Philadelphia
Progressive Poetry Calendar
Version 1.2
Updates, this version: La Tazza readings added;
also more Spring events at Penn (Laurie Anderson, Brad Leithauser,
Johanna Drucker, Simon Ortiz, Simon Pettit, Susan
Sontag), Daisy Fried at Swarthmore.
November
16, Saturday, 7:
Abigail Susik & Fran Ryan at La Tazza, 108 Chestnut (off S. 2nd St).
18, Monday, 7: George Economou & Rochelle Owens. Two of the younger poets associated
with the New American poetry and around such journals as Caterpillar. Both have recently moved to Philadelphia. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more
information, call 215-573-WRIT
18, Monday, Daisy Fried, 7:30 at Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall, Swarthmore
College.
30,
Saturday, 7: Michele Myers & Greg Fuchs at La Tazza, 108 Chestnut
(off S. 2nd St).
December
3,
Tuesday, 6:30: Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Among her books are Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan, 2001), part of her long poem project,
and Genders, Races, and Religious
Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge, 2001). She is also the
author of Writing Beyond the Ending:
Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers (1985), H.D.: The Career of that Struggle
(1986), both from Indiana University Press, and The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (Routledge,
1990), a book of experimental essays. She is the editor of The Selected Letters of George Oppen (Duke University Press, 1990),
and the co-editor of three anthologies: The
Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics (Alabama, 1999), The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from
Women's Liberation (Three Rivers/Crown, 1998) and Signets: Reading H.D. (Wisconsin, 1990). Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on
the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT
4, Wednesday, 2 events with Michael Ondaatje at Penn. 1:00 PM: Lunch with author Michael
Ondaatje sponsored by Women's Studies, and co-sponsored with the Kelly
Writers House. RSVP to wh@english.upenn.edu.
4:30 PM: Michael Ondaatje
will read at a Penn location TBA, sponsored by Women's Studies.
9, Monday, 6:30 – 8:30 PM. Celebration of the 2002 Pew Fellows in the
Arts. Includes poets Rachel
Blau, DuPlessis; Mytili Jagannathan; Teresa Leo;
& Trapeta B. Mayson; plus performance & visual
artists: Gabriel Quinn Bauriedel, Dan Rothenberg, and
Dito Van Reigersberg; Candy
Depew; Lonnie Graham; Whit MacLaughlin; Caden Manson; Thaddeus McWhinnie
Phillips; and Mark Shetabi. Arden Theater, 40 N. 2nd Street, Philadelphia. For information, write pewarts@mindspring.com or call
215-875-2285.
14,
December: Michael Gizzi & Sarah Arvio at La Tazza, 108 Chestnut (off S. 2nd St).
January
30, Thursday, 8 PM,
Erica Hunt. Author of Arcade and Local
History. Temple Writers Series, Temple University Graduate Creative Writing Program, Temple Gallery, 45 North 2nd Street.
February
11,
Tuesday, 5 PM. Steve
Benson, poet & performance
artist, author of Blue Book, As Is and Reverse
Order. Kelly Writers House, 3805
Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT.
20,
Thursday, 8 PM. Eileen Myles, poet, novelist, former presidential candidate,
author of Chelsea Girls, Skies, Not Me &
other books, reads in the Temple Writers Series, Temple University Graduate Creative Writing Program, Temple Gallery, 45 North
2nd Street.
26,
Wednesday, 4:30 PM: The Poet &
Painters series presents poet Ron Padgett. Cosponsered with the Graduate School of
Fine Arts and the Creative Writing Program. Padgett is also the
author of New & Selected Poems (David R. Godine, 1995), The Big
Something (1990), Triangles in the Afternoon (1979), Great Balls
of Fire (1969), and other collections. Two new volumes are forthcoming: Poems
I Guess I Wrote and You Never Know. ). Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more
information, call 215-573-WRIT.
27,
Thursday, Time 4:30 PM, Norma Cole, poet & translator, author of Mace Hill Remap, Moira, Mars, will present “The Transparency
Machine” at Kelly Writers House, 3805
Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT.
27,
Thursday, 8 PM, Norma Cole will read in the Temple Writers Series, Temple University Graduate Creative Writing Program, Temple Gallery, 45 North 2nd Street.
March
5, Wednesday, 6 PM: Johanna Drucker, poet, novelist, theorist, book
artist. Kelly
Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the
Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT.
19, Wednesday, 5 PM: Dennis Barone, poet, novelist,
critic, editor. Kelly Writers House, 3805
Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT.
20,
Thursday, Time TBA: Poet & lawyer Brad Leithauser, Kelly
Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more information,
call 215-573-WRIT.
20,
Thursday, 6-9PM: Brad Leithauser at the Levy Conference Center, room 245 A & the Great Hall at Penn.
24, Monday, 6:30 PM: Laurie Anderson, reading &
performing. Kelly Writers House, 3805
Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT. –
This requires an advance rsvp to whfellow@english.upenn.edu.
25,
Tuesday, 10 AM: Laurie Anderson in an interview. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more
information, call 215-573-WRIT.
27, Thursday, 8: Symposium
on Blues, Jazz, and American Literature, with Pew Fellows Sonia
Sanchez (so many books, including *Does
Your House Have Lions?* and *Shake
Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems*) and Major Jackson (*Leaving
Saturn*), with critics Robert O'Meally (Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at
Columbia University, editor of the anthology *The Jazz Cadence of American Culture*, biographer of Billie Holiday
etc) and Farah Griffin (*If You Can't Be Free, Be A
Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday*). Scheuer Room Kohlberg Hall, Swarthmore College. For further information, contact
Peter Schmidt at pschmid1@swarthmore.edu.
27, Thursday, 4:30:
Simon Pettit, Kelly Writers
House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus.
For more information, call 215-573-WRIT.
April
3, Thursday, 4:30:
Simon Ortiz, the
great Acoma Pueblo poet. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more information, call
215-573-WRIT.
3,
Thursday, 7:30: Reading & Discussion with Tom Devaney, Jessica Lowenthal & Gil Ott,
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on
the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT.
8, Tuesday, 7:30:
Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott (*Omeros*, *Tiepolo's
Hound*, *The Bounty*, *The Odyssey: A Stage Version*, *What the Twilight Says*),
in a reading sponsored by the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry, Thomas Great Hall, Bryn Mawr
College, Bryn Mawr. For further information,
contact Helene Studdy at the Bryn Mawr
College Office for the Arts, 610-526-5210.
21, Monday: 4:30. Susan Sontag. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more information, call
215-573-WRIT. – This requires an advance rsvp to whfellow@english.upenn.edu.
22,
Tuesday, 10 AM: A conversation with Susan Sontag. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more
information, call 215-573-WRIT
