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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Friday, 10/1
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@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, 10/2
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Write-On with students from The Penn-Alexander School
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, 10/3
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, 10/4
- 5:00 PM: Fighting Words: The Practical Art of Political Speech, Op-Eds, & Advocacy. Discussion and workshop with David
Stone. Cosponsored with the Fox Leadership Program.
David Stone is the founder of Stone Media and an experienced writer, producer and director who has worked in communications law and public affairs television, campaigns and elections, as well as state and federal government. He is serving as Strategist and Communications advisor for Congressman Joe Hoeffel's US Senate campaign as well as other PA Democrats. For full bio click Here. Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a place for this event.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 11 AM -12 PM in Arts Cafe: Technology check-up with CPCW tech crew
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, 10/5
- DIRECTOR PROGRAM HOLD -- (date not open for programs).
- 11:15 AM: Fire Drill
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM-8:00 PM in Room 202: Write On! New Coaches' Recruiting Meeting. For more information email Rachel Kreinces at kreinces@sas.upenn.edu.
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Preview meeting. For more information, contact Lindsay Damast
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, 10/6
- 11:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: Planning, recruiting, and discussion meeting for the upcoming performance of Layla
Dowlatshahi's The Waiting Room
Iranian American playwright and member of the NIBRAS theatre troupe Layla Dowlatshahi will appear at Penn on Friday, November 5, at the Annenberg Center's Studio Theatre, for a discussion following the staged reading of her new play, The Waiting Room, sponsored by Penn's Theatre Arts Program and the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. Actors and backstage workers are needed for this event! Please join us at the Writers House for an informational meeting and discussion of the November 5 event. For more information contact Dr. Mera Moore at tmlaffler@sas.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents Joan Retallack.
Joan Retallack is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College. Her critically acclaimed
book of essays The Poethical Wager (2004) is currently available from University of California Press. She is also author of
How to Do Things with Words (1998), Musicage: Cage Muses on Words Art Music (1996), Afterrimages (1995), and Errata 5uite
(1993), among other books.
The Reinvention of Truth / Poetics and Politics at the Vanishing Point by Joan Retallack: Suppose that truth in poetics is not most usefully viewed as an issue of factual claims or moral didactics but as a discipline of commitment to somewhat unruly poethical values: that is, to developing geometries of attention whose import is no less ethical and political than ontological or epistemological. In this context, politically suspect or offensive poetic works such as Pound's Pisan Cantos and certain of Gertrude Stein's texts in the forties demand re-reading precisely in terms of their ability to disturb our capacity for political and aesthetic judgment and resist immediate critical assimilation. Given the similar state of crisis shared by these modernists' times and our own, can such a poethical conceptual framework throw some light on the nature of the poetics/politics agon and the role of the avant-garde in times of social emergency?Download a recording of this event here.
- 8:00 PM: 215 Festival at the Kelly Writers House
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
Join the Kelly Writers House for the kick-off event of the 215 Festival the festival to merge literature and rock. The Philly Sound at the 215 with musical guest Monica McIntyre brings together five Philly Sound poets who comprise a vital strata of Philadelphia's writing world with one of the city's hottest musicians: Monica McIntyre. The 215 Fest at the Writers House will also provide and spotlight information about the most controversial section of The US PATRIOT ACT: Section 215. An article on thePatriot Act may be found at http://www.pw.org/mag/0409/murray.htm
Poets from the Philly Sound at the 215 festival features Linh Dinh, Ish Klein, Frank Sherlock, hassen, and Kevin Varrone. With musical guest Monica McIntyre. Remarks on The PATRIOT ACT by Emily Missner, Drexel Univeristy Librarian. Evening hosted by Tom Devaney and CA Conrad.
Section 215 of the US Patriot Act gives the FBI unprecedented access to the communications, research, and reading habits of the public. It allows the government to get "any tangible thing" via a subpoena -- library, academic, financial, travel, and medical records; bookstore transaction receipts; Internet use logs; etc.
Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press 2004), and two books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish 2003) and American Tatts (Chax 2004). His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000 (Scribner 2000), Best American Poetry 2004 (Scribner 2004) and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present (Scribner 2003), among other places. He is also the editor of the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven Stories Press 1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (Tinfish 2001).
Ish Klein is from Far Rockaway and was educated at Columbia University and the Iowa Writer's workshop. Published in Bridge magazine and Gare du Nord and Explosive Magazine and with the Philly sound poets on the internet. Presently residing in Philadelphia and making comic and experimental movies.
Frank Sherlock is the curator of the La Tazza Reading Series in Philadelphia. He is currently collaborating with electronic artist/dj/producer Alex Welsh on a project entitled Elementals with a Suggestion.
hassen lives & writes in the Philadelphia area. poems have appeared in Nedge, Skanky Possum, Frequency audio magazine, & chapbooks Sky Journal.
Kevin Varrone's poems have appeared recently as an ebook on Duration Press (www.durationpress.com) and will appear in the forthcoming issue of the BoogCity Reader, edited by Carol Mirakove. He's recently moved back to Philadelphia from Baltimore.
Monica McIntyre is a talented cellist, vocalist, and lyricist who started playing the cello at the tender age of 7. Ms. McIntyre is originally from Hyattsville, MD where she studied classical cello for 11yrs. Monica came to Philadelphia, PA in 1995 to study Fashion Design at Drexel University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1999 from the College of Design Arts at Drexel University. Being in Philadelphia has introduced Monica to different genres of music such as: jazz, rhythm & blues, folk, funk, blues, and middle-eastern music. Her debut album Blusolaz, was released in October 2003 and incorporates many of these genres. Monica has been featured at: The Black Lily, June 2003, The 2003 Black Women's Art Festival, and The 2003 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She was also featured in BInformed Magazine, Jan. 5, 2004 Issue, and The Writer Blocks, Jan. 11, 2004 Issue. Ms. McIntyre is currently working on her second album Blue, a collection of original blues works, scheduled to be released in fall 2004. Ms. McIntyre plays with several groups in the Philadelphia area. When Monica's not performing her own music; you can catch her in action with: Natural Selection (R&B), Ruth Naomi Floyd (jazz vocalist/composer), Tania Alexandra (pianist/vocalist), and Daughters of the Diaspora (a poetry and beat-box collective).
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@writing.upenn.edu)
- 8:30 PM-9:30 PM in Room 202: Write On! Returning Coaches' Meeting. For more information email Rachel Kreinces at kreinces@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, 10/7
- The 215 Literary Festival
For more information about the festival see 215 Literary Festival website
- 3-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Pew Fellowships Information Meeting. For more information about the Pew Fellowships
visit their website at http://www.pewtrusts.com/about/index.cfm or call
ph: 215.575.9050.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a conversation with Roy Vagelos about his new book, Medicine,
Science, and Merck, co-authored with Louis Galambos. Introduced by Al Filreis, Kelly Professor and Faculty Director of the
Kelly Writers House.
Roy Vagelos: The Kelly Writers House proudly presents ROY VAGELOS, retired CEO of Merck, former Chairman of Penn's Board of Trustees, Penn alumnus (C '50). RSVP required to "rsvpvagelos@writing.upenn.edu". Join us as the Writers House community marks the publication of Roy Vagelos' memoir, MEDICINE, SCIENCE, AND MERCK (Cambridge University Press).
Roy Vagelos grew up a "wise-cracking kid" in an immigrant Greek family living through the hard times of the 1930s in New Jersey. He left the family restaurant business to attend Penn, and graduated from the College in 1950. After several academic positions in medical schools, and time at the National Institutes of Health, he became a distinguished science administrator at Merck. Eventually he became Merck's CEO.
After developing a medication for another purpose that was ultimately found to cure River Blindness, a devastating disease occurring primarily in underdeveloped countries unable to pay for such medications, Merck donated the medicine to the World Health Organization for free distribution. Vagelos worked closely with former U.S. president Jimmy Carter on the River Blindness crisis, and Carter has cited him many times publicly for his boldness, leadership, and generosity.
In his memoir Roy Vagelos has two stories to tell - one about the growth and development of medical science in business and the other about the dream of the ethnic American realized - and these stories are social, national, and intellectual rather than merely personal in nature.
In 1997 Vagelos made a $10 million gift to establish the Roy Vagelos Scholars in Molecular Life Sciences at Penn, including an endowment and a scholarship fund. As Chairman of Penn's Trustees, Vagelos made undergraduate financial aid his highest priority. Under his leadership, Penn's capacity to offer undergraduate financial aid became greater and stabler than before.
Proceeds from the sale of his memoir go directly to undergraduate scholarships. At the Writers House on October 7, we will have some copies of the book for sale.
A recording of the event can be seen here.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM-8:00 PM in Room 202: Write On! Coaches' Training Meeting. For more information email Rachel Kreinces at kreinces@sas.upenn.edu.
- 7:00 PM- 8:00 PM in Room 209: Undergraduate Poetry Workshop and Reading Group planning meeting. For more information email Kate Fleishman at kmfleish@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, 10/8
- The 215 Literary Festival
For more information about the festival see 215 Literary Festival website
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write-On with students from the Lea School
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, 10/9
- The 215 Literary Festival
For more information about the festival see 215 Literary Festival website
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Write-On with students from The Penn-Alexander School
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, 10/10
- The 215 Literary Festival
For more information about the festival see 215 Literary Festival 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.
Monday, 10/11
- 5:30 PM: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Meeting and Gathering. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 5:20-7:20 PM in Room 209: Penn and Pencil Club. For more information, or to join, contact John Shea at john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu.
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: 34th 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, 10/12
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 5-7:00 PM in Room 202: Americanist Group. For more information, please contact Martha Schoolman (meschool@dept.english.upenn.edu).
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, a poetry workshop. Any interested in writing poetry is welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Pat Green (patgreen@vet.upenn.edu).
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Fish Writing Group (for more information contact Nancy Hoffman).
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Preview meeting. For more information, contact Lindsay Damast
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, 10/13
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: CPCW Faculty Roundtable Brown Bag Lunch Meeting
- 8:00 PM: CANCELLED
Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome! For more information, email askspeakeasy@writing.upenn.edu
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Writing Group meeting. For more information, email Carmen Lamas at lamasc@sas.upenn.edu.
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Reality Writes, a workshop dedicated to creative nonfiction. For more information email Mary Hale Meyer at MaryHale.Meyer@jevs.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.
Thursday, 10/14
- The University of Pennsylvania inaugurates Dr. Amy Gutmann as
its eighth President.
- 6:00 PM: A reading by Marjorie Welish and Peter Gizzi (This program
was recorded and is available through PennSound: Gizzi; Welish.)
Peter Gizzi's poetry collections include Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998) and Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003). In fall of 2004 Salt Publishing in England will reprint his first book along with 60 pages of early and uncollected work as Periplum and other poems (1987-1992). He is also the editor of The House that Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan, 1998).
Marjorie Welish has published four collections of poems: Casting Sequences (University of Georgia Press, 1993), The Windows Flew Open (Burning Deck, 1991), Two Poems (Z Press, 1981), and Handwritten (Sun Press, 1979). Her poems have appeared in many anthologies, such as The Best American Poetry 1988 (edited by John Ashbery), Experimental Poetry in America 1950 to the Present: A Norton Anthology, and From the Other Side of the Century: New American Poetry 1960-1990 from Sun and Moon Press. Her extensive writings on Art have appeared in Art in America, Art International, and Art News, among other magazines. Her awards include a MacDowell Colony Fellowship (1978), a grant from the Djerassi Foundation (1988), and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1990-91). She currently teaches art history at the Pratt Institute and has taught poetry workshops at Brown University.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 3-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Talk Poets meeting - for more information, contact Jessica Lowenthal
- 5:15-7:00 PM in Room 202: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter at dporter@english.upenn.edu or Jared Richman at richman@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.
Friday, 10/15
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write-On with students from the Lea School
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, 10/16
- 1:00-3:00 PM: "Penn in Print" Open House
We invite you to stop by the Writers House for coffee, snacks, and informal conversation with members of the Writers House community; find out what the House is all about, and how to get involved.
- 4:00 PM: A Celebration of Alumni Writers
Join the Writers House community as we host a Homecoming reading celebrating Penn alumni writers. We are proud to feature Deborah Burnham (G'76, GR'89), Kerry Sherin Wright (C'87), Stefan Fatsis (C'85), Courtney Zoffness (C'00) and Robert Shepard (C'83, G'83). A reception will follow; please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.Deborah Burnham teaches English and writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book, Anna and the Steel Mill won the First Book prize from Texas Tech University, and she has just finished another volume of poems, Jazz in the All-Night Laundromat. She is finishing a novel, Raising June, set in the midwest during the Viet Nam war. For over twenty years, she taught poetry at the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, where she created the writing program. A long-time resident of Powelton Village in Philadelphia, she makes gardens where they are needed and loves her compost piles.
Kerry Sherin Wright (C’87) was the first Director of the Kelly Writers House. She holds MAs from Hollins College and Temple University, and received her PhD from Temple in 2002. She has published in Poet Lore, New England Review, Combo, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Magazine, among other places. Kerry is currently the Director of a new Writers House at Franklin and Marshall College.
Stefan Fatsis (C '85) writes about sports for The Wall Street Journal and talks about it regularly on National Public Radio's ``All Things Considered.'' He is the author of Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (2001). Word Freak was a New York Times bestseller and has been optioned for development as a feature film by Academy Award-winning director Curtis Hanson. The book also has helped make board games cool: Fatsis has been the color commentator for ESPN's first-ever television coverage of tournament Scrabble. He also is the author of Wild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland (1995). He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, ``All Things Considered'' host Melissa Block, and their daughter, Chloe.
Courtney Zoffness co-founded and ran the Writers House open mic series "Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes" in 1997. After graduating from Penn in 2000 with a BA cum laude in English and Fine Arts, Courtney worked as a writer for MTV Networks, a columnist for Manhattan's Our Town and West Side Spirit newspapers and as Managing Editor of The Earth Times in New York. She received a full scholarship to attend the Masters program in fiction at Johns Hopkins University in 2002, and stayed on as a Lecturer of creative writing. This fall she began the MFA program at the University of Arizona as a Teaching Fellow. Courtney has published nonfiction in periodicals such as Ladies' Home Journal, The Earth Times Monthly and the Scarsdale Inquirer, poetry in the anthology Forever and a Day, and fiction in Redivider and The Pedestal Magazine. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories that she hopes to complete while a Resident Writer at the Vermont Studio Center in 2005.
Robert Shepard C'83, G'83 is a California-based literary agent and has been a publishing professional for 20 years. He takes particular pride in having remained immersed in books from the moment he took his degrees in English, first serving as a research assistant to President Emeritus Martin Meyerson, then during his nine years at Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, and especially since founding his own literary agency, which is now celebrating its 10th anniversary year. "One way or another," he notes, he's also come to represent a number of Penn alumni authors, including today's panelist Stefan Fatsis C'85, the author of WORD FREAK and WILD & OUTSIDE. Among other alumni with books on his list are financial columnist Jean Sherman Chatzky C'86, art historian Robert Wojtowicz C'83, Gr'90, and music writer Richie Unterberger C'82. He is particularly proud that one of his clients, Washington Post reporter Anthony Shadid, won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting; Anthony's book about the people, history, and life of Baghdad will be published next year. A member of the Authors Guild, Robert represents both narrative and “practical”non-fiction works and writes and teaches frequently about books and writing. At Penn, where he was news editor of the Daily Pennsylvanian, he serves as secretary and past co-chair of PennGALA and as a member of the Penn Alumni Communications Committee, which oversees publications including the Pennsylvania Gazette. He lives in Berkeley, California with his partner, Bob Numerof—yet another Penn alum.
You can hear a recording of the program in mp3 format here.
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Write-On with students from The Penn-Alexander School
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, 10/17
- 6:00 PM: The Kelly Writers House is hosting a reception as a part of the four-day Amos Oz Conference. For the entire schedule for the International
Conference on Amos Oz, click here.
You can hear a recording of the program in mp3 format here.
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| This event is featured in Eric Karlan's NOTES FROM THE GREEN COUCH, a series of summaries and analyses of Writers House events. Click on the image above. |
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: Calliope, a prose poetry workshop and reading group. For more information contact Kate Fleishman at kmfleish@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.
Monday, 10/18
- 8:00 PM: LIVE at the Writers House will tape at the new WXPN location at 3025 Walnut Street. Guests include Shawn McBride, Ken Kalfus,
Arthur Vogelsang, Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Elise Juska and musical guest Espers.
Shawn McBride is the author of Green Grass Grace. He is also the father of Chloe; husband of Alyssa; son of Francis and Denise; and brother of Frankie, Dede, and Kevin. His book was a national bestseller, chosen by Barnes and Noble for it Discover Great New Writers series, and praised by The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo. Mr. McBride is a Leo, bats and throws left, and loves all of God's creatures, most particularly those who buy his fiction.
Born in New York in 1954, Ken Kalfus grew up in Long Island and have also lived in Paris, Dublin and Belgrade. His first collection of short stories, Thirst, was published in 1998. From 1994 to 1998 Ken Kalfus lived in Russia, where his wife Inga Saffron was the Philadelphia Inquirer's Moscow correspondent and he wrote my second book of short stories, Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies (1999). He also did research there for his novel, The Commissariat of Enlightenment, published last year by the Ecco Press imprint of HarperCollins. Some of the magazines in which his fiction and non-fiction have appeared are Harper's, the New York Times Book Review and the New York Review of Books. His books have been translated into several languages, including most recently the publication of "The Commissariat" in Dutch and Italian. Ken Kalfus now live in Philadelphia and is working on his next novel.
Arthur Vogelsang is the author of three previous books of poetry, A Planet (Holt, 1983), Twentieth Century Women (University of Georgia Press, 1988), and Cities and Towns (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996(, which received the Juniper Prize. Among anthologies where his work appears are The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, and The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Since 1973 he has been coeditor of The American Poetry Review. He has taught poetry and literature at the University of Iowa, the University of Southern Californa, and the University of Redlands, and is the recipient of three National Endowment of the Arts fellowships in poetry and a fellowship from the California Arts Council.
Diane McKinney-Whetstone grew up in Philadelphia, the city she returns to as the setting for Leaving Cecil Street. Her work has appeared in Philadelphia Magazine; Essence; the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine; and the anthologies Bluelight Corner, and Mending the World.She has received numerous awards, including a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, the Zora Neale Hurston Society award for creative contribution to literature, a citation from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for her portrayal of urban life as presented in Tumbling, Author of the Year award from the Go On Girl Book Club, and more.
She presently teaches fiction writing at her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband Greg, and sometimes her college-age twins, Taiwo, her daughter, and Kehinde, her son.
Elise Juska is the author of the novels The Hazards of Sleeping Alone, released in September 2004, and Getting Over Jack Wagner, which was a Critic's Choice in People Magazine and recently optioned for feature film. Her short stories have appeared in The Hudson Review (Pushcart Prize nominee), Harvard Review, Seattle Review, Black Warrior Review, Salmagundi, Calyx, Berkeley Fiction Review, and other magazines. Elise teaches fiction writing at the University of the Arts and the Penn Writers Conference in Philadelphia, as well as the New School in New York City. She lives in Philly, types with one finger (very quickly), and is completely over Jack Wagner.
"One band scraping resin from both the medieval pipe and trance bong is Philly's majestic Espers. The mind-meld of acid-lullaby enchanter Greg Weeks and his maenads of baroquean beauty Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons, Espers at their core are a trio - acoustic and electric guitar, dulcimer, recorder, autoharp, vintage keyboards. Friends add violin, cello, and various percussion. With beautiful finger-style sonnets recalling Bert Janch and female (sometimes male) vocals haunting the same moonlight as Vashti Bunyan, Espers perfectly balances minimal composition with loose Amon Düül-like jams, seductively strangling Renaissance dirges and laments (think Pentangle/Incredible String Band) with droned 'acid leads' that leave you wandering in unknown ancient/future landscapes you knew as a child but now are too frightened to return to." - NY Village Voice, March 23, 2004
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@dept.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, 10/19
- 1:00 PM: As a part of the four-day Amos Oz Conference, the Kelly
Writers House is hosting a luncheon. For the entire schedule for the International Conference on Amos Oz, click here.
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Film since 9/11: a panel discussion featuring Rebecca Traister and Matthew
Zoller Seitz and moderated by Peter Decherney, Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Penn.
Cosponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Cinema Studies Program.
Rebecca Traister is a Philadelphia native who graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in American Studies in 1997. After working for a year as an assistant to an actor, she became an editorial assistant at Talk magazine and the reported on film at the New York Observer for four years. She is currently a staff writer at Salon. She has freelanced for The New York Times, GQ, Elle, New York, and a variety of other places. She has written extensively on the film industry, as well as on issues of gender in the media and politics.
Matthew Zoller Seitz is a filmmaker and media critic. A 1994 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, Seitz is film critic of the Manhattan weekly New York Press and TV columnist for the Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey. His writing on film, TV and popular culture has appeared in The New York Times, Gear, Newsday, IFC Rant, Scenario Magazine, Dallas Observer and Sound and Vision. His articles have been reprinted in John Pierson's memoir of the independent film industry, Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes; in the Making of a Charlie Brown Christmas, and in the published edition of Kevin Smith's screenplays for Clerks and Chasing Amy. He directed the feature film, Home, and has written and produced numerous films.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, a poetry workshop. Any interested in writing poetry is welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Pat Green (patgreen@vet.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Preview Meeting
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 10/20
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading by poet Jean-Michel Espitallier and translator Sherry Brennan.
Cosponsored by The French Institute for Culture and Technology.
Jean-Michel Espitallier lives in Paris and works in France and abroad as a poet, editor, publisher and translator. His books include the just-out At War (2004), as well as Espitallier’s Theorem (2003) and Gasoil (2000). Fantasy Butcher (grotesque) is due out in translation from Duration Press this fall. Together with Vanina Maestri and Jacques Sivan, Espitallier co-founded and edits the journal Java. In 2001, he edited a special edition of Magazine littéraire, "New French Poetry," and has edited an anthology of new French poetry for Pocket, Pièces détachées. In 2004 he was named a member of the poetry commission of the National Centre du Livre, and author on tour in the U.S. under the auspices of the French Cultural Services. In addition to his work on the printed page, Espitallier often collaborates with artists, musicians and theater companies. Together with a number of artists and writers, he is currently designing sound and visual installations for the Rimbaud house in Charleville, France, scheduled to open this fall. In 2005, under the direction of Arnaud Romet, the theater company Iatus will create an electroacoustic and video project based on Espitallier’s Theorem for performance in Bordeaux.
Sherry Brennan, poet and translator, lives in New York and works at New School University. A book, On poems and their antecedents, is forthcoming from subpress in fall 2004. Earlier chapbooks include Taken, again today and The Resemblances. She has published widely in journals such as Chain, How(ever), New American Writing and raddle moon. Recent essays can be found in African American Review and the online journal Jacket.
The Writers House is thrilled to host Jean-Michel Espitallier's visit to Philadelphia. Much of his startling, innovative poetry has only recently been translated into English. For a preview of some of these translations, click here.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 202: Word.Doc meeting. For more information, please email Kerry Cooperman at kerryc@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, 10/21
- 4:30 PM: Meet USA TODAY music and entertainment critic Elysa Gardner hosted by Anthony DeCurtis in
conjunction with his class, The Arts and Popular
Culture.
- 6:00 PM: A reading by Tony Lopez and Michael Gottlieb hosted by Bob Perelman and Penn's Creative Writing
Program.
A free and downloable recording of this event is available on Michael Gottlieb's PennSound page.
Tony Lopez is the author of 20 books of poetry, fiction and criticism and his most recent poetry books are Devolution (TheFigures, 2000), Data Shadow (Reality Street, 2000). He teaches in England at the University of Plymouth where he was appointed the first professor of poetry in 2000.
Michael Gottlieb pioneered the use of distressed texts and images in his early language-centered work, which fashioned evanescent and lyric constructions out of xeroxed detritus, recycled theater tickets, disconnected punch lines. In his recent work, Lost and Found, Gottlieb uses objects cast up by memory and disaster to provoke a radical self-questioning about his generation, time, and history.
- 9:00 PM: LIVE at the Writers House airs on WXPN 88.5-FM. Guests include Shawn McBride, Ken Kalfus, Arthur Vogelsang, Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Elise Juska and musical guest Espers.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets one Wednesday per month throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members. Contact Fred Ollinger at follinge@piconap.com for more information.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 10/22
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write-On with students from the Lea School
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, 10/23
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Write-On with students from The Penn-Alexander School
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, 10/24
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Monday, 10/25
- Fall Break
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Tuesday, 10/26
- Fall Break
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 10/27
- 5:30 PM: Interactive Fiction Walkthroughs: Daniel Ravipinto and Star C. Foster present
Slouching towards Bedlam, winner of the 2003 IF Competition and of four 2003 XYZZY Awards, including Best Game.
Nick Montfort presents Book and Volume, a new work, in its premiere reading - it will be released online
on November 16, 2004. Emily Short presents Savoir-Faire, winner of four 2002 XYZZY Awards, including
Best Game. Scott Rettberg hosts and interacts: Playing Virgil in these infernos. This program is part
of the MACHINE series of programs showcasing the literary uses of the computer. For more information about MACHINE events at
the Writers House, see here.
The Program
The "Interactive Fiction Walkthroughs" event, scheduled during the 2004 Interactive Fiction Competition < http://ifcomp.org >, will provide an introduction to an intriguing form of computer literature and computer game that has been around for almost 30 years. Interactive fiction, also called text adventures or text games, has provided computer users with underground gaming and literary experiences through a period of university-based game development, and through a wave of commercial development, and now as independent writer/programmers have taken up the tradition. In "Walkthroughs," four leading interactive fiction authors will read from their work — all of which is available for free download online — as the founder of the Electronic Literature Organization interacts with these textual, virtual worlds and asks the authors about them.
The Programs
The three interactive fiction works that will be shown are intricate computer programs meant to provide hours of textually simulated space, puzzlement, and literary engagement. Like many other innovative works of interactive fiction, they have been developed quite recently, which might come as a surprise to those who only know of the Infocom games of the 1980s. The "walkthroughs" provided will be of the explanatory and architectural sort. While they will introduce the audience to these pieces of interactive fiction, be assured that they won't give away the overall, dazzling riddles of these works or spoil the experience of any of these pieces of interactive fiction for those who want to interact with them further.
The Participants
Star C. Foster's background in interactive fiction stems from a lifetime's love of writing and reading; her introduction to the genre came from games based on such works as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny. In addition to being the author of several short stories and a children's novel, Star writes nigh-daily for her website, Sarcasmo's Corner: < http://www.sarcasmoscorner.com >. She has also had her prose adapted in graphic-novel form. Slouching towards Bedlam is her first interactive work. Star was born and raised in Philadelphia and lives in Center City.
Nick Montfort's interactive fiction includes Winchester's Nightmare (1999) and Ad Verbum (2000); he also translated Andrés Viedma Peláez's Olvido Mortal as Dead Reckoning (2003). Nick wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction and co-edited The New Media Reader (both from MIT Press, 2003). He is co-author of The Ed Report and 2002: A Palindrome Story, blogs at Grand Text Auto, and is a director of the Electronic Literature Organization. He and Scott Rettberg wrote Implementation. Nick is a Ph.D. student in computer and information science at Penn. His site: < http://nickm.com >.
Daniel Ravipinto's love affair with interactive fiction began at the age of eight, when Wishbringer told him he could open the envelope. It hasn't stopped since. His first interactive fiction game, Tapestry, won second place in the 1996 Interactive Fiction Competition. In 2003, his and Star Foster's Slouching towards Bedlam won first place. Both pieces were nominated for XYZZY Awards. Dan is a computer programmer, an amateur writer and musician, and a rabid game connoisseur. When he is not playing games, he is busy creating them for his independent company, Peccable Productions < http://www.peccable.com >.
Scott Rettberg is assistant professor of new media studies at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, where he teaches in the literature program. Scott founded the Electronic Literature Organization and served as its first executive director from 1999-2001. He is a co-author of The Unknown, a Hypertext Novel, winner of the 1999 trAce/AltX International Hypertext Competition; the author of Kind of Blue, a serial novel for email (2002); and co-author of Implementation (2004). He is a contributor to Grand Text Auto, a collaborative research blog on digital narrative and games. Scott's site: < http://caxton.stockton. edu/ rettberg/ >.
Emily Short is the author of several award-winning works of interactive fiction that explore new possibilities in character conversation and physical world modeling. Her work Galatea is assigned reading in several new media courses; her most recent game, City of Secrets, was listed among the Games Magazine "Top 100 Electronic Games of 2003." She is currently editing a book on interactive fiction which explores the form both as literature and as game. Emily is also a graduate student in classical studies at Penn, and is completing her dissertation on the roles of Hermes in Athenian drama. She lives in the Seattle area. Her site: < http://emshort.home. mindspring.com/ >.
- 6:30 PM 3rd annual "WRITERS HOUSE NEW YORK" at the Meisel Gallery in SoHo
(141 Prince Street). For the 3rd consecutive year, Louis and Susan Meisel generously sponsor this
benefit - for our Young and Emerging Writers Fund. Featuring: Dan Fishback, Jamie-Lee Josselyn, Beth Kephart,
Nicole Tabolt, and Edwin Torres.
For more information on the readers and this event, click here.
For photos from the event, please click here.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome! For more information, email askspeakeasy@writing.upenn.edu
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@writing.upenn.edu)
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Reality Writes, a workshop dedicated to creative nonfiction. For more information email Mary Hale Meyer at MaryHale.Meyer@jevs.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.
Thursday, 10/28
- 12:30 PM: A lunchtime program on Op-Eds and political writing with Larry Atkins. Cosponsored with the Fox Leadership Program.
Larry Atkins, a lawyer and freelance writer, has written over 200 Op-Eds, articles, and essays for many publications, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, B'nai B'rith Jewish Monthly, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dallas Morning News, Detroit News, Indianapolis Star, Jewish Exponent, Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Daily News, National Public Radio (Commentaries for the national versions of Morning Edition and Only a Game), NCAA News, Newsday, Orange County Register, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer and Inquirer Sunday Magazine, Practical Lawyer Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and he wrote a chapter on Op-Eds and personal essays for The ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing (St. Martin's Press). He teaches editorial writing as an adjunct professor at Temple University.
- 4:30 PM: Hold for program hosted by Anthony DeCurtis in conjunction with his class, The Arts and Popular Culture.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 5:15-7:00 PM in Room 202: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group presents a workshop with Professor John Richetti on the poetry of Daniel Defoe. For more information contact Dahlia Porter at dporter@english.upenn.edu or Jared Richman at richman@english.upenn.edu.
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: Calliope, a prose poetry workshop and reading group. For more information contact Kate Fleishman at kmfleish@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, 10/29
- 12:30 PM: A lunchtime program with Anne Waldman
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.
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write-On with students from the Lea School
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, 10/30
- 1:00-3:00 PM: Write-On with students from The Penn-Alexander School
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, 10/31
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