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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Thursday, 5/1
- 10:00 AM in the Dining Room: Breakfast with Max Apple's fiction class.
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Rhymes and Misdemeanors V, featuring readers from Suppose an Eyes and Penn & Pencil Club, including Patricia Green, Don Johnson, Helen Sewell Johnson, Carole Bernstein, Jax Peters Lowell, Jody Kolodzey, George McDermott, Valerie Loveland, Laura Spagnoli, Steve Shelly, Katherine T. Adams, Tamara Oakman, Diane Guarnieri, Sharon Black, Beverly Meyers, Karen Murphy, Christine Otis, John Shea, Wendy Washburn, and Linda White. Join us for the fifth annual reading by members of two of our longest running and most successful writing groups: Suppose an Eyes, a poetry writing and discussion group, and the Penn & Pencil Club, a writing workshop for Penn employees. A reception will follow the reading. For more information, contact Pat Green (patricia78@aol.com).
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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, 5/2
- 10:00 AM in the Garden: Hey Day Brunch
2:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Creative Writing Contest Winners Reading and Release Party for Penn Review. A reception for all will follow the reading.
For deadlines and more information about CPCW contests, prizes and fellowships, please see: http://writing.upenn.edu/awards/.
Penn Review is a mainstream magazine devoted to literary and visual arts. For information about Penn Review, visit: http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~pennrev/penn_review_home.html.
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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, 5/3
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Brave Star End-of-Year reading and celebration
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Sunday, 5/4
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Monday, 5/5
- 4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A
Reading for Greg Djanikian's Poetry Class
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- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34h Street Poets 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, 5/6
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading by students of Lorene Cary's English 145 and 135 classes.
Listen to a recording of the English 135 reading.
Listen to a recording of the English 145 reading.
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, 5/7
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Thursday, 5/8
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: CPCW Portfolio sessions
- 4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: PoemTalk taping.
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, 5/9
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: CPCW Portfolio sessions
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, 5/10
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Sunday, 5/11
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Monday, 5/12
- 10:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: "Modern Poetry Symposium" presented by Al Filreis for students visiting Philadlphia from The KIPP Academy.
Former Penn student Elliott Witney has taught with the KIPP Academy, a special charter school for urban children, for several years. Witney was among the founding members of the Writers House "hub" or Planning Committee in 1995-96. Each year Witney and his colleagues visit Penn and are taught by several members of the faculty, and there is an annual visit to the Writers House. Members of the Writers House community are welcome to join this symposium. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu . For more information about the KIPP Academy, please see http://www.kipp.org .
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, 5/13
- 9:00AM - 4:00PM in the Arts Cafe: CPCW Tutor Training
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, 5/14
- 9:00AM - 4:00PM in the Arts Cafe: CPCW Tutor Training
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Thursday, 5/15
- 9:00AM - 4:00PM in the Arts Cafe: CPCW Tutor Training
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Friday, 5/16
- 9:00AM - 4:00PM in the Arts Cafe: CPCW Tutor Training
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, 5/17
- 4 PM in the Arts Cafe: A poetry reading featuring former students of Penn Professor Dan Hoffman.
For many years the Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Penn before his retirement, Dan Hoffman taught literature courses in the English Department as well as one poetry workshop each year for students of exceptional ability. That one workshop, it turns out, was the foundation upon which Penn's Creative Writing Program was built. The success of Dan's work as a teacher is also evident in the many students who have developed fine careers as poets and teachers themselves.
Join us for readings by four of Dan's former students: Christina Davis (C'93, G'93), Michael Jennings (C'71), Jay Rogoff (C '75), and J. Allyn Rosser (G'88, GR'91), followed by Dan himself, who'll read selections from the work his late wife, the poet Elizabeth McFarland Hoffman. After the readings, we'll convene in the dining room for good food and conversation.
RSVP to whalumniweekend@writing.upenn.edu.
Christina Davis (C'93, G'93) is the author of Forth A Raven (Alice James Books, 2006), which was a finalist for the Beatrice Hawley Award and the 2006 Foreword Book Award for Poetry. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.Phil. in Modernist Literature from the University of Oxford. Her poems and articles have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Jubilat, LIT, The May Anthologies (selected by Ted Hughes), New England Review, New Republic, Paris Review and Poets & Writers. The recipient of residencies to Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony and several Pushcart Prize nominations, she currently lives in Greenwich Village.
Michael Jennings (C'71) is the author of six books of poems, including the newly released Silky Thefts and Once. He was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, grew up in east Texas and Iran (where he broke and trained native race horses) before attending the University of Pennsylvania (as a squash/tennis player turned poet by a motorcycle accident) and the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University. He has won many grants and awards for his poems, is an internationally recognized breeder and judge of Siberian Huskies, and the author of three books on the breed.
Jay Rogoff (C'75) studied writing and literature with Daniel Hoffman at Penn, as well as with Joel Conarroe, Peter Conn, M. L. Rosenthal, and Philip Roth. His new book of poetry, The Long Fault, appeared this spring from Louisiana State University Press. Earlier books include The Cutoff (1995), set in the world of minor league baseball, and How We Came to Stand on That Shore (2003). Rogoff's poetry and criticism appear in many magazines, including The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Southern Review. He lives with his wife, art historian Penny Jolly (GR '76), in Saratoga Springs, New York, where he teaches at Skidmore College and serves as the city newspaper's ballet critic.
J. Allyn Rosser (G'88, GR'91) received her Ph.D. in literature at Penn in 1991. Foiled Again, her third book,
won the seventh New Criterion Poetry Prize and was published by Ivan R. Dee in October 2007. Rosser's first collection of poems, Bright Moves, was selected by Charles Simic to win the Morse Poetry Prize. Her second, Misery Prefigured, was selected by Rodney Jones to win the Crab Orchard Award and was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2001. She has received numerous other awards for her work, among them the Peter I.B. Lavan Award for Younger Poets from the Academy of American Poets, a Pushcart Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize and the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize (both from Poetry), and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, Bread Loaf, the Ohio Arts Council and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Rosser has taught at the University of Houston, the University of Michigan, and Vermont College, and currently teaches at Ohio University. Her poems have been featured recently in Best American Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Hudson Review, Slate.com, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, and in several anthologies.
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Sunday, 5/18
- 10:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: Senior Capstone
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Monday, 5/19
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Tuesday, 5/20
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Wednesday, 5/21
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Thursday, 5/22
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Friday, 5/23
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Saturday, 5/24
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Sunday, 5/25
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Monday, 5/26
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Tuesday, 5/27
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Wednesday, 5/28
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Thursday, 5/29
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Friday, 5/30
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Saturday, 5/31
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