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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Monday, 3/1
- 5:30 PM in Room 202: Planning Committee Meeting and Gathering
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House will tape in the Arts Cafe,
featuring Lorene Cary, Alan Gilbert, Jena Osman, Adam J. Sorkins and musical guest Box
Social.
Lorene Cary is the author of two novels, The Price of A Child (1995), Philadelphia's and Buffalo, NY's One Book, One City choice for 2003, and Pride (1998), and a best-selling memoir, Black Ice (1991). In 1998 Cary founded Art Sanctuary, a unique and successful arts series that brings excellent black artists to speak, perform and give workshops at the Church of the Advocate, a National Historic Landmark Building in North Philadelphia. Currently a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a 1998 recipient of the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Cary has received The Philadelphia Award for civic service, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts Fellowship and honorary doctorates from Colby College in Maine, Keene State College in New Hampshire, and Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the Rev. Robert C. Smith, and daughters Laura and Zoë.
Alan Gilbert's writings on poetry, art, culture, and politics have appeared in a variety of publications, including Bookforum, Boston Review, Fence, and online at Jacket. Recent poems have appeared in The Baffler, Chicago Review, Shiny, and online at The Poetry Project website. He currently edits NYFA Quarterly, an arts and culture magazine published by the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Jena Osman teaches in the Creative Writing program at Temple University. Her book of poems The Character was published by Beacon Press. Her new collection, An Essay in Asterisks, will be out this spring from Roof Books. She co-edits the literary arts journal Chain with Juliana Spahr. Osman has received a 2004 Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Adam J. Sorkins published three volumes of translation in 2003: Diary of a Clone by Saviana Stanescu (Spuyten Duyvil / Meeting Eyes Bindery), Singular Destinies: Contemporary Poets of Bessarabia (Chisinau, Moldova), and 41 by Ioana Ieronim (Bucharest). His other books include Sea-Level Zero, poems by Daniela Crasnaru (BOA Editions, 1999), and The Triumph of the Water Witch, prose poems by Ioana Ieronim (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), which was shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Prize, Oxford. Sorkin has won the International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Award, Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize. Sorkin has been the recipient of Fulbright, IREX, Rockefeller Foundation, and Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry grants, and his translations have been widely published in American literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Chelsea, The Kenyon Review, West Branch, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, and The Women's Review of Books. Sorkin is Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State Delaware County.
Musical Guest: Box Social
On the same day in March 1985, from different major psychogeographical sites, Matt Hart, Andy Liddell, Terry Conrad, and Matthew Merlino all played their 7" copy of Felt's “Primitive Painters,” and the idea for Box Social was born. It would take 15 years for these gents to actually meet one another. Vocalist Matt Hart, the middle child in a line of circus folk and pub keeps, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1997 in search of the American Dream: a doctoral degree and a rock band. Drummer Andy Liddell, a Philadelphia-area native, had recently moved back from a sojourn in California, where he perfected his foot-stomping technique while scamming strippers, surfers, and dot-com freaks for meal tickets. Guitarist Matt Merlino was conceived in the backseat of a Datsun, in the eerie glow of the new Atlantic City casinos, and moved to Philadelphia in ‘98 to raise his crops and find a wife. Bassist Terry Conrad graduated from UArts with a degree in hot bass beatdown; he's handing out lollipops and propulsive rhythms, and he's all out of lollipops.
These four all gravitated toward Philly’s underground expatriate scene: a series of dank holes reeking of salt, malt vinegar, roll-ups, and vitamin-fortified wine. Whether it was due to chance or the arcane puppet-mastering of the Masons, they collided in 2001 in a sudden reverberating burst of gorgeous sound. With subtle echoes of psychedelia, glam rock, post-punk, and Brit Pop, Box Social are bringing the citron-tinged musical equivalent of Earl Grey for a new and reversed Boston Tea Party. Separating themselves from the pack with literate lyrics, melodic vocals, chiming guitars, and muscular rhythms, Box Social are more than footnotes to your hipsters’ Rough Trade catalogue.
The Elders of Zion say, "Dig on Box Social." And so you should.
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.302 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 2-5:00 PM in Arts Cafe: English 285 with Al Filreis (afilreis@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.
Tuesday, 3/2
- 7:00 PM: A reading by Michael Fried, hosted by Susan Stewart and Charles Bernstein and cosponsored with Penn's
Creative Writing Program.
Michael Fried, Michael Fried is the James R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a joint appointment in the Humanities Center, which he directs, and the Department of the History of Art. A scholar of broad interests and expertise, Dr. Fried is the author of books about 18th and 19th Century painting and literature, a very influential collection of art criticism, and several volumes of poetry, including To the Centre of the Earth.
A recording was made of this event as part of the PENNsound project. The recording is available here.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 202: American Literature Group, please contact Martha Schoolman for more information.
- 5:15-7:00 PM in Room 209: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group. Contact Dahlia Porter (dporter@english.upenn.edu) or Jared Richman (richman@english.upenn.edu) for more information.
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, 3/3
- 6:00 PM: ecopoetics Panel, featuring Jonathan Skinner, Tina Darragh, and Marcella
Durand. Hosted by Paige Menton.
Jonathan Skinner, who hails from New Mexico, edits and publishes ecopoetics in Buffalo, NY, where he misidentifies birds along the Niagara River and is currently completing a dissertation on "environmental contact in postmodern poetry" for the SUNY Buffalo English Department. His essays, reviews, translations and poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Buffalo Vortex, Circulars, Elevator, Gare du Nord, Jacket, Kenning, Kiosk, Lagniappe, La Main de Singe, Sibila, The Gig, The Poetry Project Newsletter and Verdure; his chapbooks include Political Cactus Poems (Periplum Editions) and Little Dictionary of Sounds (RedDLines). An extended version of Political Cactus Poems is forthcoming from Palm Press.
Tina Darragh's most recent book is dream rim instructions (Drogue Press, New York 1999). Her current project is "opposable dumbs," an investigation of racism and sexism in the animal rights movement. A segment of the play from that project was performed at Jubilee, a Festival of Poets Theater, Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, CA, on January 25, 2002. Darragh earns her keep as a reference librarian at Georgetown University.
Marcella Durand's writings on the intersections between ecology and poetry, based on a talk delivered at Small Press Traffic in San Francisco in 2002, have appeared in the literary magazines Ecopoetics and 26. In addition, she has been working on a long collaboration, "Deep Eco Pre," with poet Tina Darragh, drawing on Francis Ponge's The Making of the Pre and Michael Zimmerman's exploration of the philosophical roots of Deep Ecology, Contesting Earth's Future. Portions of this collaboration have appeared in Anomaly. She is the author of Western Capital Rhapsodies (Faux Press, 2001).
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 10.302 with Daisy Fried (daisyf1@juno.com)
- 5-7:00 PM in Room 202: English 001-307: Reading in the Drawing Room with Myra Lotto
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Reality Writes, a workshop dedicated to creative nonfiction. For more information email John Smagula at jsmagula@temple.edu.
- 8:30 PM in Room 209: Bob's Books: St. Robert's Literary Society. For more information, contact aparicio@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.
Thursday, 3/4
- 6:00 PM: A reading by Ted Pearson & Chris Edgar
Ted Pearson is the author of fifteen books of poetry, including Evidence: 1975-1989, Planetary Gear, and, most recently, Songs Aside: 1992-2002. Active for twenty years in Bay Area poetry circles, he emigrated to the United States in 1988. He has since lived and worked in Ithaca, Buffalo, and Detroit, where he presently teaches at Wayne State University. Ted Pearson was introduced by CA Conrad.
Chris Edgar's poems have appeared in Double Change, The Germ, Shiny, Great American Prose Poems, Best American Poetry 2000 and 2001, and in other journals and anthologies. His first collection, At Port Royal, was published this fall by Adventures in Poetry/Zephyr Press. He is an editor of the literary journal The Hat, the translator of Tolstoy as Teacher: Leo Tolstoy's Writings on Education (T&W Books, 2000), and Publications Director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He lives in Brooklyn.
You can hear a recording of the program in mp3 format here.
- 9:00 PM: Live at the Writers House will air on WXPN 88.5-FM,
featuring Lorene Cary, Alan Gilbert, Jena Osman, Adam J. Sorkins and musical guest Box
Social.
Lorene Cary is the author of two novels, The Price of A Child (1995), Philadelphia's and Buffalo, NY's One Book, One City choice for 2003, and Pride (1998), and a best-selling memoir, Black Ice (1991). In 1998 Cary founded Art Sanctuary, a unique and successful arts series that brings excellent black artists to speak, perform and give workshops at the Church of the Advocate, a National Historic Landmark Building in North Philadelphia. Currently a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a 1998 recipient of the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Cary has received The Philadelphia Award for civic service, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts Fellowship and honorary doctorates from Colby College in Maine, Keene State College in New Hampshire, and Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the Rev. Robert C. Smith, and daughters Laura and Zoë.
Alan Gilbert's writings on poetry, art, culture, and politics have appeared in a variety of publications, including Bookforum, Boston Review, Fence, and online at Jacket. Recent poems have appeared in The Baffler, Chicago Review, Shiny, and online at The Poetry Project website. He currently edits NYFA Quarterly, an arts and culture magazine published by the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Jena Osman teaches in the Creative Writing program at Temple University. Her book of poems The Character was published by Beacon Press. Her new collection, An Essay in Asterisks, will be out this spring from Roof Books. She co-edits the literary arts journal Chain with Juliana Spahr. Osman has received a 2004 Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Adam J. Sorkins published three volumes of translation in 2003: Diary of a Clone by Saviana Stanescu (Spuyten Duyvil / Meeting Eyes Bindery), Singular Destinies: Contemporary Poets of Bessarabia (Chisinau, Moldova), and 41 by Ioana Ieronim (Bucharest). His other books include Sea-Level Zero, poems by Daniela Crasnaru (BOA Editions, 1999), and The Triumph of the Water Witch, prose poems by Ioana Ieronim (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), which was shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Prize, Oxford. Sorkin has won the International Quarterly Crossing Boundaries Award, Kenneth Rexroth Memorial Translation Prize. Sorkin has been the recipient of Fulbright, IREX, Rockefeller Foundation, and Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry grants, and his translations have been widely published in American literary magazines, including The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Chelsea, The Kenyon Review, West Branch, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, and The Women's Review of Books. Sorkin is Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State Delaware County.
Musical Guest: Box Social
On the same day in March 1985, from different major psychogeographical sites, Matt Hart, Andy Liddell, Terry Conrad, and Matthew Merlino all played their 7" copy of Felt's “Primitive Painters,” and the idea for Box Social was born. It would take 15 years for these gents to actually meet one another. Vocalist Matt Hart, the middle child in a line of circus folk and pub keeps, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1997 in search of the American Dream: a doctoral degree and a rock band. Drummer Andy Liddell, a Philadelphia-area native, had recently moved back from a sojourn in California, where he perfected his foot-stomping technique while scamming strippers, surfers, and dot-com freaks for meal tickets. Guitarist Matt Merlino was conceived in the backseat of a Datsun, in the eerie glow of the new Atlantic City casinos, and moved to Philadelphia in ‘98 to raise his crops and find a wife. Bassist Terry Conrad graduated from UArts with a degree in hot bass beatdown; he's handing out lollipops and propulsive rhythms, and he's all out of lollipops.
These four all gravitated toward Philly’s underground expatriate scene: a series of dank holes reeking of salt, malt vinegar, roll-ups, and vitamin-fortified wine. Whether it was due to chance or the arcane puppet-mastering of the Masons, they collided in 2001 in a sudden reverberating burst of gorgeous sound. With subtle echoes of psychedelia, glam rock, post-punk, and Brit Pop, Box Social are bringing the citron-tinged musical equivalent of Earl Grey for a new and reversed Boston Tea Party. Separating themselves from the pack with literate lyrics, melodic vocals, chiming guitars, and muscular rhythms, Box Social are more than footnotes to your hipsters’ Rough Trade catalogue.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: The Mods meeting. For more information contact Matt Hart (matthart@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 7-8:30 PM in Room 202: English 001.307, Reading in the Drawing Room group readings with Myra Lotto (mlotto@dept.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.
Friday, 3/5
- Spring Break Begins at Close of Classes: House closes at 5:00 PM and will re-open on March 15th
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 3:00 PM in the Dining Room: ESL workshop for senior tutors
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, 3/6
- Spring Break
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, 3/7
- Spring Break
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, 3/8
- Spring Break
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, 3/9
- Spring Break
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, 3/10
- Spring Break
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, 3/11
- Spring Break
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, 3/12
- Spring Break
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, 3/13
- Spring Break
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, 3/14
- Spring Break
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, 3/15
- Spring Break Ends. Classes Resume.
- 9:00-12:00 Noon in the Arts Cafe: Writing mini-course for Friends' Central Middle School (teacher, Rebecca Guenther)
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.302 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 2-5:00 PM in Arts Cafe: English 285 with Al Filreis (afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club. For more information, or to join, contact John Shea (john.shea@uphs.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, 3/16
- 5:00 PM: The Transparency Machine presents "living and dying", a talk by David Antin, in
collaboration with Penn's Creative Writing Program and Temple University
David Antin is a poet, critic and performance artist, whose books include Definitions (1967), Autobiography (1967), Code of Flag Behavior (1968), Meditations (1971), Talking (1972 & 2001), After The War (A Long Novel with Few Words) (1973), Dialogue (1980), Tuning (1984), Selected Poems 1963-1973 (1991) and What It Means to be Avant-Garde (1993). His most recent book, from Granary, is A Conversation with David Antin, a dialogue with Charles Bernstein, part of which is available on-line from the Review of Contemporary Fiction, published as part of their special Antin issue.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 12:00-1:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Writer's Forum: Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, and Real Men in Beloved, with Lydia Fisher's ENGL 3.310 class. For more information contact Lydia Fisher at lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu.
- 3:00-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Writer's Forum: Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, and Real Men in Beloved, with Lydia Fisher's ENGL 3.311 class. For more information contact Lydia Fisher at lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu.
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, a poetry workshop. Anyone interested in writing poetry is welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Pat Green (patgreen@vet.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, 3/17
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 10.302 with Daisy Fried (daisyf1@juno.com)
- 7:00 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes, a workshop dedicated to creative nonfiction. For more information email John Smagula at jsmagula@temple.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.
Thursday, 3/18
- 7:00 PM: The Kerry Prize Talk featuring
poet
Brendan
Lorber
Brendan Lorber is the editor of LUNGFULL! magazine. He can be found in the secret laboratory of his Brooklyn farmhouse all night cooking up such chapbooks as The Address Book (1999), Your Secret (2001), Dash (2003) and, with Jen Robinson, Dictionary of Useful Phrases (2000). He's the cocreator, with Tracey McTague, of Book of the New Now (2002). A longer book, Welcome Overboard, is in the works. He has artwork, poems and essays in journals from Fence to The Chicago Tribune, and has been translated a number of times. He also runs the Zinc Talk/Reading Series. Click here for Brendan Lorber's talk.Download a recording of this event here.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@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.
Friday, 3/19
- 3:30-5:30 PM throughout the House: Write On! Workshop
Write On! volunteers are Penn students who work with eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School on Friday afternoons at the Writers House, building creative writing and reading skills. For more information or to participate, email Rachel Kreinces.
- 5:15 PM at the Penn Book Store (3601 Walnut Street): Write On! Celebrates One Book, One Philadelphia
The students and coaches of Write On!, the Writers House's afterschool creative writing program, with the help of author Lise Funderberg, share their responses to James McBride's The Color of Water, this year's selection for One Book, One Philadelphia, at the Penn Book Store. For more information contact Rachel Kreinces (kreinces@sas.upenn.edu).
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 9-10:30 AM in the Arts Cafe: Critical Writing Fellows Orientation Meeting
- 12-1:00 PM in Room 202: Critical Writing Faculty Roundtable hosted by Valerie Ross
- 12-2:00 PM in the Dining Room: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group presents a workshop with Michael McKeon. For more information email Dahlia Porter at dporter@english.upenn.edu.
- 2:00 PM in Room 209: Talk Poets 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.
Saturday, 3/20
- 7:00 PM: SINGER-SONGWRITER Dan Fishback
Dan Fishback is a songwriter and performance artist from New York City who often waxes sentimentally about his good times at the Kelly Writers House. His band, Cheese On Bread, just released its first album, "Maybe Maybe Maybe Baby." His first one-man performance piece, "Assholes Speak Louder Than Words" will premiere in New York this February. He is currently recording his solo material, and hopes to be done early this summer, leaving enough time to campaign for whoever will yoink the presidency from George W. Bush.
Dan will be bringing along his friend Cesar Alvarez, a folksinger who performs "post-folk, power-folk, political-countronica, hyper-acoustic-psychorock." Cesar will be finishing up a massive national tour, promoting his debut album, "I Meta Girl." Cesar is a Cuban-American North Carolina-native who also plays jazz saxophone and produces electronic music.
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, 3/21
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 3/22
- 6:30 PM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents poet LYN HEJINIAN. RSVP
only. Click here for more information about this event and all Writers
House Fellows programs.
Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator; she was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Berkeley. Published collections of her writing include Writing is An Aid to Memory, My Life, Oxota: A Short Russian Novel, Leningrad (written in collaboration with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten), The Cell, The Cold of Poetry, and A Border Comedy; the University of California Press published a collection of her essays entitled The Language of Inquiry. She has travelled and lectured extensively in Russia as well as Europe, and Description and Xenia, two volumes of her translations from the work of the contemporary Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, have been published by Sun and Moon Press. From 1976 to 1984, Hejinian was the editor of Tuumba Press and from 1981 to 1999 she was the co-editor (with Barrett Watten) of Poetics Journal. She is also the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets; Atelos was nominated as one of the best independent literary presses by the Firecracker Awards in 2001. Other collaborative projects include a work entitled The Eye of Enduring undertaken with the painter Diane Andrews Hall and exhibited in 1996, a composition entitled Quê Trân with music by John Zorn and text by Hejinian, a mixed media book entitled The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill created with the painter Emilie Clark (Granary Press, 1998), and the experimental film Letters Not About Love, directed by Jacki Ochs, for which Hejinian and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko wrote the script. In the fall of 2000, she was elected the sixty-sixth Fellow of the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.302 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 2-5:00 PM in Arts Cafe: English 285 with Al Filreis (afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: Flashlit meeting. For more information email Liz Cooper at coopere@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, 3/23
- 10:00 AM: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents poet LYN HEJINIAN --
brunch and interview conducted by Al Filreis. RSVP only. Click here for more information about this event and all Writers House Fellows
programs.
- 5:30-7:00 PM: Art Gallery Reception
PAFA at the Writers House: a group exhibit featuring the work of several students from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Talking Film board 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, 3/24
Listen to a recording of this event via PennSound.
- 3:00 PM: The Poet & Painter Series presents Maureen Owen and Yvonne Jacquette in collaboration with the
School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
Maureen Owen's recent American Rush: Selected Poems was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. Other collections include Imaginary Income, Zombie Notes, and Untapped Maps. Her AE (Amelia Earhart) was a recipient of the Before Columbus Award. She is editor of Telephone Books and Magazine. Andrei Codrescu has praised "her strongly feminist work."
Yvonne Jacquette was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934 and spent her youth in Stamford, Connecticut. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design from 1952-56. She lives and works in New York City and in Searsmont, Maine, and was married to the late filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt.
Her landscapes have shown in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Nocturnal Visions in Contemporary Painting at Equitable Center; in the International Survey of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art; and in the traveling exhibition New Work on Paper, organized by the Museum of Modern Art. One can see Jacquette's pastels, prints, and oil paintings in collections at the Staatliche Museum, Berlin; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C.; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and
Anything
Goes
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 10.302 with Daisy Fried (daisyf1@juno.com)
- 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 202: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group: a workshop with William Galperin. For more information contact Dahlia Porter or Jared Richman.
- 6:30 to 8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Study Group. For more information, email lamasc@sas.upenn.edu
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Preceptorial on J.R.R. Tolkien's Return of the King with Jennifer Snead. For more information contact Albert Shyy.
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, 3/25
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: An English Career Night: Where English Alums Meet English Majors
Wondering what to do with your English degree after graduation? Come meet Penn English alumni who figured out what to do with theirs! Cosponsored by the English Undergraduate Advisory Board.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 4:30-6PM in Room 202: (Co-sponsored) Mods Reading Group presents Dillon Brown on George Lamming and difficulty. For more information, contact Matt Hart (matthart@dept.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.
Friday, 3/26
- 3:30 - 5:30 PM throughout the House: Write On! Workshop
Write On! volunteers are Penn students who work with eighth graders from the Lea Elementary School on Friday afternoons at the Writers House, building creative writing and reading skills. For more information or to participate, email Rachel Kreinces.
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 12-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Critical Writing Fellow Training Session
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, 3/27
- 4:30 PM: This Charming Lab presents Stoning the Devil with Brian Freedman and Adam Fieled.
Brian Freedman holds a BA from Penn State and an MA from New York University. His writing has appeared in Wine Spectator and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has just completed his first novel, "Shock Art."
Adam Fieled is a poet, playwright, and musician. He has released two albums, "Darkyr Sooner" (on mp3.com) and "Raw Rainy Fog" (Radio Eris Records). He is the founder of This Charming Lab, an artists co-op that has staged musical and literary events at the Khyber, La Tazza 108, and the Pontiac Grille. He is currently at work on his third album, "Ardent."
This Charming Lab presents "Stoning the Devil" with Brian Freedman and Adam Fieled. Making our way through the perilous interior of a soul's journey, we are surrounded by carnage and camouflage that could only be described as devilish. Are we to damn the devil outright or court him? Adam Fieled and Brian Freedman want to take you on a guided tour of temptation, experience and redemption. We will move you from the point at which the soul longs to lash out at the forces of evil to the threshold of acceptance, when evil becomes just another mistress to be courted, cultivated, and seduced into intoxication ("stoned"). Join us as we explore the binary tension between the sacred and the profane, lucid ambiguities and ambiguous truth.
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, 3/28
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 3/29
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.302 with Lorene Cary (lorene.cary@verizon.net)
- 2-5:00 PM in Arts Cafe: English 285 with Al Filreis (afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:00-8:30 PM in Arts Cafe: 3808 Journal Meeting with Val Ross (vross@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.
Tuesday, 3/30
- 5:00 PM: A reading with Shirley Kaufman cosponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Creative Writing Program,
the Middle East Center, the Women's Studies Program and the Kelly Writers House
Shirley Kaufman, an American poet from Seattle and San Francisco who has lived in Jerusalem since 1973, has published translations of Hebrew and Dutch poetry, and eight volumes of her own poems, including the recent Roots in the Air: New and Selected Poems (1996, Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Washington). Since she won the United States Award of the International Poetry Forum for her first book of poems in 1969, she has won National Endowment for the Arts fellowships both for poetry and translation, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and numerous other prizes. In 2003, three more of her books have been published: a new collectionof her own poems, Threshold, Copper Canyon Press, The Flower of Anarchy, Selected Poems of Meir Wieseltier, translated from Hebrew, University of California Press, and Un Abri Pour Nos Tetes, a bi-lingual Selection of her own poems, translated by Claude Vigee, Cheyne editeur, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 145.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, a poetry workshop. Any interested in writing poetry is welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Pat Green (patgreen@vet.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, 3/31
- 10:00 AM-1:00 PM in Room 202: A Workshop on Screenwriting Structure with alumnus David Stern.
David Stern will work with six students on developing their scripts on March 31 and April 1. For more information on how to apply email whstern@writing.upenn.edu.
This event is featured in Eric Karlan's NOTES FROM THE GREEN COUCH, a series of summaries and analyses of Writers House events. Click on the image above. - 12:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A lunchtime conversation with David McCullough. RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu. For
more information, click here
A biographer, historian, lecturer, teacher, and award-winning author, David McCullough is the author of six widely acclaimed books, including Truman, one of the most popular American biographies of all time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is also host of the PBS television series The American Experience and narrator of Ken Burns' production of The Civil War. President of the Society of American Historians and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has lectured at venues throughout United States, including the White House, and is one of the few private citizens ever invited to address the U.S. Congress. Mr. McCullough's many awards and honors include the Charles Frankel Prize, presented by President Clinton; the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award; the Samuel Eliot Morison Award; and the New York Public Library Literary Lion Award. He has twice received the National Book Award and the Frances Parkman Prize. His early ambitions as a portrait painter led him to his life's work and his strong support for arts education. To view the webcast of this event, click here.
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Now that I have this great idea, what do I do with it?": A Conversation on circulating
screenplays with alumnus, screenwriter, playwright and director David Stern. RSVP required to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
David I. Stern began his career working in the New York theater for Director/Lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr. During his tenure with Maltby, he worked on the Broadway productions of Miss Saigon, Nick & Nora, and Big as well as a myriad of other smaller projects. Simultaneously, he began his theater writing career. He wrote the Rodgers and Hammerstein revue Some Enchanted Evening, the plays Dreams & Stuff and Finders of Lost Luggage, the NPR radio program The 1990s Radio Hour and a Half, and the musical Snapshots. David took a small detour into directing with the New York revival of Starting Here, Starting Now (nominated for a MAC Award) and a stint with The American Project at Circle in the Square. After his six years in New York, David migrated west to Los Angeles. There he wrote the television movie Geppetto for The Wonderful World of Disney, as well as numerous feature films including: The Muppets Return for Jim Henson Productions, Wish for director Ivan Reitman and Dreamworks, Gettysburgville for director Jon Turtletaub and Disney, and Old Friends for Revolution Studios. He is currently writing The Magic Brush for Miramax, Betting the Farm for Sony Pictures Animation, and is creating the television series Omega Dome for Fox Sports. Listen to a recording from this event.
- 1-2:00 PM in Room 202: English 003.307 with Darren Jaspan (djaspen@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 10.302 with Daisy Fried (daisyf1@juno.com)
- 5:00 PM in Room 202: Informal Metacritical Forum with Suvir Kaul on the Introduction and Conclusion of his 5:00 - 6:30 PM in Room 209: Latitudes Reading Group presents an Informal Metacritical Forum with Suvir Kaul on the Introduction and Conclusion of his Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire - for more information, email Darren Jaspan.
- 5:00-6:30 PM in Room 209: Latitudes Reading Group presents an Informal Metacritical Forum with Suvir Kaul on the Introduction and Conclusion of his Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire - for more information, email Darren Jaspan.
- 7:30 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck! 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.