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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Wednesday, 2/1
- 8 PM in the Arts Cafe: SPEAKEASY: Poetry, Prose, Anything Goes!
Open-Mic night at the Writers House. Come to perform or come to listen! This is our special Valentine's Day Speakeasy and will feature local band This Radiant Boy
This Radiant Boy is actually FIVE boys who hail from Philadelphia, PA. They play a style of music all their own, some call it heavy twee while others call it baroque soul. Regardless of what you call it, they are a rock band, and bring with them the heavy groove that Philly is notorious for pioneering. In 2004, they were given a City Paper Award as "Sneakiest Rock Freakshow" for their "crazy lyrics" with such "scifi strageness...we'll never know exactly what they're talking about." TRB just finished their third release, a full length entitled "Feelin' It: On the Motorcycle," soon to be out on the Extracurricular label. Check out www.extracurricularrecords.com or www.myspace.com/trb for upcoming releases and tour dates.
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 795.401 with Bob Perelman (perelman@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.001 with Elizabeth Scanlon
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 209: Film 009.601: Hitchcock with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes Meeting; for more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@earthlink.net).
- 7:00 PM on: Room 202 is reserved for Speakeasy use.
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, 2/2
- 6:00 PM: A reading with Maggie Robbins.
Maggie Robbins is a psychotherapist in private practice, living and working in New York City. With composer Robert Maggio, she wrote the libretto for Hearing Voices: Joan of Arc at the Stake. Her collages and assemblages have been shown from SoHo to Alberta and included in such books as M. G. Lord's Forever Barbie. She is fluent in Swahili.Suzy Zeus Gets Organized is a hilarious novel in verse about a blundering bombshell on an erratic journey to risk it all. Suzy Zeus Gets Organized was excerpted in Andrew Solomon's bestselling The Noonday Demon. The first chapter of poems is also published in Tin House literary magazine number 22.
Suzy hails from Indiana
Land of crop. Of Fords and farms.
Suzy live in New York City,
land of cops and car alarms.
Suzy lives six blocks from Harry
Touch him and she’ll break your arms.
- Suzy Zeus Gets Organized "Maggie Robbins's Suzy Zeus is a deadpan dead-on character - nobody's nice girl - whose life in hypnotic verse is boldly told. Powerful, dark, and hard to forget."
~ Naomi Wolfe"Suzy Zeus Gets Organized, by psychotherapist and collage artist Maggie Robbins, tells in pointed verse about a wild-hearted party girl with a radar for the wrong men… Desperately seeking sex and salvation, Suzy zigzags from Berlin to 'deepest Brooklyn,' from dance floor to psychiatric ward, from whiskey to holy water, in her heartfelt quest for a better self."
- Cathleen Medwick, O, the Oprah MagazineDownload a recording of this event here.
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 111.302 with Erica Hunt
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane McKinney-Whetstone (whetstones@comcast.net)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in room 202: A meeting of The Moderns. For more information, contact Benjy Kahan at (kahan@sas.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Compass meeting. For more information, contact Ari Paul (apaul@sas.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: In Words meeting. For more information, contact Grant Potts (gpotts@ccat.sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 2/3
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/4
- 1:00-3:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Penn Alexander School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Penn Alexander School to the Writers House on Saturday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@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, 2/5
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, 2/6
- 5:00 PM: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Meeting and Gathering. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Poetry Reading and Discussion of Contemporary British Poetry with Robert Hampson,
introduced by Bob Perelman
Robert Hampson is Professor of Modern Literature and Chair of the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has been part of the London innovative poetry scene since the 1970s as poet, editor and critic. In the 1970s, he co-edited the poetry magazine Alembic with Ken Edwards and Peter Barry, and he edited an occasional magazine purge in the 1990s. His own work has appeared in numerous magazines and pamphlets. Assembled Fugitives, Selected Poems 1973-1998 was published by Stride in 2001. His most recent works are C for Security and pentimento. He also co-edited (with Peter Barry) an influential collection of essays, New British poetries: The scope of the possible (Manchester university Press, 1993) and has run for a number of years the TALKS series that Bob Perelman established in London.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Front Row Theatre Co. Playwriting Contest Workshop: Join members of Front Row Theatre Co. as they do a preliminary workshop of the winning play for the Front Row Theatre Company's 2006 Playwriting Fellowship! The play, entitled "Cromwell and Monks," is by Matthew Rosenbaum.
- 2:00-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis (afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 with Richard Polman
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 5:20-7:20 in Room 202: Penn & Pencil Club, a writing workshop for Penn and Health Systems staff; For more information, email John Shea at (john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu).
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (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, 2/7
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents Lawrence Scanlon of Rutgers University. He will be giving a talk
entitled "From Faust to Antigone: Freud's Primal Horde and the Butler/ZiZek Debate."
Lawrence Scanlon is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. Professor Scanlon is the author of Narrative, Authority, and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition (Cambridge, 1994), as well as essays on medieval literature. He is currently working on a theoretical investigation of the largely unacknowledged role Christianity has played in shaping 20th-century notions of gender and sexuality. Its tentative tile is The Long Shadow of the Patriarchs: Sodomy and Incest in Medieval Writing and Postmodern Theory.
This lecture will examine the continuing influence of Freud's account of the origins of the incest taboo from Totem and Taboo in such recent works of critical theory as Judith Butler's Antigone's Claim (2000), and Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (2000), which Butler co-authored with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau. I will suggest that in current theoretical debate about the political significance of the incest taboo, feminist critics like Butler and more orthodox Lacanians like Žižek or Charles Shepherdson talk past each other in part because they have failed to appreciate how much of the explanatory power of Freud's account flows from its specific status as narrative.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-7 PM in Room 202: Latitudes, a graduate reading group in the Department of English. For more information, please contact Jeehyun Lim (jlim2@english.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/8
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading with poet Lawrence Joseph.
Poet, critic, essayist, and professor of law Lawrence Joseph was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, and received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Michigan. He also earned a B.A. and M.A English from Cambridge University. He is the author of the books of poems Into It (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Before Our Eyes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993), Curriculum Vitae (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988), and in Shouting at No One (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983), which received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. He is also the author of Lawyerland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997), a book of prose. Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowships. Married to the painter Nancy Van Goethem, Mr. Joseph lives in New York City and teaches law at St. John's University School of Law.
This reading was recorded and is available for free through PENNsound.
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 795.401 with Bob Perelman (perelman@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.001 with Elizabeth Scanlon
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 209: Film 009.601: Hitchcock with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in room 202: A meeting of The Moderns. For more information, contact Benjy Kahan at (kahan@sas.upenn.edu).
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: STEAK, a fiction group. For more information, please contact MoMoody (momoody@sas.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: Pennumbra, a science fiction/fantasy writing group for Penn students. For more information, please contact Lucy Ho (ratofsumatra@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, 2/9
- 6:00 - 9:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Launch for Open Letter Issue: Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual
Poetics.
Hosted by Barbara Cole (of SUNY Buffalo) and Al Filreis, and featuring Joshua Schuster and Kenneth Goldsmith.
In collaboration with University at Buffalo Poetics.
Kenneth Goldsmith's writing has been called some of the "most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry" by Publishers Weekly. The author of eight books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb, and the editor of "I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews," Goldsmith is also the host of a weekly radio show on New York City's WFMU. He teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive.
Join us for a celebration of the launch of the most recent issue of the Canadian journal of writing & theory, Open Letter, focusing on the work of Kenneth Goldsmith, a member of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing faculty and the Senior Editor of PennSound. A roundtable discussion on Conceptual Poetics & its impact on writing in the new century.
To hear a recording of this program in mp3 format, click here.
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 111.302 with Erica Hunt
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane McKinney-Whetstone (whetstones@comcast.net)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Compass meeting. For more information, contact Ari Paul (apaul@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 2/10
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/11
- 1:00-3:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Penn Alexander School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Penn Alexander School to the Writers House on Saturday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@sas.upenn.edu).
- 12-5:00 PM: Publications Room reserved for First Call.
- 4:30-7 PM in Room 202: Latitudes, a graduate reading group in the Department of English. For more information, please contact Jeehyun Lim (jlim2@english.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 2/12
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, 2/13
- 6:30 PM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents novelist Richard Ford. RSVP only. To RSVP, please call 215-573-9749 or email whfellow@writing.upenn.edu. Click here for more information about this event and all Writers House Fellows programs.
Watch the reading of this event here.
Watch the discussion of this event here.
- 2:00-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis (afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 with Richard Polman
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (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, 2/14
- St. Valentine's Day
- 10:00 AM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents novelist Richard Ford--brunch and interview led by Al Filreis. RSVP only. To RSVP, please call 215-573-9749 or email whfellow@writing.upenn.edu. Click here for more information about this event and all Writers House Fellows programs.
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 3-5:00 PM in the Dining Room: Talk Poets group 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, 2/15
- 12:30 - 2:00 PM : Lunch and conversation with literary agent and Penn alum Loretta Barrett. RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Loretta A. Barrett is a literary agent and president of Loretta Barrett Books, Inc. in New York. Prior to founding her own agency in 1990, she was Editor-in-Chief of Anchor Books and Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday. She is a member of the Association of Author Representatives, and has representation in every major foreign market, East and West. Ms. Barrett's nonfiction interests cover a wide range of topics. These include psychology, science and technology, religion, spirituality, current events, biography and memoir. She represents the New York Times bestseller Symptoms of Withdrawal, by Christopher Kennedy Lawford; the New York Times bestseller Mother Angelica, by Raymond Arroyo, and the international bestseller and New York Times Notable Book Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II, by George Weigel. Other notable clients include Roni Cohen-Sandler, Ray Kurzweil, Ann Douglas, Wayne Muller, and Stephen Levine. Her fiction preferences are largely mainstream and contemporary. She is particularly drawn to women’s fiction and thrillers. Clients on her current fiction list include New York Times bestseller Mariah Stewart, Dr. Gary Birken, M.J. Rose, Laura Van Wormer, Carol Goodman, Jack Kelly, and Dora Levy Mossanen. For a complete list of clients, as well as submissions guidelines, please visit www.lorettabarrettbooks.com.
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe MACHINE reading series presents
a reading and demonstration by Loss Pequeno Glazier and Jim Carpenter, hosted by Charles Bernstein.
Loss Pequeno Glazier is a poet and critic who engages deeply with the technology he uses and shares his work in lively, engaging presentations. Recent works include "Viz Etudes," a serious of performances that present a reading and projection of a number of visual, kinetic, text, and Java-based compositions for electronic space, works which mine the more pliant possibilities of e-poetry and explore the material dimensions of writing in electronic space through the use of elements such as moving text, imbedded sound files, and Java-layered text as properties of writing. Pequeno Glazier's recent books include Digital Poetics (a book of criticism) and Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorith (poetry). Pequeno Glazier is the Director of the Electronic Poetry Center (http://wings.buffalo.edy/epc), Professor and Webmaster of the College of Arts and Science, State University of New York at Buffalo. As Director of the EPC, Pequeno Glazier has worked to develop web content, making substantial poetry resources available online, and to engage the emerging multimedia environment of the Internet. For more information, and examples, see http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier.
Jim Carpenter stands outside the tradition of poetry and lovingly attacks it with hoaxing and software engineering. Jim Carpenter taught English to high school students for twelve years before abandoning the profession to pursue a career in application systems development. Since then, he has held a number of technical and management positions, all in or near computational technology, and has also started and sold a company that developed applications for the election industry. He is currently an independent applications-development consultant and a lecturer in computer programming and systems design in the Department of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He recently completed a Masters from the University of Pennsylvania for the Electronic Text Composition Project. For more info and examples, see http://slought.org/content/11207/.
The MACHINE Reading Series: Poets, fiction writers, and others have been combining the networked and computational capabilities of digital machines with the workings of literature to produce new sorts of writing that exist online and on-screen: writing that plays on the context of the Internet, requires interaction and input from the reader, and brings many different media together in new ways. MACHINE is a series in which writers of electronic literature come to the Kelly Writers House to read from and demonstrate their work, and to discuss the literary uses of the computer with area writers and members of the Penn community. The series, ongoing since February 2004, is co-sponsored by the Electronic Literature Organization.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 795.401 with Bob Perelman (perelman@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.001 with Elizabeth Scanlon
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 209: Film 009.601: Hitchcock with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6-7:30pm in Room 202: English Department's Gender & Sexuality Reading Group; for more informations, contact Stephanie Elsky (elsky@sas.upenn.edu).
- 7:30 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, 2/16
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 111.302 with Erica Hunt
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane McKinney-Whetstone (whetstones@comcast.net)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Compass meeting. For more information, contact Ari Paul (apaul@sas.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM in Room 209: In Words meeting. For more information, contact Grant Potts (gpotts@ccat.sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 2/17
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/18
- 1:00-3:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Penn Alexander School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Penn Alexander School to the Writers House on Saturday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@sas.upenn.edu).
- 4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Further Notes on Nomad Poetics with Pierre Joris
Pierre Joris is a poet, translator & essayist. Rain Taxi praised his 2001 collection Poasis for “its physical, philosophical delight in words and their reverberations.” Since then he has published two chapbooks of poetry (Permanent Diaspora and The Rothenberg Variations) & A Nomad Poetics, a collection of essays. Recent translations include volumes by Paul Celan & Pablo Picasso. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited the award-winning anthologies Poems for the Millennium. He received the 2005 Pen Award for Translation for Lightduress by Paul Celan (Green Integer).To hear a recording of this event in mp3 format, click here.
- 7:00 PM, Upstairs at the Khyber, 56 South 2nd Street, Philadelphia, PA:
Night Flag Reading Series presents Divya Victor & Pierre Joris.
Divya Victor works and learns at Temple University, Philadelphia. Coincidentally, she also lives in Philadelphia. Her work appears in _ambit: journal of poetry and poetics, canwehaveourballback., and generator.
Please note that this event is not at the Kelly Writers House.
- 12-5:00 PM: Publications Room reserved for First Call.
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, 2/19
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, 2/20
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Penning Up Opinion: Editorial writing in the age of blogs, a lunch program with Gail
Collins and Dick Polman's Advanced Journalism class
Gail Collins is the current Editorial Page Editor for the New York Times. She worked as a columnist of The New York Times's Op-Ed page since November 2000, after being on special assignment as an Op-Ed columnist writing a twice-a-week column on the 2000 presidential campaign. She joined the editorial board of The New York Times in September 1995. Collins has worked as a columnist for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News, and is the recipient of the Associated Press award for commentary in 1994. Collins is the author of America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines and Scorpion Tongues and co-wrote The Millenium Book with writer Dan Collins.
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House tapes, featuring guests Curtis Sittenfeld, Greg
Downs, Niama Williams, Gweny Love, Nathaniel Popkin and musical guest Amy Pickard.
LIVE at the Writers House airs with host Michaela Majoun. Join us for this month's LIVE at the Writers House which airs on 88.5 WXPN at 10:00 PM on Thursday, February 23, 2006!
Curtis Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep, was a national bestseller. It was chosen as one of the ten best books of 2005 by the New York Times and will be published in sixteen foreign countries. Curtis's non-fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Salon, Glamour, Allure, and on "This American Life." Her second novel, The Man of My Dreams, will be published in May.
Raised in central Kentucky, Middle Tennessee, and a end-of-the-road valley in Kauai, Hawaii, Greg Downs writes about people who are off the map and out of sight. His characters define themselves not by what they wear or where they work but by where they are. Caught up in pasts both personal and epic, his characters struggle to maintain their peculiar, grounded manners in an increasingly detached world.
Greg Downs' collection of short stories Spit Baths won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and will be published in October 2006 by the University of Georgia Press. A novel he is currently revising won the Iowa Writers Workshop's prestigious James Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award. His short stories have been published in Glimmer Train, Meridian, The Greensboro Review, Chicago Reader, CutBank, The South Dakota Review, The Southeast Review, The Literary Review, Wind, and Sycamore Review, and are forthcoming in New Letters, Black Warrior Review, and Philadelphia Stories.
Niama Leslie Williams is a poet and scholar who happily teaches literature, creative writing and composition. A doctoral candidate in African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA Ms. Williams was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She possesses degrees in comparative literature and professional writing from Occidental College and the University of Southern California, respectively.
In addition to attendance at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Ms. Williams has participated in the Hurston/Wright Writers Week and Flight of the Mind. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings, Spirit & Flame: An Anthology of African American Poetry, Catch the Fire: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century and in Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies. Her prose publications include essays and short stories in MindFire Renewed, P.A.W. Prints, Midnight Mind Magazine, Amateur Computerist, Tattoo Highway #6, Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review, and Sojourner: The Women's Forum. Her short story "Marcus Welby, M.D." won third place in the First Person Festival Writing Competition sponsored by the Philadelphia City Paper.
Of her purpose for writing Ms. Williams says: "I frequently do not err on the side of caution in my writing, but I believe in the purpose of it: to speak to the things others do not want to speak of, with the hopes of reaching that one woman, or her lover, or her friend, who refuses to deal with her pain, who hides from it, who doesn't think she'll survive it. That's the audience I hope to reach." Visit her website for downloadable audio files and more information: www.niamalesliewilliams.citymax.com.Gweny Love (www.gwenylove.com) uses poetry, dancing, and singing to connect with others and fulfill her life's work and spiritual mission. On of her main missions in life is to study and understand the mysteries of love. Gweny earned her Bachelor's degree from George Mason University in Business Communication (major) and Telecommunications (minor). Gweny Love is an award winning, certified speaker through Toastmasters’ Leadership Institute as well as the author of Getting a Grip on Things (book) and Planted by Rivers of Water (CD). She appeared on Channel 6 ABC station and the following radio programs in Philadelphia: WUSL-Power 99 FM, Philly 103.9, WDAS-105.3 FM/1480 AM, WHAT-1340 AM, WRTI -90.1 FM, WURD-900, WPEB-88.1 FM, and WPGC-95.5 FM & WPFW-89.3 FM in Washington DC. She is also the producer of the Gweny Love Underground Poetry Cafe' TV Show that comes on 5:00 p.m. everyday on Time Warner/Urban Cable. Moreover, she is the founder of the Poetry for Peace Festival & Workshop; whereas, the mission is to partner with communities, businesses, faith-based groups, schools, universities, and civic organizations is efforts to raise and sustain peace awareness, while promoting respect for humanity, natural resources, and the environment. Hence, as an independent contractor for University of Pennsylvania, Gweny has begun teaching the Poetry for Peace Workshop at Penn Alexander Elementary School. She will be implementing this curriculum at other schools, community centers, and faith-based facilities as a way to promote local, national, and international peace & understanding by addressing violence in our homes, communities, schools, and world. Gweny performed and participated in White Dog Café's Party for Peace; whereas, just a few days ago, she performed her one-woman show there for a Pre-Valentine's Night of Endearment. Go to www.gwenylove.com for more information on how you can get Gweny Love involved with your various projects, events, and initiatives.
Nathaniel Popkin (BA '91, MCP '95) is a novelist, photographer, and the author of the 2002 book Song of the City: An Intimate History of American Urban Landscape. His career has spanned environmental activism and community development, and in that field has served in various posts in West Philadelphia.
Amy Pickard sings quiet country songs that blur the lines between folk music, traditional Americana, and hate mail. A bittersweet sensibility, some yodeling, spare arrangements, and rough country flatpicking create a writing and performing style that is intimate and to the point. During live shows, her curiosity about history, ladies' boxing, and the vexing existence of David Allan Coe, Stephen Foster and other genius country/folk songwriters of limited racial consciousness replaces between-song patter with genuine conversation. She is currently recording her first solo album after playing for seven years in the country band She-Haw, with whom she released three records, including one for Glasgow-based label Shoeshine Records. Amy has also composed and performed music for Pig Iron Theatre Company, Headlong Dance Theater, Iron Age Theater Company, the Broken Hipsters, and the Jangling Sparrows.
- 2:00-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis (afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 with Richard Polman
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (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, 2/21
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: HOLD for Theorizing program: Guest TBA
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Proposals Hublet meeting. For more information, please contact Erin Gautsche (gautsche@writing.upenn.edu).
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: Latitudes, a graduate reading group in the Department of English. For more information, please contact Jeehyun Lim (jlim2@english.upenn.edu).
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group; for more information, email Pat Green at (patgreen@vet.upenn.edu).
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Radium, a fiction group. For more information, please contact Phil Sandick (psandick@writing.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/22
- 8 PM in the Arts Cafe: SPEAKEASY: Poetry, Prose, Anything Goes!
Open-Mic night at the Writers House. Come to perform or come to listen!
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 795.401 with Bob Perelman (perelman@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.001 with Elizabeth Scanlon
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 209: Film 009.601: Hitchcock with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 202: Lacan Study Group; For more information, contact Patricia Gherovici at (pgherovici@aol.com)
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: Pennumbra, a science fiction/fantasy writing group for Penn students. For more information, please contact Lucy Ho (ratofsumatra@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, 2/23
- 6:00 PM: Art Gallery reception for "NORTH PHILLY IN FOCUS: Photographs by the Youth of the Goodlands".
- 10:00 PM on 88.5 WXPN: LIVE at the Writers House airs, featuring guests Curtis Sittenfeld, Greg
Downs, Niama Williams, Gweny Love, Nathaniel Popkin and musical guest Amy Pickard.
LIVE at the Writers House airs with host Michaela Majoun. Join us for this month's LIVE at the Writers House which airs on 88.5 WXPN!
Raised in central Kentucky, Middle Tennessee, and a end-of-the-road valley in Kauai, Hawaii, Greg Downs writes about people who are off the map and out of sight. His characters define themselves not by what they wear or where they work but by where they are. Caught up in pasts both personal and epic, his characters struggle to maintain their peculiar, grounded manners in an increasingly detached world.
Greg Downs' collection of short stories Spit Baths won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and will be published in October 2006 by the University of Georgia Press. A novel he is currently revising won the Iowa Writers Workshop's prestigious James Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award. His short stories have been published in Glimmer Train, Meridian, The Greensboro Review, Chicago Reader, CutBank, The South Dakota Review, The Southeast Review, The Literary Review, Wind, and Sycamore Review, and are forthcoming in New Letters, Black Warrior Review, and Philadelphia Stories.
Niama Leslie Williams is a poet and scholar who happily teaches literature, creative writing and composition. A doctoral candidate in African American Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA Ms. Williams was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She possesses degrees in comparative literature and professional writing from Occidental College and the University of Southern California, respectively.
In addition to attendance at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Ms. Williams has participated in the Hurston/Wright Writers Week and Flight of the Mind. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Dark Eros: Black Erotic Writings, Spirit & Flame: An Anthology of African American Poetry, Catch the Fire: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African-American Poetry, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century and in Mischief, Caprice, and Other Poetic Strategies. Her prose publications include essays and short stories in MindFire Renewed, P.A.W. Prints, Midnight Mind Magazine, Amateur Computerist, Tattoo Highway #6, Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review, and Sojourner: The Women's Forum. Her short story "Marcus Welby, M.D." won third place in the First Person Festival Writing Competition sponsored by the Philadelphia City Paper.
Of her purpose for writing Ms. Williams says: "I frequently do not err on the side of caution in my writing, but I believe in the purpose of it: to speak to the things others do not want to speak of, with the hopes of reaching that one woman, or her lover, or her friend, who refuses to deal with her pain, who hides from it, who doesn't think she'll survive it. That's the audience I hope to reach." Visit her website for downloadable audio files and more information: www.niamalesliewilliams.citymax.com.Gweny Love (www.gwenylove.com) uses poetry, dancing, and singing to connect with others and fulfill her life's work and spiritual mission. On of her main missions in life is to study and understand the mysteries of love. Gweny earned her Bachelor's degree from George Mason University in Business Communication (major) and Telecommunications (minor). Gweny Love is an award winning, certified speaker through Toastmasters’ Leadership Institute as well as the author of Getting a Grip on Things (book) and Planted by Rivers of Water (CD). She appeared on Channel 6 ABC station and the following radio programs in Philadelphia: WUSL-Power 99 FM, Philly 103.9, WDAS-105.3 FM/1480 AM, WHAT-1340 AM, WRTI -90.1 FM, WURD-900, WPEB-88.1 FM, and WPGC-95.5 FM & WPFW-89.3 FM in Washington DC. She is also the producer of the Gweny Love Underground Poetry Cafe' TV Show that comes on 5:00 p.m. everyday on Time Warner/Urban Cable. Moreover, she is the founder of the Poetry for Peace Festival & Workshop; whereas, the mission is to partner with communities, businesses, faith-based groups, schools, universities, and civic organizations is efforts to raise and sustain peace awareness, while promoting respect for humanity, natural resources, and the environment. Hence, as an independent contractor for University of Pennsylvania, Gweny has begun teaching the Poetry for Peace Workshop at Penn Alexander Elementary School. She will be implementing this curriculum at other schools, community centers, and faith-based facilities as a way to promote local, national, and international peace & understanding by addressing violence in our homes, communities, schools, and world. Gweny performed and participated in White Dog Café's Party for Peace; whereas, just a few days ago, she performed her one-woman show there for a Pre-Valentine's Night of Endearment. Go to www.gwenylove.com for more information on how you can get Gweny Love involved with your various projects, events, and initiatives.
Amy Pickard sings quiet country songs that blur the lines between folk music, traditional Americana, and hate mail. A bittersweet sensibility, some yodeling, spare arrangements, and rough country flatpicking create a writing and performing style that is intimate and to the point. During live shows, her curiosity about history, ladies' boxing, and the vexing existence of David Allan Coe, Stephen Foster and other genius country/folk songwriters of limited racial consciousness replaces between-song patter with genuine conversation. She is currently recording her first solo album after playing for seven years in the country band She-Haw, with whom she released three records, including one for Glasgow-based label Shoeshine Records. Amy has also composed and performed music for Pig Iron Theatre Company, Headlong Dance Theater, Iron Age Theater Company, the Broken Hipsters, and the Jangling Sparrows.
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 111.302 with Erica Hunt
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane McKinney-Whetstone (whetstones@comcast.net)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Compass meeting. For more information, contact Ari Paul (apaul@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 2/24
- 3:00 - 5:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Lea Elementary School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School to the Writers House on Friday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@sas.upenn.edu) or Paul Townsend (ptownsen@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/25
- 1:00-3:00 PM throughout the House: Write On! with students from the Penn Alexander School
Write On! brings eighth graders from the Penn Alexander School to the Writers House on Saturday afternoons to work with Penn undergraduate volunteers on creative writing skills and activities. For more information contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@sas.upenn.edu) or Danielle Rosenblatt (dmrosenb@sas.upenn.edu).
- 12-5:00 PM: Publications Room reserved for First Call.
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, 2/26
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, 2/27
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Word.Doc meeting
- 2:00-3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 with Al Filreis (afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 with Richard Polman
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets Meeting. For more information, please contact Cindy Savet (savettc@comcast.net).
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Introductory meeting for estridentismo, a new bilingual literary magazine. For more information contact Andres Segura (asegura@sas.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 2/28
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading featuring poets from Carolina Wren Press: Joseph Donohue, Jaki
Shelton Green and Andrea Selch
Joseph Donahue is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, Before Creation, World Well Broken and Incidental Eclipse. He has also published two poem sequences in chapbooks, Monitions of the Approach and Terra Lucida. In addition, he has co-edited the anthology, Primary Trouble, and the essay collection, The World in Space and Time. He has lived in New York City and Seattle; currently he lives Durham, NC and teaches in the English Department at Duke University. Donahue was the judge of the 2003 Carolina Wren Press Poetry Chapbook Contest, and CWP published his chapbook, In this Paradise: Terra Lucida XXI-XL, in 2004.
Jaki Shelton Green was first published in a college literary journal at the age of 12. Since then, her works have appeared in textbooks, journals, anthologies and collections of poetry. Her widely acclaimed books include Dead on Arrival, Masks, Swiss Times, and Conjure Blues. Her works have been choreographed by the Chuck Davis African American Dance Ensemble, Miami City Ballet, and the Naropa Dance Institute of Colorado, among others. She produced a play, Blue Opal, and wrote one of the chapters in Pete and Shirley: The Great Tar Heel Novel. Her creative writing workshops and readings have been held throughout the nation and abroad.Just as she always has been a writer, Green has also been a fierce activist for marginalized populations: abused women, the elderly, the incarcerated, and especially children. She has also been a powerful influence on a lengthy list of boards and committees, including the North Carolina Humanities Council and the North Carolina Freedom Monument Project.
Andrea Selch was born and raised in New York City. She moved to North Carolina in 1983 to attend Duke University. She holds a BA and PhD from Duke, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Calyx, The MacGuffin, The Asheville Poetry Review and Oyster Boy, among others. Her first collection, Succory, was published by Carolina Wren Press in 200. Her second collection, Startling, was published by Turning Point Books in 2004. She joined the board of Carolina Wren Press in 2001, and now serves as its president. She lives in Hillsborough, NC, with her partner and their two children.
Carolina Wren Press is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to publish quality writing, especially by writers historically neglected by mainstream publishing, and to develop diverse and vital audiences through publishing, outreach, and educational programs. For more information about the press and its publications, visit its website at http://carolinawrenpress.org.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.304 with Patrick Wehner (pwehner@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in Room 202: Women's Studies 009.301 with Felicity Paxton (fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:30 PM in Room 202: Talk Poets meeting; for more information, please contact Jessica Lowenthal (jalowent@english.upenn.edu).
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group; for more information, email Pat Green at (patgreen@vet.upenn.edu).
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review Art Committee; for more information, email Ayaka Iwata (ayakaji@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.