections of poetry include Antebellum Dream Book, The Venus Hottentot, and Body of Life. Her poems, short stories, and critical writing also have been published in such journals and periodicals as the Paris Review, Signs, Callaloo, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Village Voice, The Women’s Review of Books, and The Washington Post. In addition, her poems are anthologized in dozens of collections. Her work is distinguished by its examination of history, gender, and race.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 10.302 with Daisy Fried (daisyf1@juno.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, 4/15
- 6:00 PM in the Class of 1942 Garden: A Celebration of National Book Critics' Circle Award Winners Susan Stewart and Paul Hendrickson. RSVP only to whdreamteam@writing.upenn.edu.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@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, 4/16
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:00 PM in the Dining Room: Critical Writing Faculty Roundtable hosted by Valerie Ross
- 12-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Critical Writing Fellow Training Session
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, 4/17
- WRITERS HOUSE CLOSED FOR SPRING FLING
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, 4/18
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, 4/19
- 6:30 PM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents short story writer and memoirist
JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON. RSVP only. Click here for more information
about this event and all Writers House Fellows programs.
James Alan McPherson is among the most revered authors living and writing in the United States. He spent his early career writing short stories and essays, almost without exception, for The Atlantic. At the age of 35, McPherson received a Pulitzer Prize for his collection of stories, Elbow Room (1978); he was the first African-American writer to receive the award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1973) and the MacArthur Foundation Award (the so-called "Genius Award"; 1981) and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. He is perhaps most often quoted for propounding this philosophy of American citizenship: "I believe that if one can experience diversity, touch a variety of its people, laugh at its craziness, distill wisdom from its tragedies, and attempt to synthesize all this inside oneself without going crazy, one will have earned the right to call oneself 'citizen of the United States.'"
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.302 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 2-5:00 PM in Arts Cafe: English 285 with Al Filreis (afilreis@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.
Tuesday, 4/20
- 10:00 AM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON -- brunch and interview conducted by Al Filreis. RSVP only. Click here for more information about this event and all Writers House Fellows programs.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 209: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter or Jared Richman.
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 202: American Literature Group, please contact Martha Schoolman for more information.
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, 4/21
- 5:30-7:00 PM: Art Gallery Reception
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 10.302 with Daisy Fried (daisyf1@juno.com)
- 5:00 PM in Room 209: Informal Metacritical Forum with Dr. Suvir Kaul - for more information, email Darren Jaspan (djaspan@english.upenn.edu).
- 6:30-8:30 PM in Room 202: Preceptorial on J.R.R. Tolkien's Return of the King with Jennifer Snead. For more information contact Albert Shyy.
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, 4/22
- 6:00-7:00 PM: "Object Relations in an Expanded Field:" Theorizing presents a talk by Bill Brown. Brown is the George
M. Pullman Professor of English and the Committee on History and Culture at the University of Chicago. This talk is sponsored
by the Graduate Student Associations Council, Kelly Writers House, and the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program.
For further information please e-mail Timothy Carmody at carmody@sas.upenn.edu.
An inquiry that asks how inanimate objects enable human subjects (individually and collectively) to form and transform themselves. How do individuals try to stabilize the 'significance' of their lives through the act of collecting? What role do objects play in the formation of gender, sexual, ethnic, and national subjectivity? How are subcultural formations mediated by objects? What kinds of fetishism have yet to be explained by the logic of either commodity fetishism or erotic fetishism? My approach to such questions makes use of psychoanalysis, materialist phenomenology, and the anthropological discourse on the 'social life of things.'...
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: The Mods presents: DAMIEN KEANE and "RENEGADE SOUNDWAVE: PROPAGANDA BROADCASTING AND TEXTUAL INTENTIONS." For more information, contact Matt Hart (matthart@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, 4/23
- Spring Term Classes End
- 12:30-1:30 PM: A lunchtime reading in the Arts Cafe with Tom
Devaney's English 10 class: "Creating Possibilities in Creative Nonfiction & Poetry.
- 1:15-3:15 PM in the Dining Room: Write On! workshop for Penn Alexander
School students. For more information contact Rachel Kreinces at kreinces@sas.upenn.edu
- 6:00-8:00 PM: 100% Silk: Propaganda Silk's Launch Party, Reading and Exhibition
Propaganda Silk, formerly known as Mosaic, is the preeminent Asian American
literary magazine on campus. It is dedicated to representing the experience
of the Asian diaspora through literary and artistic expression. The evening
will be dedicated to celebrating the magazine's new identity and its
greater voice on campus. Our magazine will also be available for
distribution at the event. Come mingle with talented artists and writers
and come to partake in some yummy Asian foods!
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@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, 4/24
- 5:30-7:30 PM: "A Year in Dialogue": A celebration of the work of 2003-2004
Writers House Junior Fellow Adrienne Mishkin
Join us as we celebrate our 2003-2004 Junior Fellow, Adrienne Mishkin, and her project
of writing about Writers House programs in poetic conversations with other hub members.
Tonight we gather together to launch the chapbook that came out of Adrienne's year long
collaboration with the hub. Congratulations, Adrienne!
This event is free and open to the public, but only if you RSVP. Please write with number of guests to Adrienne@alumni.upenn.edu no later than April 20th to attend.
The purpose of the Junior Fellows program is to encourage excellent Penn students to stay in the Philadelphia area as they develop their creative talents in the months immediately following graduation. Every spring, the Writers House awards a Junior Fellowship to one graduating senior. The recipient of this honor helps to create new programs at the House, and at the same time is given study space and resources to write and create new art. For more information about the Writers House Junior Fellows program and past Junior Fellows, or for information about how to apply to become a Writers House Junior Fellow, see writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/awards/juniorfellow.
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, 4/25
- 6:30-8:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A READ-OFF by the students of Paul Hendrickson's Advanced Non-Fiction and Documentary Writing workshops.
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, 4/26
- Reading Days
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Planning Committee End-of-Year Celebration - RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu. For more information, please see our End-of-Year Celebration website.
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, 4/27
- Reading Days
- 24 Hour Writing Advising Begins at Noon.
- 9:30-11:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: Critical Writing Fellows Training
- 4:00-5:30 PM: A reading by Students of Daisy Fried's English 10: "Writing Poems and Stories."
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Rhymes & Misdemeanors:" A reading by members of Penn and Pencil and Suppose
an Eyes.
Listen to a recording of this event.
The reading will feature Andrew McGhie, Wendy Wahsburn, Luellen Fletcher, Michael Hennessey, Jim Carpenter, Minna Duchovny, John Shea, Pat Green, Jody Kolodzey, Eileen Walkenstein, Steve Young, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, Adele Bourne, John Bourne, Elayne Howard, George McDermott, Marilyn Piety, Tamara Oakman, and Soren Paris.
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 209: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter or Jared Richman.
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, 4/28
- Reading Days
- 24 Hour Writing Advising Ends at Noon.
- 12-1:00 PM in the Dining Room: Post-24 Writing Advising Peer Tutors Luncheon
- 1:00-2:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Critical Writing Fellows Training
- 3:30-5:00 PM: A reading by students of Bob Perelman's Creative Writing Class.
- 5:00 PM: A reading by students of Greg Djanikian's English 113.
- 7:00 PM: Reading by the winners of Penn's Creative Writing Contests, hosted by Greg Djanikian.
- 6:30 PM in Room 202: Lacan Study Group. For more information, email lamasc@sas.upenn.edu.
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck! 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.
Thursday, 4/29
- Final Examinations
4-6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Penn Edison Project presents "Immigration: A Mosaic of Stories."
THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN POSTPONEDStudents from the Edison-Fareira High School in North Philadelphia read original monologues constructed from interviews with friends, neighbors and family members about the experience of coming to Philadelphia. Their stories reflect on the complexity of the immigrant experience, and the changing texture of the city itself. This project is the culmination of a semester's work between graduate students at Penn and these high school students as part of the Penn-Edison Partnership.
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, 4/30
- Final Examinations
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.
