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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Tuesday, 4/1
- 6:00 PM: A reading by poet Tony Hoagland, cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Listen to a recording of this event. NOTE: Audio damaged.
Tony Hoagland was born in 1953 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His second book of poems, Donkey Gospel (Graywolf Press, 1998), received the Academy of American Poets' James Laughlin Award. His first book, Sweet Ruin (1992), was chosen by Donald Justice for the 1992 Brittingham Prize in Poetry and also received the Zacharis Award from Emerson College. His other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a fellowship to the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His poems and critical writings have appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, Agni, Threepenny Review, Gettysburg Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and the 1991 Pushcart Prize anthology. He currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. Tony Hoagland will be introduced by Gregory Djanikian
- 10:30 AM-12 PM in Room 202: English 197.001.301: Writing Seminar in Literature (Jared Richman, richman@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:00-7:00 PM in Room 209: Dissertation Writing Group - For more information, contact Lalitha Vasudevan at lmv@dolphin.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, 4/2
- 5:00 PM: A program and discussion with filmmaker Greg Matkosky.
Introduced by Jennifer Snead.
In 1990, Greg Matkosky moved into
directing, and in the ensuing six years he directed and photographed more than 100 television
commercials and music videos, as well as numerous film and television
projects across five continents. His credits include "Max Headroom,"
"The Steven Banks Show," "Unsolved Mysteries," and "Alive From Off-Center."
In 1996 Matkosky joined United Studios of America as creative director. He wrote and directed the art series "Studio Beyond," about unique artists around the world, and the USA documentaries "Stories From The Mines" (2001), an Emmy-nominated feature length PBS dramatized documentary about the epic turn-of-the-century human rights struggle of immigrant anthracite coal miners, "An Empty Place At The Table" (2002), narrated by Susan Sarandon, about an art exhibit memorializing women and children killed in acts of domestic violence, and "A Dying Breath" (2003), a PBS documentary about black lung disease.Greg Matkosky was introduced by Jennifer Snead.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything
Goes, an open mic
performance night. All are welcome!
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:30 PM in Room 209: Donne Reading Group - a new group dedicated to reading about and from John Donne. For more information or to join, please contact Adrienne Mishkin at amishkin@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, 4/3
- 4:30 PM: Poet Simon Ortiz will read from his work. Cosponsored with the Native American Studies
Project of the School of Arts and Sciences and the English Department.
Listen to a recording of this event. NOTE: Audio Damaged.
Simon Ortiz is a poet and short story writer who is a member of the Acoma Pueblo in mid-northwestern New Mexico. His poetry, deeply informed by Acoma oral tradition, moves from the personal to the political but is always informed by the central Native relationship of community to land, and land to community. As Ortiz writes: "The land. The people./They are in relations to each other./We are in a family with each other./The land has worked with us./And the people have worked with it." Ortiz, who grew up speaking the Keresan language of Acoma, remarks that "if there is anything that has sustained me through my years of writing it is that fact," the fact of an oral tradition that in his words is "the consciousness of the people." It is this consciousness that Ortiz expresses both in personal lyrics and in his historically informed, powerful political poetry, in books such as From Sand Creek and Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land, which form a crucial voice in the global struggles of indigenous peoples against colonialism: "Where from is it thundering./Thundering, the People working./Thundering, the People's voices./Thundering, the movement of the struggle./Thundering, the power of the land./Thundering, the coming Rain./It will come, it will come."
- 7:30 PM: Arts Cafe - THREE PHILADELPHIA POETS: Jessica Lowenthal, Tom Devaney, Gil Ott. A reading and discussion of their work. This program is co-hosted by SCUE (Student Committee on Undergraduate Education), Al Filreis's preceptorial mini-course on contemporary poetry, and the Kelly Writers House "Local Spotlight" series. For an article about this event, click here.
- 10:30 AM -12:00 PM in Room 202: English 001.301: Writing about Literature (Stephanie Harzewski, sharzews@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in the Dining Room: Philosophy Circle. For more information or to join, contact Paul Flynn
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Mods: Penn Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group (Matt Hart: matthart@english.upenn.edu, Damien Keane: dkeane@english.upenn.edu). Heather Love, currently on Fellowship at Harvard University, but soon to be joining Penn's English Department, presents "Forced Exile: Walter Pater's Queer Modernism".
- 5:00 - 7:00 PM in Room 209: Al Filreis leads a SCUE Preceptorial, "Three Contemporary Philadelphia Poets: Jessica Lowenthal, Tom Devaney, & Gil Ott."
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, 4/4
- 4:00 PM in the Huntsman Hall Auditorium (G06):THE FIRST ANNUAL ENTERTAINMENT SYMPOSIUM
Talking Film in association with The Kelly Writers House & The Wharton School presents: A panel about the entertainment industry featuring:
Joe Roth: President, Revolution Studios; former Chairman Disney Entertainment
Jon Avnet: Producer/Director ("Risky Business," "Fried Green Tomatoes," "Uprising")
Meryl Poster: Co-President of Production, Miramax Films
With an introduction by: Sharon Pinkenson Executive Director, Philadelphia Film Commission
- 5:30-7:30 PM: At the Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk: A reception in celebration of The First Annual Entertainment
Symposium, featuring Joe Roth, President, Revolution Studios, and former Chairman Disney Entertainment; Jon Avnet,
Producer/Director of "Risky Business," "Fried Green Tomatoes," and "Uprising"; Meryl Poster, Co-President of Production,
Miramax Films; and Sharon Pinkenson, Executive Director, Philadelphia Film Commission.
Cosponsored by Talking Film, the Kelly Writers House, and the Wharton School. RSVP required: please email wh@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9748.
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, 4/5
- 2:00-5:00 PM: Write-On! Celebration
- 5:00 PM: SOFT SKULL PRESS presents a readings from Off the Cuffs a new
anthologly featuring: JJ Camp, Marj Hahne, Vicki Hudspith, Daniel
Nester, and Jackie Sheeler.
Off the Cuffs is an anthology of poems written by and about the police published by Soft Skull Press. The editor, Jackie Sheeler, is an award-winning poet, a literary curator, the daughter of a New York City cop, and the former wife of a predicate felon. This mixed history makes it impossible for her to ignore the "other side of the story."
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 7:00 PM: The Hollywood Club & The Kelly Writers House
present the world premiere of The Assassination,
a short film by Penn Alum Richard Wong.
The Assassination is a 40-minute action-suspense thriller based on Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much.
A reception will be held in the Arts Cafe, to be followed by a screening of the film.
- 2:30-4:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative
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, 4/6
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, 4/7
- 2-5 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 with Professor Al Filreis
- 8:00 PM: The Experimental Poetry Show,
LIVE at the Writers House, a
one-hour word and music radio show that tapes
at the Kelly Writers House and airs on 88.5 WXPN. Guests include Mytili Jagannathan, Jenn McCreary, Joshua
Schuster, Ron Silliman, Andrew Zitcer, Frank Sherlock and musical guest Need New Body.
Mytili Jagannathan lives in Philadelphia and sends her love to the Asian Arts Initiative. Her poems have appeared in Combo, Interlope, XConnect, Salt, Mirage#4/Period[ical], Rattapallax, and Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics.
Jenn McCreary lives in Philadelphia where she co-edits ixnay press. She is the author of two chapbooks, 'errata stigmata' (Potes & Poets, 1999) and 'four o'clock pocket chiming' (Beautiful Swimmer Press 2000). Singing Horse published 'a doctrine of signatures' in the fall of 2002.
Joshua Schuster is currently a graduate student in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published a chapbook *Project Experience* with handwritten press, and also has essays printed in the journals Open Letter and Other Voices.
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.
Andrew Zitcer is an artist and community arts activist based in West Philadelphia. His interests include community arts, city planning, poetry, music and digital art practices. He works for the University of Pennsylvania as a coordinator of cultural events and advisor to student groups; he studies in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Andrew is a founder of the Foundation Community Arts Initiative, and recently curated "sense data" at the Painted Bride Arts Center.
Frank Sherlock co-curates the La Tazza Reading Series in Philadelphia. His poems have recently appeared in PUPPYFLOWERS, TOOL & can we have our ball back? Past chapbooks include 13(Ixnay 1998) and a collaboration with CA Conrad entitled, end/begin w/ chants. Their latest joint effort is an open-ended project that's materializing as THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED:PHILADELPHIA POEMS.
Musical guest: Need New Body - This Philadelphia group, risen from the ruins of N.Jersey psych/art-rock pranksters Bent Leg Fatima, is about as unpredictable as they come. One gets the feeling that the band's music - in a way continuing Bent Leg's deconstruction of the Psychadelphia sound into fractious shards of out-jazz, jive poetry and derelict cabaret - is as much for the band's amusement as that of their listeners.
Keyboardist Dale Jimenez and vocalist/dancer/multi-instrumentalist Jeff Bradbury, have been playing music together for years. Drummer/Percussionist Chris Powell, who played in Bent Leg with Jiminez and Bradbury, summoned longtime friend, bassist Chris Reggiani, and the four began playing. With the addition of Jamie Robinson on piano and Jim Reggiani as an additional percussionist, the sextet mix and match syncopated dance with fang baring monkey masks and gyspy marches through bewildered audiences.
Recorded in Chicago at Truckstop Studios by Blue Hawaii of Bablicon (whos members all play on it), Need New Body's Self-Titled (FT 41) documents the energy of the band's live escapades, albeit expanded through the studio format. An impromptu story of a thieving monkey is interspersed between oompa loompa funk, tape-spliced gibber babber, and some actual verse/chorus songs. Where other experimental outfits drown in the pretention of their recorded creations, Need New Body manage a certain purity and humour.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop (Robert Strauss, rsstrauss@comcast.net)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285: Writers House Fellows Seminar (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:15 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 5:15 to 7:15 PM in Room 202: The monthly meeting of the Penn & Pencil Club, the writing group for employees of the University and Health System. For more information contact: 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, 4/8
- 10:30 AM-12 PM in Room 202: English 197.001.301: Writing Seminar in Literature (Jared Richman, richman@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00-8:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eye, a poetry writing group (Pat Green patgreen@vet.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, 4/9
- 4:30 PM: The Poet & Painter Series presents Steve Clay, Editor of
Granary Books, in collaboration with the Graduate School of Fine Arts and the
Creative Writing Program.
Steve Clay is the editor and publisher of Granary Books, an organization which, for nearly twenty years, has brought together writers, artists and bookmakers to investigate verbal/visual relations in the time-honored spirit of independent publishing. Granary's mission-to produce, promote, document and theorize new works exploring the intersection of word, image and page-has earned the Press a reputation as one of the most unique and significant small publishers operating today. In 1998 Clay, together with Rodney Phillips, co-curated and co-authored the catalog for the New York Public Library's acclaimed exhibition "A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Advenures in Writing 1960-1980." In 2000 Clay and Jerome Rothenberg co-edited the massive anthology A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections About the Book & Writing. Steve Clay lives in New York City with his wife Julie Harrison and their two young daughters Ruby and Naomi.
6:00-8:00 PM - Room 202: Rita Barnard leads a SCUE Preceptorial co-hosted by the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education. For more information: rbarnard@dept.english.upenn.edu
- 7:00 PM: The Local Spotlight Series and "Poets Among US" present
Daniel Nester and Kate Northrop.
Daniel Nester's first book, God Save My Queen (Soft Skull Press, 2003) is a prose poem collection on his obsession with the rock band Queen. He is the editor of the online journal Unpleasant Event Schedule. His work has appeared in Open City, Nerve, LIT, Mississippi Review, Slope, Crazyhorse, Spinning Jenny, and others. He is a contributing editor for Painted Bride Quarterly, and is the head of the PBQ Online Archive. He is a native of Maple Shade, NJ, and lives in Brooklyn.
Nester will be introduced by Writers House Planning Committee Member Jill Ivey.Kate Northrop's poems have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The American Poetry Review, Raritan, and other journals. Her first full length collection, Back Through Interruption, won the Stan and Tom Wick poetry award and was published in October 2002 by Kent State University Press. She is a graduate of both the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Pennsylvania and teaches creative writing at West Chester University.
Kate Northrop was introduced by Dr. Kerry Sherin Wright.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:15 PM in Room 209: A meeting of the English Undergradate Board (UAB) - for more information, contact Adam Levin at adlevin@sas.upenn.edu.
- 8 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@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, 4/10
- 5:00 PM: A reading by poets Mark Ford and Lisa Jarnot,
co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1962. He went to school in London, and attended Oxford and Harvard Universities. He wrote his doctorate at Oxford University on the poetry of John Ashbery, and has published widely on 19th and 20th century America writing. From 1991 to 1993 he was Visiting Lecturer at Kyoto University in Japan. He currently teaches in the English Department at University College London, where he is a Senior Lecturer. He has published two collections of poetry, Landlocked (Chatto & Windus, 1992, rpt. 1998), and Soft Sift (Faber & Faber, 2001 / Harcourt Brace, 2003). He has also written a critical biography of the French poet, playwright and novelist Raymond Roussel, (Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams) which was published by Faber & Faber in 2000, and by Cornell University Press in 2001. He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and The London Review of Books.
Lisa Jarnot is the author of several chapbooks and two full-length collections-- Some Other Kind of Mission and Ring of Fire. She has taught poetry at the Naropa Institute, Long Island University, and The Poetry Project in New York City. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and is completing a biography of the poet Robert Duncan which will be published by University of California Press in 2004.
Lisa Jarnot was introduced by Dr. Kerry Sherin Wright.
- 10:30 AM -12:00 PM in Room 202: English 001.301: Writing about Literature (Stephanie Harzewski, sharzews@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in the Dining Room: Philosophy Circle. For more information or to join, contact Paul Flynn
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Mods: Penn Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group (Matt Hart: matthart@english.upenn.edu, Damien Keane: dkeane@english.upenn.edu). Gregg Flaxman, from Penn's Comparative Literature Program, presents "Screwball Economics: Love and Capital in Classical Hollywood Romantic Comedy."
- 4:30-6:30 PM in Room 209: Fiction Manuscript Writing Workshop. For more information contact Jeff Phillips: jkp@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, 4/11
- 2:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: Talk Poets - Mackey and Eliot, email jalowent@dept.english.upenn.edu 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.
Saturday, 4/12
- 2:30-4:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative
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, 4/13
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 WXPN. Guests
include
Mytili Jagannathan, Jenn McCreary,
Joshua Schuster, Ron
Silliman, Andrew Zitcer, Frank Sherlock and musical
guest Need New Body.
Mytili Jagannathan lives in Philadelphia and sends her love to the Asian Arts Initiative. Her poems have appeared in Combo, Interlope, XConnect, Salt, Mirage#4/Period[ical], Rattapallax, and Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics.
Jenn McCreary lives in Philadelphia where she co-edits ixnay press. She is the author of two chapbooks, 'errata stigmata' (Potes & Poets, 1999) and 'four o'clock pocket chiming' (Beautiful Swimmer Press 2000). Singing Horse published 'a doctrine of signatures' in the fall of 2002.
Joshua Schuster is currently a graduate student in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published a chapbook *Project Experience* with handwritten press, and also has essays printed in the journals Open Letter and Other Voices.
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.
Andrew Zitcer is an artist and community arts activist based in West Philadelphia. His interests include community arts, city planning, poetry, music and digital art practices. He works for the University of Pennsylvania as a coordinator of cultural events and advisor to student groups; he studies in the Department of City and Regional Planning. Andrew is a founder of the Foundation Community Arts Initiative, and recently curated "sense data" at the Painted Bride Arts Center.
Frank Sherlock co-curates the La Tazza Reading Series in Philadelphia. His poems have recently appeared in PUPPYFLOWERS, TOOL & can we have our ball back? Past chapbooks include 13(Ixnay 1998) and a collaboration with CA Conrad entitled, end/begin w/ chants. Their latest joint effort is an open-ended project that's materializing as THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED:PHILADELPHIA POEMS.
Musical guest: Need New Body - This Philadelphia group, risen from the ruins of N.Jersey psych/art-rock pranksters Bent Leg Fatima, is about as unpredictable as they come. One gets the feeling that the band's music - in a way continuing Bent Leg's deconstruction of the Psychadelphia sound into fractious shards of out-jazz, jive poetry and derelict cabaret - is as much for the band's amusement as that of their listeners.
Keyboardist Dale Jimenez and vocalist/dancer/multi-instrumentalist Jeff Bradbury, have been playing music together for years. Drummer/Percussionist Chris Powell, who played in Bent Leg with Jiminez and Bradbury, summoned longtime friend, bassist Chris Reggiani, and the four began playing. With the addition of Jamie Robinson on piano and Jim Reggiani as an additional percussionist, the sextet mix and match syncopated dance with fang baring monkey masks and gyspy marches through bewildered audiences.
Recorded in Chicago at Truckstop Studios by Blue Hawaii of Bablicon (whos members all play on it), Need New Body's Self-Titled (FT 41) documents the energy of the band's live escapades, albeit expanded through the studio format. An impromptu story of a thieving monkey is interspersed between oompa loompa funk, tape-spliced gibber babber, and some actual verse/chorus songs. Where other experimental outfits drown in the pretention of their recorded creations, Need New Body manage a certain purity and humour.
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, 4/14
- 2-5 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 with Professor Al Filreis
- 3:00 to 4:00 PM: Penn Previews:
An Open House at The Kelly Writers House. From Monday 4/14 to Friday 4/18 and Monday 4/21 newly accepted
Penn students are invited to visit the campus during Penn Previews.
- 5:00 PM: Planning Committee meeting and gathering. (For more information about the "hub," write to wh@writing.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop (Robert Strauss, rsstrauss@comcast.net)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285: Writers House Fellows Seminar (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:15 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 5:30 PM in Room 209: A songwriting workshop, S.O.S. (Sharing our Songs) meets every other week to discuss issues of genre, technique, and craft; and -- most importantly -- listen and learn from fellow songwriters. (Bring your instrument if you have one!) Students, faculty, staff, and community members -- from any genre -- all welcome! For more information, or to join, please contact Dan Fishback at fishback@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.
Tuesday, 4/15
- 10 AM-1 PM: Arts Cafe, living room, dining room: Al Filreis and
Writers House-affiliated writers lead third-graders from Friends'
Central School in a modern poetry workshop with the childrens' teacher,
Susan Clough. Among the writers who served as poetry tutors were:
Adrienne Mishkin, Randall Couch, Lauren Rile Smith, Jill Ivey, Jessica
Ginsberg, Jane Jolis, Jessica Lowenthal, Venise Battle, Jim Gardner, and
Lawrence Greenspun. For photos of this event, click on the picture at
right.
- 3:00 to 4:00 PM: Penn Previews:
An Open House at The Kelly Writers House. From Monday 4/14 to Friday 4/18 and Monday 4/21 newly accepted
Penn students are invited to visit the campus during Penn Previews.
- 4:30-6:00 PM: Poets for Peace;
a conversation between Sam Hamill & Anne Waldman.
Sam Hamill is a poet, essayist, translator, and editor has of late come under the public eye as activist and organizer. In mid-Januray, Hamill received an invitation from Laura Bush requesting his presence at the White House for a symposium on Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman; within a matter of days, the literary world knew of the poet who had not only refused the First Lady’s invitation but was now calling upon all poets to speak up for the conscious of our country. From this figurative and literal call-to-arms sprung Poets Against the War (www.poetsagainstthewar.org), a movement of overwhelming response protesting the war and its causes, a movement of which Hamill was the catalyst.
Hamill is the author of thirteen volumes of poetry including Dumb Luck (BOA Editions, 2002) and Destination Zero: Poems 1970-1995 (1995), which won a Pushcart Prize; three collections of essays; and two dozen volumes translated from ancient Greek, Latin, Estonian, Japanese, and Chinese, most recently, Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese (2000). He is also the translator of Lu Chi's Wen Fu: The Art of Writing, Narrow Road to the Interior & Other Writings of Basho (1999), and The Essential Chuang Tzu (1998). He is editor of The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth (2002, with Bradford Morrow), The Gift of Tongues: Twenty-five Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press (1996), The Erotic Spirit (1995), and Selected Poems of Thomas McGrath (1988). Hamill taught in prisons for fourteen years, in artist-in-residency programs for twenty years, and has worked extensively with battered woman and children. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Fund, the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, and two Washington Governor's Arts Awards. He is Founding Editor of Copper Canyon Press and director of the Port Townsend Writers' Conference.
This event is co-sponsored by The Kelly Writers House, The Saunders Council on Buddhist Studies, The Creative Writing Department, The Penn Humanities Forum, The Department of Religious Studies, and the Christian Association.
- 6:30 PM: A reading by Anne Waldman, cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Anne Waldman is the author of over 30 books and pamphlets of poetry including Fast Speaking Women (reissued 1996), Kill or Cure (1994), IOVIS, Books I and II (1993 and 1997), Marriage: A Sentence (2000) from Penguin Poets, and VOW TO POETRY: Essays, Interviews and Manifestoes (2001). She is also the editor of numerous anthologies including The Beat Book (1999) and co-editor of Disembodied Poetics: Annals of The Jack Kerouac School (1994), and The Angelhair Anthology (2001). She is an active member of the Naropa University Audio Archive Preservation and Access Project. Anne is the co founder of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and Artistic Director of the Naropa Summer Writing Program.
Recordings of this event that have been made available as part of the PENNsound project can be found here.
- 10:30 AM-12 PM in Room 202: English 197.001.301: Writing Seminar in Literature (Jared Richman, richman@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:00-7:00 PM in Room 209: Dissertation Writing Group - For more information, contact Lalitha Vasudevan at lmv@dolphin.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, 4/16
- 3:00 to 4:00 PM: Penn Previews:
An Open House at The Kelly Writers House. From Monday 4/14 to Friday 4/18 and Monday 4/21 newly accepted
Penn students are invited to visit the campus during Penn Previews.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything
Goes, an open mic
performance night. All are welcome!
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Study Group, email lamasc@sas.upenn.edu for info.
- 8:30 PM in Room 209: Donne Reading Group - a new group dedicated to reading about and from John Donne. For more information or to join, please contact Adrienne Mishkin at amishkin@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, 4/17
- 3:00 to 4:00 PM: Penn Previews:
An Open House at The Kelly Writers House. From Monday 4/14 to Friday 4/18 and Monday 4/21 newly accepted
Penn students are invited to visit the campus during Penn Previews.
- 5:00 PM: The French Institute for Culture and Technology
presents poet Franck Andre Jamme. [This event has been cancelled.]
Franck Andre Jamme is a poet based in Paris and Burgundy. He is the author of The Recitation of Forgetting, translated by John Ashbery and an independent curator who shows brut and tantric contemporary Indian art.
- 10:30 AM -12:00 PM in Room 202: English 001.301: Writing about Literature (Stephanie Harzewski, sharzews@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in the Dining Room: Philosophy Circle. For more information or to join, contact Paul Flynn
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Mods: Penn Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group (Matt Hart: matthart@english.upenn.edu, Damien Keane: dkeane@english.upenn.edu). Laura Heffernan, from Penn's English Department, presents.
- 4:30-6:30 PM in Room 209: Fiction Manuscript Writing Workshop. For more information contact Jeff Phillips: jkp@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, 4/18
- 3:00 to 4:00 PM: Penn Previews:
An Open House at The Kelly Writers House. From Monday 4/14 to Friday 4/18 and Monday 4/21 newly accepted
Penn students are invited to visit the campus during Penn Previews.
- 4:00 PM in Room 209: J.R.R. Tolkien Preceptorial with Professor Jennifer Snead
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, 4/19
- 2:30-4:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative
- 6 PM - 7:30 PM in Room 202: Seminar on Zakes Mda's "The Heart of Redness."
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, 4/20
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, 4/21
- 3:00 to 4:00 PM: Penn Previews:
An Open House at The Kelly Writers House. From Monday 4/14 to Friday 4/18 and Monday 4/21 newly accepted
Penn students are invited to visit the campus during Penn Previews.
- 6:30 PM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents a reading by
SUSAN SONTAG. RSVP required to whfellow@english.upenn.edu.
Susan Sontag, art critic, essayist and theorist, and novelist, is among the most influential writers and thinkers in the U.S. She first gained attention for her brilliant essay, "Notes on Camp" (1964), and the book in which it appeared with other provocative pieces, Against Interpretation. She is best known for her cultural analyses such as On Photography (1976) and Illness as Metaphor (1978), but she has written four novels, including The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (2000). For In America she won the National Book Award. Also available: more about Susan Sontag and about the Writers House Fellows program.
- 2-5 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 with Professor Al Filreis
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop (Robert Strauss, rsstrauss@comcast.net)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285: Writers House Fellows Seminar (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:15 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.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, 4/22
- 10 AM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents a
conversation with Susan Sontag, conducted by Al Filreis. RSVP required: write to
"whfellow@english.upenn.edu." This program will be webcast live; to
participate, write to "whfellow@english.upenn.edu."
For more about Susan Sontag and about the Writers House Fellows program,
please click
here.
- 6:00 to 7:30 PM: Art Gallery Reception. Curated by Peter Schwarz. The April Art Gallery show is the annual student
photography/pottery show.
- 10:30 AM-12 PM in Room 202: English 197.001.301: Writing Seminar in Literature (Jared Richman, richman@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (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.
Wednesday, 4/23
- 7:00 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.
Futurepoem books, a new Brooklyn-based publishing collective, is dedicated to presenting innovative works of contemporary poetry and prose. Futurepoem titles are chosen by a rotating panel of editors in response to an annual open call for manuscripts.
Garrett
Kalleberg is the author of Some Mantic Daemons (Futurepoem
2002),
Psychological Corporation (Spuyten Duyvil), and Limbic Odes (Heart
Hammer).
He is also the publisher of online literary journal The Transcendental
Friend, and audio CD imprint Immanent Audio. Garrett is a principal in
the
theatrical company, Brooklyn Drama Club, whose The Situation Room is
currently showing in New York.
Rachel
Levitsky is the author of Under the Sun
(Futurepoem 2003) and four previous chapbooks, Cartographies of Error (Leroy Chapbooks), 2[1x1]
Portraits (Baksun), Dearly (A + Bend Press), The Adventures of Yaya and
Grace (Potes and Poets). She has also written/co-written two plays and
is the veteran curator of the influential Belladonna reading, chapbooks
series.
Dan Machlin is the Founder and Artistic Director of Futurepoem. Dan is the author of two chapbooks of poetry This Side Facing You (Heart Hammer) and In Rem (@ Press) and a recent Audio CD collaboration with Serena Jost, Above Islands. His work has appeared in Talisman, Crayon, Fell Swoop and The Portable Boog Reader. He is a graduate of The City College of New York M.A. Writing Program.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 8 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Hollywood Club Board Meeting - for more information, contact Wesley Barrow at barrow@seas.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, 4/24
- 5 PM: The Alumni Writers Series present Lew Schneider,
comedy
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
writer for Everybody Loves Raymond and other series. This program
is an informal workshop on comedy writing.
Lew Schneider began his professional career in Chicago following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. While taking classes in improvisational technique at the Second City Players' Workshop, he started performing as a stand-up comedian. He toured extensively for five years, appearing in clubs and colleges across the country prior to relocating to New York in 1988. In the fall of 1989, Lew landed his first regular television job as the host of the Nickledodeon game show, "Make the Grade." The next year he was cast as the lead in a CBS Summer series entitled "Wish You Were Here." Following that short run he was cast as a series regular on the Fox Network comedy, "Down The Shore". During breaks in production he continued to perform live and starred in his own HBO half-hour comedy special. He began writing for television in 1993. His credits include: the ill-fated "George Wendt Show," "The John Larroquette Show" and "The Naked Truth." He currently serves as a writer and executive producer on the CBS comedy, "Everybody Loves Raymond." Lew, his wife, Liz Abbe, and their three sons, make their home in Pacific Palisades, California.
- 10:30 AM -12:00 PM in Room 202: English 001.301: Writing about Literature (Stephanie Harzewski, sharzews@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in the Dining Room: Philosophy Circle. For more information or to join, contact Paul Flynn
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Mods: Penn Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group (Matt Hart: matthart@english.upenn.edu, Damien Keane: dkeane@english.upenn.edu). Laura Heffernan, from Penn's English Department, presents.
- 4:30-6:30 PM in Room 209: Fiction Manuscript Writing Workshop. For more information contact Jeff Phillips: jkp@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, 4/25
- spring semester classes end
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, 4/26
- 1:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eye, a poetry writing group (Pat Green
patgreen@vet.upenn.edu)
- 2:30-4:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative
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, 4/27
- 6:30-8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
A READ OFF by the students of Paul Hendrickson's Advanced
Non-Fiction and Documentary Writing workshops.
Descriptions for these courses may be found here: English
145; Engish
155.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
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, 4/28
- Reading Days
- 6:00 PM: Singer/Songwriter Dayna Kurtz in the Arts Cafe cosponsored by
88.5 WXPN-FM.
Dayna Kurtz, self-proclaimed "road dog," spent the better part of the last 10 years running old cars into the ground while touring solo and startling audiences into rapt silence at such venues as the Ark, Eddie's Attic, and the Iron Horse. She's toured as a support act with artists as varied as Chris Whitley, Richie Havens, Olu Dara, Richard Buckner, and Kelly Joe Phelps, as well as opened for countless others, including B.B. King, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Along the way, Dayna has been a featured artist on the nationally syndicated show, "World Cafe," was the subject of a feature story on NPR's "Morning Edition," was voted the female songwriter of the year by the National Academy of Songwriters in 1997, and was picked up by her current publishing company, Bug Music. When not on the highway, she lives in a silk mill in North Jersey, a sad old factory town called Paterson where she continues to draw inspiration.
Dayna Kurtz's first studio record is entitled "Postcards from Downtown." She will be touring with Richie Havens in support of her CD throughout 2002, as well as booking solo shows in the U.S. and Europe.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 10:30-12:30 in Room 202: Al Filreis hosts a meeting with faculty who will be teaching Writing Seminars in the fall of 2003
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: Reserved by Professor Max Apple.
- 5:30 PM in Room 209: A songwriting workshop, S.O.S. (Sharing our Songs) meets every other week to discuss issues of genre, technique, and craft; and -- most importantly -- listen and learn from fellow songwriters. (Bring your instrument if you have one!) Students, faculty, staff, and community members -- from any genre -- all welcome! For more information, or to join, please contact Dan Fishback at fishback@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.
Tuesday, 4/29
- Reading Days
- 6:00 PM: A celebratory reading by winners of the annual Creative Writing
Contest, hosted by Professor Greg Djanikian and the Creative Writing
Program.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: Reserved by Professor Max Apple.
- 5:00-7:00 PM in Room 209: Dissertation Writing Group - For more information, contact Lalitha Vasudevan at lmv@dolphin.upenn.edu.
- 5:30 PM in Room 202: English 88 Study Group.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 4/30
- Reading Days
- 6:00 PM: A reading from the students of Greg Djanikian's Advanced
Poetry Workshop.
- 8:00 PM: Walpurgisnacht: the Devil's Pact.
"Join the students of the Devil's Pact course and other Penn storytellers for folktales and original pieces that drive away the dark. Walpurgisnacht is the German festival when witches and demons are abroad, so join us to tell stories before all hell breaks loose."
For more information, contact Samuel Willcocks.
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.