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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Monday, 11/1
- 12:30-2:00 PM: A lunchtime program with Dave Koch and Josh Melrod, editors of The Land Grant College
Review
The Land-Grant College Review is a New York-based print magazine of fiction, nonfiction and visual artwork. Last year, it was the only literary journal nominated by the editors of the Utne Reader for an Independent Press Award in the category of Best New Title. The journal has published new stories by Aimee Bender, Ron Carlson, Arthur Bradford, and Karen Rile. The LGCR's second issue features artwork beholden to its aesthetic of ransacking the past for amazing nonsense and ten really fantastic stories, including one about an existential hero who lives with his mom, one that includes a dog and an astronaut, and another set in a sort of Japan. Founding editors Dave Koch and Josh Melrod will read selected stories from the journal and explain how they picked them and otherwise shine the light of truth and goodness on the dark world of literary journals.
Praise for the Kelly Writers House after this event: "When I was at Penn, the Writers House was home to a weekly open mic night and a lot of large cardboard boxes, and not much else. I can't get over what it's turned into. It's really great to see--especially at a school I care so much about--such an active hub serving undergraduate writers." --Dave Koch, 1998 Penn graduate and editor of The Land-Grant College Review, a New York-based print magazine of fiction, nonfiction and visual artwork.
Dave Koch graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. In the summer of 2002, he attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Middlebury, VT on a "waiter's" fellowship. He founded the Land-Grant College Review with Josh Melrod in April 2002 and has been working on it night and day ever since.
Josh Melrod briefly attended the MFA program for creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis. His stories have appeared in numerous small literary journals. For the past two summers he attended the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia. Today he lives in New York and edits the Land-Grant College Review.
- 6-7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading with the Land Grant College Review.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.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 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 5:20-7:20 PM in Room 209: Penn and Pencil Club. For more information, or to join, contact John Shea at john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu.
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: 34th Street Poets 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.
Tuesday, 11/2
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 5-7:00 PM in Room 202: Americanist Group. For more information, please contact Martha Schoolman (meschool@dept.english.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Preview 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.
Wednesday, 11/3
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading with poets Di Brandt, Ann Hostetler, Julia Kasdorf, and Jane
Rohrer from the A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry anthology, introduced by Debra Gingerich.
To read the introduction, please click here.
Di Brandt has won numerous awards in Canada for her five books of poetry. Her first volume, questions i asked my mother, explored her Mennonite heritage; her most recent books, Jerusalem, Beloved and Now You Care take on global subjects--the Middle East conflict and ecology. She is the author of several works of criticism, Dancing Naked and Wild Mother Dancing. She is at work on a non-fiction account of her recent stay in Berlin, a poetic sequence called Sweet Sweet Blood, and a collection of essays from the conference/festival, Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry. She teaches Creative Writing at the University of Windsor.
Ann Hostetler is the author of Empty Room with Light (Pandora Press, 2002) and the editor of A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2003). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is also a scholar of American ethnic literature and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Currently she is working on a series of poems about the artist and model Suzanne Valadon. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Goshen College in Goshen, IN.
Julia Kasdorf is the author of poetry collections Sleeping Preacher and Eve's Striptease, both published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry. She is also the author of a book of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2002) and a biography of Pennsylvania writer Joseph W. Yoder, Fixing Tradition (Pandora Press, 2003). She is currently editing an anthology of poetry about Brooklyn, New York. She directs the M.F.A. program at The Pennsylvania State University.
Jane Rohrer is the author of Life After Death (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002). Her poems have appeared frequently in the American Poetry Review and have been anthologized in The Body Electric: America's Best Poems from the American Poetry Review, Parallels: Artists/Poets, and A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry. One of her recent projects involved helping to organize a retrospective show of her late husband Warren Rohrer's paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She lives in Philadelphia.
Debra Gingerich received an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Her poetry has been published in Mochila Review, Red River Review, MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry, and others. Her article "Poets as Mentors" is forthcoming in the December 2004 issue of The Writer's Chronicle. She recently moved from Philadelphia to Sarasota, FL where she works as a writer for an e-commerce business.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.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 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@writing.upenn.edu) <
- 5 PM - 6:30 PM in Room 202: Penn American Literature 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. â
Thursday, 11/4
- 12-1:00 PM in the Dining Room: Lunch Poets presents a lunch
and conversation with CPCW Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice Kenny
Goldsmith. RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu. The talk
given by Goldsmith, entitled "Being Boring," is available in full text
here or in MP3 format here.
Kenny Goldsmith received a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1984. Since then he has had a successful career as a visual artist and creator of textual objects, as well as being a DJ for the alternative radio station, WFMU (91.1, New York), and the original editor and compiler of the extensive online archive of avant-garde poetries, UbuWeb.Web. With influences ranging from John Cage and Andy Warhol to contemporary hip hop and internet artists, Goldsmith has pushed the limits of late twentieth century poetics to both reinvigorate and pioneer aspects of visual poetry, sound poetry, the list poem, and digital poetics. His many books include 73 Poems, Gertrude Stein on Punctuation, Soliloquy, and Day in which he retypes the Friday, September 1 issue of The New York Times, from left to right, without indicating distinctions between articles, advertisements, stock quotes, and editorials. Goldsmith lives in New York City where he is commentator on NPR and music critic for New York Press, The Wire, and the New Music Center's New Music Box. As the 2004-2005 CPCW Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice, Goldsmith is teaching an experimental writing seminar on Uncreative Writing.
Have a poet for lunch! Lunch Poets is a series of informal lunches with poets from the Writers House community. Come by, have a seat at the dining room table, and get to know the poets and mentors who make the House their home!
- 4:30 PM: A reading by Touré, presented by Anthony DeCurtis in conjunction with his class, The Arts and Popular Culture, and cosponsored
by Makuu.
Touré is the author of Soul City, a novel, and the Portable Promised
Land, a collection of short stories, both published by Little, Brown. He’s also the Pop Culture Correspondent on CNN’s
American Morning, a Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone, and the host of MTV2’s Spoke N’ Heard. He's appeared on the Today
show, the O’Reilly Show, the Paula Zahn show, On the Record with Greta Van Sustern, Topic A with Tina Brown, Anderson Cooper
360°, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Dateline NBC, Nightline, and many others. Tina Brown has called him“a one-man media
conglomerate.” His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Tennis Magazine, the
Best American Essays of 1999, the Best American Sports Writing of 2001, the Best Music Writing of 2004,
and the Best American Erotica of 2004. He studied at Columbia University's graduate school of creative writing and
lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. For his full bio click here.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 9-10:30 PM in Room 202: The Compass 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.
Friday, 11/5
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write-On with students from the Lea School
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, 11/6
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Write-On with students from The Penn-Alexander School
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, 11/7
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, 11/8
- 5:30 PM: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Meeting and Gathering. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.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 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 5-5:45 PM in room 202: WATU Session: Sociology 112, a review session with Gniesha Dinwiddie (gnieshad@ssc.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, 11/9
- 12:30-1:30 PM in the Dining Room: CPCW Faculty Roundtable Brown Bag Lunch Meeting
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Fifth Annual Gay Talese Lecture, featuring author and Penn alumnus Lisa Scottoline,
presented by the Writers House in conjunction with the National Italian American Foundation.
A reception will follow. Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
The annual Gay Talese Lecture Series was conceived of and is supported by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in conjunction with the Kelly Writers House. Each year for the past five years, the National Italian American Foundation has sponsored one public performance by an Italian American author of note, held at the Kelly Writers House. To read more about the Gay Talese Lecture Series, its past speakers, and NIAF's recently instituted lecture series at Villanova University, click here.
Lisa loves her job and it shows in her writing. Her bestselling novels, set in Philadelphia and featuring the all-female law
firm of Rosato & Associates, have thrilled and entertained readers while succeeding in the near impossible... adding humor to
the legal system. USA Today hails her writing as "sharp, intelligent, funny, and hip" and says that she "gives fans of legal
thrillers a good, twisty plot, lively characters, and an all-around fun read."
Lisa is a New York Times bestselling author and her achievements have been recognized by universities and organizations alike. In addition to winning the Edgar Award, mystery writers' highest honor, Lisa has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from West Chester University and an Alumni Certificate of Merit by the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She also received the "Paving the Way" award from Women in Business and the "Distinguished Author Award" from Scranton University. All of Lisa's books draw on her experience as a trial lawyer as well as her judicial clerkships in the state and federal justice systems.
Born, raised and schooled in Philly, Lisa went to (where else?) the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated magna cum laude in just three years earning her degree in English with a concentration in the contemporary American novel, and she was taught writing by professors such as National Book Award Winner Philip Roth. Lisa went on to attend the University of Pennsylvania's Law School, graduating cum laude in 1981, and landed a coveted clerkship for a state appellate judge.
Always interested in writing, and a big fan of the hot new writers Grisham and Turow and the newly created legal thriller genre, Lisa realized that no women lawyers were writing legal thrillers, and decided to give it a shot. Three years later, Lisa had a finished book, a daughter starting school, and five maxed-out credit cards. Debt-ridden, Lisa took a part-time job clerking for a federal appellate judge. No more than a week later, her first novel, Everywhere That Mary Went was bought by HarperCollins' editor Carolyn Marino. Critically acclaimed, Everywhere That Mary Went was nominated by the Mystery Writer's of America for the Edgar Award, suspense fiction's premiere award, and the award went to...someone else. But, the very next year, Lisa's second book, Final Appeal was nominated for the Edgar and won!
A lifelong Philadelphian, Lisa still lives in the Philadelphia area and enjoys writing about her hometown city. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 5-7:00 PM in Room 202: A screening of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 with Peter Decherney's ENGL 295.401 class. For more information contact Peter Decherney at decherne@sas.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).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Preview 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.
Wednesday, 11/10
- 6:00 PM: Theorizing in the Arts Cafe featuring Mark Hansen
Mark Hansen is Assistant Professor of English at Princeton University. His recent books include Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing and 2004's New Philosophy for New Media and The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (forthcoming).
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome! For more information, email askspeakeasy@writing.upenn.edu
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.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 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@writing.upenn.edu)
- 5-7:00 PM in Room 202: Proposal Hublet meeting
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Writing Group meeting. For more information, email Carmen Lamas at lamasc@sas.upenn.edu.
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Reality Writes, a workshop dedicated to creative nonfiction. For more information email Mary Hale Meyer at MaryHale.Meyer@jevs.org.
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, 11/11
- 12:00 - 2:30 in the Dining Room: The
Eighteenth-Century Reading Group presents a workshop with Marc Redfield. RSVP required; for more information email
Jared Richman or Dahlia Porter.
Dr. Marc Redfield is Professor of English at Claremont Graduate University where he holds the John D. and Lillian Maguire Distinguished Chair in the Humanities. Born in New York and raised in Switzerland and Brazil, he received his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University in 1980, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1990. From 1986 to 1990 he taught at the Universite de Geneve, Switzerland; in 1990 he joined the English department of Claremont Graduate University.
His fields of specialization include Romanticism, the nineteenth-century novel, aesthetics, literary theory, and comparative literature. At Claremont Graduate University, he teaches courses in eighteenth-century, Romantic, nineteenth-century, and twentieth-century British literature, literary theory, postmodernism, and literature and technology.
His publications include articles on Goethe, Flaubert, Friedrich Schlegel, George Eliot, Pynchon, and de Man, and he edited a special issue of Diacritics, "Addictions." His book, Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), won the Modern Language Association's First Book Prize.
- 4:30-6 PM in the Arts Cafe: A performance and conversation with poet
Jaap Blonk, cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
This program was recorded and is available through PennSound.Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Holland) is a self-taught composer, voice performer and sound poet. His unfinished studies in physics, mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organized systems.
In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started to compose music, and a few years later a real breakthrough occurred: he discovered the power and flexibility of his voice. At present, he has developed into a prolific writer/composer and a specialist in the performance of sound poetry, supported by a powerful stage presence and an almost childlike freedom in improvisation. He performed in many European countries, as well as in the U.S., Canada, Indonesia, South Africa and Latin America.
Besides working as a soloist, he collaborated with many musicians and ensembles in the field of contemporary and improvised music, like Paul Lytton, Mats Gustafsson, Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Melvyn Poore, Paul Dutton, Nicolas Collins, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble and the Ebony Band. He performed in several compositions by the German composer Carola Bauckholt, including a piece for voice and orchestra. A solo voice piece was commissioned by the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2002.
Blonk is the founder and leader of Splinks, a 15-piece orchestra playing his compositions, and BRAAXTAAL, an avant-rock trio with synthesizer and drums. He also has his own record label, Kontrans.
His work for radio and television includes several commissioned radio plays.
He also makes larger-scale drawings of his scores, which have been exhibited.
Blonk is an energetic workshop leader too, who taught in many different countries, including a lot of work with children.
A recent development is his involvement with electronics, in the form of work created by sampling and processing the sounds of his voice.
Jaap Blonk keeps on searching the rich common ground between poetry and music. He is always after new sounds and combinations of sounds, without abandoning completely the semantics of language. His live performances are music, poetry and performance art all at the same time.
More information: http://www.jaapblonk.com/
- 4:30-6:00 PM: A lecture by Kerry Stuart Coppin hosted by International House, located at 3701 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19104. For more information, please call 215-387-5125.
- 6-8:00 PM: Art Gallery Reception for Return to the Source exhibit, happening November through December
Documentary Photography by international award-winning African-American photographer Kerry Stuart Coppin.Currently an assistant professor of photography and digital imaging at the University of Miami, Coppin has traveled extensively through Senegal, Cuba, Barbados, and Brazil. A documentary-style photographer, Coppin's work explores African, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Latin American life and experience. In his words, Coppin documents "Black community experience, cultural life and customs. Through photography, I attempt to not only interpret and record my experience, but also to participate in an ongoing debate about the fate and shape of the Black cultural experience."
Coppin's photography is in permanent collections around the world, including the African-American Museum (Philadelphia), Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), Asociation Cultural Yoruba de Cuba (Havana), Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Paris), Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York), National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), and the West African Research Center (Dakar, Senegal). Later in the fall, Coppin will travel to Egypt to photograph urban Cairo while his 2005 exhibition schedule includes a one-person exhibition at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and two exhibitions in Cuba. In spring of 2005, MIT Press will reproduce two of Coppin's photographs in Writing the World: On Globalization, edited by David Rothenberg.
Curated by Kerry Stuart Coppin and Peter Schwarz
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies & International House
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 9-10:30 PM in Room 202: The Compass 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.
Friday, 11/12
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write-On with students from the Lea School
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, 11/13
- 1:00-5:00 PM: Writers' Conference at Penn Open House
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Write-On with students from The Penn-Alexander School
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, 11/14
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.
Monday, 11/15
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: All Women LIVE at the Writers House will
tape in the Arts Cafe, featuring Judith Stein, Kathy Lou Schultz, Karen Rile, Lisa Sewell,
Meredith Broussard and musical guest Sandy Crimmins with guitarist David Falcone.
Judith E. Stein is a Philadelphia-based art historian, critic and former curator of contemporary art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She earned her master's and doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. Her current work in progress is a book on the art in the Barnes Foundation and a biography of the art dealer Richard Bellamy, known as "the eye of the sixties."
Kathy Lou Schultz's latest collection of poetry and experimental fiction is Some Vague Wife (Atelos, 2002). Recent work appears in Fence and Hambone. She is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania where her research focuses on African-American Modernist poetry.
Karen Rile is the author of Winter Music, a novel set in Philadelphia, and numerous works of fiction and creative nonfiction. She is currently writing a novel about the Mozart family. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Southern Review, American Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Land Grant College Review and Other Voices. She has been listed among The Best American Short Stories and was a 1994 Pew Fellowship Finalist in Fiction. She is also a past recipient of the Leeway Foundation's Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction and a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lisa Sewell is the author of The Way Out (Alice James Books) and The Level Eye (forthcoming from Four Way Books). She has recently received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, among others. She is currently co-editing a volume of essays on contemporary American poetics for Wesleyan University Press and teaches at Villanova University.
Meredith Broussard is the editor of an anthology entitled The Dictionary of Failed Relationships: 26 Stories of Love Gone Wrong (Three Rivers Press, 2003), a collection of strange and true stories by women writers. A second volume, The Encyclopedia of Exes, featuring 26 male writers, will be published in May 2005. Ms. Broussard graduated from Harvard University and is pursuing her M.F.A. in creative nonfiction at Columbia. She has written for a variety of publications, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Magazine, the Hartford Courant, the Chicago Reader, and the New York Press. Her web site is www.failedrelationships.com.
Musical guest Sandy Crimmins has published in a variety of printed and electronic literary magazines and anthologies. She has written and performed (with musicians, dancers and fire-eaters) several shows which have been featured at the Fringe Festival and other venues. He fiction has been read as part of InterAct's WritingAloud series.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.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 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: 34th Street Poets 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.
Tuesday, 11/16
- 12:00 PM in the Dining Room: Writing Fiction for Kids: A lunchtime conversation with Hank Herman. Please RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Prize-winning juvenile fiction writer Hank Herman will discuss how he found himself as a kids' sports fiction novelist after being a career magazine editor, humorist, and nonfiction writer; how to use your own experiences as material for great kids' fiction books; how to stick to a kids' point of view in your writing - and other elements of the art of writing juvenile fiction. Herman will also read from Super Hoops, his 15-book basketball series for kids (Bantam Doubleday Dell) as well as from Spin a Sport (Innovative Kids) and Marked Man and Other Soccer Stories (Roxbury Park/Lowell House).
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Writing Your Own Column for Newspapers and Magazines: A discussion with Hank Herman
Award-winning columnist Hank Herman, a Penn alum, will cover -- and show how to overcome -- some of the biggest stumbling blocks in column-writing: how to get ideas, how to conquer your fear of the blank page, how to edit yourself -- even how to make something out of nothing! He'll also touch on tips on getting your work published. Herman will read from his biweekly column, "The Home Team" (Westport News), as well as from his new book, ACCEPT MY KID, PLEASE! A Dad's Descent into College Application Hell (forthcoming in December from Da Capo Press).
Hank Herman is the author of Super Hoops, a prize-winning series of 15 basketball novels for kids published by
Bantam Doubleday Dell. His other books for the juvenile market include Spin A Sport, a collection of sports stories
and games published by Innovative Kids, and Marked Man And Other Soccer Stories, published by Roxbury Park/Lowell
House. He is also an award-winning newspaper columnist: "The Home Team," his column in the Westport News, has taken several
top honors from both the New England Press Association and the Connecticut Press Club. He writes primarily about sports and
kids, and his work has appeared in national publications including The New York Times, Outside, Men's
Health, Men's Fitness, Family Fun, Parenting, Ladies' Home Journal, and McCall's.Herman teaches writing at Trinity College's Academy of Lifelong Learning, and Westport Continuing Education. He has also made more than 40 visits to area elementary schools to give workshops on writing. He was also recently the editor of a national website for high school football players, sponsored by Riddell Sports.
Herman served as Editor-in-Chief of Health magazine from 1980 to 1988, after coming to the publication as Managing Editor in 1978, and was also the health correspondence for 1010 WINS Radio, the leading all-news station in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut area. His Health Report, which ran for four years, aired 25 times a week and was heard by 2.7 million listeners. Prior to his tenure at Health, Herman was a travel writer and editor for five years. He started his communications career as an advertising copywriter at Prentice-Hall. A 1971 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Herman is a devoted sports enthusiast. He coaches Little League baseball every spring, youth basketball every winter, and was formerly a tennis instructor. Herman ran the New York City Marathon in 1980, and currently runs, bicycles, skis, kayaks, and plays tennis and basketball on a regular basis. He lives with his wife Carol, an advertising and marketing consultant, and their three sons, Matt, Greg, and Robby, in Westport, Connecticut.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 5-7:00 PM in Room 202: Americanist Group. For more information, please contact Martha Schoolman (meschool@dept.english.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Preview 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.
Wednesday, 11/17
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents John Carvalho
on "Aesthetics Without Theory: Thinking With Images"
John Carvalho is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. His writings range from studies of Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, and phenomenology to articles on jazz, film, and fine art. His forthcoming book is titled Aesthetics of the Visible in the Visual Arts.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.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 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 202: Word.Doc meeting. For more information, please email Kerry Cooperman at kerryc@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, 11/18
- 5:00 PM: A reading by Rae Armantrout, sponsored by the Creative
Writing Program. This
program was recorded and is available
through PennSound.
Rae Armantrout's most recent books are Up to Speed (Wesleyan, 2004), The Pretext (Green Integer, 2001) and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). Her poems have been included in numerous anthologies, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1993), American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Language Meets the Lyric Tradition, (Wesleyan, 2002), The Great American Prose Poem: Poe to the âPresent (Scribner, 2003) and The Best American Poetry of 1988, 2001, 2002, and 2004. She is Professor of Writing and American Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Click here for Ron Silliman's commentary on this reading (from his blog).
- 9:00 PM: LIVE at the Writers House airs on WXPN 88.5-FM. Guests include Judith Stein, Kathy Lou Schultz, Karen Rile, Lisa Sewell, Meredith Broussard and musical guest Sandy Crimmins with guitarist David Falcone.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 with Al Filreis
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets one Wednesday per month throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members. Contact Fred Ollinger at follinge@piconap.com for more information.
- 9-10:30 PM in Room 202: The Compass 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.
Friday, 11/19
- 1:00-4:00 PM in Room 202: The Ethnographic Writing
Workshop Series, in collaboration with the Critical Writing Program
and the Kelly Writers House, presents "StoryLines: Ethnography, Storytelling, and Creative Writing" with Margaret Yocom
(George Mason University). For more information contact Veronica Aplenc at vaplenc@sas.upenn.edu.
Ethnographies, as folklorists remind us, wind together several stories: stories told by the people we study, stories of our interaction with people in our field sites, and stories of our own lives. How can we discover these stories? How can we discern which ones to include in our ethnographies? How can we make good use of these stories in our ethnographies? How can we understand the possibilities these stories have to offer us as writers? How might we benefit from poetry, storytelling, and creative non-fiction as we write our ethnographies? In this workshop, folklorist and storyteller Margaret Yocom will briefly discuss and read from her own work in the western mountains of Maine. Then, she will offer two interactive exercises designed to elicit and explore participants' own ethnographic tales.
Margaret R. Yocom (Ph.D., English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: 1980), a folklorist who specializes in family folklore, oral narrative, material culture, and gender studies, is an associate professor of English at George Mason University and director of the Northern Virginia Folklife Archive. She has conducted fieldwork in her home Pennsylvania German culture as well as with the Inuit of northwestern Alaska and several Northern Virginia communities. Her major fieldsite is a North Appalachian mountain community in Maine. She has published articles and photographs on ethnographic fieldwork, regional study, ethnopoetics, family folklore, gender, and material culture. Her most recent work includes Awful Real: Dolls and Development in Rangeley, Maine (1993), The Yellow Ribboning of the USA: Contested Meanings in the Construction of a Political Symbol (1996), and "Exuberance in Control: The Dialogue of Ideas in the Tales and Fan Towers of Woodsman William Richard of Phillips, Maine" in Northeast Folklore: Essays in Honor of Edward D. Ives (2000). She is the assistant editor of Ugiuvangmiut Quliapyuit: King Island Tales (1988); and in 1994, she edited and wrote Logging in the Maine Woods: The Paintings of Alden Grant. Her current project is a book on the traditional arts of the Richard family of Rangeley, Maine. Active in public sector folklore, she serves as folkorist at the Rangeley Lakes Region Logging Museum as well as consultant to various projects at the Smithsonian Institution, the NEA, and the Maine Arts Commission. She also serves on the boards of the American Folklore Society, the National Council for the Traditional Arts, and the Maine Folklife Center.
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write-On with students from the Lea School
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 9:30-11:30 AM in the Arts Cafe: A meeting between Chris and Stazz
- 2-4:00 PM in Room 209: Talk Poets 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.
Saturday, 11/20
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Old World/New World: A Translation Event Featuring Poet-Translators from the Vermont
College and Warren Wilson/Goddard MFA Programs
Poet-translators from two leading MFA programs go head to head in a program that highlights Old World and New World writers. Featuring Euripides/Elaine Terranova, Petrarch/Richard Jackson, Nieto and Gonzales/Lynn Levin, Fernandes de Assis/Aaren Perry, Gordon Valaikis/J.C. Todd, Mistral/Randall Couch.
Richard Jackson is the author of eight books of poems, several chapbooks of translations (Pavese, Petrarch, Dante, Slovene poets, etc) and two critical books. His most recent books are Half Lives: Petrarchan Poems (Autumn House) and Unauthorized Autobiography: New and Selected Poems (Ashland U Press). Winner of Fulbright, Guggenheim, NEA, NEH, and Witter-Bynner Fellowships, the Order of Freedom Award from the President of Slovenia, as well as 5 Pushcart Prizes, his poems have been translated into over a dozen languages. He has lectured on translation and participated in international translation workshops in Slovenia, Oxford, Vermont College and other places and teaches at UT-Chattanooga and in the MFA Program at Vermont College of Union Institute.
Lynn Levin is the author of two books of poems, A Few Questions about Paradise (2000) and Imaginarium (2004). She is the translator of The Forest (2001), poems by the Albanian writer, Besnik Mustafaj. Her translations of Peruvian writers have appeared on Gowanus and The Drexel Online Journal. She will be reading the work of Peruvian poets Luis Nieto and Odi Gonzales. Levin teaches at Drexel University. Her MFA is from Vermont College.
Aaren Perry is the author of Open Fire (Whirlwind Press, 2004). He teaches creative writing and does curriculum development at schools and colleges in and around Philadelphia, PA. Perry will read from his translations of Cuban poet, Rodolfo Alpizar Castillo's translations of Brazilian poet, Ceci Fernandes de Assis' Debo del Es, winner of the 1999 Casa de Las Americas Prize in poetry. Perry received an MFA from Vermont College.
Elaine Terranova's books of poems include The Cult of the Right Hand, for which she won the Walt Whitman Award, and most recently, The Dog's Heart (Orchises Press). Her translation of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis is part of the Penn Greek Drama Series and was produced at the University of Kansas in 2002. She received an NEA fellowship and was Banister Writer in Residence at Sweet Briar College. Her MFA is from Goddard College, the program which branched off to form the Warren Wilson and Vermont College MFA programs, and which eventually merged with Warren Wilson. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and other magazines. She teaches writing at the Community College of Philadelphia.
Poet and translator J. C. Todd has edited a feature on contemporary Lithuanian poetry in translation for The Drunken Boat. Her translations of Ecuadorian poet Ivón Gordon Vailakis have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Frigate, The Drunken Boat, Bucks County Writer, and The Drexel Online Journal. With Elaine Terranova, she has co-edited a mini-chapbook on translation for Frigate. J. C. Todd holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Randall Couch received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in poetry in 2000 and an MFA from Warren Wilson College in 2003. He is a contributor to the critical anthology Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler, edited by Marjorie Agosín (Ohio U.P., 2003). Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945—the first Latin American laureate—and participated in the founding of UNESCO and the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Write-On with students from The Penn-Alexander School
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, 11/21
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.
Monday, 11/22
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.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 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@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.
Tuesday, 11/23
- 6:00 PM: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Thanksgiving Dinner. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Preview Meeting
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: The Penn English Modernism and Twentieth-Century Reading Group, cosponsored by The Penn English American Literature Seminar. For more information contact Justine Murison.
- 7:00 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes, a workshop dedicated to creative nonfiction. For more information email Mary Hale Meyer at MaryHale.Meyer@jevs.org.
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, 11/24
- Thanksgiving Break beings at close of classes
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, 11/25
- Thanksgiving
- 9-10:30 PM in Room 202: The Compass 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.
Friday, 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.
Saturday, 11/27
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Write-On with students from The Penn-Alexander School
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, 11/28
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, 11/29
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.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 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: 34th Street Poets 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.
Tuesday, 11/30
- 6:00 PM: Penn's Creative Writing Program presents a reading by fiction writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of eleven books, including the novels The Fatigue Artist and Leaving Brooklyn and two short story collections. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The Best American Essays, and many other places, and her reviews, essays, and satirical pieces have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers. Her books have been nominated for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She lives in New York City.Download a recording of this event here.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 5-7:00 PM in Room 202: Americanist Group. For more information, please contact Martha Schoolman (meschool@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).
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets one Wednesday per month throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members. Contact Fred Ollinger at follinge@piconap.com for more information.
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Preview 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.
