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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Monday, 1/1
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen 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, 1/2
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
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, 1/3
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
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, 1/4
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
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, 1/5
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
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, 1/6
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, 1/7
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, 1/8
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen 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, 1/9
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a Book Release Party in Celebration of Bob Perelman's IFLIFE.
Bob Perelman has written 16 books of poetry, including Ten to One: Selected Poems (Wesleyan UP), The Future of Memory (Roof Books), Playing Bodies, a painting/poem collaboration with Francie Shaw (Granary Books) and, most recently, IFLIFE (Roof Books). His critical books are The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein and Zukofsky (California UP) and The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (Princeton UP). He has edited two collections of poets' talks: Hills Talks and Writing/Talks (Southern Illinois UP). He is a Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. You can hear an mp3 recording of this and other readings by Bob Perelman on his PennSound page.
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Announcing the publication of IFLIFE, Bob Perelman, Roof Books (www.segue.org; ISBN: 1-931824-21-5; $13.95). Cover by Francie Shaw.
If irony is due for rehabilitation in the tragic foreground of this explosively contingent world, it is undergoing humorous and painful metamorphoses between Perelman's "if" as frighteningly constant prefix to all experience and the "if" that's literally embedded in the linguistic form of "life." But there's more to if than irony: poet and world in intimate and harsh collisions, creating the most expansive range across genres and forms of responsibility I've seen in a long time. Simultaneously on the edge of sadness and optimism, urbane, angry, tragicomic, political, playful, perplexed, wise -- IFLIFE is full of brilliant surprises even from one who has led us to expect as much. -- Joan Retallack
IFLIFE presents some of the wittiest, politically prescient -- and best -- American poems of this new century. The scope of the collection is prodigious, from the war in Iraq to domestic life, from the state of literary theory to Greek myth from Hegel and Freud to parents and babies. And guiding us through the torrent of cultural signs raining down on us as if with the wrath of God is one of the most reliable voices in recent poetry. Bob Perelman, who is sardonic and wise, makes the world more apprehendable, if not a better place, with each passing poem. -- Charles Bernstein
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
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, 1/10
- 7:00 PM in the Dining Room: Art Gallery Reception for "Photography by Didier Clain," curated by Didier Clain and Peter Schwarz.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
- 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes meeting. For more information contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@earthlink.net).
- 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM in Room 209: Steak, a ficition group. For more information, contact Moira Moody at momoody@gmail.com.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 1/11
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Ars Nova presents John Szwed of
Yale University and pianist/composer Dave Burrell, "The Jazz
Avant-Garde and Jelly Roll Morton".
John Szwed taught at the University of Cincinnati, Lehigh University, Temple University, and then was director of the Center for Urban Ethnography and Professor of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1982 he began teaching at Yale, where he has served as Director of Graduate Studies and Acting Chair in Anthropology, as well as Acting Chair of African-American Studies. He has also served as Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor at Columbia University. In recent years John F. Szwed has published several other books: Space is the Place: The Life and Times of Sun Ra in 1997, So What: The Life of Miles Davis in 2002, Jazz 101 in 2000, Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture in 2005, Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul in 2006, and Doctor Jazz, a book included with the CD set, Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax in 2005, for which he was awarded a Grammy in 2006.
Dave Burrell graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 1965. He has contributed to nearly 150 recordings including pivotal works such as Archie Shepp's Attica Blues, Pharoah Sanders' Tauhid, Marion Brown's Three for Shepp, and Grammy Award-winner David Murray's Lovers and Ballads. A recipient of the Pew Fellowship in Jazz Composition, David Burrell's Master Classes include Conservatoire Municipal, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. Recent releases include Expansion (High Two Recordings), with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille, which was nominated as the Village Voice's #2 Jazz album of 2004, as well as the reissue of 1970's After Love (Univeral Records) featuring Roscoe Mitchell. His new trio, DB3, includes bassist Michael Formanek (Tim Berne's Bloodcount, Uri Caine, Elvis Costello) and drummer Guillermo Brown (David S. Ware Quintet, Vijay Lyer, DJ Spooky). Their debut studio recording featuring new compositions inspired by Body and Soul, Oscar Micheaux's 1925 silent film starring Paul Robeson, will be released Fall 2006.
This event was recorded live, and the recording is now available for download. To listen, click here.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
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, 1/12
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
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, 1/13
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, 1/14
- 5:00 PM in Room 202: A Write-On tutor meeting. For more information, contact Jamie Alter at jalter@sas.upenn.edu.
- 6-7:00 PM in Room 202: F-Word meeting. For more information, contact Kristin Williams (kew2@sas.upenn.edu).
- 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM in Room 209: Excelano Auditions. For more information, contact Lindsey Rosin lindsey.rosin@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.
Monday, 1/15
- No classes: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen 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, 1/16
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Poetry Reading by Brian Kim Stefans and Sueyeun Juliette Lee.
Brian Kim Stefans has published several books of poetry including Free Space Comix (Roof Books, 1998), Gulf (Object Editions, 1998, downloadable at ubu.com) and Angry Penguins (Harry Tankoos, 2000), along with several chapbooks, most recently What Does It Matter? from Barque Press. Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics, a collection of essays, poetry and interviews, appeared in 2003 from Atelos. His newest books are What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School, 2006), collecting over six years of poetry, and Before Starting Over: Selected Writings and Interviews 1994-2005, to be published in September, 2006, by Salt Publishing. He is the editor of the /ubu (“slash ubu”) series of e-books at www.ubu.com/ubu and the creator of arras.net, devoted to new media poetry and poetics, where most of his work, including his own series of Arras e-books, can be found. His internet art and digital poems, such as "The Truth Interview (with Kim Rosenfield)" and the "Flash Polaroids" appear at Ubu, Rhizome, How2, Jacket and Turbulence. The Dreamlife of Letters was published by Coach House Books. These and many other works can all be found at arras.net.
Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up three miles from the CIA. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Chain, The Columbia Poetry Review, 26, and Glitterpony. Her online chapbook Trespass Slightly In is available from Coconut Press (www.coconutpoetry.org) and her latest chapbook Perfect Villagers (Octopus Books) is due out in December of 2006. She edits Corollary Press, a small chapbook series of innovative work by writers of color (www.corollarypress.blogspot.com), and her first book Underground National should be out in late 2007. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is currently at work on a Ph.D. in English Literature at Temple University.
You can hear an MP3 recording of the program, or see the PennSound author pages of Brian Kim Stefans and Sueyeun Juliette Lee
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group meeting. Contact Pat Green at patricia78@aol.com for more information.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
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, 1/17
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
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, 1/18
- The Mind of Winter: a Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Gathering
Each January the Writers House hub beats the midwinter doldrums with a community celebration of wintry writing and warming food.
To hear a recording of this event or read about previous "Mind of Winter" celebrations, click here. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu).
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| This event is featured in Eric Karlan's NOTES FROM THE GREEN COUCH, a series of summaries and analyses of Writers House events. Click on the image above. |
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
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, 1/19
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
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, 1/20
- 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM in the Publications Room: First Call meeting. For more information, contact Shira Bender (shiratb@gmail.com)
- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM at the Kelly Writers House: Write-On! meeting with the students from the Penn Alexander School. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 1/21
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, 1/22
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers
House with 88.5 WXPN featuring Leeway Foundation award winning
readers Thelma Shelton Robinson, Felicia Webster,
Priyank Jindal, Davina Stewart, Gwynne Sigel, and
musical guest Maudeline Swaray. Go
here to
our Live archive and listen to mp3 recordings of each of the
readers and performers on this episode.
The Leeway Foundation is committed to art-making as an integral part of social change, movement building, and anti-oppression work. The Leeway Foundation is accountable, accessible, part of, and governed by the communities that Leeway's programs support. Leeway is guided by the values of fearlessness in action, speech, and self-examination and commits to breaking down boundaries and barriers with creativity, respect, and openness to the process. The Leeway foundation funds women and trans artists creating social change in the Delaware Valley.
Thelma Shelton Robinson's goal is to do what elders in her family and neighborhood always taught her, to "keep on keeping on." For Thelma, this happens through poetic storytelling, a natural extension of herself. As a 74-year-old African American woman born and raised in South Philadelphia, her gift for storytelling was passed on to her through her father, a master storyteller. After 34 years of service with the city of Philadelphia, she retired and began pursuing her love of poetry and storytelling. Through poetic rhyme she tells stories about Black history in Philadelphia -- ranging from stories about the injustice of the Corrine Sykes trial to the boycott of Tasty-Kake products led by Black ministers to the story of the first Black men to drive trolleys -- at venues like the Afro-American museum, Painted Bride Arts Center, and Robin's Bookstore.
Felicia Webster is working on a self-propelled Self Love tour called "With love, Felicia," in which she will be performing and teaching writing workshops at women's facilities around the city of Philadelphia. Felicia hopes to encourage women to laugh out their pain, dance out their tears, cry out their joys and be inspired to write their own stories as they relearn to love themselves. Using different artistic elements such as singing, poetry, chants, personal testimonies and affirmations, the tour will reach out to and dialogue with women who are regrouping or recovering from different societal ills, focusing on shelters, rehabilitation houses, and women organizations dealing with survivors of rape and domestic violence, and using art as a healing tool.
Over the past five years, Priyank Jindal has written non-fiction and created art for the queer community. Priyank's queer art takes the form of books, zines, and sex toys - all grounded in the trans people of color community. His art functions to fill of the void of resources available for trans people of color, like his zine Transgressions which shares stories, artwork, and political essays by people of color. Transgressions enabled trans people of color activists who had not traditionally been identified as artists to participate in a project that redefines their activism as art. The zine has been used extensively as an educational tool for no-trans allies, and for trans people of color to connect with stories that resemble their own.
Davina Stewart is a performance artist and community organizer. As an organizer, she uses spoken word and performance art to create a sense of community where people feel comfortable talking about difficult issues, and as a link to different communities and issues important to her. She has worked with the Philadelphia Black Women's Health Project to create a performance piece to encourage dialogue about sexually abuse. Since 2004 she has worked with the nonprofit A Long Walk Home, an organization using art for social change, to produce "A Story of a Rape Survivor," (SOARS) to help people prevent and heal from sexual violence. Her work aims to build community, raise consciousness and alter how Black people think about themselves, their culture and society, and put forth visions of justice and empowering counter-narratives. She uses culture as a tool in her work as an organizer and teaching artist, often utilizing rap, Double-Dutch songs, hopscotch and chalking by altering their content and using them outside their usual context.
Gwynne Sigel is working on a multi-year oral history project, conducting interviews with surviving founders, family members of deceased founders, and early members of the Sholom Aleichem Club of Philadelphia. Established in 1954, during the heights of McCarthyism, by a group of 25 secular Jewish leftists, the Club is one of the last surviving organizations within Philadelphia's old Jewish left community. She will also conduct research which draws from the Club's archival materials which include: organizational newsletters, meeting minutes, tapes of educational programs, scripts of original theater productions, and photographs. From these oral history interviews, she will create a series of educational programs that will interweave Club members' personal stories with dramatizations of historical events that influenced the political context of these stories. Using this research, she hopes to create a for a writing course curriculum that will teach participants how to use oral history to document and perform stories of community and social change.
For the past 20 years, Maudeline Swaray has been writing, recording, and performing original songs for audiences in the US and Africa. Her music conveys a message of peace and unity with a specific emphasis on speaking to the Liberian community. As a Liberian, Maudeline seen first hand the impact of the ongoing war in Liberia that has killed at lease 250,000 people. She wrote and performed "Lets Come Together, Once More" in response to this experience. This song of encouragement and reconciliation was used widely in the 90's when the war was at its height, providing an anthem of hope and courage to Liberians everywhere. Maudeline's goal is to use her art to help bring about change for Liberian people, so that they may regain a sense of value that has been taken away from years of warfare. She creates songs to bring about united front, to cause an excitement that bridges the divides.
LIVE at the Writers House is taped in front of a live audience, hosted by Michaela Majoun, and airs on 88.5 WXPN. LIVE is made possible by generous support from BigRoc.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile.
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting. For more information contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.net)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 1/23
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6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading with Constance Quarterman Bridges.
Constance Quarterman Bridges lives in New Jersey. Her poetry has
appeared in African American Review, Potomac Review, and in The
Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. She is a recipient of a
fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Her book
LIONS DON'T EAT US (Graywolf, 2006) was chosen as the 2005 winner of
the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best unpublished manuscript by an
African-American poet. Judge Sonia Sanchez said, "These poems radiate a tough minded herstory/history that demands that we investigate, listen to, dance within, and defend their beauty." Poetry editor Jeffrey Shotts remarked, "LIONS DON'T EAT US is Constance Quarterman Bridges' powerful and moving account of her family, part African American, part Cherokee. Using her mother's diary and her own research as a guide, she delves into her ancestry, and produces poems that describe a national history--one fraught with adversity, slavery, and racial inequalities, but also survival, resilience, and the inheritance of family narrative."
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group meeting. Contact Pat Green at patricia78@aol.com for more information.
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: Radium writing group meeting. For more information contact Sam Allingham (same@writing.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM in Room 202: Excelano Final Auditions. For more information, contact Lindsey Rosin lindsey.rosin@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.
Wednesday, 1/24
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A celebration of Hart Crane with Susan Howe, Samuel R. Delany, and Brian Reed, moderated by Charles Bernstein and introduced by Rob Casper. This event is co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America and Temple-Penn Poetics. This event was recorded and is available in mp3 format on PENNsound.
Hart Crane was one of the great modernist poets of the second wave.
Born in 1899, he died, by suicide, in 1932. This events celebrates the
release of his Collected Poems & Selected Letters from Library of America.
Susan Howe is a poet and scholar, whose works include Europe of Trusts: Selected Poems (1990), Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974-1979 (1996), and The Midnight (2003), as well as two books of criticism, The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History (1993) and My Emily Dickenson (1985). She is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and has been a central figure in the Buffalo Poetics Program since its founding.
Samuel R. Delaney is an award-winning American science-fiction writer and a reknowned author of speculative literary criticism. His novels include Nova, The Einstein Intersection, Hogg, and Dhalgren and his essays include The Jewel-Hinged Jaw and Longer Views. Since January 2001 he has been a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University.
Brian Reed is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington. He is the author of Hart Crane: After his Lights, from the University of Alabama's Modern and Contemporary Poetics series.
Rob Casper is the Programs Director of the Poetry Society of America (http://www.poetrysociety.org), which is co-sponsoring this event.
Charles Bernstein is an internationally acclaimed poet who teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Pennsylvania, with an emphasis on modernist and contemporary art, aesthetics, and performance. He is the editor of the Electronic Poetry Center and co-director (with Al Filreis) of PennSound.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
- 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes meeting. For more information contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@earthlink.net).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 1/25
- 4:00 PM - 12:00 AM in the Arts Cafe:
Jack Kerouac's On the Road, a rollicking, stream-of-consciousness novel, burst onto the literary scene in 1957, rocketing Kerouac to fame and inspired a multi-generational obsession with "the road." On the Road, a rapid-fire adventure tale of crossing the country (and back again) solo and with friends, discovering drugs, jazz, and the "bug" of travel, became a benchmark for the Beat Generation.
Kerouac wrote the novel in a three-week marathon burst on 12-reams of paper he taped together and referred to as "the scroll." In celebration of the book, and the spirit of the book, the Writers House will host a marathon reading of our own scroll, featuring local luminary guest readers, accompanied by improvisational jazz musicians, and you! Stop by the house to listen to the novel, enjoy the jazz and jump in on the reading! If you would like to read a section of the scroll, please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Listen to a audio recording of this event: Part 1,Part 2,Part 3
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| Daily Pennsylvanian article covers our celebration of On the Road, the first annual Program Coordinator's Event in Memory of Charles Bernheimer, made possible by alumna and KWH Advisory Board member Kate Levin. |
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
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, 1/26
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
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, 1/27
- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM at the Kelly Writers House: Write-On! meeting with the students from the Penn Alexander School. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 1/28
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, 1/29
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Writing from Hot Spots," a lunch program
with David Zucchino. Cosponsored by CPCW.
Join us for a lunch program with Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent David Zucchino. Zucchino has spent most of the last five years in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, reporting for the Los Angeles Times. He is a former foreign correspondent, and, later, foreign editor, for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents Michael McKeon.
Michael McKeon is the author of The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Johns Hopkins, 2005) and The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740 (John Hopkins, 1987, 2002), which won the James Russell Lowell Prize, as well as Politics and Poetry in Restoration England (Harvard, 1975). He has also published numerous articles on 17th- and 18th-century literature and culture and on literary theory and methodology. He teaches at Rutgers University.
Listen to a recording of the program.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile.
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting. For more information contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.net)
- 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM in Room 202: Reserved for Tim Carmody's COML 009-301 class.
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, 1/30
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Theater of Transparency presents: From Paradise to Paradise: A Hypertext about Love & Jesus de Buenos Aires, films by Osvaldo Romberg. Co-sponsored by the Kelly Writers House and Cinema Studies program.
From Paradise to Paradise: A Hypertext about Love (42min) engages the historical evolution of love through the impassioned affair of Carlos and Isadora, two life-size transparent plastic humanoids acting their relationship in a surreal world of Old Master paintings, jazz ballet, and a confrontation between Wagner and Jewish klezmer. Through the course of suffering, lies, deceit, and condemnation, the relation between love and guilt disappears and everyone goes to paradise.
In addition to the screening of From Paradise to Paradise, Romberg will screen his current work-in-progress, Jesus de Buenos Aires (15mins), in which Jesus Christ faces another inquisition but this time by Lacan and Freud. Set to tango music and accompanied by images of Giotto, Jesus de Buenos Aires offers another conception of Jesus as a dissident Jew as he attempts to rehabilitate the 1960s Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara. This will be the world premiere of Jesus de Buenos Aires.
Osvaldo Romberg was born in Buenos Aires. He is a Professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a Senior Curator at Slought Foundation, where he has curated retrospectives on artists such as William Anastasi, Hermann Nitsch, and Dennis Oppenheim. He has also curated exhibitions on Faith at the Aldrich Museum and on Urbanism at White Box, New York. Before joining the curatorial team at Slought Foundation, his artwork was the subject of a 2001 symposium at the University of Pennsylvania and a volume of critical essays, Searching for Romberg (2002). He has widely exhibited as an artist at institutions including: Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Sudo Museum, Tokyo; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Museum, New York; the XLI Venice Biennial, Israel Pavilion; and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
Listen to a recording of the program.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: The Play's the Thing. For more information, contact Christine Otis (plays.2006@hotmail.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, 1/31
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
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.