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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).

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
Tuesday, 9/15
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
Friday, 9/18

Saturday, 9/19
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
Sunday, 9/27

Monday, 9/28
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

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