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Tuesday, 9/1
Wednesday, 9/2
Thursday, 9/3
Friday, 9/4
Saturday, 9/5
- Labor Day Weekend
Sunday, 9/6
- 3:00-4:30 PM Penn Reading Project:Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston
Monday, 9/7
- 7:00-9:00 PM Class Ode Competition For the Class of 2002
Tuesday, 9/8
Wednesday, 9/9
- First Day of Classes
- 7:00-9:00 PM Mellon Writing Groups Training
Thursday,9/10
- 2:00 PM Planning Committee Meeting
- 5:00-7:00 PM Opening Reception for The Writer's Eye: Portraits of Modern Authors, an exhibit of 35 black and white photographs by Robin Hiteshew. The exhibit will be up until October 31, so please stop by and enjoy Robin's work! Many of the photographs are of Philadelphia writers.
- CANCELLED: 8:00-10:00 PM A performance by the infamous Virgin House
Band!
Friday, 9/11
Saturday, 9/12
Sunday, 9/13
Monday, 9/14
- 5:15-7:15 PM Penn and Pencil Club, a writing workshop for staff (meets in Room 202 this month)
- 8:00 PM Season Opener of LIVE at the Writers House featuring poet
Rachel Blau DuPlessis!
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Professor of English at Temple University, is a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modern and contemporary poetry, and a poet and essayist. DuPlessis is the author of Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers (1986), H.D.: The Career of that Struggle, both from Indiana University Press, and The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (Routledge, 1990.) LIVE, from Feminism: Memoirs of Women's Liberation, co-edited with Ann Snitow, will come out from Crown in 1998. DuPlessis' recent poetry has appeared in Grand Street, West Coast Line, Conjunctions, Common Knowledge, Chelsea, Parataxis, The Iowa Review, Action Poetique and Hambone. Her work appears in several anthologies of poetry in the United States and France, including Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women (Talisman House) and Poems for the Millenium, vol. 2 (University of California Press.
Tuesday, 9/15
- 7:00-9:00PM: Talking Film screening of The Good Fight, in collaboration with the Shouts from the Wall exhibit at Ross Gallery. Introduction by Al Filreis. With archival footage of the fighting, and contemporary interviews with many of the American participants, this moving documentary of U.S. radicals who fought for the Spanish Republic (1936-39) won many awards. Narrated by Studs Terkel.
Wednesday, 9/16
- 12:00-2:00 PM Poetry workshop with San Francisco poet Rodrigo Toscano. Please contact Writers House for more info and to RSVP. Co-sponsored with Greenfield Intercultural Center.
- 8:00-10:00 PM Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night.
Thursday, 9/17
- PhillyTalks presents Rodrigo Toscano and Alan Gilbert. RSVP
required.
6:00 PM Reading followed by discussion and dinner.
In collaboration with the Shouts from the Wall exhibit at Ross Gallery. Co-sponsored with Greenfield Intercultural Center.Rodrigo Toscano, originally from San Diego, is now living in San Francisco. His forthcoming books include: The Disparities (Sun & Moon), Partisans (O Books), and an as yet untitled book commissioned by Atelos Press. His work will also appear in The Gertrude Stein Awards Anthology (Sun & Moon). His work has appeared in numerous American and Canadian Journals: Chain, West Coast Line, Poetics Journal, New American Writing, Proliferation, Big Allis, Tripwire, Object, Washington Review, Zyzzyva, Explosive Views (Audio CD), Torque, Apex of the M, Ribot, B City, Situation, Mirage, Fourteen Hills, Lyric &, Prosodia, Exhaust, Lipstick, Superflux, The Little Magazine (on CD ROM), Crayon 2. Toscano works as a social worker in San Francisco. His other interests include art history, labor politics, and playing the piano.
Alan Gilbert is a graduate of the English Ph.D. program at SUNY Buffalo where he wrote a dissertation on early nineteenth-century British working-class agrarianism and abolitionism. While in Buffalo, he co-edited the literary journal apex of the M. He's had poems published in the most recent issue of First Intensity, and will have work included in the next issue of Sulfur. Book reviews have appeared in the Poetry Project Newsletter and Denver Quarterly. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and works as a part-time proofreader at a financial printer near Wall Street.
This program was recorded and is available through PENNsound.
Friday, 9/18
Saturday, 9/19
- Conference on the Legacy of the Spanish Civil War.
Curated by Bob Lucid. In collaboration with the Shouts from the Wall exhibit at Ross Gallery. Scholars address the images, the literature, and the history of the War in three panels:
12:00-2:00 PM "The Spanish Civil War on the World Stage"
Professors J.M. Oviedo, Gerald Prince and Gerald Weales
3:00-5:00 PM "Which Side Were They On?"
Professors David Espey, Alan Filreis and Robert Lucid
3:00-5:00 PM "Cinematic and Journalistic Visuals of the Spanish War"
Professors Larry Gross, John Katz and Barbie Zelizer.
Sunday, 9/20
- 10:30 PM LIVE at the Writers House airs on WXPN, 88.5 FM
Monday, 9/21
Tuesday, 9/22
- 7:00-9:00 PM: Join the staff of Talking Film's new web-based film magazine! First meeting.
Wednesday, 9/23
- 7:00 PM Reading by Lorene Cary, nationally acclaimed novelist,
author of Black Ice and Pride. Co-sponsored with African
American Studies.
The New York Times Book Review calls Lorene Cary "a powerful storyteller, frankly sensual, mortally funny, gifted with an ear for the pounce [of] real speech," and describes The Price of a Child, Cary's novel about the Underground Railroad, as "a generous, sardonic, full-blooded work of fiction." (Knopf, 1995; Vintage, pap., 1996) Cary graduated with a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978 and earned an M.A. in Victorian Literature at Sussex University in 1980. Cary is also the author of Black Ice and Pride, which tells the story of four strong-willed and accomplished black women who learn loss and triumph as maternal passion, addiction, betrayal, ambition, and violence transform their friendships and their lives.
To hear a recording of this program in mp3 format, click here. This program was introduced by Heather Starr and Gayle Ellison.
Thursday, 9/24
- CANCELLED: 8:00-10:00 PM Performance by the Virgin House Band
Friday, 9/25
- 3:00 PM: Juliette Valery will give a talk, "American Poetry in
French."
Juliette Valery is a poet, video artist, translator and publisher. She lives in Bordeaux, where she directs, along with the French poet Emmanuel Hocquard, Un bureau sur l'Atlantique. She is also a member of the Royaumont Fondation, an organization which has been inviting American poets to France where they work with leading French poets, translators, and editors for intensive all-day, week-long seminars to translate the poetry into French. Two large anthologies have been produced from this, and a number of chapbooks. John Ashbery, Rosmarie Waldrop, Jena Osman, Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian, Jackson Mac Low, Bernadette Mayer, Jennifer Moxley, and Bob Perelman are among the poets whose work has been translated. It's really a fascinating and wonderfully generous operation. Her presentation should be of great interest to all those who are interested in French and American poetry. Valery writes, "Un bureau sur l'Atlantique's aim is to advance knowledge of American contemporary poetry in France by inviting American poets to France; by collective translation seminars, readings, meetings; and by publishing translations, anthologies, Format Americain + Le Gam books. Since it began, Format Americain has published 26 chapbooks, which, when taken as a whole represents an in-progress anthology of more than 500 pages."
Saturday, 9/26
- 2:00-3:00PM: Laughing Hermit reading series, hosted by Robin Hiteshew, presents Josephine
Foo.
Josephine Foo was born and raised in Malaysia and currently lives in Philadelphia. She is the author of Endou: Poems, Prose and A Little Beagle Story (Lost Roads Press, 1995). Her new manuscript, Literal Mountain, was named as a finalist in the 1998 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. She won the Eve of St. Agnes Award in 1994. She graduated from Vassar College and Brown University. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and an anthology of new Asian writers titled Premonitions (Kaya Press, 1995).
- 8:00-10:00 PM Full Circle, an Open Mic for Philadelphia-area poets, hosted by Cecily Kellogg and Charlie O'Hay. Featuring Mark Wiles. Mark's work is uncannily provocative, imagistic, and profound. His poems have appeared in Poet's Attic, The Burlington County Historical Center, and have also appeared on the audio chapbook Tadium Vitae by the Dead Pool Poets. An open reading will follow.
Sunday, 9/27
Monday, 9/28
- 7:00 PM Reading and discussion with poets Pierre Joris and
Jerome
Rothenberg. Joris and Rothenberg read and talk about their honking
anthology, Poems for the Millenium. It is a massive archive of the
radical innovators in 20th poetry, like no other anthology ever produced
in the entire known history of print culture. Following their reading
will be a discussion of the anthology, featuring the commentary of Alan
Golding, the author of From Outlaw to Classic, an excellent book on
contemporary poetry anthologies and canon formation. (Here
is the text of Al Filreis's introduction to Rothenberg.)
This reading was recorded and is available for free through PENNsound.
Tuesday, 9/29
Wednesday, 9/30
- 4:00 PM: Poetry Discussion Group
- 8:00-10:00 PM Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night.
- 9:00 PM: Screening of Risky Business, in preparation for Jon Avnet's visit
- Yom Kippur
