participants npsturman@yahoo.com (Nathan Sturman G75) istvan@pobox.com (Istvan Szucs C95) ss400im@earthlink.net (Stephen Sokolow C77) doohickey98@hotmail.com (Robin Briggs C89) clopez@christies.com (Christina Lopez C97) ofi@webzone.net (Mary Ann Burdett C89) jordanr@prengineers.com (Robert E. Jordan C69) bethgarst@aol.com (Beth Garstkiewicz C99) albertopuertorico@yahoo.com (Alberto Fernandez C74) amira@runbox.com (Amiri Hanafi) lsaint@earthlink.net (Lily L. Saint C97) friedland_daniel@hotmail.com (Daniel Friedland CAS99) jeremy@kraybill.net (Jeremy Kraybill CAS97) steve_e_mclaughlin@yahoo.com (Stephen McLaughlin W00) epeskol@hotmail.com (Elizabeth P. England-Skolnick C00) jordhorn@hotmail.com (Jordana Horn) jbstier@earthlink.net (Byron Stier) RLibros@aol.com (Ruth Libros C 41) elana_weinstein@hotmail.com (Elana Weinstein) m.streight@att.net (Mary Eileen Streight) pkuklinski@mar-law.com (Pam Kuklinkski 01) randi817@hotmail.com (Randi Feigenbaum Marshall) profklevin@aol.com (Kate Levin GAS) writer_sps@hotmail.com (Sheryl Simons) scapjak@aol.com (Nancy Segall) lauracaryn@yahoo.com (Laura Dave) Ingrid.Philipp@senecac.on.ca (Ingrid Philipp) meg_lenihan@hotmail.com (Meg Lenihan) uramess2@yahoo.com (Joan Kim 97) lizseeley@aol.com (Elizabeth Carter Seeley) GirgentiJ@mail.courttv.com (Jody Girgenti) MSquid@aol.com (Joe Williams C 72) mtwill@grove.iup.edu (Michael Williamson) missybaird@home.com (Melissa Baird C86) cmbille@aol.com (Connie Bille) harry.groome@verizon.net (harry groome) kmoss@monmouth.com (Kevin Moss) coolandintuitive@go.com (Mary D'Aiuto) lloydlr@patriot.net (Rob Lloyd) EHSNagy@aol.com (Elizabeth Nagy parent of Julia) schindli@lasalle.edu (Dottie Schindlinger) belwag@bendcable.com (Hilda Beltran Wagner) swalker (Shawn Walker) lisa.norman@eudoramail.com (Lisa Norman 95) mfp@mediaone.net (Mark Poster) chazanow@home.com (Leon Chazanow) JGold1332@aol.com (Jan Goldman 60) plax@att.net (Neil Plakcy) DEVINEFDS@aol.com (Denise Devine W90) sjani@itsa.ucsf.edu (Sunil Jani C97) mollie_gordon@hotmail.com (Mollie Gordon 00) friedland_daniel@hotmail.com (Dan Friedland) AnnaliseCarol@aol.com (Annalise Carol) 104571.613@compuserve.com (Bob Martin)

To members of "book group 9," discussing poetry by Penn women: As you know, we begin on September 15. You need only have an email address that you can read fairly regularly. No other preparation is necessary. As we begin discussing each new poem, I will send it out by email and I will also point you toward a web version of the poem. And then we will discuss them, poem by poem. It's that simple. If you are not used to reading a lot of email each day, brace yourself. Al Filreis The Class of 1942 Professor of English Faculty Director, the Kelly Writers House University of Pennsylvania << www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis >> ------------------ To the participants in book group number 9 of the Kelly Writers House Alumni Book Group project: It's time for us to start on a month-long journey across the range of recent poetry written by women poets associated with Penn. In doing so we at the Writers House help to mark the 125th year of women at Penn--a celebration that will culminate in early November here on campus. Before we begin to use this listserv (electronic mailing list) to discuss the first poem, let us introduce ourselves. Our listserv is a single email address whbook9@english.upenn.edu . Anyone who sends a message to that address will be sending it to everyone on this list including himself or herself. Since there a good number of participants in this discussion group, please try to keep your messages brief and to the point. More about listserv etiquette later. In the meantime--yes--write to us and tell us who you are, what is your relationship to Penn, and perhaps why you decided to join this discussion. Tahneer Oksman and Heather Starr, who, with me, will be leading (or, anyway, steering) the discussion, are out there as well, of course--and I'll ask Heather and Tahneer to introduce themselves. After many or most of the introductions are in, I'll begin our discussion of the first poem. I'll send the poem by email and I'll also point you toward a web page consisting of the text of the poem, and I'll pose a question to get us started. --Al Al Filreis The Class of 1942 Professor of English Faculty Director, the Kelly Writers House University of Pennsylvania Carnegie/CASE Pennsylvania Professor of the Year << www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis >> From: Steve McLaughlin Subject: Intro: Better Late Than Never? To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Hello everyone, Sorry for the prolonged delay in my introduction. I just returned from Europe this week and have been scrambling and trying to return to some sort of relative normalcy. I have been keeping up with the current discussion, however, and have attempted to keep up with what has already gone on (Al, you were not kidding about email volume - But, have no fear, I will get there!) And so the intro: I am a recent Penn grad (WH '00) now living and working just outside of Philadelphia. While at Penn, I majored in Marketing and used every single free elective that I had to take English classes, including Screen and Play Writing, and continue to write as much as possible. I am familiar with the Kelly Writer's House due to my involvement with WXPN (I worked in various capacities for both the World Cafe and the Student run sports program, and still am the sound engineer for the Gene Shay Folk Show) and wish that I were more involved during my time at Penn. Is that too much? Hope not, but I do hope to become more involved in the discussions, as my interest and knowledge of poetry in unformed but hopefully budding. Thanks Steve From: "Robert E. Jordan" To: Subject: Introduction Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:32:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 I am Robert E. Jordan, class of 1969 from the Towne School. I now live in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia. Bobby From: Scapjak@aol.com Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:50:37 EDT Subject: yet another introduction To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk I, too, have been waiting to add my intro to the pile. My name is Nancy Segall and I live in Evanston,Illinois where I am a social worker working with mothers and their infants and young children and also teach child development in the Chicago City College system. I may have the distinction of being the only one of you not to be an alum of Penn - but my husband is (Wharton '68), and both my sons are (College '96 and '99) and I have a fourteen year old daughter coming up the line who still thinks college means Penn. I have no pretensions to the level of literacy so very impressively represented by those of you we have heard from already. My only claim in this area is that my younger son has just entered the Writers Workshop at Iowa, so, if osmosis counts .... I was also an alumverser several years ago which I enjoyed immensely, even as one who was primarily a lurker. I am looking forward to a stimulating and engaging exchange. I thank Al for inviting me to be a part of this. Hello everyone, My name is Tahneer Oksman and, as Al mentioned, I will be helping him and Heather Starr to 'steer' this discussion. I'm a very recent Penn alumn (class of 2001) and a lover of poetry and prose. During my years at Penn, I co-hosted a bi-monthly open-mic night at Writers House called 'Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes." My other affiliations with Writers House included being an undergraduate TA for Al's English 88: Contemporary Poetry course. These days, I work part-time at the house as Al's assistant. You can catch me there 'live' Monday through Thursdays in the daytime. I spend the rest of my time attempting my own writing, which currently consists mainly of short stories (although I write a bit of poetry, too). I'm very excited to meet all of you and to engage in what I expect will be exciting discussions. -tahneer ----- Reply-To: lisa.norman@eudoramail.com Subject: Intro Egads.In light of the nation's crisis, I have been swallowed in despair to some extent and am now surfacing. I submit my small introduction: Lisa Norman, PENN '95 grad (degrees in English and Communications). I grew up on Oahu, worked at Hawaii Public Tel evision and Montessori School, taught English in Korea, managed a B&B, wrote/photographed/edited for 4 years as a reporter and sports editor for two California weeklies, and am now the managing editor of the Real Estate Magazine, a publication based in no rthern California. Look forward to the chats...Aloha!, Lisa. ----- rom: Jody Girgenti To: "'afilreis@sas.upenn.edu'" , "'whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu'" Subject: an intro from NYC Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:48:41 -0400 wow. due to the recent events in NYC my server at work has been down so I came back today to 200 e-mails. still sifting... this past week has been trying for us all. it seems so many people I know have lost someone close to them - 2 degrees of separation. thankfully, all of my close friends and family are safe as we all band together... anyhoots, as an emerging poet (passion and side hobby), a CAS 98 grad, an 88 alum (took it my freshman year - turned me to a major in English lit), and one of Al's former advisees, I look forward to participating in these discussions and will chime in with the next poem... ---- From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 10:56:08 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id KAA07941 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:56:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from imo-r04.mx.aol.com (imo-r04.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.100]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id KAA07926 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:55:57 -0400 (EDT) From: PROFKLEVIN@aol.com Received: from PROFKLEVIN@aol.com by imo-r04.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id r.60.13c66246 (3965) for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:55:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <60.13c66246.28d4c5f9@aol.com> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 10:55:53 EDT Subject: Re: Intro To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 114 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O Hi I'm Kate Levin--UPenn Phd 1995, Comparative Literature. I currently teach First-Year English at Barnard, and welcome any chance to continue to discuss literature with other like-minded people. I've participated in a couple of these on-line groups and they're alot of fun... From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 11:07:31 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id LAA08668 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:07:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f127.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.127]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id LAA08636 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:07:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:06:29 -0700 Received: from 130.91.118.202 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:06:28 GMT X-Originating-IP: [130.91.118.202] Reply-To: sheryl.simons@wharton.upenn.edu From: "Sheryl Simons" To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Subject: Re: Introduction of Sheryl P. Simons Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:06:28 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Sep 2001 15:06:29.0196 (UTC) FILETIME=[FF4430C0:01C13DF7] Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O I am a professional writer specializing in business and information technology who is registered with several news syndicates both print and radio. For fun, I write profiles of interesting people and cover general topics such as the new Farm-to-City market recently opened on Saturday mornings in my neighborhood of Powelton Village. In January 2002, I will conduct a seminar at Kelly Writer's House as apart of the Visiting Alumni Series. SPS ***************************** Sheryl P. Simons M.B.A. - Business/Information Technology Writer Old Quaker Building #220 3514 Lancaster Avenue Philadelphia, Pa 19104 215-382-8105 (voice) 215-573-4662 (fax) Registered Foreign Correspondent: EPNWorld - Paris, France Global Radio News - London, England Van Dusseldorp & Partners - Amsterdam United States: Faulkner Information Services...VAR Business Magazine - CMP Media...Collaboratek...Intelligent Enterprise...SAP America... Information Today...InfoCommerce Reports...Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline...The Philadelphia Daily News...The "H" Files/Historic Landmarks for Living...Options Analyst News...The Philadelphia Tribune...Advanced Radio Network (international via The Armed Forces Radio Network)...American Writer Magazine Member: National Writers Union Kelly Writers House UAW Local 1981/AFL-CIO University of Pennsylvania PR Newswire _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 11:09:09 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id LAA08768 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:09:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web14605.mail.yahoo.com (web14605.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.224.85]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with SMTP id LAA08743 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:08:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010915150857.89555.qmail@web14605.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [218.11.77.11] by web14605.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:08:57 PDT Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:08:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Nathan Sturman Subject: Introduction To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu In-Reply-To: <000b01c13df3$42592410$87cbd63f@bw6jz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O And I'm Nathan Sturman, C'72 G'75 who was around in the very early eighties as well, teaching ESL in China for the coming year (till next August) at the Beijing Foreign Studies University's seaside Beidaihe Training Centre. I'm a resident teacher/advisor etc in a compound full of university and high school aged students from all over China, a tremendously enthusiastic bunch. My daughter Naomi was over here with me for the first couple of weeks, in Beijing and Beidaihe, before going back to carry on with her high school studies in Japan. She'll be back in December perhaps for a week or two. The drop and add period is just over and I am settling down to my rather heavy teaching schedule, but I look forward to some degree of participation. Later, Nathan Sturman Beidaihe, Hebei Province, PR China ===== http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/4826/index.html http://fluffy.uoregon.edu/read/index.html http://www.angelfire.com/ns/pingyaozhuan/index.html http://www.airsailmodels.co.nz/ __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 11:13:06 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id LAA09057 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:13:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns.kibernet.hu (ns.kibernet.hu [195.56.101.185]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id LAA08814 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:09:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200109151509.RAA02077@ns.kibernet.hu> From: "Istvan Szucs" Organization: KiberNet (+36 1 457-7777) To: Subject: Introduction Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:09:34 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001A_01C13E09.579F4CD0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 Disposition-Notification-To: "Istvan Szucs" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C13E09.579F4CD0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My name is Istv=E1n Sz=FBcs. I graduated Penn in 1995 with a BAS (SEAS) = and a BS (CAS). I live in Budapest, Hungary and work for Compaq. I like = poetry, and have taken a gender studies reading seminar while at Penn. ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C13E09.579F4CD0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

My name is Istv=E1n Sz=FBcs. I = graduated Penn in 1995=20 with a BAS (SEAS) and a BS (CAS). I live in Budapest, Hungary and work = for=20 Compaq. I like poetry, and have taken a gender = studies reading seminar=20 while at Penn.

------=_NextPart_000_001A_01C13E09.579F4CD0-- From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 11:23:32 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id LAA09602 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:23:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.50]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id LAA09579 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:23:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dialup-209.246.104.13.dial1.newyork1.level3.net ([209.246.104.13]) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #2) id 15iHHi-0007VA-00 for whbook9@english.upenn.edu; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:23:10 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 4.5 (0410) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:34:55 -0400 Subject: introduction From: "Lily Saint" To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O Hi, my name is Lily Saint and I'm currently enrolled in an MFA program in poetry at the New School in New York. Additionally I teach Literature and Composition to Parsons freshman. I look forward to this "contemporary" reading. From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 11:49:04 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id LAA11111 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:49:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f57.hotmail.com [216.32.181.57]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id LAA11106 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:48:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 08:48:22 -0700 Received: from 66.65.45.90 by lw2fd.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:48:22 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.65.45.90] From: "Randi Marshall" To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Subject: Hello There! Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:48:22 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Sep 2001 15:48:22.0461 (UTC) FILETIME=[D949FED0:01C13DFD] Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O

Hi all,

I guess I'll start, since I happen to be online as Al starts things off...

I'm Randi Marshall (formerly Randi Feigenbaum, Class of 1997). I am currently a student at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, going for my master's degree in public administration. My background is in journalism (I worked for three plus years for Newsday, a daily newspaper here in NY.) I just got married in June, and we live in Forest Hills, NY (in Queens). At Penn, I was a political science and English major - but my main love was The Daily Pennsylvanian. :)

Luckily, I and my closest loved ones are fine physically, at least, after Tuesday's attack... and I'm very much looking forward to focusing a bit on poetry and this group after several days of thinking of nothing but those events.

Randi

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Randi Marshall

randi817@hotmail.com

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From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 11:55:23 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id LAA11453 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:55:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from imo-r09.mx.aol.com (imo-r09.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.105]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id LAA11445 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:55:02 -0400 (EDT) From: MSquid@aol.com Received: from MSquid@aol.com by imo-r09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id u.25.1b342074 (30965) for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:55:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <25.1b342074.28d4d3d4@aol.com> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:55:00 EDT Subject: Bits of Introduction To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 140 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O Hi There, I am Joe Williams, College '72. I participated in Al's first online poetry course, the Alumverse, several years ago, an experience which wakened the sleeping dragon, and since then have become increasingly serious about poetry, studying several years with Stephen Dunn at Stockton College while also pursuing a Masters Degree in English Literature at Rutgers, a degree complete but for the final comprehensive exam in late October. I hope that between reading for that exam and doing the current semester's work for Stephen, I'll be able to add something to this discussion. I majored in psychology at Penn, have a Masters Degree in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado, and a doctoral level degree in an unrelated field. As B/4, Joe From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 12:13:18 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id MAA13758 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:13:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id MAA13723 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:12:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from DC603R01 (1Cust125.tnt9.ewr3.da.uu.net [63.44.46.125]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA06921 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <003201c13e01$7ef02000$7d2e2c3f@DC603R01> From: "Jennis- Sokolow" To: Subject: Intro Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:11:38 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001E_01C13DDF.9249B570" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C13DDF.9249B570 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My name is Steve Sokolow( C'77).At Penn, I majored in History and = English, played water polo and spent time with Connaissance, which = brought speakers of note to campus.For the past 20 years, I have = practiced law, starting at the Manhattan DA's office. I am now at a = major pharmaceutical company as a litigator. I have take one previous online course with Al, and I look forward to = the course, which I selected because it is so completely different from = what I do every day, and also from what I usually read for fun(history). = I also need diversion from the recent horror--desperately. So for many = reasons, I look forward to our discourse. Steve ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C13DDF.9249B570 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

My name is Steve Sokolow( C'77).At = Penn, I majored=20 in History and English, played water polo and spent time with = Connaissance,=20 which brought speakers of note to campus.For the past 20 years, I have = practiced=20 law, starting at the Manhattan DA's office. I am now at a major = pharmaceutical=20 company as a litigator.

I have take one previous online course = with Al, and=20 I look forward to the course, which I selected because it is so = completely=20 different from what I do every day, and also from what I usually read = for=20 fun(history).

I also need diversion from the recent=20 horror--desperately. So for many reasons, I look forward to our=20 discourse.

&nbs= p; = ; = =20 Steve

------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C13DDF.9249B570-- From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 12:32:11 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id MAA15109 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:32:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web10104.mail.yahoo.com (web10104.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.54]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with SMTP id MAA15099 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:31:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010915163148.85193.qmail@web10104.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [155.247.166.23] by web10104.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:31:48 PDT Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:31:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Joan Kim Subject: introduction To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1308550896-1000571508=:85093" Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O --0-1308550896-1000571508=:85093 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Folks: It's a pleasure participating in another of Al's online courses. I graduated in 1997 with a masters in English and am now a first year student at Temple Law. It's a bit of a luxury having these post-graduation online discussions, and even more of a pleasure when seeing familiar names from days at Penn (Hello Kate Levin and Randi Marshall!). --Joan Kim --------------------------------- Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information inYahoo! News. --0-1308550896-1000571508=:85093 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

Folks:

It's a pleasure participating in another of Al's online courses. I graduated in 1997 with a masters in English and am now a first year student at Temple Law. It's a bit of a luxury having these post-graduation online discussions, and even more of a pleasure when seeing familiar names from days at Penn (Hello Kate Levin and Randi Marshall!).

--Joan Kim

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Donate cash, emergency relief information in Yahoo! News. --0-1308550896-1000571508=:85093-- From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 12:33:33 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id MAA15224 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:33:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.148]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id MAA15214 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:33:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from default ([24.1.158.243]) by femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010915163305.QOZJ14471.femail23.sdc1.sfba.home.com@default> for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:33:05 -0700 Message-ID: <003201c13e05$3be7f360$f39e0118@alsv1.occa.home.com> From: "Melissa Baird" To: Subject: Introduction Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:41:14 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_002F_01C13DCA.8F6789A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002F_01C13DCA.8F6789A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello All: My name is Melissa Baird and I graduated Penn in 1986 as an Urban = Studies Major - women studies minor. I received an MBA from Simmons = Graduate School of Management, Boston in 1990. I am currently Manager of = Finance and Administration for Yokohama Tire Corporation. I live in = Laguna Beach, California. I participated in Al's "alumnaverse" poetry course several years ago, = and absolutely loved it! Since then I have been writing my own poetry = while studying poetry with Lisa Glatt, a poet and short story writer, in = Long Beach, California. I love reading contemporary poetry and look = forward to this discussion.=20 Melissa ------=_NextPart_000_002F_01C13DCA.8F6789A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello All:

My name is Melissa Baird and I = graduated Penn in=20 1986 as an Urban Studies Major - women studies minor. I received an = MBA=20 from Simmons Graduate School of Management, Boston in 1990. I am = currently=20 Manager of Finance and Administration for Yokohama Tire Corporation. I = live in=20 Laguna Beach, California.

I participated in Al's "alumnaverse" = poetry course=20 several years ago, and absolutely loved it! Since then I have been = writing my=20 own poetry while studying poetry with Lisa Glatt, a poet and short story = writer,=20 in Long Beach, California. I love reading contemporary poetry and look = forward=20 to this discussion.

Melissa

------=_NextPart_000_002F_01C13DCA.8F6789A0-- From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 12:55:14 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id MAA16449 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:55:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f67.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.67]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id MAA16443; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:55:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:54:31 -0700 Received: from 207.223.53.33 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:54:31 GMT X-Originating-IP: [207.223.53.33] From: "Mollie Gordon" To: afilreis@dept.english.upenn.edu, whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Subject: Re: whbook9: now we begin Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:54:31 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Sep 2001 16:54:31.0644 (UTC) FILETIME=[171B41C0:01C13E07] Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O Hi everyone, My name is Mollie Gordon, College 2000. I graduated from Penn as an English Major and spent a year at King's College (U of London) as a Thouron Scholar finishing a MA in English Lit. My dissertation centered on a piece by a contemporary poet named Rosmarie Waldrop. Currently I am at the end of my first block of medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. As much as I love medicine, I do miss poetry (and literature) and hope that this discuusion group will prevent the part of my brain that loves the humanities from any atrophy! Looking forward to it. Take care, Mollie _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 13:04:12 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id NAA16991 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:04:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kraybill.net ([206.67.58.131]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id NAA16975 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:04:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:00:35 -0400 Message-Id: <200109151300.AA44695770@kraybill.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "jeremy" Reply-To: To: Subject: Intro X-Mailer: Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O Hi all, Jeremy Kraybill, CAS '97. At penn I studied IR and chinese, and since graduation have been working in software. I'm living down in Austin and looking forward to this group. -- jeremy@kraybill.net From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 13:18:56 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id NAA18238 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:18:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.51]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id NAA18233 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:18:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pavilion ([12.94.22.54]) by mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010915171813.SRXS26461.mtiwmhc26.worldnet.att.net@pavilion> for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:18:13 +0000 Message-ID: <002a01c13e0a$3fcbcb00$36165e0c@pavilion> From: "Neil Plakcy" To: References: <003201c13e05$3be7f360$f39e0118@alsv1.occa.home.com> Subject: Introduction Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:17:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0027_01C13DE8.B7C78DA0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0027_01C13DE8.B7C78DA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, all-- My name is Neil Plakcy, and I graduated in 1979 as an English major. I = also have an MBA (basically unrelated to my life at present, though it = did in many ways form the way in which I think) and a master of fine = arts in creative writing, from Florida International University here in = Miami, where I live. I also took Al's first Alumverse course in poetry, and enjoyed it a = great deal. I am currently a technical writer and web developer for a = catalog retailer, and I also do a lot of freelance writing. I'm now = writing an article for the Gazette about campus a capella groups and MP3 = music, and encourage anyone with knowledge of those to e-mail me = directly. Neil ------=_NextPart_000_0027_01C13DE8.B7C78DA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =FF=FE<=00!=00D=00O=00C=00T=00Y=00P=00E=00 =00H=00T=00M=00L=00 = =00P=00U=00B=00L=00I=00C=00 = =00"=00-=00/=00/=00W=003=00C=00/=00/=00D=00T=00D=00 =00H=00T=00M=00L=00 = =004=00.=000=00 = =00T=00r=00a=00n=00s=00i=00t=00i=00o=00n=00a=00l=00/=00/=00E=00N=00"=00>=00= =0D=00=0A= =00<=00H=00T=00M=00L=00>=00<=00H=00E=00A=00D=00>=00=0D=00=0A= From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 14:59:57 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id OAA28575 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:59:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from afilreis@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id OAA28569; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:59:54 -0400 (EDT) From: afilreis@dept.english.upenn.edu (Al Filreis) Message-Id: <200109151859.OAA28569@dept.english.upenn.edu> Subject: Re: whbook9: now we begin (fwd) To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:59:54 -0400 (EDT) Cc: afilreis@dept.english.upenn.edu (Al Filreis) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23-upenn3.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O Book 9'ers: This comes from Ruth Libros, a member of our group. Be sure, everyone, to give us your full name and, if possible, where you are located currently. (By the way, Ruth and all, in order to send to the whole list you have to address your message to whbook9@english.upenn.edu. If you press reply, the message will go only to the sender.) -Al | From RLibros@aol.com Sat Sep 15 14:47:42 2001 | From: RLibros@aol.com | Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:47:26 EDT | Subject: Re: whbook9: now we begin | | You and I are the oldsters" of the class. I entered Penn in the Class of '42 | but completed all my credits in three years and a summer, so got my degree | (Major Eng. Lit., minor, Sociology) as of June 1941. I had no luck getting | into the Columbia School of Journalism (women were not welcome in those days) | so got married and tried to help my husband (Col '37. Med '41) win WWII. He | came back alive and then we embarked on raising a family. No career for me - | but I have been a "writer" all my life; began as family chronicler via | letters to my parents (starting at age 8) and now I'm working on my | autobiography. I've only occasionally been published; I lack the guts to | send out endless ms. for rejection. Call me coward if you wish; but just | living in the world today without cracking up takes intestinal fortitude. I | hope to find real escape and stimulation of the brain cells through this | course offering. Ruth | From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 15:21:43 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id PAA00119 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:21:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f123.pav1.hotmail.com [64.4.31.123]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id PAA00096 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:21:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:20:51 -0700 Received: from 24.45.201.78 by pv1fd.pav1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:20:51 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.45.201.78] From: "Betsy England" To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Subject: about me... Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:20:51 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Sep 2001 19:20:51.0820 (UTC) FILETIME=[887FCAC0:01C13E1B] Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O Hi all! I graduated from Penn in 1995 with a BA in English. My concentration was in the novel, so I'm looking forward to studying and discussing poetry here. I live in Weston, CT with my husband David. We just recently moved out of center city Philadelphia, and I miss Penn and the excitement of academia that lingered with me there even after graduation....so it's nice to be a part of this. For the last year I've been working on a novel, and am working as a graphic designer. I look forward to contributing and, even more, hearing what everyone has to say! -Betsy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 15:51:43 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id PAA01775 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:51:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from imo-m01.mx.aol.com (imo-m01.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.4]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id PAA01755 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:51:21 -0400 (EDT) From: DEVINEFDS@aol.com Received: from DEVINEFDS@aol.com by imo-m01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id u.64.132d23e5 (30962) for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:50:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <64.132d23e5.28d50b19@aol.com> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:50:49 EDT Subject: Introduction To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 124 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O Hi everybody. I am Denise L. Devine, a 1990 Wharton MBA grad. I am also known among friends as "the right brained CPA." I love poetry and used to write quite a bit many years ago but the demands of worklife and three wonderful children have kept me away from pen and paper for far too long. I am founder of a business having a patent portfolio directed toward innovative food and nutraceutical products. We are particularly focused on convenient, nutritional, whole organic foods for children. I live in Media, PA. I am very much looking forward to stimulating discussions to reacquaint me with my love of poetry and writing! Regards to all, Denise From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 16:45:53 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id QAA05892 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:45:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web11305.mail.yahoo.com (web11305.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.208]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with SMTP id QAA05888 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:45:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20010915204540.66706.qmail@web11305.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.28.152.144] by web11305.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:45:40 PDT Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:45:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Laura Dave Subject: introduction To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-2099853541-1000586740=:66685" Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O --0-2099853541-1000586740=:66685 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, I'm Laura - currently I live in downtown Charlottesville, where I'm a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction at Univeristy of Virginia. I graduated from Penn in '98 and since then [primarily] I have working on a colleciton of short stories and a novel. I love poetry - and am looking forward to this group. -L.D. --------------------------------- Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information inYahoo! News. --0-2099853541-1000586740=:66685 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

Hi all,

I'm Laura - currently I live in downtown Charlottesville, where I'm a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction at Univeristy of Virginia. I graduated from Penn in '98 and since then [primarily] I have working on a colleciton of short stories and a novel.

I love poetry - and am looking forward to this group.

-L.D.

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Donate cash, emergency relief information in Yahoo! News. --0-2099853541-1000586740=:66685-- From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 16:53:47 2001 My name is Alberto Fernandez. I was born and raised in Puerto Rico. I = was taught English by big strapping missionary-minded Notre Dame nuns, which were really nothing to shake a stick at. So I = learned. But then, finally figuring a joke's a joke, I went up to Penn, = where I joined the Glee Club and did pre-med, regretably in that order. = I returned to Puerto Rico because, I think, you can never go through = enough hurricanes. And so here I am. Or was, until I happily = reconnected with Penn by way of Al Filreis' online English 88v. And so = though I'm still here, I'm glad to be there. Looking forward to the = language. Alberto From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 16:59:06 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id QAA06602 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:59:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from itsa.ucsf.edu (itsa.ucsf.edu [128.218.95.21]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id QAA06571 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:58:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (sjani@localhost) by itsa.ucsf.edu (AIX4.3/UCB 8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA134322 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:58:53 -0700 Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:58:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Sunil Subhash Jani To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Subject: Introduction In-Reply-To: <64.132d23e5.28d50b19@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O Hello Book Group #9: My name is Sunil Jani. I graduated from Penn in 1997 with a degree in Biochemistry and Environmental Studies. I am currently a fourth year doctoral student at the University of California San Francisco in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology program. For my two years at Penn, I stayed at Van Pelt College house, where Al was one of the residing faculty. I am delighted at this opportunity for reading and learning beyond the piles of scientific journal articles covering my bench. Sunil Jani From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 17:12:48 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id RAA08159 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:12:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.49]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id RAA08145 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:12:27 -0400 (EDT) From: m.streight@att.net Received: from webmail.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.135.40]) by mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with SMTP id <20010915211156.MVHI21828.mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net>; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:11:56 +0000 Received: from [12.89.148.227] by webmail.worldnet.att.net; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:11:56 +0000 To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Subject: Introduction Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:11:56 +0000 X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (May 2 2001) Message-Id: <20010915211156.MVHI21828.mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net> Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O Hi My name is Eileen Streight. I really thought I would be the senior member of the group--School of Nursing '64. I teach in the Dept of Community and Corporate Programs at a local community college both in the noncredit area and out in the pharmeceutical industry. Have just completed (with my coauthor) the second edition of a text for Home Care Aides and await the photos and page proofs. Also, serve as a bereavement minister in my church and area. As many of you have stated, this course is far from what I do on a regular basis and I hope to tingle those other brain cells. Eileen From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 18:17:33 2001 Hi. I'm Jordana Horn Marinoff (hi, Randi, Al, others); College 95, Law 99. At Penn, I was executive editor of the Daily Pennsylvanian. Between law school and undergrad, I went to London School of Economics for a grad degree in international law and international relations. I got married and moved to London for a year, returning last year to practice international arbitration. I also do asylum work for refugees and am on the NYC Bar Association's Capital Punishment committee; in my spare time, I write fiction and non-fiction, including op-ed pieces. As a current New Yorker, my condolences to all of us who have suffered losses of friends and family. I look forward to rebuilding, intellectually, with all of you. It is good to meet you. Jordana _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 19:12:51 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id TAA15516 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:12:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.89]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id TAA15512 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:12:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cc188684a ([24.253.255.170]) by femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010915231222.WRXD21254.femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cc188684a> for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 16:12:22 -0700 From: "Leon Chazanow" To: Subject: Introductions Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:14:37 -0400 Organization: Editing and Revising Services Hi, I'm Leon Chazanow, Col '72 (but as Joe and others know, I didn't finish until '73 because my papers were too long, so I'll keep this short). I participated in alumverse and since then have changed my major work focus from editing others' work--2 HarperCollins titles in late '90s, the Parade All-America sports stories currently---to teaching high school English in an inner-city school in Roselle, NJ. My love for reading/discussing poetry and literature was ignited at Penn and continues to grow. Happy to be along on this one!!! -Leon P.S. - See, Joe, only 100 words here. ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01C13E1A.A9E34440 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:20:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:20:32 EDT Subject: Introduction To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O My name is Beth Garstkiewicz, C'99, and oddly enough, I too live in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia (There are other "Penn people" here?!) I am currently a literacy intern teaching first grade at Willard Elementary in Kensington, and pursuing my masters in elementary education at Temple. I decided to take part in this because 1) I love poetry and 2) I never had the opportunity to take English 88 or 288 while at Penn, so I'm hoping this is a reasonable electronic facsimile. Greetings all. :-) From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 21:04:02 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id VAA21581 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:04:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jefferson.patriot.net (IDENT:root@jefferson.patriot.net [209.249.176.3]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id VAA21571 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:03:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from oemcomputer (pool180-209.patriot.net [209.249.180.209]) by jefferson.patriot.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f8G13T222864 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:03:30 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20010915210221.0084f650@pop.patriot.net> X-Sender: lloydlr@pop.patriot.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:02:21 -0400 To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu From: Rob Lloyd Subject: Who I am Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O I graduated in 1979 (history major, English minor) and have been working in the Washington, DC area ever since. I used to read a lot of poetry in high school and college, then stopped completely until last year, when I reconnected with my friend from college Karen Drayne, another woman poet from Penn who encouraged me to start reading poetry again. (I'm trying to get her to participate in this discussion also; if she's unable to make it, check out her work at my web site, www.creamband.com and click on Writing). I joined the discussion to continue my "reading tour," as I have 20 lost years to make up for. P.S. For devotees of Susan Howe, I just received an email from her saying she's OK but she had a harrowing story to tell from her relatives in New York. Rob Lloyd To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu (Penn women book group) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:12:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23-upenn3.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O Hello all -- It's wonderful to read the introductions posted so far and get a sense of where people are, geographically & otherwise. I'm one of the group facilitators, along with Al and Tahneer. I've been very much looking forward to this discussion, for lots of reasons -- I was the Program Manager at the Kelly Writers House from 1998 until this past July (3 years) and have just moved this summer to Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico. For those of you familiar with the area, we're about a half hour north of Taos. (I'll bet ya a Hershey bar that no one on this list is here in the village with me -- and would happily be proven wrong!) I've definitely already missed being part of a lively and engaged writing and poetry-loving community, and now with all that's going on since Tuesday I've also been missing community, period. I write poetry and essays myself, and have found volunteering, working at, and being a part of the Writers House world has enormously broadened & enriched not only what I read but what I think about & how I listen. When I first got involved 4+ years ago I helped get an experimental poetry discussion group going so I could read & discuss with others the work of writers who were coming to read at the House -- so that sort of brings me full circle to this discussion, I guess! Other details -- I graduated from Barnard College in NYC after growing up in Portland, Oregon. My partner Christy is studying to be a midwife, so that's why we're here in beautiful New Mexico. I'm working as a line cook at a great restaurant in town, and loving it, and I listen to Democracy Now every weekday at 4pm. I'm looking forward to learning more about each other, poetry, and the world, together! Best, Heather -- Heather Starr P.O. Box 2735 Ranchos de Taos, NM 87557 hstarr@english.upenn.edu From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sat Sep 15 23:48:09 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id XAA02685 for whbook9-outgoing; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 23:48:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from webshield ([208.139.24.66]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id XAA02643 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 23:47:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from webshield ([208.139.24.99]) by webshield with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:49:55 -0700 Received: FROM belwag BY webshield ; Sat Sep 15 20:49:55 2001 -0700 Message-ID: <004101c13e64$6420afc0$f0aee4d8@bendcable.com> From: "Hilda Wagner" To: Subject: me, hilda Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:02:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_003E_01C13E29.B7A96DC0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Sep 2001 03:49:55.0984 (UTC) FILETIME=[A63D5900:01C13E62] Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_003E_01C13E29.B7A96DC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hey there: I'm Hilda Beltran, Col '87, English. I write mostly fiction, = some freelance personal narrative-type stuff--got my MFA in prose from = Univ. of Michigan a few years after Penn. I live in Central Oregon = now--love it here for all the wrong reasons (i.e., our whopping seven = electoral votes), though virtual Philadelphia remains my cultural oasis. = I'm looking forward to this, thanks to all of you for being out there!! From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sun Sep 16 10:42:59 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id KAA07006 Message-Id: From: "Weinstein, Elana" To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Subject: Introduction - Back in a changed NYC Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:42:04 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C13EBD.C0B40990" Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C13EBD.C0B40990 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi everyone. My name is Elana Weinstein and I graduated from Penn in '92. I majored in English, minored in Psychology. I live in Manhattan, on the Upper West Side, and work downtown on Wall Street. I was not in NY when the disaster happened. Oddly enough, I was in Italy with my husband on our belated honeymoon. (We were married in June -you too Randi - congrats!) We flew back yesterday and I am amazed that we got home (a long day at the airport and in the air). The city is strong but eerily hushed. As a native New Yorker I am deeply saddened and distressed by the news. . .I literally feel like it has rocked my world. It was very strange being in another country when it happened. I look forward to discussing poetry with all of you - some familiar names, some new ones. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C13EBD.C0B40990 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"

Hi everyone. My name is Elana Weinstein and I graduated from Penn in '92. I majored in English, minored in Psychology. I live in Manhattan, on the Upper West Side, and work downtown on Wall Street. I was not in NY when the disaster happened. Oddly enough, I was in Italy with my husband on our belated honeymoon. (We were married in June -you too Randi - congrats!) We flew back yesterday and I am amazed that we got home (a long day at the airport and in the air). The city is strong but eerily hushed. As a native New Yorker I am deeply saddened and distressed by the news. . .I literally feel like it has rocked my world. It was very strange being in another country when it happened.

I look forward to discussing poetry with all of you - some familiar names, some new ones.

------_=_NextPart_001_01C13EBD.C0B40990-- From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sun Sep 16 11:52:39 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id LAA11510 for whbook9-outgoing; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:52:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from user (dul-028.linix.co.uk [195.219.7.28]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with SMTP id LAA11486 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 11:52:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <00a401c13ec5$16885f40$0407dbc3@user> From: "Shawn Walker" To: "whbook" Subject: hiya Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 16:25:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0083_01C13ECC.30C127A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0083_01C13ECC.30C127A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rounding out the international poetry-loving community, I'm writing from = Norwich, England, which is about 2 hours north-east of London. I've worked with Al on English 88 courses in the past, on-line and = otherwise, and am excited to see a few familiar names. (Glad the = hurricanes haven't gotten you yet, Alberto.) I graduated from Penn in 96, when I was part of the original Writers = House planning committee, and I stayed on for a year as Resident = Coordinator before coming to England to complete an MA in Creative = Writing (poetry). Like Heather, I'm missing the flesh and blood Philly = community and so am grateful to be on this list. However, I'm warning you that my contributions will probably be quite = erratic, as I am expecting my first baby -- due this Friday! cheers, Shawn From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sun Sep 16 13:33:20 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id NAA19241 for whbook9-outgoing; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:33:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from imo-d05.mx.aol.com (imo-d05.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.37]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id NAA19199 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:32:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Cmbille@aol.com Received: from Cmbille@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id u.135.1a5c1b9 (3869) for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:32:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <135.1a5c1b9.28d63c29@aol.com> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 13:32:25 EDT Subject: I'm Conni To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_135.1a5c1b9.28d63c29_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10540 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O --part1_135.1a5c1b9.28d63c29_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, I am delighted to rejoin my fellow Alumversers as well as each of you I had not known before. Wow, what a great bunch you are! I'm a 1968 English major (my unacknowledged dual major was in Anti-war and Women's Rights Applied Sciences). I did 2 years of graduate study in English at Emory and hold a Masters in Educational Media. I've done a variety of professional writing - features, scripts, technical, scholarly, and oh yes poetry - and some work in the visual arts. I'm part of a nonprofit theater production company in my spare time. I currently manage instructional design (web-based instruction, etc) for a large consulting company. I live in Philadelphia but, having grown up on the Jersey side of the Hudson within sight of the WTC my heart is there this week. - Conni --part1_135.1a5c1b9.28d63c29_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All,

I am delighted to rejoin my fellow Alumversers as well as each of you I had not known before. Wow, what a great bunch you are!

I'm a 1968 English major (my unacknowledged dual major was in Anti-war and Women's Rights Applied Sciences). I did 2 years of graduate study in English at Emory and hold a Masters in Educational Media. I've done a variety of professional writing - features, scripts, technical, scholarly, and oh yes poetry - and some work in the visual arts. I'm part of a nonprofit theater production company in my spare time.

I currently manage instructional design (web-based instruction, etc) for a large consulting company. I live in Philadelphia but, having grown up on the Jersey side of the Hudson within sight of the WTC my heart is there this week.

- Conni
--part1_135.1a5c1b9.28d63c29_boundary-- From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sun Sep 16 18:14:37 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id SAA13218 To: "women's poetry" Subject: intro Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O my name is mark poster (coll. '67, med. '71, parent '04). i live in west newton near boston where i practice psychiary. i am an english 88 alum and looking forward to reconnecting with people, campus and poetry thru this exchange. mark From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Sun Sep 16 20:05:47 2001 A woman An American A Canadian A Jew, a Unitarian, a Buddist A single mother, a daughter=20 (mom lives in Perth Amboy, N.J.) Penn graduate CW '69 (history) Alumverser professora of Gen Ed at Seneca College Born in the Dominican Republic for whole story see http://people.senecac.on.ca/ingrid.philipp From: JGold1332@aol.com Received: from JGold1332@aol.com by imo-r08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id r.143.1b39e36 (16787) for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:24:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <143.1b39e36.28d6b8c7@aol.com> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:24:07 EDT Subject: Another Introduction To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Hello Everyone, I'm Jan Goldman, CW 60, GSAS 62. I was an English major at Penn and was on the Penna Literary Review, where I published poetry while an undergraduate. After a hiatus of many years, I began writing poetry again recently and have just had a poem published in the Jewish Women's Literary Annual. Professionally, I work as a clinical psychologist in private practice in the Phila suburbs. I live in Elkins Park, ten miles due north of center city Phila., with my husband Nick. I took the original alumverse course with Al and must be a glutton for punishment, since I am back for another round --part1_143.1b39e36.28d6b8c7_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Everyone,

I'm Jan Goldman, CW 60, GSAS 62. I was an English major at Penn and was on the Penna Literary Review, where I published poetry while an undergraduate. After a hiatus of many years, I began writing poetry again recently and have just had a poem published in the Jewish Women's Literary Annual.

Professionally, I work as a clinical psychologist in private practice in the Phila suburbs. I live in Elkins Park, ten miles due north of center city Phila., with my husband Nick. I took the original alumverse course with Al and must be a glutton for punishment, since I am back for another round --part1_143.1b39e36.28d6b8c7_boundary-- From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Mon Sep 17 08:30:52 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id IAA14234 for whbook9-outgoing; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:30:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mar1.marlaw.com ([146.145.25.131]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with SMTP id IAA14226 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:30:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by MAR1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:26:54 -0400 Message-ID: <713036F87E35D511A93500B0D0AB420511080F@MAR1> From: Pamela Kuklinski To: "'whbook9@english.upenn.edu'" Subject: Hi everyone Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:26:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O My goodness, I opened up my email this morning, and there are so many new names and messages! I am happy to meet you all and read your introductions. I am a recent Penn grad [2001] and I am still living in Philly. I'm working as a paralegal at a criminal defense firm here in town and I am fascinated by the work...While I was at Penn I worked at the WH briefly and was on the Hub; hopefully, I can pop in this year for a hub meeting or two. I enjoy writing just about anything, but mostly critical essays about books and poetry. I'm also a modern dancer and I try to choreograph and perform in the city when good luck strikes me. I am very excited to 'talk' to you all soon... Pam Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:12:51 -0400 From: harry groome X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD BA45DSL (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poetry Group Subject: Introduction Hi - I'm Harry Groome and graduated from Penn in 1963 with a BA in English Litrature. I also have an MFA in Writing from Vermont College, and write fiction and an occasional bad poem, so I'm here to learn. From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Mon Sep 17 09:39:13 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id JAA24831 for whbook9-outgoing; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:39:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f242.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.242]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id JAA24822 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:39:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 06:38:31 -0700 Received: from 64.136.6.70 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:38:31 GMT X-Originating-IP: [64.136.6.70] From: "Daniel Friedland" To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Subject: Introduction Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:38:31 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Sep 2001 13:38:31.0762 (UTC) FILETIME=[0A7F2B20:01C13F7E] Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O My name is Daniel Friedland. I was a student of english at Penn, and graduated in 1999. I'm looking forward to a lively discussion and an overwhelming flood of e-mail. -Dan Received: from mail1.sas.upenn.edu (afilreis@MAIL1.SAS.UPENN.EDU [128.91.55.24]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id KAA28283 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:00:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from afilreis@localhost) by mail1.sas.upenn.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1/SAS.05) id f8HE0sC18043 for whbook9@english.upenn.edu; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:00:54 -0400 (EDT) From: afilreis@sas.upenn.edu (Al Filreis) Message-Id: <200109171400.f8HE0sC18043@mail1.sas.upenn.edu> for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:15:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Lizseeley@aol.com Received: from Lizseeley@aol.com by imo-d01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id r.15d.1166e54 (17084) for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:14:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <15d.1166e54.28d75f52@aol.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:14:42 EDT Subject: Introduction To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_15d.1166e54.28d75f52_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10535 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O --part1_15d.1166e54.28d75f52_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am Elizabeth (Carter) Seeley, class of 1960, Wharton (Economics) and the University of Virginia Law School (1963). I live in Southport, Connecticut and I practice law, mostly commercial matters, in Westport. English literature has always been my most compelling interest. I have always felt that there is a very unusual energy at Penn and I welcome the opportunity to participate in this Writers House program with Al Filreis and you all. Liz --part1_15d.1166e54.28d75f52_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am Elizabeth (Carter) Seeley, class of 1960, Wharton (Economics) and the University of Virginia Law School (1963). I live in Southport, Connecticut and I practice law, mostly commercial matters, in Westport. English literature has always been my most compelling interest. I have always felt that there is a very unusual energy at Penn and I welcome the opportunity to participate in this Writers House program with Al Filreis and you all.

Liz --part1_15d.1166e54.28d75f52_boundary-- From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Mon Sep 17 10:45:57 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id KAA07163 for whbook9-outgoing; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:45:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from siaag2ad.compuserve.com (siaag2ad.compuserve.com [149.174.40.134]) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) with ESMTP id KAA07149 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:45:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mailgate@localhost) by siaag2ad.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-1.12) id KAA15293 for whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:45:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:44:36 -0400 From: Robert Martin <104571.613@compuserve.com> Subject: Introduction: Bob Martin To: Poetry Group Message-ID: <200109171044_MC3-E000-DCC9@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by dept.english.upenn.edu id KAA07151 Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk Status: O My name is Bob Martin. I am a 1980 Wharton MBA grad working in Hong Kong. I have taken an on-line poetry course with Al before and so I am doubly excited. I look forward to getting to know you and engaging in great discussions. Bob Martin From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Mon Sep 17 11:22:33 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id LAA11817 for whbook9-outgoing; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:22:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f188.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.188]) From: "meg lenihan" To: whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Subject: Introduction Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:21:41 -0700 Hi everyone, My name is Meg Lenihan and I graduated from Penn with a degree in English in 1991. I now live in New York city where I work for Barnes & Noble.com. After this weeks' tragic events, I'm looking forward to Al's class, reading some insightful poetry, and sharing/discussing your thoughts and ideas. Best, Meg _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From whbook9-owner@dept.english.upenn.edu Mon Sep 17 11:28:29 2001 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dept.english.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/SAS.05) id LAA13152 Hi. My name is Cristina T. Lopez. I graduated from Penn in 1997 majoring in English and Communications. I write poetry and non-fiction and have just completed my first creative non-fiction book entitled Finding Francis. I took a lot of film-and-literature type classes at Penn and I would love a chance to explore some poetry. I'm a native New Yorker still living here now and glad to see so many others out there who made it through. My thoughts and prayers to those who did not. -----Original Message----- To the participants in book group number 9 of the Kelly Writers House Alumni Book Group project: It's time for us to start on a month-long journey across the range of recent poetry written by women poets associated with Penn. In doing so we at the Writers House help to mark the 125th year of women at Penn--a celebration that will culminate in early November here on campus. Before we begin to use this listserv (electronic mailing list) to discuss the first poem, let us introduce ourselves. Our listserv is a single email address whbook9@english.upenn.edu . Anyone who sends a message to that address will be sending it to everyone on this list including himself or herself. Since there a good number of participants in this discussion group, please try to keep your messages brief and to the point. More about listserv etiquette later. In the meantime--yes--write to us and tell us who you are, what is your relationship to Penn, and perhaps why you decided to join this discussion. Tahneer Oksman and Heather Starr, who, with me, will be leading (or, anyway, steering) the discussion, are out there as well, of course--and I'll ask Heather and Tahneer to introduce themselves. After many or most of the introductions are in, I'll begin our discussion of the first poem. I'll send the poem by email and I'll also point you toward a web page consisting of the text of the poem, and I'll pose a question to get us started. --Al Al Filreis The Class of 1942 Professor of English Faculty Director, the Kelly Writers House University of Pennsylvania Carnegie/CASE Pennsylvania Professor of the Year << www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis >> From: "Robin Briggs" To: Subject: Introduction Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:17:11 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Sep 2001 17:18:08.0031 (UTC) FILETIME=[B82A42F0:01C13F9 C] Sender: owner-whbook9@dept.english.upenn.edu Precedence: bulk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002A_01C13F7B.0F29F5E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sorry, I have been lurking for a few days, waiting for the avalanche of = email to ebb a bit. I'm Robin Briggs, CAS '89, GSFA '92. My undergrad degree is in History = of Art, grad degree in City Planning. I work as an independent software = developer in the Philadelphia suburbs. I don't have a tremendously = strong background in either literature in general or poetry in = particular, but as I spend my day doing number-crunching work, I prefer = to spend my non-work time immersed in language and art. I'm afraid I may = take more from these discussions than I can meaningfully give back, but = I am very excited and intrigued to be participating in this forum. Thanks for "listening", and enjoy your Monday.