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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Tuesday, 2/1
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 270 with Yoland Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 110.301 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@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 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 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).
- 6-7:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review 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, 2/2
- 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 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@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 115.302 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 5:15-7:15 PM in Room 209: The Eighteenth-Century Reading Group. For more information contact Jared Richman at richman@english.upenn.edu.
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Talking Film/The Hollywood Club.
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, 2/3
- 5:00 PM at Meyerson Hall: Bill Corbett gives a slide lecture on Albert York as part of the Poet and Painter Series collaboration (see below). For more information, please click here.
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Poet & Painter Series
presents William Corbett in collaboration with Penn's School of Design and Penn's Creative Writing Program. To hear a recording of the event in mp3 format, click here.
William Corbett lives in Boston's South End and teaches writing at MIT. Just the Thing: The Selected Letters of James Schuyler, edited by Corbett, has just appeared from Turtle Point Press. Corbett's art writing appears in numerous magazines, and he is an editor of Pressed Wafer, a small poetry press that has just published Ten in the Morning: Collages by Gerald Coble with introduction and text by Corbett. His books of poems are out of print but available on the internet.
- 9:00 PM: LIVE at the Writers House airs on WXPN 88.5 FM, "Cross-Town Traffic Show" featuring a cross-section of Philadelphia writers: Pattie McCarthy, J.C. Hallman, Octavia McBride-Ahebee, Ian Keenan, William Esposito, and musical guest Cynthia Mason.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 270 with Yoland Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 110.301 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@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 Room 202: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane McKinney-Whetstone (whetstones@comcast.net)
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members. Contact Fred Ollinger at follinge@piconap.com for more information.
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: Punch Bowl 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, 2/4
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@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.
Saturday, 2/5
- 1:00-3:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Penn Alexander School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Penn Alexander School to the Writers House on Saturday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@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.
Sunday, 2/6
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, 2/7
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.401 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile (krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information please contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.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.
Tuesday, 2/8
- 6:00-8:00 PM in the Parlor/Arts Cafe: A Community Writing Workshop for "Crossing 49th Street," the 2004-2005 Writers House Junior Fellows project: an exhibit of photography and community writing, conceived and created by Beandrea Davis. For more information, or to participate, email Beandrea at aerdnaeb_sivad@verizon.net.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 270 with Yoland Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 110.301 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@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 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 6:00-8:00 PM: Room 209 reserved for child care for "Crossing 49th" workshop.
- 6-7:00 in Room 202: Penn Review Meeting.
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: The Fish Writing Group; for more information email Nancy Hoffman at 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, 2/9
- 12:30-1:30 PM in the Dining Room: CPCW Faculty Roundtable Brown Bag Lunch Meeting
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Genealogy and Critique in Rousseau's Second Discourse": Theorizing presents Frederick
Neuhouser, on the idea of critique in European philosophy beginning with Rousseau.
Some kind of genealogical project has played a central role in many critical social philosophies of the modern era (e.g., Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Foucault, the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis). The puzzle, put simply, is how finding out about the origin of a phenomenon can be relevant to a normative assessment of that phenomenon. This paper attempts to shed light on this set of general issues by looking at how genealogy and critique fit together in Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality.
Frederick Neuhouser is Professor of Philosophy and Viola Manderfeld Professor of German at Barnard/Columbia. Previously, he taught at Harvard University (1988-1995), the University of California-San Diego (1996-1998), and Cornell University (1998-2003). He specializes in 18th- and 19th-century German thought, as well as social and political philosophy.He has written two books, Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity (1990) and The Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory (2000), and numerous articles and papers. He is currently working on a third book on Rousseau and self-love. Besides philosophy, his interests include film, languages, and psychoanalysis.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@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 115.302 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 5:00 - 7:00 in Room 202: Proposals Hublet Meeting - for more information contact Tom Devaney at tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu.
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Talking Film Club. For more information, please contact Wesley Barrow (wbarrow@gmail.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, 2/10
- 9:30 - 11:30 AM in the Arts Cafe: the Writing Center and the Critical Writing Program are hosting a group of high school students from Berkley Prep.
- 12:00 PM in the Dining Room: "Lunch Poets" presents a lunch and conversation with Kathy Lou Schultz. Please RSVP
to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
You can hear a recording of the program in mp3 format here.Kathy Lou Schultz's latest book of poetry and experimental fiction is Some Vague Wife (Atelos Press). Recent work appears in Fence, Hambone, and Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House Press). Her essay "Small Press, Big Wor(l)ds: African American Poetry from Publisher to Archive" is forthcoming in "Bessie, Bop, or Bach": An Anthology of Poems and Essays from the Diversity in African American Poetry Festival edited by Keith Tuma (Miami UP).
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!
- 4:30-5:30 PM: A reading with Nurit Zarchi and Lisa Katz, cosponsored by the Kutchin Seminars of the Jewish Studies Program.
The author of nearly 100 books, and twice awarded the Israeli Prime Minister's Literary Prize for her poetry, Nurit Zarchi has received every major Israeli award for authors for young readers, and four Hans Christian Andersen citations from IBBY. Three recent poems are to appear in Prairie Schooner this spring. In 2004, she and Amos Oz represented Israel at the Romanian Literary Festival; in 2003, Zarchi was the guest of two international poetry festivals -- Rotterdam and Jerusalem. Zarchi served as the inaugural Poet-in-Residence of the new Creative Writing Program at Hebrew University; she also teaches literature at Levinsky Teachers College, and writing workshops at Ben Gurion University and the Tel Aviv city library. Her ninth book of poetry will appear in 2005; in April, she will be a visiting writer at Cambridge University, England.
Lisa Katz received a Ph.D. (on the poetry of Sylvia Plath) from the English Department of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she has lived since 1983. Co-editor of the Israeli pages of the Rotterdam-based Poetry International Web, she teaches literary translation at both Hebrew and Ben Gurion universities, and a poetry workshop at Tel Aviv University. Reconstruction, a volume of her poetry in English accompanied by Hebrew translations, will appear in Israel in 2005. Her translations of Israeli literature have appeared in The New Yorker, World Literature Today, American Poetry Review, and other magazines; Look There: The Selected Poems of Agi Mishol in Katz's translation from the Hebrew will be published in the US by Graywolf Press in 2006.
This program was recorded and is available through the PENNsound project - 6 PM in the Arts Cafe: Review Session on Lyn Hejinian (for Writers House Fellows Seminar Students)
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 270 with Yoland Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 110.301 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@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 Room 202: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane McKinney-Whetstone (whetstones@comcast.net)
- 4:30-6:00 in Room 202: The Modernist Studies Group. For more information, please contact Damien Keane (dkeane@english.upenn.edu).
- 6-7:30 PM in Room 209: Word.doc meeting. For more information email Kerry Cooperman at kerryc@sas.upenn.edu.
- 8:00-9:30 PM in Room 202: In Words: A Journaling Group. For more information contact Grant Potts at gpotts@ccat.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, 2/11
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@sas.upenn.edu) â
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, 2/12
- 2:00 - 3:00 PM throughout the House: A Palindrome Workshop with Mike Maguire and William Gillespie, hosted
by Nick Montfort, for students in the Write On!/Penn Alexander program.
- 3:30 - 4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Mike Maguire and William Gillespie conduct a Palindrome Workshop for
members of the Writers House community, with some help from Nick Montfort. For more information or to sign up, email
wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading featuring Mike Maguire, William Gillespie, Nick Montfort, and
participants in today's Palindrome Workshops. All are welcome!
MIKE MAGUIRE is a poet whose work has been featured in The Palindromist, Word Ways, and chapbooks such as Recluce's Ulcer. He is the author of Drawn Inward and Other Poems, published in a Spineless Books edition in 2003. This book contains word-unit and letter-unit palindromes as well as "redividers," poems that are spelled the same way but punctuated and divided into words differently. Maguire is considered by many logologists (including Mark Saltveit, editor of the Palindromist) to have written the English language's most lucid and impressive palindromic poetry. As one reader wrote in reply to Mike's message on the newsgroup alt.anagrams, "Michael Maguire = I'm a huge miracle!"
WILLIAM GILLESPIE is completing his MFA as a creative writing fellow at Brown University. He runs the small press Spineless Books (www.spinelessbooks.com). His novel Johnny Werd: the Fire Continues was published in 1999 under the pseudonym Q. Synopsis. He is co-author, with Scott Rettberg and Dirk Stratton, of The Unknown, a hypertext novel. The Unknown shared first place in the first trAce/Alt-X contest in 1988, judged by Robert Coover. William also co-authored, with Nick Montfort, The Ed Report, which won an honorable mention in the second trAce/Alt-X contest in 2000, judged by Shelley Jackson. William founded Newspoetry.com, hosted the radio show Eclectic Seizure, and has published and presented numerous other print and electronic literary works. He is co-author, also with Montfort, of 2002: A Palindrome Story, a 2002-word palindrome, published in 2002 and acknowledged by the Oulipo as the world's longest literary palindrome. Gillespie read from The Unknown and 2002 at the Kelly Writers House on February 14, 2004.
Nick Montfort's interactive fiction includes Winchester's Nightmare (1999) and Ad Verbum (2000); he also translated Andrés Viedma Peláez's Olvido Mortal as Dead Reckoning (2003). Nick wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction and co-edited The New Media Reader (both âfrom MIT Press, 2003). He is co-author of The Ed Report and 2002: A Palindrome Story, blogs at Grand Text Auto, and is a director of the Electronic Literature Organization. He and Scott Rettberg wrote Implementation. Nick is a Ph.D. student in computer and information science at Penn. His site: < http://nickm.com >.
Download a recording of this event here.
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, 2/13
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Reading of the Front Row Theatre Company
Playwriting Fellowship Award Winner: Yael Miller's "Juliet's
Nurse"
The Front Row Theatre Company's Playwriting Fellowship, co-sponsored by the Kelly Writers House and the Creative Writing Program, awards an honorarium and a week-long production workshop to a short play written by a Penn student. Join us for the workshop kickoff -- an initial read-through of the winning play, where the community is invited to offer advice and feedback -- in the Writers House Arts Cafe. From February 14-18, the Front Row Theatre Company will rehearse the play each day, with opportunities for the playwright to make revisions. On February 19, the playwright and company will host a public, staged reading of the play in The Heyer Space at Harrison College House. For more information about the Playwriting Fellowship, click here.
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, 2/14
- 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 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.401 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile (krile@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.
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, 2/15
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Reading and Conversation with Douglas Brinkley, cosponsored by Penn's Creative Writing Program .
Douglas Brinkley currently serves as director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and is a professor of history at the University of New Orleans. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Ohio State University and received his master’s degree and doctorate in military and diplomatic history from Georgetown University. Four of his biographies — Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years (Yale University Press, 1992), Driven Patriot: The Life and Times of James Forrestal, with Townsend Hoopes (Alfred Knopf, 1992), The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey Beyond the White House (Viking Press, 1998) and Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company and a Century of Progress (Viking Press, 2003) — were chosen as “Notable Books” by The New York Times. Brinkley's recent publications include Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War(Harper Collins, 2004), Voices of Valor: D-Day, June 6, 1944 with Ron Drez (Bullfinch, 2004) were New York Times best sellers. Other recent publications include Wheels of the World: Henry Ford, His Company and A Century of Progress (Viking, 2003), The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation with Stephen E. Ambrose (National Geographic Society, 2002), Rosa Parks (Viking Press, 2000), American Heritage History of the United States (Viking Press, 1998) and FDR and the Creation of the United Nations with Townsend Hoopes (Yale University Press, 1997). Other books include Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 with Stephen E. Ambrose (Viking-Penguin, 1997), The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993, Anchor Doubleday, 1994), and edited works on Dean Acheson, Theodore Roosevelt, Jean Monnet and the Atlantic Charter. He has contributed to Newsweek, Time, American Heritage, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and other journals. Forthcoming publications include Windblown World: Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 and a short biography of Gerald Ford. Douglas Brinkley lives in New Orleans.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 270 with Yoland Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 110.301 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@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 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 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).
- 6-7:00 in Room 202: Penn Review Meeting.
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Punch Bowl 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, 2/16
- 5:30 - 7:30 PM in the Parlor/Arts Cafe: A Community Writing Workshop for "Crossing 49th Street," the 2004-2005 Writers House Junior Fellows project: an exhibit of photography and community writing, conceived and created by Beandrea Davis. For more information, or to participate, email Beandrea at aerdnaeb_sivad@verizon.net.
- 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 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@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 115.302 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 5:30 - 7:30 PM: Room 209 reserved for childcare for the "Crossing 49th" workshop
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: The Modernist Studies Group. For more information, please contact Damien Keane (dkeane@english.upenn.edu).
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Word.doc meeting. For more information email Kerry Cooperman at kerryc@sas.upenn.edu.
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: Sci-Fi/Fantasy writing group inaugural meeting. For more information contact Dan Corren at corrend@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, 2/17
- 5:15-7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Workshop on Byron and Austen with
William Galperin, sponsored by The Eighteenth Century Reading
Group.
William Galperin teaches and researches Jane Austen, British Romanticism, and Critical Theory (among other things); his most recent publications are The Historical Austen (2002) and The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism. He is a Professor of English at Rutgers University.
The Eighteenth-Century Reading Group meets regularly to read and discuss works from and about the long eighteenth century, works in progress by its members, and work by invited guests. For more information contact Jared Richman at richman@english.upenn.edu.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 270 with Yoland Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 110.301 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@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 Room 202: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane McKinney-Whetstone (whetstones@comcast.net)
- 5:00-7:00 PM in Room 202: The Eighteenth-Century Reading Group presents a workshop with Bill Galperin (Rutgers University). For more information contact Jared Richman at richman@english.upenn.edu.
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members. Contact Fred Ollinger at follinge@piconap.com for more information.
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, 2/18
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:00 PM in Room 202: Critical writing instructors pedagogy discussion 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, 2/19
- 1:00-3:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Penn Alexander School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Penn Alexander School to the Writers House on Saturday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@sas.upenn.edu).
- 5:00-7:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Community Reading and Celebration of "Crossing 49th Street" - with 2004-2005 Writers House
Junior Fellow Beandrea Davis.
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, 2/20
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Myself Among Others": Co-writing Jazz
History: a conversation and reading with George
Wein and Nate Chinen. Featuring performances by musical guests
from Penn Jazz.
Legendary jazz impresario George Wein reads from his award-winning 2003 autobiography and answers questions about a life in jazz. Critic/co-author (and original Writers House hub member!) Nate Chinen will join George for a discussion about the processes and potential pitfalls of collaborative writing.
Over the past half-century, no figure has brought jazz to more people than George Wein. A pioneering impresario and producer, he ushered in what the late critic Leonard Feather called the "festival era," and helped bring jazz into the realm of high culture. His professional life began as a pianist in Boston's postwar scene, and continued through the decade-long reign of George Wein's Storyville, New England's premier jazz club. In 1954, with the financial backing of socialites Louis and Elaine Lorillard, he staged the first Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island. That event, the first of its kind, had an incalculable influence on the presentation of jazz around the world. It revitalized the careers of Duke Ellington and Miles Davis, and introduced many other legends to their first mainstream audiences. And it yielded subsequent ventures, like the Newport Folk Festival, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and the Grande Parade du Jazz in the south of France. Wein's natural business acumen also led to jazz's first title sponsorships: the Schlitz Salute to Jazz and then the KOOL Jazz Festival, which preceded any other sponsor association in the world of entertainment. Sponsors play a major role in the work of Wein's company Festival Productions, Inc., which annually produces JVC Jazz Festivals worldwide; the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans; the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles; and Verizon Music Festivals across the country. Wein, whose many accolades include France's Legion d'Honneur, still plays an active role in producing his festivals, and serves on executive boards for Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theatre Foundation, and Carnegie Hall. His autobiography Myself Among Others was recognized by the Jazz Journalists Association as 2004's Best Book About Jazz, and in January 2005 he became the second-ever recipient of the NEA's Jazz Master Award.
In addition to coauthoring the award-winning autobiography Myself Among Others, Nate Chinen is a columnist for JazzTimes magazine, a regular reviewer for the Village Voice, and the resident jazz critic for Weekend America, a syndicated public radio program. He's also a Penn English alumnus (Creative Writing with Poetry Emphasis) and a former Assistant Coordinator of the Kelly Writers House.
To hear a recording of this event in mp3 format, click here.
Please join us after this event for ars nova workshop's live concert with Marty Ehrlich and Michael Formanek at nearby Slought Foundation (41st and Walnut Streets)!
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, 2/21
- 6:30 PM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows
Program presents poet LYN HEJINIAN. RSVP only. To RSVP,
please call 215-573-9749 or email whfellow@writing.upenn.edu. Click here for more
information about this event and all Writers House Fellows programs.
Hejinian's visit rescheduled from March 22, 2004. This event
was recorded and is available RealVideo as well as mp3 formats.
Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator; she was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Berkeley. Published collections of her writing include Writing is An Aid to Memory, My Life, Oxota: A Short Russian Novel, Leningrad (written in collaboration with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten), The Cell, The Cold of Poetry, and A Border Comedy; the University of California Press published a collection of her essays entitled The Language of Inquiry. She has travelled and lectured extensively in Russia as well as Europe, and Description and Xenia, two volumes of her translations from the work of the contemporary Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, have been published by Sun and Moon Press. From 1976 to 1984, Hejinian was the editor of Tuumba Press and from 1981 to 1999 she was the co-editor (with Barrett Watten) of Poetics Journal. She is also the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets; Atelos was nominated as one of the best independent literary presses by the Firecracker Awards in 2001. Other collaborative projects include a work entitled The Eye of Enduring undertaken with the painter Diane Andrews Hall and exhibited in 1996, a composition entitled Quê Trân with music by John Zorn and text by Hejinian, a mixed media book entitled The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill created with the painter Emilie Clark (Granary Press, 1998), and the experimental film Letters Not About Love, directed by Jacki Ochs, for which Hejinian and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko wrote the script. In the fall of 2000, she was elected the sixty-sixth Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
For images from this event, click here.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.401 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile (krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information please contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.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.
Tuesday, 2/22
- 10:00 AM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents poet LYN HEJINIAN -- brunch and interview conducted by Al Filreis. RSVP only. To RSVP, please call 215-573-9749 or email whfellow@writing.upenn.edu. Click here for more information about this event and all Writers House Fellows programs. For images from this event, click here.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 270 with Yoland Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 110.301 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@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 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 6-7:00 in Room 202: Penn Review 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, 2/23
- 3:00 PM: A reading and talk with Leevi Lehto -- "Finnish Poetry:
Now and Then" hosted by Charles Bernstein. For more information on Lehto
click HERE. This
event was recorded and is available through PennSound.
Leevi Lehto (b. 1951) is a Finnish poet, programmer, and translator of,
among others, Althusser, Deleuze, Ashbery, Bernstein, and Joyce (along with Stephen King and Mickey Spillane). He has a
background both in Communist politics and in business management, as a web developer and a communications company executive.
Starting from 1967, his work includes six volumes of poetry, a novel, and more recently, experiments in digital poetry and
publishing; it has been praised for its linguistic musicality and experimentation. - 6:00 PM: Theorizing presents Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman has written and edited 24 books of poetry and criticism to date, including the anthology In
the American Tree. Since 1979, Silliman has been writing a poem entitled The Alphabet. Volumes
published thus far from that project have included ABC, Demo to Ink, Jones, Lit,
Manifest, N/O, Paradise, â, Toner, What and Xing. He
writes & edits a daily weblog on poetry and poetics that has had nearly 20,000 readers since the summer of 2002.
Silliman is a 2003 Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council,
and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works
as a market analyst in the computer industry.
This program was recorded and is available through PENNsound.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@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 115.302 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 5:15-6:15 PM in Room 202: "Think tank" meeting for the new Sheryl P. and Elaine D. Simons Fellowship Program. For more information contact Sheryl Simons at sheryl.simons@wharton.upenn.edu.
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 202: Lacan Study Group meeting
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Talking Film Club. For more information, please contact Wesley Barrow (wbarrow@gmail.com).
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: Punch Bowl 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.
Thursday, 2/24
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: "When Civil Rights was only a dream": a roundtable discussion of Robert Penn Warren's taped interviews for Who Speaks for the Negro? featuring Kristina Baumli, Anthony Sczcesiul, Ancil George, Sheldon Hackney, Herman Beavers, and Paul Hendrickson. With many thanks to the Penn Library, and co-sponsored by The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
THIS PROGRAM WAS RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL 19, 2005.
Starting in 1964, Robert Penn Warren conducted a series of taped interviews with major civil rights leaders and literary figures of the time, including Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Medgar and Charles Evers, Ralph Bunche, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and others. These interviews formed the basis of Warren's 1965 book, Who Speaks for the Negro?, an exploration of the Civil Rights movement from the point of view of a "reformed racist." After four years of negotiation with Yale's Beinecke Library, Penn's Van Pelt library has acquired copies of these tapes, never before listened to by anyone. Join us for this historic discussion of Robert Penn Warren's interviews!
Kristina Baumli is a graduate student in Penn's Department of English. Her dissertation deals with the literary work (history and fiction) of Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and W.E.B. DuBois, and the ways it became translated into film and popular literature. She has written several articles on Robert Penn Warren and race.
Ancil George is library liason for Africana Studies at Penn's Van Pelt Library, and largely responsible for the acquisition of these historic tapes.
Sheldon Hackney is the Boies Professor of U.S. History in Penn's Department of History. He specializes in the history of the American South since the Civil War, with an emphasis on the Civil Rights Movement in general, and the 1960s in particular. He has published numerous articles and books on history, and is currently at work on a study of American identity from pre-colonial days to the present. Professor Hackney is former president of the University, and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Herman Beavers is a professor in the English Department at Penn. He is the author of Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson, and has published much of his own poetry. Professor Beavers specializes in African American Literature, American Literature, and also teaches Creative Writing courses at Penn.
Paul Hendrickson is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, Sons of Mississippi, a study of the legacy of racism in the families of seven Mississippi sheriffs of the 1960s, won the 2004 National Book Critics Award (as well as numerous other awards). Before coming to teach in Penn's English Department, he was a staff feature writer at the Washington Post from 1977-2001. Among other awards, he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His other books include Seminary: A Search, Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott, and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 270 with Yoland Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 110.301 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@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 Room 202: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane McKinney-Whetstone (whetstones@comcast.net)
- 8:00-9:30 PM in Room 202: In Words: A Journaling Group. For more information contact Grant Potts at gpotts@ccat.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, 2/25
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@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.
Saturday, 2/26
- 12:00-2:00 PM in the Dining Room and Arts Cafe: Write On!/Lea
School End of Year Celebration!!
Join us as we celebrate the end of another year of Write On! with the Lea Elementary School -- all are welcome!
- 1:00-3:00 PM on the second floor: Write On! with students from the
Penn Alexander School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Penn Alexander School to the Writers House on Saturday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@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.
Sunday, 2/27
- 12:00-2:00 PM in the Dining Room and Arts Cafe: Write On!/Penn
Alexander End of Year Celebration!
Join us as we celebrate the first-ever Write On! collaboration with students from the Penn Alexander School. All are welcome!
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Reading from students in Lorene Cary's Non-fiction Writing class.
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, 2/28
- 6:30 PM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents novelist Roger Angell.
RSVP only. To RSVP, please call 215-573-9749 or email whfellow@writing.upenn.edu.
Click here for more information about this event and all Writers House
Fellows programs. Program Full. We are no longer accepting RSVPs for Roger Angell's Monday night reading.
"Roger Angell is the clear-eyed poet laureate of baseball. His books are like long, wonderful strings of base hits by the home team. You don't want them to end."
-- The New York PostAn essayist and fiction editor for the New Yorker, Roger Angell's meditative essays on baseball have earned him the reputation as one of the greatest sportswriters of all time. The New York Times Book Review compared the experience of reading Angell to “watching a game unfold in its own good time over a long afternoon, hoping it will go into extra innings and last until sundown.” Known for reporting as a fan as well as a member of the press, he elevates writing about sports to an art form. The editors of the New York Review of Books praised Angell's collection The Summer Game (1972), for its“searching for the Higher Game, the cosmology behind each pitch, each swing, each ‘shared joy and ridiculous hope’ of summer’s long adventure.” Angell's other books on the national pastime include Late Innings (1982), Season Ticket (1983), Five Seasons (1988), Once More Around the Park (1991) and Game Time (2003). He is the author of the introduction to the latest edition of The Elements of Style, a guide to writing by William Strunk and E.B. White, Angell's stepfather. His own collection of fiction The Stone Arbor and Other Stories was published in 1960.
Watch the discussion of this event here.
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| This event is featured in Eric Karlan's NOTES FROM THE GREEN COUCH, a series of summaries and analyses of Writers House events. Click on the image above. |
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.305 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11-12:00 AM in Room 202: English 001.304 with JC Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 with Brad Hafford (whafford@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.401 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile (krile@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.