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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Saturday, 11/1
- 4:00-6:00 PM: Spoken Word reading and open mike hosted by Michael Grover. A MuseumOfPoetry.com showcase also featuring Kelley J. White, Natalie C. Felix, MC King Wenclas, and Stephanie Durann.
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, 11/2
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.
Monday, 11/3
- 6:00-7:30 PM in Arts Cafe: Writing Advising Steering Committee Gathering. For more information, contact Lindsay Dembner.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Robert Strauss, straussr@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.
- 10:00-10:30 PM in Room 209: Steering Committee Meeting of the Undergraduate Writing Adving program
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, 11/4
- 5-7:00 PM: A reading of Old English poems and new poems inspired by Old English
Herman Beavers teaches in the English dept, and he is the author of Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson. He also has a chap-book of poems, A Neighborhood of Feeling. His poems have appeared in Black American Literature Forum, Whiskey Island, Rain, Cave Canem I and II, Dark Phrases, and the Cincinnati Poetry Review.
George Economou is professor emeritus of English at the University of Oklahoma, now residing in Philadelphia. He has published numerous books of poetry and criticism, including Ameriki, Harmony and Fits, The Goddess Natura in Medieval Literature, and translations of the Piers Plowman, the poems of Le Cid, and Euripides.
Greg Djanikian is the Director of the Creative Writing Program and Associate Undergraduate Chair of the English Department. He has published four collections of poetry, The Man in the Middle, Falling Deeply into America, About Distance, and most recently, Years Later.
Bob Perelman teaches in the English dept at Penn, and he has published over 15 volumes of poetry, most recently The Future of Memory and Ten to One: Selected Poems. His critical books are The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History and The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky. He has edited Writing/Talks, a collection of talks by poets.
Kathy Lou Schultz is a poet who is presently working towards her Ph.D. in English Literature. Her books of poetry include Some Vauge Wife, Genealogy and Re dress. Her poems have also appeared in the Electronic Poetry Review, Lipstick Eleven, Shampoo, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Emily Steiner is an assistant professor in the Penn English dept and the author of two books, Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature and The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England, which she edited with Candace Barrington.
Susan Stewart teaches the history of lyric poetry, aesthetics, and the philosophy of literature in the English department at Penn. Her most recent books of poetry are Columbarium, just published this summer, and The Forest. Her books of criticism include Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, Crimes of Writing and On Longing. Next year the University of Chicago Press will publish her collected essays on art: The Open Studio: Essays on Art 1987-2003. In the Fall of 2000 she delivered the Beckman Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Stewart was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1997.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 202: The Eighteenth-Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter (dporter@english.upenn.edu) or Jared Richman (richman@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, 11/5
- 5-7:30 PM at 3808 Walnut: opening celebration
of the new Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
To rsvp, write to rsvpgrandopening@writing.upenn.edu. For more information about the Center, see www.writing.upenn.edu. - 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything
Goes, an open mic
performance night. All are welcome!
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 10.302: Creative Writing (Daisy Fried, daisyf1@juno.com)
- 5:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Language and Culture (anthropology class)
- 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@piconap.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, 11/6
- 1-2 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Center for Programs in Contemporary
Writing, the Writers House, and Jewish Studies Program present
a discussion about representations of the Holocaust in literature
and film, led by Professor Al Filreis. RSVP only:
rsvpholocaust@writing.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents Bill Eggington.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301: The Arts and Popular Culture (Anthony DeCurtis, adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@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, 11/7
- Penn Homecoming
- 3-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A discussion of
the Penn Reading Project for 2003-2004, Graham Greene's The Quiet
American, for alumni and students, led by Emeritus Professor of
English
Robert Lucid. All are welcome to participate! For more
information visit
The Penn Reading Project 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.
Saturday, 11/8
- Penn Homecoming
- 9:30 AM: Class of 1942 Garden Dedication
Join us for the dedication of the Class of 1942 Garden, a gift made in honor of the class's 60th Reunion. Deputy Provost Peter Conn will oversee the festivities, which will be followed by an Old Guard reception at the University Museum at 33rd and Spruce Streets. Click here to see photos of the dedication, and here to see an overview of the project--and photos of the completed garden. Click here for a Daily Pennsylvanian brief.
- 10-12:00 PM: Class of '42 Meeting in Room 202
- 12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch and Career Panel Discussions for the 9th Annual Penn Writers Conference
- 4:00 PM: Four Generations of Writers at Penn: A Homecoming Reading and Celebration
Join the Kelly Writers House community as we celebrate four generations of writers at Penn, featuring readings by Emeritus Professor Paul Fussell, Professor and alumnus Gregory Djanikian (C'71), alumnus Suzanne Maynard Miller (C'89), and recent graduate Allie D'Augustine (C'02). Stop by after the game to spend some time at the Writers House and share in the diversity and richness that has been and continues to be part of the culture of writing at Penn. A reception will follow. RSVP to rsvphomecoming@writing.upenn.edu
Paul Fussell is the author of many books, including Samuel Johnson and the Life of Writing, Class, and The Great War and Modern Memory, which won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named by the Modern Library as one of the twentieth century's one hundred best nonfiction books. Paul, a teacher beloved for his great wit and insight, was a member of Penn's English department for many years.
Gregory Djanikian is the author of four books of poetry, The Man in the Middle (1984), Falling Deeply into America (1989), About Distance (1995), and Years Later (2000), all from Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poems have appeared in such journals as The American Scholar, Poetry, and The Nation and in many anthologies including Unsettling America (Penguin), The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and Hummers, Knucklers and Slow Curves (Illinois). He has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eunice Tietjens Prize from Poetry Magazine, and the Anahid Literary Award from the Armenian Center of Columbia University. Greg is both an alumnus and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Penn.
Suzanne Maynard Miller's plays have been produced in Seattle, Los Angeles, New Haven, Providence and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She currently works with Open Classroom (an artist-in-residency program in the New York City public schools), and is guest teaching at Hunter College. In addition, Suzanne has taught playwriting at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, in the Seattle and Providence public schools, and in Rhode Island's Adult Correctional Institution. Suzanne is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and received her MFA in playwriting from Brown University, where she studied with Paula Vogel. She lives in Brooklyn.
Allie D'Augustine is a freelance writer who lives in the Bella Vista area of South Philadelphia. A 2002 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Writers House Junior Fellow for 2003-2004, she is currently pursuing a master's degree at Penn. She has written articles for a number of publications, including the Philadelphia Inquirer, HealthState magazine, and the Pennsylvania Gazette. Her poetry has been published in the Philadelphia Inquirer and in Joss magazine.
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, 11/9
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, 11/10
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Robert Strauss, straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Literary magazine planning meeting (for more information contact Elizabeth Cooper at coopere@sas.upenn.edu).
- 10:00-10:30 PM in Room 209: Steering Committee Meeting of the Undergraduate Writing Adving program
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, 11/11
- 6:30 PM: Tribes Gallery featuring Anyssa Kim cosponsored by
The Pan-Asian American Community House: PAACH.
Anyssa Kim is a poet, writer, self-taught visual artist and performance artist, and classically trained violinist. She plays regularly with the New York Repertory Orchestra, has been on stage performing her own monologues at the Westbeth Theater and Nuyorican Poets Café theater, has been invited to read short stories and poetry at Mixta Gallery, A Gathering of the Tribes and Bowery Poetry Club, and has read at universities such as Pace University Law School, Sarah Lawrence College and Fordham University. She has poetry included in the tenth issue of A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine.Aside from artistic activities she spends time pondering her existence and searching the city streets and alleyways for the mind she lost a long time ago. Anyssa adamantly maintains that she is not responsible for anything that may fly out the blind man's mouth. If asked, she will simply say, "I just write the stuff." Fly By Night Press's Ovarian Twists is her first book of poetry.
This program was recorded and is available on PENNsound.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:00 PM in Room 202: The American Literature Seminar. For more information contact Martha Schoolman (meschool@dept.english.upenn.edu).
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes Poetry Group. For more information, or to join, contact Pat Green at patgreen@mail.vet.upenn.edu.
- 7:30-9:00 PM in Room 202: The Fish Writing Group (Nancy Hoffmann, 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, 11/12
- 4:30 PM: The Poet & Painter Series presents Kenward Elmslie performing
Snippets: a Gathering of Songs, Visual Collaborations, and
Poems,
in
collaboration with the
School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania and the Creative
Writing Program.
Kenward Elmslie has taken bows as a poet, lyricist, librettist and performance artist over the last forty years. Elmslie is the member of the first generation New York School of Poets who introduced contemporary poetry to the Broadway musical. Elmslie is the former Editor of the Poetry Project's literary magazine, Z, and has published work by John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Jean Boulte, Joe Brainard, Ian Finlay, Steve Gianakos, Joanne Kyger, Harry Matthews, Ron Padgett, James Schulyer, Anne Waldman and Marjorie Walish, among others. His "Power Plant Sestina," (1967) received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Routine Disruptions (1971) received the Frank O'Hara Award. Over the past decade, Elmslie, the "singing poet," began to perform versions of his musical plays and adaptations of his collaborations with visual artist in theaters and on college campuses across the country.
This program was recorded and is available through PENNsound - 6:30 PM: Essayist and Editor Ted Solotaroff will read from his
work. The event will be hosted by Max Apple, and is co-sponsored by Penn's Creative Writing Program.
Ted Solotaroff was an editor of Commentary and the editor of Bookweek before he founded the influential literary journal American Review. He is the author of The Red-Hot Vacuum, A Few Good Voices in My Head, and First Loves: A Memoir. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Yale, Columbia, the City College of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a recipient of the Irita Van Doren Award for his contribution to book publishing, and the Brandeis University Creative Arts Award for his work as an editor and critic. He lives in East Quogue, Long Island, and in Paris.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 10.302: Creative Writing (Daisy Fried, daisyf1@juno.com)
- 5 PM in Room 209: The Latitudes Group presents Monica Popescu. For more information, contact Rita Barnard, rbarnard@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, 11/13
- "Writers House New York" at the Meisel Gallery in SoHo.
This event was the second annual program at Meisel Gallery, a benefit for
the Writers House "Young & Emerging Writers Fund." 120 friends of the
Writers House, including many Penn alumni based in New York, attended. The
event featured readings by Max Apple, Tom Devaney, Jessica Lowenthal,
Jessica Ginsberg, Charles Bernstein, Ellen Umansky, and Kathleen DeMarco
and was co-hosted by Al Filreis, Jennifer Snead and Blake Martin. For more
about this event, click
here.
- 4:30 PM: A talk and conversation with Alan Light, Editor, Tracks Magazine. Hosted by Anthony DeCurtis in conjunction with his class The Arts and Popular Culture. For more on this series, click here.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301: The Arts and Popular Culture (Anthony DeCurtis, adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:30 PM in Room 202: The Mods meeting. For more information contact Matt Hart (matthart@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:30 PM in Room 209: Fiction Manuscript Writers Workshop. For more information, or to join, contact Marty Kathrins at kathrins@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, 11/14
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, 11/15
- 6:00 PM: Q-SUPERPOWERS SHOW: an evening of queer
performances
featuring
Cheese on Bread: Penn's own duo of post-pop antifolkers
Gina Young: Nationally-renowned feminist folksinger
Shiragirl: Empowerpop performance artist
Soce The Elemental Wizard: The world's foremost white, gay, jewish rapper
Steph Furness : Feminist folksinger and record mogul
Listen to a recording of this program.
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, 11/16
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.
Monday, 11/17
- 12:00 PM: The Poet and Painters series presents Conversation with George Schneeman in collaboration with
The School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
- 5:00 PM: The Poet and Painters series presents Artist Slide talk with George Schneeman in B-3 at
Meyerson.
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House
will tape in the Arts Cafe.
Poet and translator Lynn Levin is the author of one collection of poems, A Few Questions About Paradise (Loonfeather Press, 2000). Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Poet Laureate for 1999, Levin has received three Pushcart Nominations and was chosen by Cornelius Eady to receive the 2002 Robert Fraser Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, The North American Review, The Nebraska Review, Poetry Miscellany, Hanging Loose, One Trick Pony, The Ledge, and other places. She teaches at Drexel University.
Jim Cory, who lives in the Bella Vista section of Philadelphia, published his first poem 30 years ago in a little magazine at State College, PA called The Morning Breeze. Since then he's appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and published seven chapbooks of poems, in addition to short stories and essays. He has been a PA Arts Council and Yaddo fellow, frequent reader, and sometime editor of the work of other poets. His most recent publication is 'Facts in the Case of E.A.P. (or) Low Road to Eldorado,' a chapbook-length poem about the life and writing of Edgar Allan Poe.
Nick Montfort, a poet and literary worker with interests in electronic literature and new media, is now studying for a Ph.D. in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. His theoretical and critical work on new media has dealt with interactive fiction, the literary uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning, game studies, and ways of understanding new media by analogy to narrative and poetic forms. He holds masters degrees from Boston University (where he was cowinner of the American Academy of Poets Prize) and the MIT Media Lab. He wrote and programmed the interactive fiction works Ad Verbum (winner of the Best Puzzles XYZZY Award) and Winchester's Nightmare, and was coauthor, with William Gillespie, of The Ed Report (honorable mention, trAce/Alt-X New Media Writing Competition) and 2002: A Palindrome Story (Spineless Books, 2002).
stevenallenmay is a poet, writer, performance artist, events coordinator, series curator and host, filmmaker, collage artist, and experimenter with technology & language. s - a - m is the creater of 'Bardfest', the first 30 day poetry festival to occur in the US during April, National Poetry Month. He founded Berks Bards, inc., a 501 (c) 3 poetry nonprofit organization and served as President from 1999-2001. He co-founded Lebanon Poetry Project (2000) and Lancaster Poets Out Loud (2001) before moving to Philadelphia where he presented "Poets Among US" in April 2003. He is the "assembler" of Spontaneous Chili (2001) and the author of Plastic Sunrise (2003). Additionally, he is co-founder and CEO of Plan B Press.
Leslie Esdaile Bank
MUSICAL GUESTSnapperhead Zydeco is a five -piece central Jersey band with Louisiana heart. Always staying zydeco-centered, we draw on a variety of styles fusing a traditional Cajun, Creole and swamp-pop base with flavors of Latin, funk, and reggae.
Dancing is a big part of what we are about. We chose to be eclectic so that those who are not familiar with specific Cajun and Creole dance steps can feel comfortable and jump right in. There are no age boundaries, we touch the young at heart.
Band includes: Wayne Leibel (accordion and vocals), Ted Klett (guitar, harmonica, and vocals), Roxanne Klett (rubboard and vocals), John Timpane (bass and vocals) and Bob Lewis (drums).
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Robert Strauss, straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:00-10:30 PM in Room 209: Steering Committee Meeting of the Undergraduate Writing Adving program
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, 11/18
- 12:00-1:00 PM: A lunchtime program, conversation and reading with novelist Thaddeus Rutkowski hosted by
Karen Rile. and in collobration with the Creative Writing Program. Please RSVP to wh@writing@upenn.edu
Thaddeus Rutkowski is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. His novel, Roughhouse (Kaya Press, New York), was a finalist for the Members' Choice of the Asian American Literary Awards. His work has been anthologized in Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate Icon (Anthology Editions), Help Yourself (Autonomedia), The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder's Mouth), and The Naughty Bits (Three Rivers/Crown). His stories have appeared in Fiction, American Letters and Commentary, Asian Pacific American Journal, Columbia Review, CutBank, Pleiades, Artful Dodge, The Laurel Review and other magazines. He teaches at Pace University and the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA in New York. He has been a resident at Yaddo, MacDowell and other colonies and has written book reviews for The New York Times and other papers.
- 1:30-2:30 PM: New Zealand poet Alan Loney will
read, hosted
by Charles Bernstein.
Innovative and influential New Zealand poet Alan Loney was born in 1940 and has worked as a printer and editor. Parallax, his magazine, was notable for its introduction of postmodern poetry into New Zealand and for its publication of many American poets. His work is influenced by Creeley and Olson, especially in terms of his exploration of the intersection of place and personal articulation. He now lives in Australia. This is his first American tour; copies of his new book from Boxkite, Fragmenta nova, will be available.
Recordings of this event that have been made available as part of the PENNsound project can be found here.
- 5:30-7:00 PM Art Gallery Reception
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30 PM in Arts Cafe: Penn-Edison Gathering
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 202: The Eighteenth-Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter (dporter@english.upenn.edu) or Jared Richman (richman@english.upenn.edu).
- 4:30 PM in Room 202: The American Literature Seminar. For more information contact Martha Schoolman (meschool@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.
Wednesday, 11/19
- 6:00 PM: Author Jonathan Wilson will read from his new novel
in a program hosted by Max Apple and co-sponsored by
Penn's Creative Writing Program.
Jonathan Wilson has published two books of fiction, The Hiding Room, and Schoom, and has two more on the way, A Palestine Affair (Pantheon, May 2003) and An Ambulance is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble (Pantheon, 2004). He has written two books of criticism, Herzog: The Limits of Ideas and On Bellow's Planet: Readings from the Dark Side and has had stories, articles, and reviews appear in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Ploughshares, Forward, Tikkun, Boston Globe, T.L.S., and elsewhere. He teaches at Tufts University.
Listen to an audio recording of this program.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything
Goes, an open mic
peformance night. All are welcome!
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 10.302: Creative Writing (Daisy Fried, daisyf1@juno.com)
- 6:30 to 8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Study Group. For more information, email
lamasc@sas.upenn.edu
- 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@piconap.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, 11/20
- 5:30 PM: Planning Committee meeting and gathering. (For more information about the "hub," write to wh@writing.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House
will air on 88.5-FM, WXPN.
Poet and translator Lynn Levin is the author of one collection of poems, A Few Questions About Paradise (Loonfeather Press, 2000). Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Poet Laureate for 1999, Levin has received three Pushcart Nominations and was chosen by Cornelius Eady to receive the 2002 Robert Fraser Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, The North American Review, The Nebraska Review, Poetry Miscellany, Hanging Loose, One Trick Pony, The Ledge, and other places. She teaches at Drexel University.
Jim Cory, who lives in the Bella Vista section of Philadelphia, published his first poem 30 years ago in a little magazine at State College, PA called The Morning Breeze. Since then he's appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and published seven chapbooks of poems, in addition to short stories and essays. He has been a PA Arts Council and Yaddo fellow, frequent reader, and sometime editor of the work of other poets. His most recent publication is 'Facts in the Case of E.A.P. (or) Low Road to Eldorado,' a chapbook-length poem about the life and writing of Edgar Allan Poe.
Nick Montfort, a poet and literary worker with interests in electronic literature and new media, is now studying for a Ph.D. in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. His theoretical and critical work on new media has dealt with interactive fiction, the literary uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning, game studies, and ways of understanding new media by analogy to narrative and poetic forms. He holds masters degrees from Boston University (where he was cowinner of the American Academy of Poets Prize) and the MIT Media Lab. He wrote and programmed the interactive fiction works Ad Verbum (winner of the Best Puzzles XYZZY Award) and Winchester's Nightmare, and was coauthor, with William Gillespie, of The Ed Report (honorable mention, trAce/Alt-X New Media Writing Competition) and 2002: A Palindrome Story (Spineless Books, 2002).
stevenallenmay is a poet, writer, performance artist, events coordinator, series curator and host, filmmaker, collage artist, and experimenter with technology & language. s - a - m is the creater of 'Bardfest', the first 30 day poetry festival to occur in the US during April, National Poetry Month. He founded Berks Bards, inc., a 501 (c) 3 poetry nonprofit organization and served as President from 1999-2001. He co-founded Lebanon Poetry Project (2000) and Lancaster Poets Out Loud (2001) before moving to Philadelphia where he presented "Poets Among US" in April 2003. He is the "assembler" of Spontaneous Chili (2001) and the author of Plastic Sunrise (2003). Additionally, he is co-founder and CEO of Plan B Press.
Leslie Esdaile Banks
MUSICAL GUESTSnapperhead Zydeco is a five -piece central Jersey band with Louisiana heart. Always staying zydeco-centered, we draw on a variety of styles fusing a traditional Cajun, Creole and swamp-pop base with flavors of Latin, funk, and reggae.
Dancing is a big part of what we are about. We chose to be eclectic so that those who are not familiar with specific Cajun and Creole dance steps can feel comfortable and jump right in. There are no age boundaries, we touch the young at heart.
Band includes: Wayne Leibel (accordion and vocals), Ted Klett (guitar, harmonica, and vocals), Roxanne Klett (rubboard and vocals), John Timpane (bass and vocals) and Bob Lewis (drums).
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301: The Arts and Popular Culture (Anthony DeCurtis, adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:30 PM in Room 209: Fiction Manuscript Writers Workshop. For more information, or to join, contact Marty Kathrins at kathrins@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, 11/21
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, 11/22
- 11:00-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Write On! End of Semester Celebration
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, 11/23
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, 11/24
- 6:00 PM: John Kinsella reading, co-sponsored with the Creative Writing Program
John Kinsella's Peripheral Light: Selected and New Poems (selected and introduced by Harold Bloom) is due out with WW Norton in November 2003. Apart from many books of poetry, he has written plays, novels, essays, and short stories. International editor for The Kenyon Review, editor of Salt, poetry critic for the Observer newspaper (London), he is Professor of English at Kenyon College, a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Adjunct Professor of English at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. For more, see www.johnkinsella.org
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Robert Strauss, straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 202: Paul Hendrickson's Thanksgiving make up class
- 10:00-10:30 PM in Room 209: Steering Committee Meeting of the Undergraduate Writing Adving program
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, 11/25
- 12-1:30 PM in the Dining Room: Senior Writing Tutors Luncheon
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes Poetry Group. For more information, or to join, contact Pat Green at patgreen@mail.vet.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, 11/26
- Thanksgiving Break
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, 11/27
- Thanksgiving
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, 11/28
- Thanksgiving Break
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, 11/29
- Thanksgiving Break
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, 11/30
- Thanksgiving Break
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.