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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Thursday, 3/1
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 3/2
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 3/3
- Writers House closed for 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, 3/4
- Writers House closed for 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, 3/5
- Writers House closed for Spring Break.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile.
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting. For more information contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.net)
- 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM in Room 202: 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.
Tuesday, 3/6
- Writers House closed for Spring Break.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group meeting. Contact Pat Green at patricia78@aol.com for more information.
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, 3/7
- Writers House closed for Spring Break.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
- 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM in Room 209: Steak, a ficition group. For more information, contact Moira Moody at momoody@gmail.com.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 3/8
- Writers House closed for Spring Break.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 3/9
- Writers House closed for Spring Break.
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 3/10
- Writers House closed for 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, 3/11
- Writers House closed for 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, 3/12
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Meeting and Gathering. For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP contact wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile.
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting. For more information contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.net)
- 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM in Room 202: Reserved for Tim Carmody's COML 009-301 class.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 3/13
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Great Arts Cafe Chair Day.
Join members of the Writers House Planning Committee and spruce up the Writers House chairs! Wood glue, shellac, spangles, and plenty of snacks will be provided. To participate, please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 3/14
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading and conversation with Myung
Mi Kim, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics and the Asian American
Studies Program (ASAM).
This reading was recorded and is available as part of the PennSound archive: click here
Myung Mi Kim is a poet and Professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo. Her books of poetry include Commons (University of California Press, 2002), DURA (Sun and Moon, 1999), The Bounty (Chax, 1996) and Under Flag (Kelsey St. Press, 1991), winner of the Multicultural Publisher's Exchange Award. Her work also appears in Asian-American Literature: An Anthology, Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, and elsewhere.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 202: A Poetry Workshop On Voice, Autobiography And The Life Of Poetry with Leonard Gontarek. For more information, contact Leonard Gontarek at gontarekl@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, 3/15
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A poetry reading by Bill
Berkson,
introduced by Tom Devaney and co-sponsored by the Creative
Writing Program.
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Bill Berkson has worked as a poet, critic, teacher,
editor,
publisher, and curator for over half a century. Berkson's recent books
include Gloria, with etchings by Alex Katz (Arion Press, 2005);
The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings (Qua
Books, 2004); and an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer,
What's Your Idea of a Good Time?: Letters & Interviews
1977-1985 (Tuumba, 2006). Also just out are
a collection of new poems Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently (The
Owl Press) and Sudden Address: Selected Lectures (Cuneiform Press). Berkson is a corresponding editor for
Art in America and was Distinguished Paul Mellon Lecturer for
2006 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He lives in
New York and San Francisco and has taught at the San Francisco Art
Institute since 1984.
A recording was made of this event and is available as a downloadable mp3 file here.
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- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 3/16
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 3:30-5:30 PM at the Writers House: Write-On! meeting for students of the Lea School. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@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, 3/17
- 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM in the Publications Room: First Call meeting. For more information, contact Shira Bender (shiratb@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.
Sunday, 3/18
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, 3/19
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents
Jamaica Kincaid. This event is FULL
RSVP only; please RSVP to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9749.
Using life to inspire fiction, Jamaica Kincaid often explores the
complexity of mother-daughter relationships, the effects and
aftereffects of colonialism, and alienation more generally. Kincaid has
recently edited The Best American Travel Writing of 2005, published
Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2004) and Mr. Potter (2003)
and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University. Other works
include The Autobiography of My Mother (1995), Lucy (1990) and
Annie John (1985). She won the Prix Femina Etranger for her novel My
Brother in 2000, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989, a PEN/Faulkner Award
nomination and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and
Institute of Arts for her first collection of short stories, At the
Bottom of the River (1983). Kincaid was a New Yorker staff writer
from 1976 until 1995 and has been publishing fiction and nonfiction
since the mid-1970s. In addition to The New Yorker, her work has
appeared in Ingenue magazine and The Village Voice. In 2004 she was
elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In the New York Review of Books, Darryl Pinckney has written, "Kincaid's rhythms and the circularity of her thought patterns in language bring Gertrude Stein to mind. She is an eccentric and altogether impressive descendant."
Watch the reading of this event here.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 3/20
- 10:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents
Jamaica Kincaid. This event is FULL
RSVP only; please RSVP to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9749.
Using life to inspire fiction, Jamaica Kincaid often explores the
complexity of mother-daughter relationships, the effects and
aftereffects of colonialism, and alienation more generally. Kincaid has
recently edited The Best American Travel Writing of 2005, published
Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2004) and Mr. Potter (2003)
and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard University. Other works
include The Autobiography of My Mother (1995), Lucy (1990) and
Annie John (1985). She won the Prix Femina Etranger for her novel My
Brother in 2000, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989, a PEN/Faulkner Award
nomination and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and
Institute of Arts for her first collection of short stories, At the
Bottom of the River (1983). Kincaid was a New Yorker staff writer
from 1976 until 1995 and has been publishing fiction and nonfiction
since the mid-1970s. In addition to The New Yorker, her work has
appeared in Ingenue magazine and The Village Voice. In 2004 she was
elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In the New York Review of Books, Darryl Pinckney has written, "Kincaid's rhythms and the circularity of her thought patterns in language bring Gertrude Stein to mind. She is an eccentric and altogether impressive descendant."
Watch the discussion of this event here.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group meeting. Contact Pat Green at patricia78@aol.com for more information.
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, 3/21
- 9:00 - 11:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: Al Filreis leads a poetry workshop with students from the Quaker Friends Middle School.
- 8:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: SPEAKEASY! A night of poetry and prose.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 3/22
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe:
A poetry reading and discussion with writers Dodie Bellamy and Julia Bloch, introduced by Jessica Lowenthal and
by Sarah Dowling.
Dodie Bellamy is the author of the collection Pink Steam, a
collection of the intimate secrets about her life: sex, shoplifting, voyeurism, writing. She has written often and vividly on
contemporary literature, transgression, feminist and queer theory, AIDS, and body issues. She is currently working on
The Fourth Form, a multi-dimensional sex novel. A downoadable mp3 recording of Dodie's reading is available here.
Julia Bloch earned an MFA at Mills College, is pursing a PhD at the University
of Pennsylvania in literature, and is the winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson
Literary Award for a manuscript in progress, Apartment. Her chapbook of
"post-psychiatric sonnets" was published by Bigfan Press; her poetry has
appeared recently in the anthology Bay Poetics and in the journals Sidebrow,
Double Room, and Five Fingers Review, and is forthcoming in Women's Studies
Quarterly. A downloadable mp3 recording of Julia's reading is available here.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 3/23
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 3/24
- LIVE at the Writers House tapes.
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
(gautsche@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.
Sunday, 3/25
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, 3/26
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a lunch program with Judy Bachrach, hosted by Dick Polman.
Please RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a seat. This event is co-sponsored by the
Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
Judy Bachrach is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair
magazine as well as a regular contributor to Allure. She has
interviewed people as diverse as Kurt Waldheim and Christina
Aguilera. A native New Yorker, Bachrach graduated from Chatham College
in Pittsburgh and got her master's degree in journalism from Columbia
University. She has been a TV critic for the Baltimore Sun, a
columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, a feature writer for
the Style section of the Washington Post, a political columnist
for the Washington Star, and a contributor for Inquirer
Magazine. She speaks French, Italian, some German and three words
of Arabic, and cooks well in any language. - 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House tapes,
featuring Philadelphia Zine Writers Katie Haegele, Casey Grabowski,
King Wenclas, Kate, Justin Duerr, and musical guest Birdie Busch.
Downloadable recordings of this program in mp3 format are available here.
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
(gautsche@writing.upenn.edu).Katie Haegele's first zine was a collection of found poetry called "Word Math," and she's still making that one for anybody who asks. She has also done several other poetry collections, a serial zine for armchair linguists called "The La-La Theory," a fiction series called "Miniatures," and a whole bunch of others. You can read about and order any of her zines at www.thelalatheory.com.
Casey Grabowski is the editor of "Tric Zine," a publication of Trixine Chemical Corp. Migrating between Baltimore, Delaware, and Philadelphia, the Trixine collective works with written, musical, visual and fashion artists, and has recently grown to include booking agents, dance-culture DJs, sound reinforcement, and event hosting. "Tric Zine," the backbone of the Trixine project, is now on its 23rd issue, has grown from a photocopied zine to 60 pages of newsprint with a run of 5000 copies per issue. "Tric Zine" features original writing and artwork, highlighting the work of local artists ranging from completely unknown to nationally accepted. Casey Grabowski lives in Wilmington, DE, and works as a civil engineer.
King Wenclas is a Do-It-Yourself writer whose zines over the years include Literary Fan Magazine, Zeen Beat, War Hysteria, and 45 issues of New Philistine, among others. He is a founder of the Underground Literary Alliance, created by six zinesters in 2001 to bring the work of underground writers and artists to the attention of the greater public. The ULA will be appearing in Philadelphia at The Underground at 40th and Spruce on April 22. The ULA website is www.literaryrevolution.com.
Kate has published "Thermidor," a cut-and-paste zine of adventure and miscellany, since 2003. Using personal experience as a segue into mini-histories of whatever she finds interesting, Kate covers topics like the drunk metalheads of Latvia, abandoned insane asylums, and matriarchal screaming cults. Though technically a perzine, Thermidor highlights the bizarre side of life rather than the everyday. Kate also plays in an all-accordion five-piece band and makes short videos. She resides in West Philly.
Justin Duerr studied nature, the occult, UFOs/ time travel, visual art, music and religion as a child. An obsession with ancient Egyptian mythology combined with the writings of the Bible, the miniseries "V" and the oft-forgotten supernatural sitcom "Jennifer Slept Here" to form the underpinnings of Justin's later philosophies and creative direction. Since 1995 Justin has sporadically published a small zine featuring whatever was going on in his mind and soul at the time. It is called DECADES OF CONFUSION FEED THE INSECT, and is currently on issue # 51. He is the creator of the visual art movement SPIRIT MIND ELECTRICITY, formulator of the revelation/revolution known as PSYCHIC-CIRCUIT-BOARD-ALL-UNIFICATION, and a minister of the CHURCH OF DIVINE ENERGY (CODE). In the year 2007 Justin hopes to see the publication of an 12 year anthology book of his collected writings and artworks from Decades Of Confusion Feed The Insect, as well as the completion of the documentary film about the Toynbee tiles, titled "Resurrect Dead." In addition to this he is attempting, for the first time, to show some of his artwork in a gallery setting.
Born amidst a great wealth of talent residing in Philadelphia these days, Birdie Busch just finished her first studio recording in the spring of 2005 entitled "The Ways We Try" and the recording has all the warmth, atmosphere, and feeling of the best of the classic records in your collection. The album, recorded in a converted auto garage in the marshlands of South Jersey, was created somewhat the opposite of how songs are usually recorded, with two guitars leading the rhythm, bass and drums chasing off-kilter meters, and piano and organ coloring the lyrics and adding width and depth to the melodies. With radio play from WXPN, and the song 'South Philly' just included on the station's new "WXPN Philly Local-Right On Track" album produced by station programming veteran Helen Leicht, the media support is taking her and her band into the best clubs and halls in the city, including the Tin Angel, the Theatre of the Living Arts, World Café Live, and the North Star.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 with Karen Rile.
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting. For more information contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.net)
- 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM in Room 202: Reserved for Tim Carmody's COML 009-301 class.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 3/27
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Festival Latino Poetry Night featuring Bobby González, & Excelano Project members. Cosponsored by: Latino Coalition, Latin America & Latino Studies Program, La Casa Latina, Annenberg School for Communication, & The College.
Bobby González is a nationally known lecturer, storyteller and poet. Born and raised in New York City, he grew up in a bicultural environment. Bobby draws on his Native American (Taino) and Latino (Puerto Rican) roots to offer a unique repertoire of performances, readings and discourses that celebrate his indigenous roots.
The Excelano Project is UPenn's premier spoken-work group. Created in 2001 by Carlos Andres Gomez, the group has been ripping mics anywhere from their Ivy League homecourt to The Nuyorican. Recently, the team won the 2nd place title at the College Unions Poetry Slam invitational. Individually, the group has had numerous success including appearances on HBO's Def Poetry and wins in the National Youthspeaks Competition.
Festival Latino is a week-long celebration at Penn featuring cultural shows, nationally renowned speakers/performers, and events that foster activism. Occurring in March 23-30 all across the UPenn campus, this celebration aims to highlight the richness of Latino culture.
Listen to and audio recording of this event.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 with Max Apple.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.401 with Lorene Cary.
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: The Play's the Thing. For more information, contact Christine Otis (plays.2006@hotmail.com).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 3/28
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: an experimental fiction celebration,
featuring Nicholas Montemarano, Doug Nufer, and Matt
Derby, co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Alumni Writers House of
Franklin and Marshall College. After short readings by each of our
featured guests, audience members will get a chance to chat about
experimental fiction during a light reception, followed by an
interactive session of experimental writing play led by our three
guests.
To hear the recording of this program click here.
Nicholas Montemarano is the author of the short-story
collection If the Sky Falls (Louisiana State, 2005) and the
novel A Fine Place (Context Books, 2002). Recent stories have
been published in Esquire, Zoetrope: All-Story, Tin
House, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review,
and Agni. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and a National
Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He is Assistant Professor of
English at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Doug Nufer writes fiction, poetry, and pieces for performance, favoring "formal constraints," such as in his most audacious novel, Never Again (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004), in which no word appears more than once. Nufer's most recent work is The Mudflat Man/The River Boys (soultheft, 2006), a double novel in the old Ace Doubles flip-over book format. Nufer's work has also appeared in the Washington Free Press, Art Access, The Stranger, American Book Review, and The Nation.
Matt Derby has an MFA in writing from Brown University. His stories have
appeared in Conjunctions, Fence, 5 Trope, Pindeldyboz, and
Failbetter, and he is Associate Fiction Editor at 3rd Bed. He also
contributed to the debut issue of The Believer. His first book, a
collection of stories entitled Super Flat Times, has recently been
released. He and his wife live in Providence, Rhode Island.
- 9:00-10:00 AM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 AM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 with Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 with Linh Dinh.
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: A Poetry Workshop On Voice, Autobiography And The Life Of Poetry with Leonard Gontarek. For more information, contact Leonard Gontarek at gontarekl@earthlink.net.
- 7-9:00 PM in Room 209: Active Minds, a mental health awareness and advocacy group. For more information, please contact Allison Warner (warnerak@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, 3/29
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Writing Fiction for Kids: a discussion with Hank Herman.
Prize-winning juvenile fiction writer Hank Herman will discuss how he found himself as a kids' sports
fiction novelist after being a career magazine editor, humorist, and non-fiction writer; how to use your own
experiences as material for great kids' fiction books; how to stick to a kid's point-of-view in your writing
-- and other elements of the craft of juvenile fiction writing. Herman will also read from Super Hoops,
his 15-book basketball series for kids (Bantam Doubleday Dell), as well as from Spin a Sport (Innovative
Kids) and Marked Man and Other Soccer Stories (Roxbury Park/Lowell House).Hank Herman is an award-winning humor and kids fiction writer, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, Accept My Kid, Please! A Dad's Descent Into College Application Hell, was published by Da Capo Press in 2005. Prior to that, Herman was best known for Super Hoops, his prize-winning series of 15 basketball novels for kids (Bantam Doubleday Dell). His other books for the juvenile market include Spin A Sport, a collection of sports stories and games (Innovative Kids), and Marked Man And Other Soccer Stories (Roxbury Park/Lowell House). “The Home Team,” Herman's humor column in the Westport News, has taken several top honors from both the New England Press Association and the Connecticut Press Club. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Outside, Men's Health, Family Fun, Parenting, Ladies' Home Journal, and McCall's. Herman served as Editor-in-Chief of Health Magazine from 1980 to 1988, and was also the health correspondent for 1010 WINS Radio, the most-listened-to station in the country. Prior to his tenure at Health, Herman was a travel writer and editor.
- 9:00-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 with Rome.
- 10:30-12:00 AM in Room 202: HIST 009.302 with Paul Deveney.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
- 5:00-6:30 PM in Room 202: Meeting of Mods, the Modernist Reading Group. For more information contact Laura Heffernan (laurah@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, 3/30
- 9:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: ANTH 009.304 with Chana Kraus-Friedberg.
- 10:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: STSC 009.301 with Elizabeth Mackenzie.
- 3:30-5:30 PM at the Writers House: Write-On! meeting for students of the Lea School. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@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, 3/31
- 12:00-2:00 in the Arts Cafe and Dining Room: Lea School Write On! End-of-Year Celebration.
Join us as we celebrate the end of another year of Write On! with the Lea School -- all are welcome!
- 7:00 PM at the Writers House: ***SPELLDOWN***
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Do you have what it takes to be a C-H-A-M-P-I-O-N? Can you spell L-I-T-E-R-A-C-Y?
The Kelly Writers House invites ADULTS! of all ages to participate in our first ***SPELLDOWN*** in history!
At 7pm on Saturday, March 31st, 2007 contestants will compete in a SPELLING BEE to win funky, functional and fun prizes for a good cause.
Donate a new/lightly used children's book for a chance to win limited edition t-shirts, DVDs, CDs, book certificates and more!
Awards will be given for:
- Spelling Bee Champion
- Best Costume
- Worst Speller
- and Audience Participation!
There's something for everyone! ...including free food and a performance by Philly's own Red Heart the Ticker!
Nervous about spelling in front of a crowd? No worries! With each additional book donation participants are allowed up to 3 lifelines. 3 extra books = 3 lifelines. So bring a friend, or three!
Of course, all KWH programs are free and open to the public, but as the spelling bee is the kick-off event for our children's book drive there is a suggested donation of a new or lightly used children's book from all participants and audience members.
All book donations will benefit the South Philadelphia YMCA Early Head Start Program, an organization that promotes early childhood literacy within families who are living at or below the federal poverty line. For more info visit: http://www.momobile.org/programs/early_south.html
Come and represent your hall, organization, team, or workplace, or just to demonstrate your G-E-N-I-U-S. Interested in competing? Send an email to Aichlee@sas.upenn.edu.
The deadline for contest entry is March 15th.
I hope you'll join us for a night that won't easily be F-O-R-G-O-T-T-E-N-!
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- 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM in the Publications Room: First Call meeting. For more information, contact Shira Bender (shiratb@gmail.com)
- 12:00-2:00 PM in the Dining Room: Write-On! end of year celebration for the Lea School. For more information contact Elaine Braithwaite (ebraithw@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.