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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Tuesday, 3/1
- Art Gallery opens with Photographic Compositions, by Soliman Lawrence. This exhibit will be in place through April 8th, with an artist's reception on March 16th. Curated by Peter Schwarz.
- 10:00 AM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents novelist Roger
Angell--brunch and interview led 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. Program Full. We are no longer accepting RSVPs for Roger Angell's Tuesday morning program.
Watch the discussion of this event here.
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading with Emmanuel Moses, introduced and hosted by Jean-Michel Rabaté.
Listen to an audio recording of this program.
Emmanuel Moses has published 12 books and translated poetry from English ( C.K. Williams, Raymond Carver), Hebrew (Yehuda Amichai, Israel Pincas, among others), and German (Peter Huchel). Moses has edited two anthologies of Hebrew verse (Obsidiane; Gallimard). Two of his novels have been translated into German and a selection of his poetry, Last News from Mr. Nobody (translated by Marilyn Hacker, C.K. Williams and Kevin Hart among others), was published in the US (Handsel/Other Press) in January 2005. Among his awards are the Nelly-Sachs Prize for translation and the Max-Jacob Prize for poetry. Emmanuel Moses was born in Casablanca, Morocco in 1959. After a childhood spent in Paris, his family emigrated to Israel in 1969. He received a degree in history, and moved back to Paris in 1986 where he is currently active as a writer, poet, and editor.
- 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
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Modernist Studies Group and Latitudes host Rita Barnard presenting: "A Tangle of Modernism and Barbarity."
- 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, 3/2
- 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)
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: Pennumbra -- a science fiction/fantasy writing group for Penn students. For more information email Dan Corren at corrend@sas.upenn.edu.
- 8:00 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.
Thursday, 3/3
- 12:00 PM in the Dining Room and Arts Cafe: Lunch Poets presents: A conversation with Greg Djanikian. RSVP
required to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Gregory Djanikian is Director of Penn's Creative Writing Program. He has published four collections of poetry, The Man in the Middle, Falling Deeply into America, About Distance, and most recently, Years Later, all with Carnegie-Mellon University Press. His poems have appeared in such publications as The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, The Nation, Poetry, and in over 25 anthologies and textbooks. His awards include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eunice Tietjens Prize and Friends of Literature Award from Poetry magazine, and the Anahid Literary Award from the Armenian Center of Columbia University.
Have a poet for lunch! Lunch Poets brings poets from the Writers House community into our dining room for readings and informal conversations about their work.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A conversation and reading about "A Literary Affair," an upcoming collaboration between writers
from Philadelphia Stories and musicians and composers from Chamber Music Now! featuring Carla Spatero, Sandy Crimmins,
Richard Belcastro, Marilyn Nonken, Jason Eckardt and
David Laganella.
Listen to an audio recording of this program.
The Writers:
Carla (C.J.) Spataro is the fiction editor and co-publisher of Philadelphia Stories Magazine. Her work has appeared online at Hackwriters.com and she has been both a finalist and second place winner in the Philadelphia City Paper Fiction Contest. In 2005 she was awarded a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for Literature. She holds degrees in Vocal Music Performance from Central Michigan University and Michigan State University and was a Metropolitan Opera Council National Audition Regional Finalist. Her piece, inspired by Richard Belcastro's Conflicting Impulses, is titled The Thin Blue Line Between Love and Respect.
Sandy Crimmins has been published in a variety of print and electronic journals, including American Writing, City Primeval, femmesoul, Isosceles and Hysteria. Her work appears in the anthologies Meridian Bound, The Eternal Now and Pagan's Muse. She is also a spoken-word artist, performing her work with musicians, dancers, and fire-eaters. Her chapbook, String Theory, is coming out from Plan B press this spring. Her piece is inspired by David Laganella's work The Schuylkill at Night.
The Composers:
Richard Belcastro is the Executive Director and co-founder of Chamber Music Now! His compositions have been performed internationally by leading contemporary music ensembles including the Prism Saxophone Quartet, the Auros Group for New Music and the Alexander String Quartet. He was the recipient of the Olga Brose Valente Memorial Prize for Composition and has received honors from The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music for his electronic work Sonance. He holds music degrees from The University of California, Davis and Brandeis University. Richard Belcastro's featured piece is Conflicting Impulses.
Jason Eckardt played guitar in rock and jazz bands until hearing the music of Webern inspired an interest in composing. His music is influenced by his interests in perceptual complexity, performance virtuosity and self-organizing processes in the natural world. Eckardt has been recognized through commissions from Carnegie Hall, the Koussevitzky Foundation, Guggenheim Museum, Fromm Foundation at Harvard University and Oberlin Conservatory, and major festivals have programmed his works. Jason Eckardt's piece is Echoes' White Veil, inspired by the poetry of W.S. Merwin.
David Laganella is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Chamber Music Now! He has been commissioned to compose for America's leading new music artists including Marilyn Nonken, The Auros Group for New Music and Odd Appetite. His works have been performed by The Serafin String Quartet (at Carnegie Hall), Jeffery Khaner and The Concordia Chamber Players and The Haddonfield Symphony. In 2003, Laganella served as the Composer in Residence for the Bergslagens Chamber Symphony in Stockholm, Sweden. He has received honors from organizations including The Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, The Ninth Street Chamber Music Project, Meet the Composer, The American Conservatory of Music (Fontainebleau, France), The Society of Composers, and The American Composers Forum. He holds degrees in music composition from New York University and his PhD from The University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of the book The Composer's Guide to the Electric Guitar. David Laganella's piece is The Schuykill at Night.
The Pianist:
Marilyn Nonken has emerged as one of the most gifted young performers of modern piano music, having been described as "splendid" (New York Times), "superb" (Boston Globe), and "fearless" (The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel). She has commissioned several major works including Milton Babbitt's "Allegro Penseroso," Mario Davidovsky's "Quartetto No. 3," Michael Finnissy's "North American Spirituals," Tristan Murail's "Les Travaux et les Jours," and most recently, a major new work from Pascal Dusapin. Her diverse discography features works by composers as varied as Alvin Lucier, David Rakowski, and Charles Wuorinen; a CD of pieces written for her is available from New World Records, her recording of Morton Feldman's "Triadic Memories" was recently released by Mode, and disc of Murail's piano music will follow. Also in her repertoire are works by Barraque, Cage, Dallapiccola, Dillon, Harvey, Ligeti, Sciarrino, Seeger, and Stockhausen. In the past, she has toured with the complete piano works of Arnold Schoenberg and Pierre Boulez. This season, she will tour the United States and Europe with the complete piano works of Murail, Feldman's "Triadic Memories," and Charles Ives' "Concord" Sonata.
Chamber Music Now! is a new kind of classical music organization, dedicated to extending the vitality of chamber music deep into the 21st Century. Our goal is to foster a renewed interest in chamber music by presenting an annual concert series with superior talent in conjunction âwith exciting programming that audiences will find approachable, stimulating and most importantly, enjoyable. Building Bridges, the title âfor our third season, refers to our goal for this season of bringing music together with other artistic disciplines. Concerts this season will feature music that has been inspired by dance, literature and fine art.
Philadelphia Stories is a local literary magazine dedicated to presenting the finest fiction, poetry, essays and art by and for the greater Philadelphia Region. Published quarterly, Philadelphia Stories is free and available throughout the tri-state area at over 110 locations including: Borders Books, The Philadelphia Public Library, Brew-Ha-Ha, Jazz & Java and many of your favorite local coffee houses and indie bookstores.
- 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 209: The Eighteenth-Century Reading Group. For more information contact Jared Richman at richman@english.upenn.edu.
- 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: 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, 3/4
- Spring Break Begins at Close of Classes: House closes at 5:00 PM and will re-open on March 14, 2005
- 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, 3/5
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Spring Break
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 3/6
- Spring 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.
Monday, 3/7
- Spring 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.
Tuesday, 3/8
- Spring Break
- 12:30-1:30 PM in the Dining Room: CPCW Faculty Roundtable Brown Bag Lunch 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, 3/9
- Spring Break
- 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, 3/10
- Spring 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.
Friday, 3/11
- Spring 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, 3/12
- Spring Break
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 3/13
- Spring 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.
Monday, 3/14
- Spring Break Ends. Classes Resume at 8:00 AM.
- 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, 3/15
- 6:00 PM: A reading with Sarah Manguso, cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Sarah Manguso is the author of The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002) and Siste Viator (2006). Her poems
have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in three editions of the Best American Poetry series. She teaches in the New School's
M.F.A. program, writes criticism regularly for The Believer, and lives in Brooklyn. Listen to a recording of the 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.
- 8:00-9:30 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.
Wednesday, 3/16
- 3:00 - 5:30 PM: Readings from the Cross Gender Caravan featuring Tennessee Jones, Charlie Anders, and Carolyn Connelly: A day of cutting-edge fiction and poetry from young transgender writers. Sponsored by QPenn.
- Listen to a recording of this event.
Tennessee Jones is a southern ex-punk with high pompadour whose first book, Deliver Me From Nowhere, explores the sex and gender badlands of Middle America through the prism of Bruce Springsteen's album Nebraska.
Charlie Anders is author of Choir Boy, a bittersweet and surreal story of a choirboy who takes female hormones to keep his voice from changing and discovers a world of gender confusion. Charlie publishes other, the magazine of pop and politics for the new outcasts.
Carolyn Connelly is a high femme metal head whose zine, A Brooklyn Diary, includes tales of growing up queer and working class in Brooklyn, and hanging out with Metallica when they actually mattered.
- 6:00-7:30 PM: Art Gallery Reception: Photographic Compositions by Soliman Lawrence. Curated by Peter Schwarz.
- 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 in Room 209: Penn and Pencil Club. For more information, or to join, contact John Shea at john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu.
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: Pennumbra -- a science fiction/fantasy writing group for Penn students. For more information email Dan Corren at corrend@sas.upenn.edu.
- 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.
Thursday, 3/17
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Ingenuous subjection: Eighteenth-Century
Women's Political Difference": A workshop with
Helen Thompson, sponsored by The Eighteenth-Century Reading Group.
Helen Thompson is assistant professor of English at Northwestern University. Her book, Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel, is forthcoming with University of Pennsylvania Press (fall 2005). Articles include "Charlotte Lennox and the Agency of Romance" (The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Summer 2002), "Plotting Materialism: Haywood's Fantomina, Charleton's The Ephesian Matron, and Feminine Consistency" (Eighteenth-Century Studies, Winter 2002), and "How the Wanderer Works: Reading Burney and Bourdieu" (ELH, Winter 2001).
- 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)
- 3:00-5:00 PM: Talk Poets Group in the dining room.
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: 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, 3/18
- 11:30 AM in the Arts Cafe: A public reading and conversation with Kate Stewart.
- 1:00-4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Ethnographic Writing
Workshop Series, in collaboration with the Critical Writing Program
and the Kelly Writers House, presents "Ordinary Impacts: The Affective Life of U.S. Public Culture," with Kathleen
Stewart. For more information or to register, contact Veronica Aplenc at vaplenc@sas.upenn.edu.
Kathleen Stewart teaches anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin and is the director of the Americo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies. Her first book, A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America (Princeton, 1996) was recognized by the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Victor Turner Prize for best ethnography. Her current project, Ordinary Impacts: The Affective Life of U.S. Public Culture (in press, Duke University Press), is a story of an everyday life buoyed and pierced by surging affects, volatile imaginaries, dense materializations, and the direct excitation of the senses. It traces these intensities as they course through complex, internally-riven modes of agency, technologies, sensibilities, flows of power and money, daydreams, institutions, dramas, bodily states, modes of attention, and ways of experiencing time and space.
- 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, 3/19
- "When a Poem is Feared More Than a Bomb": Poetry and the Politics
of Art with Ewuare Osayande. A workshop, lecture and
reading, cosponsored by the Greenfield Intercultural Center, the Vice Provost for University Life, the African-American Resource Center, and the English Undergraduate Advisory Board.
2:30 - 5:00 PM: Poetry Workshop (space is limited! RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu!).
6:30-8:30 PM: Lecture and reading
Ewuare Osayande is a political activist, cultural analyst, poet, essayist and publisher. The Quarterly Black Review has called Osayande "one of Black America's newest insurgent intellectuals coming to the table with enough mental firepower to be a David Walker for our time." Currently, Osayande is the Poet-in-Residence for the African American Studies Program at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ. Osayande's books of or on poetry include Riots in the Sky (Poems after September 11, 2001), Caught at the Crossroads Without A Map, Crucifixions in the Street, and So the Spoken Word Won't Be Broken: The Politics of the New Black Poetry. His next book of poems is entitled Blood Luxury and will be published by Africa World Press in 2005. He is currently working on an epic poem on the Black experience in his native Camden, NJ, entitled Kham Deen. Osayande's poems and essays have also been published in AWOL, Leftcurve, Black Arts Quarterly, DrumVoices Revue, the international poetry anthology In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 4, and many other places.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, 3/20
- 2-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis afilreis@writing.upenn.edu
- 5-8:00 PM: Underground Shakespeare Company 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.
Monday, 3/21
- 6:30 PM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents novelist E. L. Doctorow.
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.
This program
was recorded in RealVideo format.
Since emerging as a major American writer with the publication of The Book of Daniel in 1971, E.L. Doctorow has become one of the most celebrated fiction writers of our time. Ragtime, his 1975 novel about the spirit of America between the turn of the century and the First World War, would soon be acknowledged as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the Modern Library. His later novels, which follow in the Doctorow tradition of mixing historical figures with fiction, include World's Fair (1985), Billy Bathgate (1989), and City of God (2000). In 1998, Ragtime was adapted into a Broadway musical. Doctorow is the recipient of the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Guggenheim Fellow ship, and the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal.
Watch the reading of this event 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)
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, 3/22
- 10:00 AM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents novelist E. L.
Doctorow--brunch and interview led 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.
Watch the discussion of this event here.
- 5:00 PM in the Dining Room: Hal Sirowitz Break-Out Session
In advance of Hal Sirowitz's Kerry Prize Reading on March 24th, a group of Writers House Planning Committee members will meet to read and discuss Hal's work. For more information, contact Phil Sandick.
- 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.
- 7:10 - 9:00 PM in Room 202: Rebecca Sheehan's Class screens a film.
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, 3/23
- 7:00 PM: in the Arts Cafe: A reading and conversation with David von Drehle, introduced by Paul Hendrickson.
Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
David Von Drehle is a senior writer on the Sunday magazine of The Washington Post, having previous served the paper as national political writer, New York Bureau Chief, Arts Editor and Assistant Managing Editor in charge of the renowned Style section. He has covered a wide variety of assignments for The Post, including the 1992 and 2000 presidential elections, the death of Richard Nixon, the turn of the milennium, the meaning of snow shoveling and the lives of such figures as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Willie Nelson. He is a native of Aurora, Colorado and a graduate of the University of Denver and Oxford University. His latest book is Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. Von Drehle lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, journalist Karen Ball, and their four children.
This program was recorded and is available for download in mp3 format 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 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)
- 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, 3/24
- 12:00 PM: A lunchtime workshop with Hal Sirowitz - RSVP required and space is limited. If you'd like to
attend, please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 PM: The Kerry Prize Reading
featuring
Hal
Sirowitz. (For more information, please visit halsirowitz.com.)
Hal Sirowitz is the author of three books of poems, Mother Said, My Therapist Said (Crown) and Before During
and After (Soft Skull Press). In the spring of 2004 Father Said will be published, also by Soft Skull Press. He is
the recipient of a Frederick Delius Award and The Susan Rose Recording Grant for Contemporary Jewish Music. Mother Said
will be released on CD with music composed by Alla Borzova, sung by Paul Sperry. John Flansburgh of the rock group, They Might
Be Giants, has recorded him for Hello Records, and the group spoke about him during their Mother's Day interview for NPR's
Studio 360. Garrison Keillor has read his work on NPR's Writer's Almanac. Sirowitz has performed on MTV's Spoken Word
Unplugged, PBS's Poetry Heaven, and NPR's All Things Considered. Awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a
2003 New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Sirowitz is also the best selling translated poet in Norway,
where Mother Said has been adapted for the stage and has been made into animated cartoons. Hal is the former Poet Laureate of
Queens, New York. He has a poem in Garrison Keillor's anthology, Good Poems, in Poetry in Motion from Coast to
Coast (W.W. Norton), in Poetry After 9/11 (Melville House Publishing) and in 110 Stories: Writers Respond to
9/11 (NYU Press). He worked for 25 years as a special education teacher for the New York City public schools. Hal is
married to the writer Mary Minter Krotzer.
Listen to a recording of the 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 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 PM in Room 202: The Modernist Studies Group. For more information, please contact Damien Keane (dkeane@english.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, 3/25
- 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, 3/26
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, 3/27
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, 3/28
- 12:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A lunchtime roundtable discussion on MFA programs, hosted by Karen Rile, and featuring Randall
Couch, Macy Raymond, and Jeff Rush. Cosponsored
by Graduate Career Services.
Randall Couch teaches poetry and poetics at Arcadia University and practices experience design for Penn's Office of Information Systems and Computing. He received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in poetry in 2000 and graduated in 2003 from the Warren Wilson College MFA program for writers.
Macy Raymond received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and MFA in fiction writing from Boston University. She currently teaches creative writing at Boston University, and has published fiction and nonfiction in various places, including The Boston Globe, The Florida Review, Maxim, and Penthouse. She is currently finishing a book of short stories.
Jeff Rush has an MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and an MFA from the American Film Institute. He has been the Director of the MFA Program in the Film and Media Arts Program at Temple, the Chair of the Film and Media Department at Temple, and the Associate Dean of Temple's School of Communications. He is the co-author of Alternative Scriptwriting, and has taught screenwriting at all levels at Temple and at Penn State. His current area of research is on writing interactive narrative.
- 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.)
- 7:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Word.doc event featuring Dr. Helen Davies
Dr. Helen Conrad Davies was the first woman faculty member named to Penn's Microbiology Department (1965), where she has been a full professor since 1982. From 1991-1995 she was Penn Med School's Associate Dean for Student Affairs. Dr. Davies's primary research is in the field of bioenergetics, and also in the recruitment and retention of minorities and women in biomedical careers. She has received a Lifetime Mentor Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Focus Leadership Mentoring Program Award for Excellence in Mentoring Faculty, and the Alice Evans Award of the American Society for Microbiology. Dr. Davies has also received 22 major teaching awards for her commitment to innovative teaching of undergraduates and graduate students. She sits on the Executive Board of the Penn Women's Center, helped form Women for Equal Opportunity at Penn, and has served on the Executive Committee and the Committee on the Status of Women at Penn State University. She is a founding member of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and was its National President in 1998-2000. She received her Ph.D. in Physical Biochemistry from Penn, her B.A. in Chemistry from Brooklyn College, and her M.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Rochester. Among Dr. Davies' performances are:
Staphylococci (7:14)
Gonococcal Urethritis (4:00)
Chlamydia (2:23)
Leprosy (to the tune of Yesterday) (4:07)A free, downloadable recording of the entire program in mp3 format is available here.
Word.doc, Penn's student-run and conceived narrative medicine group, aims to gather students, graduate students, faculty, and anyone who is interested in writing and narrative medicine to discuss and experience the ways in which medicine, narrative, literature and art can inform and broaden one another. For more information or to join, contact Kerry Cooperman at kerryc@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)
- 2-5:00 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).
- 8:30-10:30 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.
Tuesday, 3/29
- 6:00 pm: Theorizing presents Anneleen Masschelein presenting "Negative Hands: Depicting Negativity in W.G. Sebald's
Austerlitz and André Breton's Nadja."
Anneleen Masschelein is a professor of general and comparative literature at the University of Leuven in the Netherlands who is visiting Penn.
NOTE: Svetlana Boym's talk has been cancelled.
Listen to a recording of the 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
- 4:30-6 PM in Room 202: Latitudes, an English reading group.
- 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).
- 9-10:30 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, 3/30
- 6:00 PM: A reading by poet and editor of Jacket magazine John
Tranter.
John Tranter spent his youth on a farm on the South-east coast of Australia, attended country schools, and took a
degree in 1970 after attending university sporadically. He has worked mainly in publishing, teaching and radio production, and
has travelled widely, making twenty reading tours of the United States, Britain and Europe. He has lived at various times in
Melbourne, Singapore, Brisbane, London, Florida and San Francisco, and now lives in Sydney where he is a company director.He has received several senior fellowships and other grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council, and a visiting residency at Cambridge University, England, in 2001 and 2002. Twenty collections of his verse have been published, including The Floor of Heaven, a book-length sequence of four verse narratives (HarperCollins 1992 and Arc, UK, 2001), Late Night Radio (Polygon, Edinburgh, 1998), Different Hands, a collection of seven experimental prose pieces (Folio/ Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998), Heart Print (Salt Publishing, UK, 2000), Studio Moon and Trio (both Salt Publications, UK, 2003). His work appears in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.
In 1992 he edited (with Philip Mead) the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, a 470-page anthology which has become the standard text in its field, published in Britain and the USA as the Bloodaxe Book of Modern Australian Poetry.
He is the editor of the free Internet magazine Jacket, at jacketmagazine.com.
A recording of this event is available on PennSound
- 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 209: Pennumbra -- a science fiction/fantasy writing group for Penn students. For more information email Dan Corren at corrend@sas.upenn.edu.
- 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.
Thursday, 3/31
- 6:00 PM: A reading by Sam Apple in celebration of his new
book, Schlepping Through the Alps, with songs in Yiddish by
Hans Breuer, cosponsored by Penn's Creative Writing Program.
Sam Apple is a graduate of the creative nonfiction MFA program at Columbia University. His first book, Schlepping Through the Alps, will be available in March from Ballantine. From 1998-2000, Apple edited New Voices, a national magazine for Jewish students. Apple's freelance nonfiction work has appeared in a variety of publications including The New York Times, The Forward, The Jerusalem Report, and The New York Sun. In 2004, Apple was a finalist for the Koret Award for Young Writers on Jewish Themes. In 2002, he won the Upload first place award for short fiction. Apple is currently a contributing book editor at Nerve.com and at work on his second book.
Hans Breuer is a wandering shepherd in Austria and also a Yiddish folksinger. Hans has a flock of over 600 sheep, and he has given Yiddish concerts across Europe.
Download a recording of this event 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 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 PM in Room 209: Quake; for more information email: jgh@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.