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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Thursday, 9/1
- New Student Orientation
- CPCW Teacher Training in the Arts Cafe
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, 9/2
- New Student Orientation
- CPCW Teacher Training in the Arts Cafe
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, 9/3
- The Kelly Writers House closed on this day.
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, 9/4
- The Kelly Writers House closed on this day.
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, 9/5
- New Student Orientation -- Welcome Class of 2009!
5:30-7:00 PM: Open House for New Student Orientation, featuring music by Liam and Me as well as readings by local poets Kathy Lou Schultz, Kristina Baumli, Jamie-Lee Josselyn, Nick Monfort, Erin Gautsche, and Jennifer Snead.
West Philadelphia four piece Liam and Me mixes "immaculate post punk with a synth factor for a vintage 80s vibe." With a catalogue of catchy original music with undeniable hit potential, Liam and Me is winning over audiences all over the northeast and attracting label attention. Don't miss their energetic live performance and unique style of indie-rock.
Stop by the Writers House for coffee, snacks, and conversation with members of the Writers House community. Learn about all of the writing-related opportunities the House offers Penn students, and then stick around for:
7:00 - 9:00 PM: The Annual NSO Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
A special version of our regular open-mic night series, for new and returning students. Bring work of your own to share, or just come to listen. Musicians, poets, writers and performers of all kinds are welcome!
For more information about NSO, and a complete schedule of NSO events, see the website at www.upenn.edu/nso.
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, 9/6
- New Student Orientation
- 4-6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Proseminar on Philadelphia Poetry with Deborah Burnham. For more information contact dburnham@english.upenn.edu.
- 6:30-8 PM in Room 202: Write On! recruiting. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 9/7
- First day of classes
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 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.
Thursday, 9/8
- 11:00 AM in the Dining Room: Penn-Edison School tutoring recruitment; for more information, please contact Jennifer Saltzstein (jaltzst@sas.upenn.edu).
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 6:30-8 PM in Room 202: Write On! recruiting. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 9/9
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@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, 9/10
- The Kelly Writers House closed on this day.
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, 9/11
- The Kelly Writers House closed on this day.
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, 9/12
- 5:00 PM: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Meeting and Gathering. (For more information about the "Hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 with Robert Strauss (straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.303 with Marion Kant (mkant2@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:30-8 PM in Room 202: Write On! training. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@sas.upenn.edu).
- 7:30-10:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Auditions for the Excelano Project; for more information, please contact Caroline Rothstein (cer@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, 9/13
- 12-2:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: John Zeller meets with KWH students, faculty and staff
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Bruce Purchase performs Johnson Is Leaving, a monodrama by John Wain
Bruce Purchase was born in Thames, New Zealand. In 1960 he was awarded a New Zealand Government Bursary to study in
London. He studied at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he graduated with Honours. He was a founder-actor member of
the National Theatre of Great Britain under the direction of Laurence Olivier and has worked worldwide in film, television and
theatre. He is also an author of books on film-making and musical theatre - and, as an artist, has had exhibitions in London,
Oxford, Tokyo, New York, Denver and Los Angeles.Johnson Is Leaving opened in 2003 at The Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon and has been critically praised in the UK and in New Zealand, where it toured in 2004. It was written especially for Bruce by poet, novelist and academic John Wain, whose biography of the 18th century writer Dr. Samuel Johnson has been generally acclaimed as the great biography of Johnson in the twentieth century. This fascinating play calls Sam Johnson back to life, with all his wit and wisdom, as he remembers his long life at the end of the 18th century.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.302 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group; for more information email Pat Green at(patgreen@vet.upenn.edu)
- 7:30-10:30 PM in Room 202: Auditions for the Excelano Project; for more information, please contact Caroline Rothstein (cer@sas.upenn.edu).
- 7:30 PM in the Garden: the Fish Writing Group. For more information, please contact 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, 9/14
- 5:30-7:00 PM: Art Gallery Opening Reception & Folklore Reading , cosponsored by the Department of History of Art.
"Dancing on Embers: Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Bulgarian Art" at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, presents the first exhibition of contemporary Bulgarian art to be shown in an American museum through a collaborative cultural endeavor between the United States and Bulgaria. "Dancing on Embers" focuses on the presence of mythological, religious, and folkloric references in contemporary Bulgarian art, as engaged through a variety of media, from painting to textiles to small sculptures. Each artist explores their own unique style, all of which were developed during a period of totalitarian control. Their shared artistic heritage provides insight into the artistic climate of post-Soviet Bulgaria, raising questions about the role of the artist, the critic, and the art market in this newly democratic state. "Dancing on Embers" recently debuted in America at the Dana Gallery, Philips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (April 20, 2005 - June 30, 2005). The Kelly Writers House is honored to host the exhibition's second stop on a developing national tour. Curated by Liliana Milkova (University of Pennsylvania) and Kathryn Waggener (Franklin & Marshall College), with installation and advisory assistance provided by Peter Schwarz, Kelly Writers House Art Curator. Click here for the Kelly Writers House art gallery website to view current and past exhibitions.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:30-8 PM in Room 202: Write On! training. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@sas.upenn.edu).
- 5:20-7:20 in Room 209: Penn & Pencil Club, a writing workshop for Penn and Health Systems staff; for more information, contact John Shea (john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu).
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes Meeting; for more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@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.
Thursday, 9/15
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading with Anne Applebaum, cosponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
The Cold War Project presents:
Anne Applebaum
A Reading & Conversation on the Soviet GulagsReception to meet the author will follow the event.
Anne Applebaum, current Washington Post columnist and 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner for Non-Fiction, will present from her 2004
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction-winning book, Gulag: A History.Applebaum's most recent book, Gulag: A History, was published in April, 2003 in America and Britain. Gulag: A History narrates the history of the Soviet concentration camps system and describes daily life in the camps. It makes extensive use of recently opened Russian archives, as well as memoirs and interviews. Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-Fiction, as well as Britain's Duff-Cooper Prize. The book was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the LA Times Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize. It has appeared or is due to appear in more than two dozen translations, including all major East and West European languages.
In addition to Gulag: A History, Applebaum's writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, the Boston Globe, The Independent, The Guardian, Commentaire, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Newsweek, the New Criterion, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, The National Review, The New Statesman, The Times Literary Supplement and the Literary Review, among others. She has appeared as a guest and as a presenter on many radio and television programs, among them BBC's Newsnight, the Today Progamme, the Week in Westminster, as well as CNN, MSNBC, CBS and Sky News. Recently, Applebaum wrote the introduction for the forthcoming From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States, edited by Peter Hollander (ISI Books).
This event is co-sponsored by the Kelly Writers House & Slavic Studies department, University of Pennsylvania.
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The Cold War Project at the University of Pennsylvania is a multi-venue, inter-departmental project that will run throughout the Fall 2005-Spring 2006 academic year. This series of events will engage critical, cultural, and political aspects of the 1946-1991 period. The Cold War Project will encompass notable guest speakers, lectures, panels, visual art exhibitions, theatre staged readings, and a year-long film series.
For information, please contact Peter Schwarz, CWP Co-Coordinator: hschwarz@sas.upenn.edu
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: In Words meeting. For more information, please contact Grant Potts (gpotts@ccat.sas.upenn.edu).
- 7:30-10:30 PM in Room 202: Auditions for the Excelano Project; for more information, please contact Caroline Rothstein (cer@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, 9/16
- 12:00 PM in the Dining Room: Al Filreis hosts lunch for Penn faculty and staff from the office of Alumni Relations
- 3-5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@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, 9/17
- 1-3:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Penn Alexander School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Penn Alexander School to the Writers House on Saturday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 9/18
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, 9/19
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 with Robert Strauss (straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.303 with Marion Kant (mkant2@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Proposals Hublet meeting. For more information, contact Erin Gautsche at (gautsche@writing.upenn.edu).
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (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, 9/20
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.302 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 5-7:00 PM in Room 209: Talk Poets meeting; for more information, please contact Jessica Lowenthal (jalowent@english.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: Punchbowl: Introductory meeting for student-run humor mag. For more information, contact Will Smythe at wsmythe@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.
Wednesday, 9/21
- 12-1:00 PM in the Dining Room: All-CPCW Staff Lunch Sessions
- 8 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, Anything Goes!
Bring your own work to share at this bi-weekly open-mic night, or just come to listen!
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 202: Jabberwocky meeting; for more information, please contact Tracey Byford (tbyford@sas.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: Punchbowl: Introductory meeting for student-run humor mag. For more information, contact Will Smythe at wsmythe@seas.upenn.edu.
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: Pennumbra, a science fiction/fantasy writing group for Penn students. For more information, please contact Lucy Ho (ratofsumatra@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, 9/22
- 5:30 - 7:30 PM: Scrabble Night at the Writers House! Join members of the Writers House Planning Committee for a friendly
(non-cutthroat) evening of everyone's favorite word game. Bring a friend!
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.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.
Friday, 9/23
- 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: HOLD for a special event with CPCW
- 3-5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@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, 9/24
- 1-3:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Penn Alexander School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Penn Alexander School to the Writers House on Saturday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@sas.upenn.edu).
- 4-7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading by winners of the William Carlos Williams Symposium Student Poetry Contest
As part of the Rutherford, NJ Library's William Carlos Williams Symposium, sponsored by the Friends of the Rutherford Library, high school students from New Jersey's Bergen, Passaic, Morris, and Essex counties will have the opportunity to participate in a poetry contest to be judged by local poets, professors, and readers from the Horace Mann School, where Williams attended and wrote his first poem. Join the contest winners, Symposium participants, and members of the Writers House community for a special reading and reception in celebration of Williams and his work.
The William Carlos Williams Symposium is a day-long celebration of Williams's birthday, on September 17, 2005, from 9 AM to 10 PM, in his hometown of Rutherford, NJ. This event marks the first major celebration of Williams in his hometown in more than 20 years. It will be held at the Williams Center for the Performing Arts, at One Will iams Plaza, and the Rutherford Library, two blocks away at 150 Park Avenue. The program includes an evening performance of Williams's play, "A Dream of Love" (hosted by Judith Malina), readings by Lewis Warsh and other poets, panel discussions, slide presentations, films, photo exhibits, and more. For a full listing of events, see the Symposium website.
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, 9/25
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Movie showing for Adrienne Daub's COML 0090-301 course.
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, 9/26
- 5-8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Reserved for a special meeting.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 with Robert Strauss (straussr@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.303 with Marion Kant (mkant2@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@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, 9/27
- The Writers House hosts three panels for the 2005 International Association of Word and Image Conference, "Elective
Affinities." The panels, happening at 9:00 AM, 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM, will feature Johanna Drucker, Steve Clay,
Kari Kraus, Al Filreis, Sue Sallinger, Kenny Goldsmith, Matt Kirchenbaum, Mark
Liberman, Charles Bernstein and Chris Mustazza. For more information and
a full conference program, please visit the official website.
9:00-10:30 --- VVV-on-line: Verbal-Visual-Vocal Poetries in Hyperspace I
Johanna Drucker -- "Graphical Affectivity"
Steve Clay -- "Resistance to the Web: The Art of the Book in the Age of Digtial Reproduction"
Kari Kraus -- Vectors on a Grecian Urn2:00-3:30 --- VVV-on-line: Verbal-Visual-Vocal Poetries in Hyperspace II
Al Filreis -- "'It is 3:17 AM'": Digital Poetics and the End of the Classroom as We Know It"
Sue Sallinger -- Taste My Mouth in Your Ear: Taking the Kerouac Collection Online, Year One
Kenny Goldsmith -- "If It Doesn't Exist on the Web It Doesn't Exist "4:00-5:30 --- VVV-on-line: Verbal-Visual-Vocal Poetries in Hyperspace III
Matt Kirchenbaum -- "Introducing nora: Poetry, Pattern Recognition, and Provocation," more information can be found at the nora project
Mark Liberman -- "Text-Voice Alignment"
Charles Bernstein & Chris Mustazza -- "PennSound: Retrospect and Prospect"
Recordings from this event can be found here, and here
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.302 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group; for more information email Pat Green at (patgreen@vet.upenn.edu).
- 6:00 PM in Room 202: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (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.
Wednesday, 9/28
- 4-4:50 PM in the Arts Cafe: A meeting of Paul Hendrickson's English 156 class
- 5:30 PM: A reading and conversation with Linda Wolfe.
Linda Wolfe is a journalist, essayist, critic and fiction writer. She has published nine highly regarded books,
written numerous cover stories for New York Magazine, and produced a wealth of feature articles and personal essays for
that magazine and many others, including the New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Mirabella, Vanity
Fair, and Ladies' Home Journal. Her book reviews have appeared, among other places, in the New York Times
Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Boston Globe.
Much of her recent work has been about crime and the legal system, but she has also written on subjects as diverse as
sexuality, behavior, medicine, dining, and the literary business. A Contributing Editor of New York Magazine for more
than twenty-five years, she is on the governing board of the National Book Critics Circle and had a long and distinguished
career in the editorial field. Her books include: The Murder of Dr. Chapman: The Legendary Trials of Lucretia Chapman
and Her Lover (HarperCollins, 2004), Love Me to Death: A Journalist's Memoir of the Hunt for her Friend's Killer
(Simon & Schuster, 1998), and Wasted: The Preppie Murder (Simon & Schuster, 1989), which was nominated for an Edgar
Allen Poe Award and named by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year.
Download an mp3 of this event here.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001 with Charles Bernstein(charles.bernstein@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 5-6:30 PM in Room 202: The American Literature seminar. For more information, please contact Hannah Wells (hwells@english.upenn.edu).
- 6:30-8 PM in Room 202: Lacan Study Group. For more information, contact Patricia Gherovici at (pgherovici@aol.com).
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes Meeting. For more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@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.
Thursday, 9/29
- 5:00 PM: A reading by Harvey Shapiro and Norman Finkelstein, introduced by Al Filreis
Harvey Shapiro, one of the most admired American poets, published his first poetry book in 1953. Since then, he has published numerous other books of poems including National Cold Storage (1988), The Light Holds (1984), This World (1971) and How Charlie Shavers Died (2001). In 1997 Wesleyan University Press and Carcanet Press in England co-published his Selected Poems, and this coming January, Wesleyan will produce another volume entitled The Sights Along the Harbor: New and Collected Poems. "For me," writes Cynthia Ozick, "Shapiro is the American urban poet; not only because he is a master of the sketch--the Brooklyn backyard in a line, the grain of a New York day in a phrase--but because he is the voice of my own muteness, the voice of the inward whirlpool. He writes on the lining of our lungs, breathing for us."
Norman Finkelstein is a poet and literary critic. His books of poetry include Restless Messengers (Georgia, 1992) and the three-volume serial poem Track: Track (Spuyten Duyvil, 1999), Columns (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002), and Powers (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005). As a critic, he has written extensively about modern and postmodern poetry, and about Jewish American literature. His most recent books of criticism are Not One of Them In Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity (SUNY, 2002) and Lyrical Interference: Essays on Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil, 2004). He is currently writing a book on religious revisionism in the contemporary long poem. Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1954. He received his B.A. from Binghamton University and his Ph.D. from Emory University. He is a Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
This reading was recorded and is available through PENNsound.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 057.001 with Max Cavitch (cavitch@english.upenn.edu)
- 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Valerie Ross (critwrit@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Modernist Reading Group; for more information, contact Benjy Kahan (kahan@sas.upenn.edu).
- 6:00 PM in Room 202: Pandora's Box introductory meeting. For more information contact Carrie Alexander (carriela@sas.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: In Words writing group; for more information, contact Grant Potts (gpotts@cfcfat.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, 9/30
- 12:00 in the Arts Cafe and Dining Room: Lunch with Norman Finkelstein and Harvey Shapiro
Join poets Norman Finkelstein and Harvey Shapiro for an informal lunchtime discussion of objectivist poets George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff, and Louis Zukofsky. Harvey Shapiro knew these great poets personally and will share his knowledge of them and sense of their place in the history of modern American poetics as "the Jewish objectivists." Lunch provided. Limited seated. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu or call 215.573.WRIT.
- 3-5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11-12:00 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.302 with Keally McBride (keally@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.