Philadelphia Progressive Poetry Calendar
Version 1.3
January
18, Saturday, 8 PM: Alicia Askenase,
Molly’s Café & Books, 1010 S. 9th St., in the heart of the Italian Market. Open reading follows. [This very small used & rare book
store has an excellent selection of literature.]
21, Tuesday, 7 PM: Brenda
Coultas, Deborah Richards, and Kathy
Lou Schultz. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on
the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT
24, Friday, 6:30 PM, Screen Words: Poets &
Poems on Video & Film. Cecilia Vicuña: What is Poetry to You? Steve McCaffery: Paradise Improved. Leslie Scalapino & Konrad Steiner: Sections
from Way. Fiona Templeton: You the City & The Woman in the Green Coat. Henry Hills: Money & An Lee-Ann Anthology of Concrete Poetry. Slought Gallery, 4017 Walnut Street. 215-746-4239.
25, Saturday, 7:30 PM, Mariana Ruiz-Firmat & Dennis Moritz, La
Tazza, 108 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
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
8, Saturday, 7:30 PM, Mitchell Feldstein & Elizabeth Scanlon,
La Tazza, 108 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
11, Tuesday, 5 PM, Steve Benson. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on
the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT.
12, Wednesday, 7 PM: A launch party & reading
for Issue #3 of Pom2 with a reception
to follow. Hosted by editors Allison Cobb, Jen
Coleman, Ethan Fugate and Susan Landers. 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.
22, Saturday, 7:30 PM, Ixnay Reader
Release Party- Frank Sherlock, Marcella
Durand & Brett Evans, La Tazza, 108 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
26, Wednesday, 5 PM: The Poet & Painters series presents poet Ron Padgett.
Kelly Writers
House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus.
For more information, call 215-573-WRIT.
27, Thursday, 8 PM, Ron Silliman will read in the Temple Writers Series, Temple University Graduate
Creative Writing Program, Temple Gallery, 45 North 2nd Street. [I’m filling in for Norma Cole, who is unable to read due to
illness.]
March
5, Wednesday, 6 PM, Johanna Drucker. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more information,
call 215-573-WRIT. (There also may be a workshop at noon – check with
Writers House re limited seat availability.)
19, Wednesday, 5 PM, Dennis Barone. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more
information, call 215-573-WRIT.
20, Thursday, Time TBA, Brad Leithauser. Kelly
Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn
campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT. (An event
in the evening from 6 until 9 will be held at Levy Conference Center (Room 245A) and the Great Hall.
24, Monday, 6:30 PM, Laurie Anderson – Kelly Writers
House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more information, call
215-573-WRIT. RSVP's required to whfellow@english.upenn.edu.
25, Tuesday, 10 AM, Interview & webcast with Laurie Anderson. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk,
on the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT. RSVP's
required to whfellow@english.upenn.edu.
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, 5 PM. Simon Pettet. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more
information, call 215-573-WRIT.
April
3, Thursday, 4:30
PM, Simon Ortiz. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on
the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT.
3, Thursday, 7:30 PM: Arts Cafe - Al Filreis's preceptorial
mini-course on "Three Contemporary Philadelphia Poets" presents a
reading and discussion with poets Jessica Lowenthal,
Tom Devaney, & 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.
9, Wednesday, 4:30
PM, Steve Clay of Granary Press, talking. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on the Penn campus. For more information,
call 215-573-WRIT.
15, Tuesday, 4:30 PM, Anne Waldman. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, on
the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT.
23, Wednesday, 7 PM: A reading featuring Futurepoem
books with poets Garrett Kalleberg and Rachel
Levitsky with introductions by Futurepoem books
Publisher Dan Machlin with a reception to
follow. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk,
on the Penn campus. For more information, call 215-573-WRIT.
24, Thursday, 6:30 PM. Janet Zweig’s
Text Machines, with Jena Osman. Slought Gallery, 4017 Walnut Street. 215-746-4239.
May
15, Thursday, 8 PM. Thalia Field, Jamie Jewett,
Alexander Devaron, collaborative
performance: Seven Veils: A Night of
Poetry in Moving Media. Slought
Gallery, 4017 Walnut Street. 215-746-4239.
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