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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Monday, 10/1
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Hub Planned Event. Please RSVP to jalowent@writing.upenn.edu.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 158 Advanced Journalistic Writing, Polman
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 115.301 Adv. Fiction Writing Workshop, Rile
- 5:20 PM - 7:20 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club meeting. For more information contact John Shea (John.Shea@uphs.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 10/2
- 6 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing: Lectures in Literary Theory featuring Bruno
Bosteels on The Melancholy Left. Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and by the Comparative Literature and Theory Program.
Starting from Octavio Paz's poem written in protest just days after the massacre in Tlatelolco on October 2, 1968, Bosteels will discuss the contemporary condition of the Left in political and philosophical terms as a melancholic retreat, not unlike the retreat of the political discussed by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy.
Bruno Bosteels is Associate Professor of Spanish at Cornell. Bosteels received his PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania (1995; MA 1992) and his AB in Romance Philology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1989). Before coming to Cornell, he held positions as an assistant professor at Harvard University and at Columbia University. He is currently preparing two book manuscripts, After Borges: Literature and Antiphilosophy and Badiou and Politics (forthcoming from Duke University Press). He is also translating and introducing two books by Badiou: Can Politics Be Thought? followed by An Obscure Disaster: On the End of the Truth of State and What Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Lacan (both for Duke University Press). He is the author of dozens of articles on modern Latin American literature and culture, and on contemporary European philosophy and political theory. His research interests further include the crossovers between art, literature, theory and cartography; the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s; decadence, dandyism and anarchy at the turn between the 19th and 20th centuries; cultural studies and critical theory; and the reception of Marx and Freud in Latin America.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: ENGL 123.304 Magazine Journalism, Rome
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 135.305 Peer Tutor Training, Ross
- 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM in Room 202: HIST 009.301 Winston Churchill, Deveney
- 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: ENGL 88, Bernstein
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 145.301 Adv. Nonfiction Writing, Hendrickson
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop, Apple
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM: Suppose and Eyes Meeting in Room 209. For more information, contact Pat Green (Patricia78@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.
Wednesday, 10/3
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 156.301 Writing from Photographs, Hendrickson
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010.302 Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry, Levin
- 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes meeting. For more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmyer65@eathlink.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, 10/4
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A lunch program with ABC News Anchor Charles Gibson,
co-sponsored by the Critical Writing Program.
Limited Seating, RSVP to critwrit@writing.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe:
A presentation by author and music historian Irwin Chusid, introduced by Kenny
Goldsmith. Co-sponsored by the ICA and the Center for Programs in
Contemporary Writing.
Irwin Chusid has spent many years unearthing and documenting obscure and unusual music as part of his efforts to
preserve some of the "musical landmarks" of our time. As a record producer and music historian he has spearheaded many efforts
to archive original recordings by outsider musicians and has authored a book, Songs In The Key of Z: The Curious Universe
of Outsider Music (A Cappella Books/Chicago Review Press), chronicling the work of some of the seminal figures of outsider
music. As a music writer and historian he has published many articles in Pulse, Mojo, New York Press,
the New York Times, Billboard, Mix, and elsewhere. He has spoken about outsider music at many galleries,
museums, and theaters including New York's Museum of Folk Art, the Coolidge Corner Theater in Boston, and the Beursschouwburg
in Brussels.
"A primer to musicians who come 'packaged with a special set of instructions.'" - SPIN
"Outsider Music is a savory antidote to the manufactured boy bands, teen squeezes, and assembly-line thugs clogging the charts these days." - Billboard
"I'm less interested in virtuosity than I am in the passion with which an album is performed. That's why I love outsider music." - Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons
This program was recorded. The recording is not available except by permission of Mr. Chusid.
Charles Gibson is currently the anchor of ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson". He has also been a co-anchor on "Good Morning America" and "Primetime", and has spent more than 30 years at ABC. He has interviewed world leaders and covered events both domestic and international. Among his achievements, he was awarded the Paul White Award from the Radio and Television News Directors of America in 2006, received an Emmy for his 2003 coverage of the space shuttle Columbia, and received the John Maclean Fellowship in 1992 from his alma mater, Princeton University. He was born in Evanston, IL, grew up in Washington D.C, and now lives in New York with his wife Arlene.
- 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: ENGL 125.304 Magazine Journalism, Rome
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 135.305 Peer Tutor Training, Ross
- 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM in Room 202: HIST 009.301 Winston Churchill, Deveney
- 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: ENGL 88, Bernstein
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 135.301 Creative Nonfiction Writing, Apple
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 117.301 The Arts and Popular Culture, DeCurtis
- 07:30 PM - 08:30 PM in Room 202: Meeting for Penn Appetit, for more information contact Emma Morgenstern at emmarm@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, 10/5
12:00 PM: Alumni Mentor lunch with Lynn Rosen.
Lynn Rosen has had a wide-ranging twenty-plus year career in book publishing as an editor, literary agent, book packager, and author. As an editor, Lynn worked with publishers of adult trade non-fiction and illustrated gift books. She served as Editorial Director at Peter Pauper Press, an independent publisher of gift books, and as Senior Editor at Running Press. Earlier in her career, Lynn was an Editor in the Trade Division of Ballantine Books, a division of Random House. In 1991, Lynn launched Leap First, an independent literary agency and book packager, which she ran until 1999. Lynn is the author of two new books, Elements of the Table: A Simple Guide for Hosts and Guests (Clarkson Potter, 2007) and The Baby Owner’s Games and Activities Book (Quirk Books, 2006). Lynn graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an Honors degree in English, and holds a Masters in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 130.402 Adv. Screenwriting, Wolk/Martin
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, 10/6
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10:30-2PM: Writers House HUB afternoon at Books Through
Bars.
Join the Writers House HUB and Books Through Bars to pack books that will be sent to prisoners. We'll be meeting at the Writers House at 10:20am and walking to the A-Space at 4722 Baltimore Avenue, where we'll work until 2pm.
Prisoners are not able to receive donations of books from individuals. Friends and family members aren't able to choose something from their own shelves to send to their loved ones. They aren't even able to purchase something from a bookstore and send it with their own return address. Instead, prisons limit book packages to publishers, bookstores and "legitimate" book distributors.
Books Through Bars was founded in 1989 when an employee of New Society Publishers began receiving and answering book requests from indigent prisoners. At that time, he and several other employees of New Society Publishers received approximately 40 requests each month. Today, the group is comprised of 9 core collective members (including 1 of the original collective) and nearly 20 occasional volunteers, receives approximately 1000 letters each month, and has received grants from Bread and Roses Community Fund, Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative, Resist Inc., Womens Way, the Funding Exchange, and the Puffin Foundation. Originally sponsored bythe New Society Educational Foundation, Books Through Bars recently received its own 501(c)3 status.
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Kelly Writers House table at Lovingly Bound:
Featuring readings, performances, and talks about street lit, queer lit, web comics, prison book programs and much more, Lovingly Bound is brings together small publishers, book artists, literacy activists, and PHilly Independent books stores fro one big book bash! Browse the tables of hand-made journals, fine fiction, and art books while enjoying tasty Latvian beer and music from DJ Hi-Res. For more information, see www.215festival.com.
- 12:00-7:00PM in the Pub Room: First Call meeting. For more information, contact Shira Bender (shiratb@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.
Sunday, 10/7
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Reserved for Penn Review
- 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: Class with Max Apple.
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, 10/8
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading and discussion with poet and Hebrew and
Arabic translator Peter Cole.
Join us for a reading and discussion of Peter Cole's critically-acclaimed work The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 2007), cosponsored by the Creative Writing and Jewish Studies Programs.
Peter Cole has published two collections of poetry, Rift (Station Hill) and Hymns & Qualms (Sheep Meadow Press); a third volume, What Is Doubled: Poems 1981-1989, was recently published by Shearsman Books in the UK.He has also published nine books of translation from Hebrew and Arabic poetry and prose. Cole has received numerous awards for his poetry and translation, including the Modern Language Association-Scaglione Translation Prize for Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid (Princeton University Press) and the Times Literary Supplement-Porjes Hebrew Translation Prize for Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol (Princeton). He has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and has recently recieved a MacArthur Grant. Cole, who makes his living as a translator and editor, has been visiting professor at Wesleyan University and Middlebury College. He lives in Jerusalem.
Click here to listen to a full recording of this event.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 158 Advanced Journalistic Writing, Polman
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 115.301 Adv. Fiction Writing Workshop, Rile
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, 10/9
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a reading and conversation with Olena Kalytiak Davis, introduced by Gregory Djanikian. This event is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Olena Kalytiak Davis' first poetry collection, And Her Soul Out of
Nothing (University of Wisconsin Press), was selected by Rita Dove
for the Brittingham Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in
numerous journals and anthologies, including four Best American
Poetry volumes, and have won a Pushcart Prize. The recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation writers grant and
several grants from the Alaska and Juneau Arts Councils, she writes
and raises her two children in Anchorage, Alaska.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: ENGL 123.304 Magazine Journalism, Rome
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 135.305 Peer Tutor Training, Ross
- 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM in Room 202: HIST 009.301 Winston Churchill, Deveney
- 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: ENGL 88, Bernstein
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 145.301 Adv. Nonfiction Writing, Hendrickson
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop, Apple
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Radium, a fiction writing group. For more information please contact Sam Allingham at same@writing.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, 10/10
- 7:30 PM: A reading and conversation with poet Rachel Back, co-sponsored by the Creative Writing and Jewish Studies programs.
Rachel Tzvia Back is a poet, translator, peace activist and professor
of literature who has lived in Israel for the last 27 years. Her
work includes the poetry collections Azimuth (Sheep Meadow Press,
2001), The Buffalo Poems (Duration Press, 2003), and On Ruins &
Return: Poems 1999-2005 (Shearsman Books, 2007). She is also the
author of the critical work Led by Language: the Poetry and Poetics
of Susan Howe (University of Alabama Press, Contemporary & Modern
Poetics Series, 2002). Her translations of the poetry of Lea Goldberg in
Lea Goldberg: Selected Poetry and Drama (edited, annotated and
introduced by Back, published by Toby Press) were awarded a 2005
PEN Translation Grant. Back works as a senior lecturer in English
literature at Oranim College, Haifa, and creative writing instructor
in the MA Writing Program at Bar-Ilan University. She has recently
completed translating and editing the English version of an
anthology of Hebrew protest poetry entitled With an Iron Pen: Hebrew
Protest Poetry 1984-2004. She is the mother of three young children,
and resides in a small village in the Galilee, in the north of Israel.
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listen to a full recording of this event.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 156.301 Writing from Photographs, Hendrickson
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010.302 Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry, Levin
âPlease 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, 10/11
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7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Suddenly Everyone Began Reading Aloud": A celebration of visual- and sound-poet Bob Cobbing, featuring Maggie O'Sullivan, cris cheek, Marvin Sackner, Charles Bernstein, and Matthew Abess, winner of the 2007-08 Kerry Sherin Wright Prize. Cosponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the English Department.
View photos from this event here.
Click here for more information on this event, and here for a summary written immediately afterwards.
With support from the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW), Matthew
Abess (C'08) spent the duration of Summer 2006 at the Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry researching
"concrete text-sound" poetry and in particular the work of innovative writer Bob Cobbing. Abess' research has
culminated in two major projects: "Make Perhaps This Out
Sense Of Can You," an exhibition of Cobbing's work at the Rosenwald Gallery of Penn's Van-Pelt Dietrich Library;
and "Suddenly Everyone Began Reading Aloud," an evening of readings and discussion in celebration of Cobbing's work and
winner of 2007-2008 Kerry Sherin Wright Prize. A text examining the work of Bob Cobbing is to be published in
conjunction with the exhibition and symposium.
Dr. Marvin Sackner is a noted pulmonologist, medical researcher, inventor, curator, patron of the arts, collector of word and image and, together with his wife Ruth, founder of the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. "We established the Archive," Dr. Sackner explains, "when we recognized that a global, international, historic perspective appeared to be lacking in museums, libraries and private collections. We decided to fulfill this niche that we had identified, by gathering all works relating to concrete and visual poetry that we could afford to buy, irrespective of personal esthetic considerations, along with their historic antecedents. We wanted to build a comprehensive permanent collection that would not be altered by our personal biases, recognizing the major difficulty in finding distribution sources for visual/verbal works of art and poetry." The Archive has since evolved into a word/image poetic and artistic resource rather than a restricted collection of concrete and visual poetry. The Archive currently collects several hundred artists/poets from all over the world in depth. The holdings of the Archive amount to over 65,000 items.
Maggie O'Sullivan is a British poet, performer and visual artist. For over thirty years, her work has appeared
extensively in national and international journals and anthologies and she has performed her work, often in
collaboration with dancers and musicians, all over the world. O'Sullivan's work is influenced by Kurt Schwitters,
Joseph Beuys, Jerome Rothenberg, Bob Cobbing and Basil Bunting. Her books include An Incomplete Natural History
(1984), In the House of the Shaman (1993), Red Shifts (2000) and Palace of Reptiles (2003). In
1996, she edited out of everywhere: An anthology of contemporary linguistically innovative poetry by women in North
America and the UK. Body of Work, which brings together for the first time the full texts of O'Sullivan
booklets now out of print made during the London-based late 1970's-1980's and includes many Writers Forum publications
is out now (Reality Street, 2006). Full online texts of recent work, including all origins are lonely (2003);
murmur - tasks of mourning (2004) and courtship of lapwings (2006) are featured on her website, www.maggieosullivan.co.uk.
Click here for the recording of the reading and conversation.
cris cheek, self-described "poet-pedagogue, writer-critic, book
artist-publisher, new-media practitioner and interdisciplinary performer,"
earned his PhD at Lancaster (UK), and has been involved in the creative
literary and artistic activities since 1975. cheek works in various spheres of
the contemporary art, incorporating a wide range of media-strategies and
technologies into his projects. For many years he has developed the ideas of
live-art, spontaneous literary performance and "chaotic declamation" on his
own and as a member of various musical and poetic groups. cheek is the author
of a number of poetry editions and books, including a present (Bluff Books,
1980), mud (Spanner/Open Field, 1984), Cloud Eyes (Microbrigade Ed., 1991),
skin upon skin (CD, Sound & Language, 1996), stranger (Sound & Language, 1996),
Songs from Navigation (book+CD, Reality Street, 1998) and others. His critical
articles include "On Bob Cobbing," (British Electronic Poetry Centre, 2004).
Charles
Bernstein is the author of more than twenty books, including My Way: Speeches and Poems, With Strings,
and most recently Girly Man, all three of which have been published by the University of Chicago Press. He teaches at
the University of Pennsylvania, where he is co-director of PennSound (writing.upenn.edu/pennsound).
- 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: ENGL 125.304 Magazine Journalism, Rome
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 135.305 Peer Tutor Training, Ross
- 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM in Room 202: HIST 009.301 Winston Churchill, Deveney
- 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: ENGL 88, Bernstein
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 135.301 Creative Nonfiction Writing, Apple
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 117.301 The Arts and Popular Culture, DeCurtis
- 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM in Room 202: Advanced Screenwriting with Andy Wolk.
- 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM in Room 202: Meeting for Penn Appetit, for more information contact Emma Morgenstern at emmarm@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, 10/12
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 130.402 Adv. Screenwriting, Wolk/Martin
- 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM in Room 202: Advanced Screenwriting with Andy Wolk.
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 202: Advanced Screenwriting with Andy Wolk.
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, 10/13
- The Writers House will be closed for 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.
Sunday, 10/14
- The Writers House will be closed for 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.
Monday, 10/15
- The Writers House will be closed for 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.
Tuesday, 10/16
- The Writers House will be closed for 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, 10/17
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 156.301 Writing from Photographs, Hendrickson
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010.302 Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry, Levin
- 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM in Room 202: Lacanians: a Lacan study group. For more information, contact Patricia Gherovici at pgherovici@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.
Thursday, 10/18
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The EMERGENCY reading series presents a reading and discussion with Janet Neigh and Joanna Fuhrman.
Janet Neigh lives in Philadelphia where she is working on her PhD in contemporary poetics and transnational feminism at Temple University. She received her MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Calgary. Her writing can be found in Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury Press 2005), HOW2, Filling Station, and West Coast Line.
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of three books of poetry: Freud in Brooklyn (2000), Ugh Ugh Ocean (2003) and Moraine (2006), all published by Hanging LoosePress. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and as a teaching artist in the New York City public schools. (Photo by Robin Graubard)
From the reading:
This program was recorded and is available on PennSound in mp3 format here.
- 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: ENGL 125.304 Magazine Journalism, Rome
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 135.305 Peer Tutor Training, Ross
- 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM in Room 202: HIST 009.301 Winston Churchill, Deveney
- 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: ENGL 88, Bernstein
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 135.301 Creative Nonfiction Writing, Apple
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 117.301 The Arts and Popular Culture, DeCurtis
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, 10/19
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Writers House Remembers Bob Lucid.
http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/archival/events/lucid/.
Join friends, former students and colleagues as
they remember and celebrate the life and Penn work of Robert "Bob" Lucid, who died on December 12, 2006. Bob's vision
of a living-learning community made the Writers House possible. To
reserve a seat, please RSVP to
whlucid@writing.upenn.edu or call (215) 746-POEM. A salute to Bob (including audio
recordings) can be found here:Pictures from the memorial (more can be found on the Lucid memorial page):
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 130.402 Adv. Screenwriting, Wolk/Martin
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, 10/20
- Homecoming weekend.
- 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM in the Dining Room: Advisory Board meeting.
- 3:00 - 4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Open House.
Renew your acquaintance or get to know this lively and innovative home for writers of all ages and genres as you join members of the Writers House community and its staff for informal conversation and coffee.
- 4:30 - 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Alumni Authors Series: Memoir and Me.
Join us for a panel discussion to hear three nationally-known alumni authors discuss personal writing and read from their new memoirs: Jeffrey Goldberg, award-winning correspondent for The New Yorker and The Atlantic, and author of the acclaimed memoir Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide; Cynthia Kaplan (C'85), humorist, actress, Huffington Post columnist, and author of the cult-classic memoir collections Why I'm Like This and her latest, Leave the Building Quickly; and moderator Stephen Fried (C'79), award-winning investigative journalist whose new book is his first personal essay collection, Husbandry: Sex, Love & Dirty Laundry: Inside the Minds of Married Men. Reception to follow. RSVP to whhomecoming@writing.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, 10/21
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Reserved for Penn Review
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, 10/22
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12:00 PM in the
Arts Cafe: A lunch program with Tim Weiner, moderated by Dick
Polman. Seating is limited; please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
****** PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS CURRENTLY FULL ******
Tim Weiner is the author of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. Weiner has written on American intelligence for twenty years, and won the Pulitzer Prize for his work on secret national security programs. He has traveled to Afghanistan and other nations to investigate CIA covert operations firsthand. Legacy of Ashes is his third book.
- 05:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Hub meeting. Please RSVP to jalowent@writing.upenn.edu.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 158 Advanced Journalistic Writing, Polman
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 115.301 Adv. Fiction Writing Workshop, Rile
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, 10/23
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A celebration of beloved writing professor Max
Apple.
Join us for toasts and readings by Max's former students. Ariel Djanikian (C '04), Phil Sandick (C '03), Alicia Oltuski (C '06), and Yona Silverman (C '06), followed by Max himself, who will read excerpts from his new book The Jew of Home Depot and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins, 2007). Food and drink and great conversation will follow the readings.
Max Apple has published two collections of stories, The Oranging of America, and Free Agents, two novels, Zip and Propheteers, and two books of non-fiction, Roommates, and I Love Gootie. Roommates was made into a film as were two other screenplays, Smokey Bites the Dust and The Air Up There. Five of his books have been New York Times Notable Books. His stories and essays are widely anthologized and have appeared in Atlantic, Harpers, Esquire, and many literary magazines and in Best American Stories and Best Spiritual Writing. His essay, "The American Bakery" was selected by the New York Times as one of the best to appear
in the first 100 years of the Book Review. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His Ph.D. is in 17th century literature. He has given readings at many universities and taught at Michigan, Stanford, NYU, Columbia, and Rice University where he held the Fox Chair in English. Max regularly hosts and introduces readings by eminent fiction writers, such as Meg Wolitzer. Click here to listen to a recording of Max Apple's reading at the Kelly Writers House on September 25, 2001.
You can hear an mp3 recording of this event here, or listen to an introduction by Jessica Lowenthal and individual readers Phil Sandick, Yona Silverman, Ariel Djanikian, Alicia Oltuski, Greg Djanikian, and Max Apple.
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 202: Virginia Woolf Discussion Group.
For Virginia Woolf, the politics is in the writing. With this in mind, our discussions will focus on Woolf's language and how it functions in her texts. Specific works will be chosen by the group after our first meeting. At this meeting we'll discuss her essay-writing practice, and focus on her 1940 essay: "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid." This essay - quite relevant to our world today - is available online, or in Virginia Woolf's The Death of the Moth. The discussion will range from Michel de Montaigne to the Dixie Chicks.
Judith Allen holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Delaware. A Virginia Woolf scholar, she has taught at the University of Delaware, Penn State University, and Penn's College of General Studies. She has published articles on the writings of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, and is currently writing a book on Virginia Woolf and language.
For more information, contact Judith Allen at woolfgroup@mindspring.com.
- 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: ENGL 123.304 Magazine Journalism, Rome
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 135.305 Peer Tutor Training, Ross
- 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM in Room 202: HIST 009.301 Winston Churchill, Deveney
- 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: ENGL 88, Bernstein
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 145.301 Adv. Nonfiction Writing, Hendrickson
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop, Apple
- 06:00 - 08:00 PM: Suppose and Eyes Meeting in Room 209. For more information, contact Pat Green (Patricia78@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.
Wednesday, 10/24
- 6:00 PM in Dining Room: An Art Gallery opening reception for Lines of Regression, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Paul Fabozzi.
"As the information about every conceivable part of our waking lives from every angle mounts and the structures of organizing this data become more complex, the body retreats. This work mirrors that retreat but at the same time celebrates what, for me, is the cornerstone of being—the simple act of breathing as I move through space."
- Paul Fabozzi
Paul Fabozzi received his BFA from Alfred University in 1989 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993. His paintings and works on paper have been included in numerous solo and group shows throughout the United States and Europe, including exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, G.W. Einstein Company in New York, the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia, and the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna, Austria. His work is included in many private and public collections, including the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Fidelity Investments, and the University of Pennsylvania, the Forest City Commercial Group, and the San Diego Museum of Art. Awards include a 2005 fellowship in an anthology of writings on contemporary art — titled Artists, Critics, Context: Readings in and around American Art Since 1945 — published by Prentice-Hall in 2002 and is currently the chair of the Department of Fine Arts at St. John's University in Queens, NY.
Jeremy Sigler is a University of Pennsylvania alumnus and received an MFA in sculpture from UCLA in 1996. He is a professor in the Foundations and Painting Departments at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He has had exhibitions in New York, Mexico City, Maryland, Germany and California, and has published work in Inflatable Magazine, Oona Stern's Zine, Zingmagazine, and Lacanian Ink.
For more information, contact kwhartgallery@gmail.com.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 156.301 Writing from Photographs, Hendrickson
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010.302 Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry, Levin
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, 10/25
- 7:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: MACHINE presents TXTual Healing by Paul
Notzold.
TXTual Healing is a series of interactive projects that encourage public participation through text messaging from mobile phones. It looks at the cell phone as a device not just to remove oneself from a physical space, but to interact with and explore it. http://www.txtualhealing.com/
Download a recording of this event here.
- 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: ENGL 125.304 Magazine Journalism, Rome
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 135.305 Peer Tutor Training, Ross
- 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM in Room 202: HIST 009.301 Winston Churchill, Deveney
- 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: ENGL 88, Bernstein
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 135.301 Creative Nonfiction Writing, Apple
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 117.301 The Arts and Popular Culture, DeCurtis
- 07:00 PM - 10:00 PM in Room 202: Advanced Screenwriting with Andy Wolk.
- 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM in Room 209: Meeting for Penn Appetit, for more information contact Emma Morgenstern at emmarm@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, 10/26
12:00 PM: Alumni Mentor lunch with Randi Hutter Epstein.
Randi Hutter Epstein, MD is an adjunct professor of journalism at the The Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University as well as a medical journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph and several national magazines. She is currently working on a book to be published by W.W. Norton about the medical and cultural history of childbirth. Previously, she worked as a medical reporter for the London bureau of the Associated Press, and was the London bureau chief for Physician's Weekly. In 1996, she was a Reuter Foundation Fellow for Medical Journalists at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. She received her M.D. from Yale University, her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 130.402 Adv. Screenwriting, Wolk/Martin
- 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM in Room 202: Advanced Screenwriting with Andy Wolk.
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 202: Advanced Screenwriting with Andy Wolk.
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, 10/27
- 12:00-7:00PM in the Pub Room: First Call meeting. For more information, contact Shira Bender (shiratb@gmail.com).
- 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM in Room 202: Advanced Screenwriting with Andy Wolk.
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, 10/28
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Reserved for Penn Review
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, 10/29
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House with host Michaela Majoun. A Holiday Show retrospective, "From Vaudeville to Video: 1812 Celebrates 100 Years of Comedy," with member of 1812 Theater Productions. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu or call (215) 573-9748.
Jennifer Childs is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of 1812 Productions. For 1812 she has conceived and directed The Big Time, Another Big Time, Like Crazy Like Wow, Something Wonderful Right Away, Always A Lady, Double Down, and This Is The Week That Is. She is an 11 time Barrymore nominee, winning the 1996 Best Supporting Actress in a Play award for the Wilma's Escape From Happiness and the 1999 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Theater Artist. Jen was most recently seen in Dex and Julie Sittin' in a Tree at Arden Theatre Company and is currently performing The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe at 1812 Productions. She a member of the board of directors at Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation and is an instructor at The University of the Arts.
Tony Braithwaite is a local actor, teacher, director and comic who has appeared in six holiday shows for
1812 (The Big Time, Another Big Time, Like Crazy Like Wow, Something Wonderful Right Away, Double Down, and This is
the Week That Is). Last year here in Philly, Tony appeared in his one-man show Look Mom, I'm Swell! at the Arden
Theatre and played Michael in Rounding Third for Montgomery Theatre. Tony has worked with Act II Playhouse,
Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals, People's Light and Theatre Company, and
others. Tony's upcoming projects this fall/winter: playing Geogre Burns in Act II Playhouse's Say Goodnight Gracie;
returning to reprise This Is the Week That Is; directing the Mask and Wig show at The University of Pennsylvania in
January; and directing his 26th show at his beloved alma mater, St. Joe's Prep: Death of a Salesman. Tony is a
four-time Barrymore Emcee, a two-time nominee, and one-time winner (The Big Bang).
Mary Carpenter has worked in Philadelphia Theatre for the last fifteen years as an actress, director, teacher
and writer. She has performed with a variety of Philadelphia Theatre Companies- including 1812 Productions, InterAct Theatre
Company, Freefall Productions and more. Mary has been a performing and teaching member of ComedySportz for fifteen years
where she has also served as Artistic Director. She started her improvisation training in Chicago at the Players Workshop of
Second City, and has also trained with Keith Johnstone, founder of Theatresports, Mick Napier of Annoyance Theatre, and Jeff
Wirth. She's performed with a variety of improvisation troupes over the past ten years in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles
and now Philadelphia. She founded Freefall Productions, a theatre company specializing in improvisational performance. Under
Freefall she has directed 13 Skirts (Philadelphia's only all-women's comedy ensemble), Choosical (a full length
improvised musical) and The Mom Squad. She holds Theatre degrees from Northwestern University and The London Academy of Music
and Dramatic Arts.
Dave Jadico is a Philadelphia based actor/musician who has studied with Commedia dell' Arte Maestro Antonio Fava
and physical comedians Fred Garbo and Bill Irwin. In the past eight years he has worked with many regional companies
including 1812 Productions, The Arden Theatre, The Walnut Street Theatre, InterAct Theatre Company, Mum Puppettheatre, Lantern
Theatre, and Brat Productions. He has been nominated for three Barrymore Awards including Outstanding Original Music for Mum
Puppettheatre's Mad Woman of Chaillot, Outstanding Scenic Design for Lantern Theatre's The Foocy, and most
recently Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical in Mum's The Fantasticks. He has appeared in two Barrymore Award
winning ensembles, 1812 Productions' Batboy: The Musical and in the Lantern Theater's Comedy of Errors. He also
received a Jim Henson Foundation Grant with the group Ugly Stepsister for his scenic design on Anthony Lawton's The
Foocy. He is a company member of Philadelphia's premiere long-form improv group LunchLady Doris and he got his start in
Philadelphia theatre with ComedySportz, Philadelphia's weekly improvisational show in which he is the Artistic Director and
long time performer going on fifteen years with the company.
Scott Greer has worked for The Walnut Street Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Wilma Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre
Company and many other local theatres. He has appeared in six 1812 Holiday shows including The Big Time, Another Big Time,
Like Crazy Like Wow, Something Wonderful Right Away, Double Down, and This Is The Week That Is. He is the winner
of three Barrymore Awards including: Best Leading Actor (InterAct Theatre Company's It's All True), Best Actor in a
Musical (Arden Theatre Company's Baby Case), and the F. Otto Haas Award. He received a nomination for best new play
for his adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, which 1812 produced in 2003 Fringe
Festival. Scott has also appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra as a solo vocalist.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 158 Advanced Journalistic Writing, Polman
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 115.301 Adv. Fiction Writing Workshop, Rile
- 6:00 - 7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn Appetit. For more information, contact Emma Morgenstern at emmarm@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, 10/30
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6PM in the Arts Cafe: Comics expert Douglas Wolk and graphic
novelist Hans Rickheit.
Douglas Wolk is an author and critic who has written on comics and popular music for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork Media, and other prestigious publications and websites. He has published two books, the first a volume in the 33 1/3 series on James BrownŐs Live At The Apollo (2004, Continuum Books) and Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean (2007, Da Capo Press). His blog can be found at lacunae.com. In Reading Comics, Wolk advances the idea that comics are not a failed attempt at cinema, not a derivative form of literature, but an entirely new and modern form of art. Because comics have only recently begun to grapple with their artistic potential, there is not yet a critical language sufficient to fully discuss them, a problem that Wolk's book begins to solve. Wolk's engaging, approachable, and thorough criticism is rooted in deep knowledge of and love for his subject, making it an ideal read for those who have been lifelong comics readers and also for those looking for an way to approach their daunting and rich world for the first time
Hans Rickheit has recently come to Philadelphia from Boston, where he had been dedicated member of the Zeitgeist Gallery, a Cambridge art space for local fringe artists. Throughout his career Rickheit has self-published his own cartoons, made several short films, made experimental noise music, and, in partnership with Gallery owner Alan Nidle, helped to publish Cambridge Inferno, a showcase for local cartoonists. Rickheit's art is concerned with the surreal, the disquieting transition from the waking world to the nightmare. In 2001 these artistic concerns found their most coherent form in Chloe, his Xeric Foundation award-winning first graphic novel. In Chloe, the titular girl's search for her runaway dog serves as the departure point for Rickheit to explore themes of alienation, mutation, sexual transgression, mutation, and the philosophy of creativity itself, all presented through his own distinctively horrific imagery. Rickheit continues to publish his work in his own Chrome Fetus magazine, currently through issue six, and is presently working on The Squirrel Machine, his second graphic novel. His website, containing further information and examples of his art, can be found at zeitgeist.numachi.com/chromefetus/main.html.
Wolk's portion will be a brief lecture in which he outlines the multitude of forms that comics can take, the ways in which they tell stories, and the present state of the comics world. Rickheit's portion of the program will consist of a slide show of some of his stories accompanied by avant garde violin, and will be followed by a brief talk by the artist. For those interested in learning more about comics, this program will provide an unusual opportunity to both see and learn about the art form.Download a recording of this event here.
- 09:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: ENGL 123.304 Magazine Journalism, Rome
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 135.305 Peer Tutor Training, Ross
- 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM in Room 202: HIST 009.301 Winston Churchill, Deveney
- 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: ENGL 88, Bernstein
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 209: ENGL 145.301 Adv. Nonfiction Writing, Hendrickson
- 01:30 PM - 04:30 PM in Room 202: ENGL 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop, Apple
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Radium, a fiction writing group. For more information please contact Sam Allingham at same@writing.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, 10/31
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Spookeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: ENGL 009-329 Behind the Veil, Ward
- 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM in Room 202: COML 009 Shakespeare's Teenagers, Weissbourd
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 202: ENGL 156.301 Writing from Photographs, Hendrickson
- 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM in Room 209: ENGL 010.302 Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry, Levin
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.