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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Thursday, 2/1
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 2/2
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 202: Greenhouse Project. The Greenhouse
Project is co-sponsored by 88.5 WXPN and the Kelly Writers House.
- 9:30 PM in Calgary, Canada: PhillyTalks 18 (33 pages), with poets C.
S. Giscombe and Barry McKinnon. Responses by Wayde Compton, George
Elliott Clarke, giovanni singleton. Now available as pdf download at:
http://phillytalks.org. Friday Feb. 2nd, 7:30 pm Mountain Time (9:30 pm
Eastern) NB: The live component of PhillyTalks 18 will take place at the
Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), not at its usual
venue, Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia. To participate in the live
audiocast of the event, for which 25 spaces are available on the server,
sign-in *immediately* at the webcasts mailing list at:
http://phillytalks.org/listserv/webcasts
[ The Event ] Cecil Giscombe and Barry McKinnon were invited to begin a dialogue on/across their work, for this newsletter and the "PhillyTalks" project. Poets Wayde Compton, George Elliott Clarke and giovanni singleton were then invited to respond to the fact of a Giscombe/McKinnon talk, and specifically to their exchange-they had about a week in which to formulate responses: not a lot of time.
[ The Poets ] C.S. Giscombe's recent book is the travelog, Into and Out of Dislocation (New York: North Point, 2000): "it's an African-American archetype-culture occurs in landscape- and here I am, the first generation born across the Ohio River (and born, admittedly, bourgeois), still having the impulse, north!, though it's metaphorized into something other than the sane set of reasons-for-migration that belonged to those who went earlier" (136). His recent poetry book is Giscome Road (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive, 1998); before that, Here (Dalkey, 1994), whose poems "move in intricately woven patterns (like the candid language of risky dreams) [...] post-personal yet not quite public" (Clarence Major). The poems featured in PhillyTalks 18 are from Inland, soon to appear from Leroy Books (San Francisco). He teaches at Penn State U, State College, Pennsylvania. Barry McKinnon is author of PulpLog (Prince George, BC: Caitlin, 1991)-winner of the Dorothy Livesay poetry prize for that year and his first commercially available book since The the. (Toronto: Coach House, 1981). The latter was nominated for a Governor General's award. His most recent book: The Centre (Caitlin, 1995); its last section, Arrythmia, also won a prize, the bp Nichol Chapbook Award, 1994. Red Deer College Press re-issued his 1975 (limited-edition) book, I Wanted to Say Something, in 1990. McKinnon lives in Prince George, BC, publishes broadsides and books through his Gorse Street Press and teaches at the College of New Caledonia.
** Thanks to the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, for their continued support of PhillyTalks, and the University of Calgary English Department and Cultural Diversity Institute as well as The Canada Council for supporting #18 in particular - which is co-curated by Fred Wah, who initiated their reading and made their event financially possible to do as a "PhillyTalks" in Calgary. PhillyTalks is curated by Louis Cabri; PhillyTalks Online is co-curated by Aaron Levy, in conjunction with Slought Networks [http://slought.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.
Saturday, 2/3
- 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative, a literacy-enrichment program for second-graders from Lea Elementary School
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 2/4
- 6:00-8:00 PM in the living room: Writing Advisors' Pizza Party!
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, 2/5
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 381.401 (Cary)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.302 (Rile)
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club, a staff writing workshop
- 7:30-10:00 PM in Room 209: Fish Writing Group
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, 2/6
- 6:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Zachary
Braiterman on "Martin Buber and Wassily Kandinsky:
The Content of Revelation and the Spiritual Logic of Abstract
Expression."
Zachary Braiterman teaches modern Jewish thought and culture in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University. The author of (God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought (Princeton, 1998), Professor Braiterman is currently a fellow at the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. There he is at work on a new manuscript, tentatively entitled, Modern Jewish Art Thought: Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and German Aesthetics.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 (Hendrickson)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board
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, 2/7
- 6:00 PM: Planning Committee Meeting and Gathering
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115 (Cary)
- Tentative: 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group
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, 2/8
- 5:30-7:30 PM: Opening reception & reading featuring visual work by
Kate Egan and
Deirdre Murphy, and a reading by poet Cort Day. Work by Kate
Egan and Deirdre Murphy will be on display at the Writers House from
February 2-28, 2001. A collaborative event sponsored by the
Department of Fine Arts and the Kelly Writers House.
Deirdre Murphy received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania this past spring. Her work has been exhibited in the Vita Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and in various galleries in the Philadelphia region.
Kate Egan studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and is getting her M.F.A. at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a winner of the Philadelphia Prize. Her work can be viewed at Pierogi 2000.
Cort Day's book of poems, The Chime, will be published by Alice James Books in 2001. Cort Day's poems have appeared in Poetry Daily, AGNI, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, and Verse, and in many other publications. He lives in Philadelphia and works in New York City.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 209: The Play's The Thing
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 2/9
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 202: Greenhouse Project. The Greenhouse Project is co-sponsored by 88.5 WXPN and the Kelly Writers House.
- 2:00-4:00 PM in Room 202: Write On planning meeting
- 4:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, A Poetry Working Group
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, 2/10
- 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative, a literacy-enrichment program for second-graders from Lea Elementary School
- 3:30-11:00 PM in the Pub Room: Punchbowl layout
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, 2/11
- 6:00-11:00 PM in the Pub Room: Punchbowl layout
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, 2/12
- 6:30 PM: The Writers House Fellows Program hosts a reading and
talk by Tony
Kushner. For
more information, click here.
Winner of a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, among many other
distinctions, Tony Kushner has written A DYBBUK, OR BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
(1997), HYDRIOTAPHIA (1987) and--his most famous work--ANGELS IN AMERICA: A
GAY FANTASIA ON NATIONAL THEMES (1991, 92, 95).
Watch the reading of this event here.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 381.401 (Cary)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.302 (Rile)
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club
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, 2/13
- 10:00 AM: The Writers House Fellows Program hosts Tony Kushner.
RSVP required to whfellow@english.upenn.edu. For
more information, click here
Watch the discussion of this event here.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 (Hendrickson)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Rooms 202 and 209: Nonfiction Writing Group meeting
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board
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, 2/14
- 3:00-4:45 PM: "Loved Poems and Poems About Love," at
the Kelly Writers House.
from left to right: Marty Moss Coane, Herman Beavers, Bob Perelman (click on the image)
Join your fellow lovers for a reading and conversation featuring beloved poems about LOVE. Poet Ed Hirsch, Professor Max Cavitch, Professor Bob Perelman, Professor Susan Stewart, Professor Herman Beavers, Professor Greg Djanikian, Philadelphia Inquirer Commentary Page Editor and poet John Timpane, WHYY "Radio Times" Host Marty Moss Coane, and Poet Kathy Lou Schultz will begin the program by reading their favorite love poems; then they'll engage us all in a dialogue about "love poetry" and its swirl of formal, generic, thematic, stylistic, historical, and ideological characteristics and concerns. The occasion (like love itself) might be as playful or as serious (as sexy or as ethereal, as brutal or as sentimental) as participants want it to be. Co-sponsored by the Penn Humanities Forum and the English Department. (Followed by Penn Humanities Forum program featuring Ed Hirsch at the Veranda, 3619 Locust, at 5:00 PM.) - 6:00 PM and on: Private program with the new Penn Trustees
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115 (Cary)
- 5:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Trustees Gathering
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, 2/15
- 6:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Tracey McNulty
on "Hospitalitiy after the Death of God: Pierre Klossowski's "Les lois
de l'hospitalite."
Tracey McNulty is an Asst. Prof of Romance Studies at Cornell University. She has published essays on Jacques Lacan, Pierre Klossowski, and the Hebrew Bible and is currently completing a manuscript entitled The Hostess, My Neighbor, on hospitality and the critique of metaphysics.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group hosts a presentation by Alice Brittan
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 2/16
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 202: Greenhouse Project. The Greenhouse Project is co-sponsored by 88.5 WXPN and the Kelly Writers House.
- Afternoon throughout the House: Write-On, a writing program for 7th graders
- 4:30-7:00 PM: Careers in Magazine Journalism,
co-sponsored by Penn's Career Services.
Listen to an audio recording of this program.
Join us for a mini-conference with Penn alumni Stephanie Tuck (InStyle), Eliot Kaplan (Hearst Magazines), O.J. Lima (Vibe), Beth Kwon (Fortune Small Business, Time Out), and Caroline Waxler (E-Company, Time Warner). Each of the panelists will talk for about 5-10 minutes, focusing first on their own personal experiences in the magazine industry and sharing their insights about how to make a career in magazine journalism. Panelists will also speak about the magazine business itself: how they all perceive the role of magazines in our culture and economy, how they feel about being affiliated with the industry. Q&A will be followed be a reception.
Stephanie Tuck is a senior editor at InStyle magazine. She began her career at W magazine as assistant beauty editor. She wrote and edited beauty stories and wrote feature stories for Women's Wear Daily. After that she was a freelance writer for the Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, Mademoiselle, YM and other magazines and the fashion/beauty editor at a test of teen Elle (the test failed.) In 1995 she become beauty editor of InStyle and in 1998 a senior editor.
Eliot Kaplan is the Editorial Talent Director for Hearst Magazines, a unique position of scouting and recruiting the nation's top editors, writers and art directors for the company's 16 magazines and start-up ventures. These magazines include Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar and O:The Oprah Magazine. Kaplan himself has had a distinguished career in magazine editing. In his seven years as editor-in-chief, Philadelphia Magazine won two National Magazine Awards--the field's Pulitzer. Media Week named him one of a handful of "Young Editors to Watch" during the next generation, and alumni of his tenure went to work for more than a dozen national magazines, including Vanity Fair, New York, GQ, Men's Health, Sports Illustrated, Money, Men's Journal, ESPN and Cosmopolitan. Before joining Philadelphia, Kaplan was managing editor of Gentlemen's Quarterly. As a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Kaplan was co-editor of 34th Street, and was mentored by the late, great Nora Magid and her non-fiction English courses.
O.J. Lima is from Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated from Penn with a BA in English and a minor in Spanish in 1994. He moved to NYC and earned an MA in education from Columbia Teachers College. He's done some middle school, high school and junior college teaching but mainly he has been working in magazine publishing for the past 6 years and change at Vibe, 17, Blaze magazines. He's been a research chief, music editor, managing editor and now a special projects editor.
Beth Kwon is a staff writer at Fortune Small Business magazine, and a columnist for Time Out New York. She began her career in journalism as an intern at Philadelphia Magazine while she was at Penn. After graduation she taught English for two years in South Korea, then moved to New York and started working in the letters department at Newsweek. From there she moved into editorial and eventually covered technology, and wrote political and trend items for the front of the book Periscope section. Before coming to Fortune she made a brief stop at the online financial site TheStreet.com where she covered IPOs and Internet culture. Beth also publishes a personal zine, called BK1.
Caroline Waxler is the Markets Writer at eCompany Now magazine in San Francisco. She joined the publication from Forbes in New York, where she had worked for five years, first as a reporter and then as a writer and stock columnist. She helped start eCompany--a spin-off of Fortune and one of the most successful magazine launches for Time Inc--defining the magazine's investing and personal finance coverage as its Markets Editor. Now that the magazine is past its launch phase, she will be focusing on writing finance and investigative feature stories. She began her journalism career at Penn as the editor of Punch Bowl and an intern at Philadelphia Magazine. After graduation, she worked in Newsweek's letters department, where she also contributed fashion trend pieces to the "Periscope" pages as well as wrote for the lifestyle section.
- Tentative: 12:00-3:00 PM in the Pub Room: Punchbowl layout
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, 2/17
- 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative, a literacy-enrichment program for second-graders from Lea Elementary School
- 4:00 PM: The Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents readings by
Brenda McMillan and Molly Russakoff
Brenda F. McMillan's poetry and fiction has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Schuykill, and Callaloo, and she has work upcoming in Mad Poets Review. She has won many poetry contests and read in many area venues. She currently teaches English at Communicty College of Philadelphia.Molly Russakoff has been a presence in the Philadelphia poetry community for over 20 years. She was a recipient of a Pew Fellowship for Poetry in 1995 and an Associate Editor of the Drunken Boat Literary Journal in 1993. Ms. Russakoff was a teaching assistant for the Jack Kerouac Naropa Institute for Disembodied Poetics. She has published a chapbook of poems titled Poverty Queen, and she has published poems in a number of journals and magazines, including the Paris Review and American Poetry Review.
- Tentative: 3:30-11:00 PM in the Pub Room: Punchbowl layout
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, 2/18
- Tentative: 6:00-11:00 PM in the Pub Room: Punchbowl layout
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, 2/19
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House: a one-hour word and
music radio show hosted by Michaela Majoun. Join us in the live
audience!
Live at the Writers House is a monthly one-hour word and music radio show that takes place at the Kelly Writers House and airs on 88.5 WXPN-FM. This show will honor African-American writers and artists who have contributed to our shared literary heritage. Featuring readings and performances of original work and comments by AMINA GAUTIER, CARLOS GOMEZ, MATT HART, BRANDY DURHAM, LOIS MOSES, SOLADE THORPE, ROBERT TO'TERAS, and SARAH ST. VINCENT!
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 381.401 (Cary)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.302 (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, 2/20
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Hollywood Club
The Hollywood Club is the only undergraduate group on Penn's campus with the explicit intent of helping undergraduates interested in film meet each other and work together to break into the entertainment industry. Another goal of the club is to help facilitate and encourage screenwriting and filmmaking on Penn's campus. Collaborators are encouraged to meet and share ideas at club meetings and then head out and put their ideas onto film.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 (Hendrickson)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board
- 8:00-10:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Hollywood Club meeting
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/21
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. This week's Speakeasy will feature a short performance and then accompaniment by Penn's Musicians Against Homelessness.
- 9:45 AM-12:00 noon in the Arts Cafe: WXPN meeting
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115 (Cary)
- Tentative: 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Manuck-Manuck, a fiction writing group
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, 2/22
- 12:00 noon-1:30 PM in the dining room: Join us for a lunchtime
conversation with
novelist A.S. Byatt. RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Lunch will be provided.
Organized in collaboration with the Walnut Street West Branch of
the Philadelphia Free
Library.
A. S. Byatt is author of the novel Possession, the national bestseller and 1990 Booker Prize winner (soon to be a film). She has taught English and American literature at University College, London, and is a distinguished critic and reviewer. Her other fiction includes The Virgin in the Garden; Still Life; Angels and Insects and Elementals, and most recently, The Biographer's Tale. - 6:00 PM: The Theorizing in Particular program featuring John Caputo has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 27, at 6:00pm. Please join us then!
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle
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, 2/23
- 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 202: Greenhouse Project. The Greenhouse Project is co-sponsored by 88.5 WXPN and the Kelly Writers House.
- Afternoon throughout the House: Write-On, a writing program for 7th graders
- 4:00 PM: English 88 extra session in the Arts Cafe
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/24
- 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative, a literacy-enrichment program for second-graders from Lea Elementary School
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 2/25
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 FM WXPN. This show honors African-American writers and artists who have contributed to our shared literary heritage. Featuring readings and performances of original work and comments by AMINA GAUTIER, CARLOS GOMEZ, MATT HART, BRANDY DURHAM, LOIS MOSES, SOLADE THORPE, ROBERT TO'TERAS, and SARAH ST. VINCENT
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, 2/26
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 (Filreis)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 381.401 (Cary)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135.302 (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, 2/27
- 6:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents John Caputo,
"For
the Love of the Things Themselves: Derrida's Hyper-Realism."
John D. Caputo is the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University where he has taught since 1968. He is the author of On Religion, forthcoming this Spring from Routledge, and has recently published More Radical Hermeneutics: On Not Knowing Who We Are (Indiana, 2000), which continues his project of building a working relationship between hermeneutics and deconstruction. He has also recently co-edited God, the Gift and Postmodernism (Indiana, 1999), which is a collection of studies based upon a series of conferences he has co-directed at Villanova featuring Jacques Derrida in dialogue with Jean-Luc Marion and other major postmodern religious thinkers. He is the author of Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida (New York: Fordham University Press, 1997), The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion without Religion (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997), and many other books on postmodern ethics, Heidegger, and Foucault. He is past Executive Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and Editor of the book series, "Perspectives in Continental Philosophy" (Fordham University Press). He is past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, a past member of the National Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association, and of the Executive Committee of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 009.301 (Gautier)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 88 (Filreis)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in Room 202: English 293/AMES 359 (Gold)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 (Hendrickson)
- 3:00-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)
- 5:30-7:00 PM in Rooms 202 and 209: Nonfiction Writing Group meeting
- 8:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Film Advisory Board
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, 2/28
- 6:00 PM: Alt Poetries, Alt Pedagogies: a reading by poet
Joan Retallack, followed by a collaborative
exploration of the relationship between avant garde poetry and
alternative
pedagogies. Why is it more productive to teach experimental poetry in an
experimental way?
complete program (audio) (2:05:00): MP3 program segmented by content
complete program (video) (2:07:07): MP4 and on YouTube
Ann Lauterbach has written that "for readers interested in the best contemporary writing, Joan Retallack's AFTERRIMAGES is a good place to begin, continue, or end." Retallack's books of poems also include the How To Do Things With Words (1998), Icarus FFFFFalling (1994), among others. Her work is widely anthologized and collected, and she has published an extraordinary range of essays and interviews. She is the Co-Director of Bard College's Institute for Writing and Thinking and under the institute's auspices hosted an important conference in 1999 on relations between alternative poetics and alternative pedagogies.
- 11:45-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 rescheduled (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 (Hendrickson)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115 (Cary)
- Tentative: 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group
- 7:00-8:30 PM in Room 209: The Lacanian Reading and Study Group
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.