February 2013

Friday, 2/1

Saturday, 2/2

Sunday, 2/3

Monday, 2/4

A Talk by Simon Morris

Writers Without Borders

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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In a 45 minute presentation, entitled 'eating the book' Dr. Simon Morris will present four of his experimental bookworks that challenge conventional methods of reading and writing. Morris has been called 'philosophically irresponsible', a 'literary pervert' and an 'inspired lunatic'. From 2011-12, he was writer-in-residence at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Morris is one of the leading proponents of conceptual writing: a fusion of art and literature. In 2002 he founded the publishing imprint information as material. He lives in York, England and teaches at the University of Teesside where he is Programme Leader in Fine Art.

Tuesday, 2/5

Junior Fellow: Grace Ambrose

Launch Party for In Open Letters A Secret Appears: A People's Guide to the Philadelphia Museum of Art

with a poetry reading by CAConrad

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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Junior Fellow Grace Ambrose invited 50 current and ex-Philadelphians to write about an object of their choice from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Taking shape as an edition of 50 postcards, the writings will comprise an alternate history and guide to the museum's holdings, seen through the eyes of the artists, writers, musicians, and friends who live alongside them. At this launch event, learn about the conceptualization of this project, mail art, and the history of the postcard. Grace's presentation will be followed by a reading by CAConrad of his poetry inspired by paintings on view in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Contributors to "A People's Guide" include the following and more: Sam Allingham, Lily Applebaum, Rayne Betts, Robyn Campbell, Anthony Campuzano, Kristina Centore, CAConrad, Johann Diedrick, Julia Factorial, Becket Flannery, Lucy Gallun, Thomson Guster, Dylan Hansen-Fliedner, Josh Herren, Alex Klein, James La Marre, Mary Lattimore, Trisha Low, Egina Manachova, Alexis McCrimmon, Mike Mckee, Max McKenna, Steve McLaughlin, Linda Pastan, Rachel Pastan, Molly Seegers, Jon Shapiro, Alex Tyson, Laura Reeve, Nicholas Salvatore, Ingrid Schaffner, Herb Shellenberger, Frank Sherlock, Henry Steinberg, Zoe Strauss, Valeria Tsygankova, Catherine Turcich-Kealey, Alejandro Valdes, Michael Thomas Vassallo, Adelina Vlas, Artie Vierkant, Jenna Weiss, Sara Wilson, Dan Yemin, and Jeffrey Ziga.

If you can't make the event but would like more information, please send an email with the subject SECRETS APPEAR to grace.ambrose@gmail.com.

The JUNIOR FELLOW AWARD is open to any recently graduated Penn student, especially students who have been deeply engaged with Penn's writing community. If you are graduating from Penn this year, or if you have graduated from Penn in the last two years, please consider applying for this small but very sweet fellowship. For more information, please visit: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/awards/juniorfellow/#apply

Wednesday, 2/6

Sensible Nonsense

A Creative Ventures Program

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

hosted by: Arielle Brousse

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The Sensible Nonsense Project celebrates the humor, pathos, and enduring wisdom of children's books. This event gathers speakers together to consider their favorite childhood books, what those books taught them, and how those lessons continue to influence their adult lives. Anyone can participate in the conversation by submitting an essay about their favorite book at http://sensiblenonsense.us.

Thursday, 2/7

A conversation with editors of Full Stop magazine

featuring Jesse Montgomery, Alex Shephard, Max Rivlin-Nadler, and Eric Jett

Applebaum Editors and Publishers program

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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Join us for a panel discussion with the founders and editors of Full Stop, an independent online magazine of literary journalism. The panelists will discuss the world of contemporary literature and criticism; starting an independent magazine and self-publishing; and the evolution of print media and what it might mean for our intellectual culture.

Founded in January of 2011, Full Stop is committed to an earnest, expansive, and rigorous discussion of literature and literary culture. Full Stop focuses on young writers, works in translation, and books they feel are being neglected by other outlets while engaging with the significant changes occurring in the publishing industry and the evolution of print media. Featuring cultural criticism, serious discussion of contemporary thought and pedagogy, as well as engagement with the mystical, non-waking world, Full Stop is a unique corner in the growing field of online criticism.

Rachel Kramer Bussel

6:00 PM in Room 202

Feminism/s hooked us up with a very special student-only workshop on writing erotic literature, led by Rachel Kramer Bussel (http://www.rachelkramerbussel.com). Bussel is the editor of over 40 anthologies, including Gotta Have It; Orgasmic; Fast Girls; Women in Lust; Spanked; Please, Sir; Please, Ma'am, and is editor of the nonfiction Best Sex Writing series. As a freelance writer, she covers sex, dating, books and pop culture, has written for Buzzfeed Shift, Inked, The Frisky, Glamour, Mediabistro, The Root, Salon, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, xoJane and other publications, and teaches erotic writing workshops nationwide.

Friday, 2/8

Saturday, 2/9

Sunday, 2/10

Monday, 2/11

A reading by John Ashbery

Kelly Writers House Fellows Program

6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe

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Funded by a grant from Paul Kelly, the Kelly Writers House Fellows program enables us to realize two unusual goals. We want to make it possible for the youngest writers and writer-critics to have sustained contact with authors of great accomplishment in an informal atmosphere. We also want to resist the time-honored distinction — more honored in practice than in theory — between working with eminent writers on the one hand and studying literature on the other.

Born in Rochester, New York, in 1927, John Ashbery is the author of over twenty-five books of poetry, a celebrated translator of French poetry, and collaborator on projects with the likes of Joe Brainard and James Schuyler. Many critics deem Ashbery the greatest living American poet.

Ashbery's most recent poetry collections were published in 2007, A Worldly Country, and 2009, Planisphere. His early work in particular is associated with the "New York School" of poets of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1984, his book A Wave won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. For Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), he received three of the most prestigious awards for poetry: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Some Trees (1956) was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has received a long list of other awards, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize, the English Speaking Union Prize, the Feltrinelli Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, two Ingram Merrill Foundation grants, the MLA Common Wealth Award in Literature, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize, the Frank O'Hara Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the Fulbright Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. He is also a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.

In her 2005 New Yorker profile, "Present Waking Life," Larissa Macfarquhar describes the apparent difficulty of Ashbery's poetry: "...he's trying to cultivate a different sort of attention: not focused, straight-ahead scrutiny but something more like a glance out of the corner of your eye that catches something bright and twitching that you then can't identify when you turn to look. ... A person reading or hearing his language automatically tries to make sense of it: sense, not sound, is our default setting. Resisting the impulse to make sense, allowing sentences to accumulate into an abstract collage of meaning rather than a story or an argument, requires effort. But that collage – a poem that cannot be paraphrased or explained or 'unpacked' – is what Ashbery is after."

Tuesday, 2/12

A brunch conversation with John Ashbery

Kelly Writers House Fellows Program

12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

hosted by: Al Filreis

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NOTE: This interview and conversation took place via live and interactive video feed, broadcast into the Arts Cafe and hosted by Writers House Fellows TAs Lily Applebaum and Max McKenna.

Wednesday, 2/13

The future of crime writing

A lunch talk by George Anastasia

12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

Povich Journalism program

hosted by: Dick Polman

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George Anastasia, a veteran reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, is the grandson of Sicilian immigrants who settled in South Philadelphia. He is the author of five books of nonfiction, including Blood and Honor, which Jimmy Breslin called the "best gangster book ever written." He has won many awards for investigative journalism and magazine writing.

Speakeasy open mic night

Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!

7:30 PM in the Arts Cafe

hosted by: Rosa Escandon and Isa Oliveres

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Our Speakeasy Open Mic Night is held once a month. We invite writers to share their work, or the work of others, in our Arts Cafe. Speakeasy welcomes all kinds of readings, performances, spectacles, and happenings. Bring your poetry, your guitar, your dance troupe, your award-winning essay, or your stand up comedy to share. You should expect outrageous (and free!) raffles for things you didn't know you needed, occasional costumes, and, of course, community members who love writing.

Thursday, 2/14

A conversation with Loudon Wainwright III

Blutt Singer-Songwriter Symposium

5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

hosted by: Anthony DeCurtis

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Loudon Snowden Wainwright III is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. Reflecting upon his career, in 1999, Wainwright stated "you could characterize the catalog as somewhat checkered, although I prefer to think of it as a tapestry." Using a witty, self-mocking style, Wainwright has recorded over twenty albums on eleven different labels. Three of his albums have been nominated for Grammy Awards: I'm Alright (1985) and More Love Songs (1986). In January 2010, he won the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album for High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project.

Wainwright has also appeared in a number of films, including small parts in The Aviator, Big Fish, Elizabethtown, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Knocked Up, and the television series Undeclared and Parks and Recreation.

Friday, 2/15

Saturday, 2/16

Sunday, 2/17

Monday, 2/18

A Salute to the Pioneering Journalists of the 1960s

A lunch talk with Mark Bowden

Povich Journalism Program

12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

hosted by: Dick Polman

rsvp: wh@writing.upenn.edu or call (215) 746-POEM

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Mark Bowden is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, and a best-selling author. His book Black Hawk Down, a finalist for the National Book Award, was the basis of the film of the same name. His book Killing Pablo won the Overseas Press Club's 2001 Cornelius Ryan Award as the book of the year. Among his other books are Guests of the Ayatollah, an account of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, which was listed by Newsweek as one of "The 50 Books for Our Times." His most recent books include The Best Game Ever, the story of the 1958 NFL championship game, and Worm, which tells the story of the Conficker computer worm, based on the article "The Enemy Within," published in The Atlantic. Mark has received The Abraham Lincoln Literary Award and the International Thriller Writers' True Thriller Award for lifetime achievement, and served as a judge for the National Book Awards in 2005. He is a 1973 graduate of Loyola University Maryland, where he also taught from 2001-2010. A reporter and columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer for more than 30 years, Bowden is now an adjunct professor at The University of Delaware and lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania.

A meeting of the Writers House Planning Committee (the "Hub")

5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

rsvp: jalowent@writing.upenn.edu

From the time of its founding in 1995-1996, the Kelly Writers House has been run more or less collectively by members of its community. Our original team of intrepid founders—the group of students, faculty, alumni, and staff who wanted to create an independent haven for writers and supporters of contemporary writing in any genre—took for themselves the name "the hub." "Hub" was the generic term given by Penn's Provost, President, and other planners who hoped that something very innovative would be done at 3805 Locust Walk to prove the viability of the idea that students, working with others, could create an extracurricular learning community around common intellectual and creative passions. To this day, the Writers House Planning Committee refers to itself as "the hub"—the core of engaged faculty, student, staff, and alumni volunteers from whom the House's creative energy and vitality radiates.

Tuesday, 2/19

RELEASE PARTY FOR "I LET A SONG GO OUT OF MY HEART" BY SAM ALLINGHAM

First annual Beltran Family Award For Innovative Teaching & Mentoring

7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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Join us for a party in honor of the handmade letterpress edition of Sam Allingham's short story "I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart," based on the life of jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw. This artist's book edition, designed and produced by Henry Steinberg at Penn's Robinson Press (an imprint of the The Common Press), celebrates the story's setting and concept through its period-conscious design and construction. This publication was made possible by the 2012 Beltran Family Award For Innovative Teaching & Mentoring Award, whose recipient, Karen Rile, initiated the project to bring together some of the resources within the KWH community into an interdisciplinary literary, creative, and educational adventure.

Wednesday, 2/20

Round Up Holler Girl

Readings by 3 Queer Performance Artists from NYC

Dan Fishback, Erin Markey, Max Steele

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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Denizens of the downtown art and queer performance scenes, Dan Fishback, Erin Markey and Max Steele all know each other, and are all feminists, and are all performance artists who like to write.

2012-13 Penn ArtsEdge Resident Dan Fishback has been writing and performing in New York City since 2003. Major works include The Material World (2012), thirtynothing (2011) and You Will Experience Silence (2009), all directed by Stephen Brackett at Dixon Place. Fishback has received grants from the Franklin Furnace Fund (2010) and the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists (2007-2009). He is a resident artist at the University of Pennsylvania (2012-2013) and at the Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics at NYU (2012), and has enjoyed previous residencies at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2010-2012), Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Also a performing songwriter, Fishback began his music career in the East Village's anti-folk scene. His band, Cheese On Bread, has toured Europe and North America in support of their two full-length albums, "Maybe Maybe Maybe Baby" (2004) and "The Search for Colonel Mustard" (2007), the latter of which was re-issued in Japan in 2010 on Moor Works Records. As a solo artist, Fishback has released several recordings, including "Sweet Chastity" (2005, produced by César Alvarez of The Lisps), and his latest, "The Mammal Years" (2012, produced by Casey Holford). He was a member of the movement troupe Underthrust, which collaborated with songwriter Kimya Dawson on several performances and videos. Fishback frequently teaches workshops on performance composition and queer performance culture. He blogs at thematerialworld.tumblr.com; his regular website is danfishback.com.

Max Steele is a performer and writer. He has presented work at the New Museum, Rapture Cafe, Deitch Projects, Envoy Enterprises, and the Queens Museum of Art. He writes the psychedelic porno poetry zine Scorcher, and is an Artist in Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange.

Erin Markey creates conceptual musical performances for stage and video. She is the recipient of NYFA's 2012 Cutting Edge Artist Fund Grant, and has presented work at venues around the world, including Joe's Pub (The Public Theater), P.S. 122, San Francisco Film Society and The New Museum. She has toured the United States with the Sister Spit Tour and The Sex Workers' Art Show. Markey is a company member of Half Straddle, has performed in Young Jean Lee's Theatre Company and starred in the NYC premiere of Tennessee Williams' Green Eyes (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress).

Thursday, 2/21

The Collection

Short fiction from the transgender vanguard

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

co-sponsored by: feminism/s

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The Collection is a dynamic anthology of rising stars, representing the depth and range of tomorrow's finest writers chronicling transgender narratives. 28 authors from North A merica converge in a single volume to showcase the future of trans literature and the next great movements in queer art.

"The Collection is a foundational, ground-breaking anthology that will serve as a primer for trans literature for years to come. Traveling across genres, experience, and including emerging and mid-career writers, Léger and MacLeod have made a significant contribution to contemporary literature."
—Sarah Schulman, author of After Delores and The Mere Future

"You should read this book because it's an amazing and deeply variegated survey of what 28 trans people were thinking about. When do we ever get to hear what trans people are thinking about? All we hear is what trans people are. What we mean in a world of Men and Women. Fuck that. Read this book because it is a profound act of respect to listen to what these people were thinking."
—Annie Danger, performance artist, organizer of The Fully Functional Cabaret

"The Collection has successfully articulated the many ways in which gender identity can be drawn upon in fiction. It hits the mark in being wholly entertaining while ushering in a new cast of talented writers who are putting their mark on trans/gender variant lit. Don't just read it, spread the word: fantastic trans/gender variant short fiction is here!"
—Morty Diamond, editor of From The Inside Out and Trans/Love

Friday, 2/22

Saturday, 2/23

Sunday, 2/24

Monday, 2/25

Live at the Writers House

7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

hosted by: Michaela Majoun

LIVE AT THE WRITERS HOUSE is a long-standing collaboration between the Kelly Writers House and WXPN FM (88.5). Six times annually between September and April, Michaela Majoun hosts a one-hour broadcast of poetry, music, and other spoken-word art, along with one musical guest, all from our Arts Cafe onto the airwaves at WXPN. LIVE is made possible by generous support from BigRoc. For more information, contact Producer Erin Gautsche (mailto:gautsche@writing.upenn.edu).

Matthew Kay is an English teacher at the Science Leadership Academy and the founder of Philly Youth Poetry Movement’s H.S Slam League, launched in 2011. He's been writing and performing poetry for many years, and is passionate about changing kids lives.

Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Hannah McDonald is now happy to call the greater Philadelphia area her home. She’s a writer, a geek, a blogger, a wife, a girlfriend, and a lot of fun. Her special powers include wearing her pancreas on the outside and possessing a deep, savant-like knowledge of song lyrics. She’s a fiction editor for online literary mag The Furnace Review, the author of the blog Dorkabetic, and has been a member of two National Poetry Slam teams representing the great tiny state of Delaware. Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania.

Cristina Perachio lives, writes and eats in Philadelphia. She is a Contributing Food Writer with Philadelphia Weekly and is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Fiction at the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast Program. She has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, MAGNET and BUST magazines. She writes reality fiction but don't worry, she's never written about you. Cristina believes in cooking with olive oil, the powers of red lip stick, dance therapy, radio rap, Bukowski and reading Susan Minot's Lust for inspiration when she wants to quit writing and join the circus.

Frank Sherlock’s Very Different Animals was selected for the Equinox Chapbook Award, recently published by Fact-Simile Press. He is the author of Over Here, The City Real & Imagined (w/ CAConrad), and a collaboration with Brett Evans entitled Ready-to-Eat Individual. New poems recently appeared in Aufgabe, Joyland Poetry and Poetry During OWS. A new chapbook entitled Way Home: Neighbor Ballads is forthcoming from Albion Books.

Carlos Soto Roman was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He is the author of La Marcha de los Quiltros (1999), Haiku Minero (2007), Cambio y Fuera (2009) and Philadelphia’s Notebooks (2011). He curates the cooperative anthology of contemporary US poetry, Elective Affinities. He lives in Philadelphia, PA.

Jacob Brunner has led a parade of shifting ensembles since 2006, with a focus on eclectic explorations through home-recording. Over the course of seven records, Strawberry Hands has investigated everything from ambient minimalism, krautrock, and tape collage, to classical piano, confessional folk and improvisation with homemade instruments.

Tuesday, 2/26

David Shields

How Literature Saved My Life

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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David Shields is the author of fourteen books, including How Literature Saved My Life (forthcoming from Knopf on February 5, 2013); Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Knopf, 2010), named one of the best books of the year by more than thirty publications; The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (Knopf, 2008), a New York Times bestseller; Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages: A Novel, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Esquire, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and Utne Reader; he's written reviews for the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.

Shields has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is the Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Washington. Since 1996 he has also been a member of the faculty in Warren Wilson College's low-residency MFA Program for Writers, in Asheville, North Carolina.

Wednesday, 2/27

Heled Travel Grant: Michael Morse

Gunter Demnig, mourning, and remembrance

12:00 pm in the Arts Cafe

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As a way of memorializing her mother, Terry B. Heled, and of honoring the students of her alma mater in gratitude for the encouragement her own research and writing received while she was at Penn, Mali Heled Kinberg (C'95) created the Heled Travel Grant program at the Kelly Writers House that, each summer, enables a student to travel for the purpose of conducting the research that will lead to a significant writing project.

Though the support of the Heled Travel grant, Michael Morse spent two weeks in Germany, travelling with artist Gunter Demnig and documenting the ongoing memorialization of the Holocaust. Demnig's work presents many interesting questions about how artists engage with a public whose family members were likely National Socialists. Michael presentation about his travels will allow him to describe and share some of his own experience exploring Germany and witnessing the ongoing debate about how we remember, how we mourn, how we empathize, and how we can find a better future.

In Berlin, there are massive museums such as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and education centers such as the Topography of Terror. These have their own complicated histories and controversies about what is necessary and when is enough. But there are also minor memorials such as a sculpture consisting of just a desk and a chair in a park, an underground room with burned books visible through glass tiles, a series of signs in a suburb documenting each Nazi law, and even an invisible memorial, with victims' names buried beneath the pavement. Gunter Demnig is sixty-five-year-old artist, born in Berlin just a few years after liberation. He's a German artist who has installed over 35,000 street memorials to murdered Jews, by himself, over the last fifteen years. He calls the brass blocks, which he paves into the street, "stolpersteine," or "stumbling stones," for they often jolt our memory. The stones display a victim's name, date of birth, and date of death. They've been banned in Munich and Leipzig, and yet Demnig continues his work to remind Germans that their houses and their streets were sites of terror. He spends at least 300 days of the year on the road and he will only accept donations from fellow Germans. This is very much a project of national education, and yet Jews come from around the world to see Demnig dig the hole and place the stone, a grave-of-sorts for the many without one.

A CELEBRATION OF 3808: A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL WRITING

co-sponsored by: the Critical Writing Program

5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe

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Each semester, instructors teaching Critical Writing seminars across a wide range of disciplines at the University of Pennsylvania nominate the best essay written by an undergraduate in their class. A faculty editorial board selects essays from among the nominees to publish in 3808: A Journal of Critical Writing. At the event, the winner of the Henry LaBarre Jayne Essay Prize for best essay in the collection will be announced.

Thursday, 2/28

7 Up on Camp

6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe

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The 7 Up series is an annual program for which we invite seven guests to speak for seven minutes each about a topic. Each speaker gives their insight on some aspect of the chosen theme; interesting interpretations and musings always result!