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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Saturday, 3/1
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, 3/2
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, 3/3
- 6 PM in the Arts Cafe: 7-Up on Rock.
Rock-paper-scissors, Rocky Horror, pop literacy, Rocky, alternative healing, rock DJ, stone soup (Dan McQuade, Matt Rosenbaum, Maria Tessa Sciarrino, Blair Borish, CA Conrad, Lauren Lipsay, and Sam Allingham) followed by: dirt cake, meatloaf, rock candy, rocky road, and (again) stone soup. To listen to a recording of this event, click here.
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing with Karen Rile
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 Writers House Fellows Seminar with Al Filreis
- 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club meeting. For more information contact John Shea (John.Shea@uphs.upenn.edu).
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting
- 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM in Room 202: Penn Review 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.
Tuesday, 3/4
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing: Theater and Philosophy:
Socrates on the Modern Stage, with Martin
Puchner. Co-sponsored by the Comparative Literature and Theory Program, the Modernist Reading Group, the Theatre Arts Program, and the Graduate
and Professional Student Assembly.
Martin Puchner is the H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama (Hopkins, 2002) and Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes (Princeton, 2006). He has published or has essays forthcoming in the London Review of Books, Raritan Review, Yale Journal of Criticism, The Drama Review, The Journal of the History of Ideas, New Literary History, Theatre Research International, and Theatre Journal among others. His edited books and introductions include Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen (Barnes and Noble, 2003), Lionel Abel's Tragedy and Metatheatre (Holmes and Meier, 2003), The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings (Barnes and Noble, 2005), and Modern Drama: Critical Concepts (Routledge, forthcoming). He is also co-editor of Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage (Palgrave, 2006) and of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Drama. He has just signed on as the new general editor of the Norton Anthology of World Literature. He also serves as editor of the journal Theatre Survey.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 Poetry & Poetics/Experimental Writing with Tracie Morris
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word meeting. For more information, contact Kristen Williams at kew2@sas.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes Meeting. For more information, contact Pat Green patricia78@aol.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, 3/5
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: CPCW Portfolio sessions
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy - poetry, prose, anything goes!
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 Advanced Screenwriting with Kathy DeMarco
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 162.301 The 2008 Presidential Primaries with Dick Polman
- 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM in Room 209: Writers Workshop meeting. For more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmyer65@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, 3/6
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: CPCW Portfolio sessions
12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The '08 Election and the Media Revolution: a lunch talk with Dick Polman, presented by the Sylvia W. Kauders Series.
Dick Polman is the Maury Povich "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania and writes a Sunday political column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as a daily political blog at www.dickpolman.blogspot.com. He has been cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as one of the nation's top political reporters. He has been a frequent guest on C-Span, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and the BBC, and lectures frequently in the community about journalism and presidential politics. He was on the presidential campaign trail in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and is currently teaching a Penn course on commentary writing during the historic 2008 primaries.
RSVP required. Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu, or call 215-573-9748.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 121 Writing for Children with Elizabeth Van Doren
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 209: English 130.402 Advanced Screenwriting with Mark Rosenthal
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, 3/7
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Lee Eisenberg
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, 3/8
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, 3/9
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, 3/10
- 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM in Room 202: Penn Review 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.
Tuesday, 3/11
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, 3/12
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 3/13
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, 3/14
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, 3/15
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, 3/16
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, 3/17
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Hub meeting. Please RSVP to
jalowent@writing.upenn.edu.
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing with Karen Rile
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 Writers House Fellows Seminar with Al Filreis
- 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM in Room 202: Penn Review 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.
Tuesday, 3/18
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6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Theorizing presents "The Weight of the Past," a talk by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. Co-sponsored by the Medieval/Renaissance Reading Group, the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program, and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly..
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Associate Professor of English and Human Sciences at George Washington University. His books include The Postcolonial Middle Ages (St. Martin's Press, 2000), Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (Garland Publishing, 1997), with Bonnie Wheeler, and Monster Theory: Reading Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 Poetry & Poetics/Experimental Writing with Tracie Morris
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word meeting. For more information, contact Kristen Williams at kew2@sas.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 202: Virginia Woolf Discussion Group. For more information, contact Judith Allen at woolfgroup@mindspring.com.
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes Meeting. For more information, contact Pat Green patricia78@aol.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, 3/19
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy - poetry, prose, anything goes!
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 Advanced Screenwriting with Kathy DeMarco
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 162.301 The 2008 Presidential Primaries with Dick Polman
- 6:30 - 8:00 PM in Room 202: Lacanians Meeting. Contact Patricia Gherovici at PGHEROVICI@aol.com.
- 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM in Room 209: Writers Workshop meeting. For more information, contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmyer65@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, 3/20
1:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: a discussion with journalist Jeff Gammage, hosted by Lorene Cary and co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Jeff Gammage is a staff writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he often writes about adoption. This year he was part of a team of reporters who received a national Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in deadline reporting, for their coverage of a mass shooting at an Amish school in Lancaster County.
Before joining the metro staff, Gammage worked as a staff writer on the Inquirer Sunday Magazine, and as a national correspondent, covering eight states from a bureau in Pittsburgh. He wrote for the Roanoke Times & World-News in Roanoke, Va., before joining the Inquirer.
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6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading and roundtable discussion featuring Alicia Puglionesi, winner of the 2007-2008 CPCW Literary Journalism Fellowship, Penn Professor John Tresch, and nationally
acclaimed editor Lee Eisenberg (C'68, ASC'70). For more about the CPCW Literary
Journalism Fellowships, go here.
Alicia Puglionesi is a Penn junior. She has published work in the Main Line Times, the Philadelphia
Inquirer, and the Daily Pennsylvanian. Her winning Fellowship piece focuses on the emerging field of
"neurotheology," the study of correlations of neural phenomena with the subjective experiences of spirituality.
Penn alumnus Lee Eisenberg served as editor in chief at Esquire before overseeing creative development at TIME magazine. Eisenberg's book, The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think about the Rest of Your Life (Free Press, 2006) is a New York Times bestseller and the buzz of professionals and financial industry insiders everywhere.
- 7:00 - 9:00 PM in Room 202: Marnie film screening. Word.Doc Film Series in collaboration with the course "Medicine in Literature and Film, 1850-2000." For more information, contact Lance Wahlert at lwahlert@english.upenn.edu.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 121 Writing for Children with Elizabeth Van Doren
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 209: English 130.402 Advanced Screenwriting with Mark Rosenthal
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, 3/21
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Lee Eisenberg
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, 3/22
- 12:00 - 7:00 PM in the Pub Room: First Call meeting. For more information, contact Shira Bender (shiratb@gmail.com).
- 12:00 - 3:00 PM in Room 202: Brave Star meeting. Contact Aichlee Bushnell: aichlee at sas.upenn.edu.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 3/23
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, 3/24
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents
Lynne Sharon Schwartz. RSVP only; please RSVP to
whfellow@writing.upenn.edu
or call 215-573-9749.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz is known for elegant and precise sentences, complex and thoughtful characters, and for telescopic range
and microscopic focus. She is the author of nineteen books of fiction, nonfiction, translation and poetry. New York
Magazine selected Schwartz's novel about September 11, 2001, The Writing on the Wall for its Best Literary Fiction
Award in 2005. Schwartz has the ability to tell stories that would otherwise resist narration altogether. Her novel Rough
Strife (1980), about the vicissitudes of a long marriage, was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award and a
National Book Award. Leaving Brooklyn (1989), a coming-of-age novel, was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award. Her work
has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American
Essays. Schwartz has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York
State Foundation for the Arts. She is currently on the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Disturbances in the Field, Schwartz's 1983 novel about loss, is known for its precision and humanity. The Kelly Writers House's own Max Apple, a renowned fiction writer himself, has said of Disturbances in the Field, "I have not been so wholly taken into an aura, a field, since I began being hypnotized by Dostoevski and Tolstoy and George Eliot ... I want to praise this book in every possible way."
Watch the reading of this event here.
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing with Karen Rile
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 Writers House Fellows Seminar with Al Filreis
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street 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.
Tuesday, 3/25
- 10:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents Lynne Sharon Schwartz. RSVP only; please RSVP to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9749.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora," a talk by Dr. Persis Karim, cosponsored by the Middle East Center.
- 7:00 - 9:00 PM in Room 202: Ikiru film screening. Word.Doc Film Series in collaboration with the course "Medicine in Literature and Film, 1850-2000." For more information, contact Lance Wahlert at lwahlert@english.upenn.edu.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz is known for elegant and precise sentences, complex and thoughtful characters, and for telescopic range
and microscopic focus. She is the author of nineteen books of fiction, nonfiction, translation and poetry. New York
Magazine selected Schwartz's novel about September 11, 2001, The Writing on the Wall for its Best Literary Fiction
Award in 2005. Schwartz has the ability to tell stories that would otherwise resist narration altogether. Her novel Rough
Strife (1980), about the vicissitudes of a long marriage, was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award and a
National Book Award. Leaving Brooklyn (1989), a coming-of-age novel, was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award. Her work
has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American
Essays. Schwartz has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York
State Foundation for the Arts. She is currently on the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Disturbances in the Field, Schwartz's 1983 novel about loss, is known for its precision and humanity. The Kelly Writers
House's own Max Apple, a renowned fiction writer himself, has said of Disturbances in the Field, "I have not been so
wholly taken into an aura, a field, since I began being hypnotized by Dostoevski and Tolstoy and George Eliot ... I want to
praise this book in every possible way."
Watch the discussion of this event here.
Persis Karim is currently an associate professor of English and Comparative literature at San Jose State University where she teaches literature and creative writing. She has published her poetry in numerous literary journals including Reed Magazine, Alimentum, Di-Verse-City, HeartLodge, and Caesura. She is the author of numerous articles on Iranian American literature and the editor of the anthology Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora (University of Arkansas Press, 2006). She is also co-editor and co-author of A World Between: Poems Short Stories and Essays by Iranian Americans (1999). She is currently working on a collection of essays, In the Belly of the Great Satan: Art, Literature and the Emergence of Iranian American Identity. She lives in Berkeley with her husband and her two beautiful sons.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115.301 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111.302 Poetry & Poetics/Experimental Writing with Tracie Morris
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word meeting. For more information, contact Kristen Williams at kew2@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.
Wednesday, 3/26
12:00 PM: Alumni Mentor lunch with Julie Buxbaum.
Julie Buxbaum is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School. After practicing law in both New York and Los Angeles, she quit her job as a litigator to write full time. The Opposite of Love is her first novel.- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: MACHINE presents a talk by Chris Funkhouser.
Poet and scholar Chris Funkhouser is an Associate Professor in the Humanities Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology. In 2006 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture and conduct research in Malaysia, where his CD-ROM eBook Selections 2.0 was produced at Multimedia University. In 2007 he published Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995, a history of pre-WWW computerized poetry, in the Modern and Contemporary Poetics series at University of Alabama Press. Forthcoming is a bi-lingual collection of his writings, Technopoetry Rising: Essays and Works, which will be published in Brazil. For more info see http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous.
MACHINE showcases the literary uses of the computer. Poets, fiction writers, and others have been combining the networked and computational capabilities of digital machines with the workings of literature to produce new sorts of writing that exists online and on-screen: writing that plays on the context of the internet, requires interaction and input from the reader, and brings many different media together in new ways. MACHINE is a series in which writers of electronic literature come to the Kelly Writers House to read from and demonstrate their work, and to discuss the literary uses of the computer with area writers and members of the Penn community. For information about past events, visit writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/series/machine/.
A recording of this event is available on PennSound
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.401 Advanced Screenwriting with Kathy DeMarco
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 162.301 The 2008 Presidential Primaries with Dick Polman
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, 3/27
12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Annual KWH marathon reading, featuring Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
2008 marks the 50th anniversary of the American publication of Vladimir
Nabokov's infamous Lolita, a book that somehow managed to survive
ahead of its time and overcome cultural backlash and governmental censorship to become one of the 20th century's canonical texts. Because we at the Writers House have always been fans of literature's rebels, we
knew that this momentous occasion would not pass without joyous
incident. We produced, fertilized, and incubated our scheme for celebration.Beginning at noon and continuing, relentless, until we are done, a series of volunteers will read Lolita out loud in its entirety to an enraptured audience in our Arts Café! Whether you join us as a reader or a listener, for one hot minute or the whole day, you'll be treated to a delicious spread of treats plucked fresh from Lolita's pages, given the opportunity to purchase a limited-edition commemorative T-shirt designed by the Hub.
We need all the readers that we can get! If you are interested in a ten-minute time slot (and the complimentary CD featuring the chart-topping pop hits of Lolita's day that you'll receive for your participation) email Erin Gautsche at gautsche@writing.upenn.edu. How could you say no?
"When Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was first published in 1955 in Paris, it was soon banned for its controversial content. Yet as an underground readership grew, the novel gained international attention, and, as a result, the bans were lifted. Immediate responses to the work were understandably mixed. Many critics condemned it as pornographic trash, citing its 'obscene' descriptions of a pedophile's sexual activities. Others applauded the work's originality and sparkling wit. The novel has now, however, gained almost universal approval as a brilliant tour de force. Readers find middle-aged narrator and protagonist Humbert Humbert to be both perpetrator and victim of his disastrous obsession with the young Lolita. In his record of his relationship with her, Humbert becomes a complex mixture of mad lecher who 'breaks' the life of a young girl and wild romantic who suffers in his pursuit of his unattainable ideal. Donald E. Morton, in his book Vladimir Nabokov, argues that 'what makes Lolita something more than either a case study of sexual perversion or pornographic titillation is the truly shocking fact that Humbert Humbert is a genius who, through the power of his artistry, actually persuades the reader that his memoir is a love story. Nabokov's technical brilliance and beautiful, evocative language help bring this tragic character to life.'"
Listen to a recording of the event.
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in Room 202: English 125.301 Magazine Journalism with Avery Rome (arome at phillynews.com)
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.318 Race Matters with Adrian Khactu (adriank at sas.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM in Room 202: Political Science 009.301 Rhetoric of the Presidency with Damon Linker (linkerda at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 121 Writing for Children with Elizabeth Van Doren
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 209: English 130.402 Advanced Screenwriting with Mark Rosenthal
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, 3/28
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Lee Eisenberg
- 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM: WriteOn! Meeting. For more information, contact Emily Ozan: ejozan at 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, 3/29
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, 3/30
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, 3/31
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House features the Mad Poets Society poets Eileen M. D'Angelo, Stephen Delia, Missy Grotz, Autumn Konopka, and Dan Maguire and musical guest Devin Greenwood.
The Mad Poets Society, founded in 1987, has grown from humble roots and a handful of poets at Media Borough Hall in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, to over 100 members in six states. It is an organization of poets and writers who have joined together for camaraderie and critique with heart, to celebrate the creative soul and to promote the literary arts.
Among their goals is the desire to bring poetry and the appreciation of the spoken word to surrounding communities and to foster a supportive, nurturing atmosphere to promote individual growth. They provide an outlet for artistic energy and interests other than the workday world and offer opportunities and forums for new poets to express themselves in an encouraging atmosphere.
The Mad Poets come from all walks of life. Their members are teachers, brick-layers, lawyers, construction workers, secretaries, accountants -- everyone with a common link: the love of words.
A two-time finalist in the Allen Ginsberg Awards given by Paterson Literary Review, Eileen M. D'Angelo's poetry and book reviews have appeared, or are forthcoming in literary magazines and newspapers including Rattle, Voices International, Wild River Review, Manhattan Poetry Review, Drexel Online Journal, Hinge Online, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Poets, The Aurealean, New Hope International in the United Kingdom, and others. She has been nominated for a Governor's Award in the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and was a judge for the Philadelphia area open auditions for HBO's pilot/series, Def Poetry Jam. Editor of the Mad Poets Review and Director of the Mad Poets Society, she has coordinated over a thousand readings and events since 1987. She is the paralegal to criminal defense attorney G. Guy Smith, and recipient of the Victim Rights Award from the District Attorney's Office, for volunteer work for the Domestic Abuse Project.
Stephen Delia has been writing poetry for just over 30 years. He has read in many libraries, coffee houses, and bars. He has done a street reading and has even read in a cemetery as part of Mad Poets event. In 2006, he judged the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Competition along with the poets Cleveland Wall and Galway Kinnell. He finished second place in the 2002 Mad Poets poetry slam. His last two chapbooks were Revisited, Revised and Retyped and last year's 1622 Church Street. He loves music and has been influenced by The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Donovan.
Missy Grotz went to Our Lady of Angels College (now John Neumann University) and eventually ended up at Penn State, where she graduated with a BA in English/Writing. She took the gypsy tour of various careers from retail to industrial engineering. She also went to work for a few extra bucks for an alarm company happily chasing down the phone numbers of deadbeat customers... it's a touch of detective work that she finds absolutely addictive.Of course, these experiences found their way into various poetry and short stories over the years! She ultimately ended up in civil service, where she hopes to stay until she expires.
Inspired by her 14 nieces & nephews, Missy has written several "Aunt Missy" books for children that she hopes to have illustrated in 2008. This year, she also plans to release a poetry book called Cat Chat. Missy thinks writing is easier to do when the frustration rises to the top - happy is a place that always dangles just out of reach.
Autumn Konopka has published poems in the Birmingham Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, Mad Poets Review, Philadelphia Stories, and Schuylkill Valley Journal, among others. Her manuscript, What the Postwoman Left, was a semifinalist in the 2007 Crab Orchard Series Open Competition. Her poems have won awards from the Mad Poets Society and the Philadelphia Writers Conference; most recently, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2002, Autumn performed with Eileen D'Angelo, Missy Grotz, and a few other "wild women" as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Autumn has an M.F.A. in creative writing from Antioch University. She's been the host of the Mad Poets reading series in Bryn Mawr for several years, and she has also lead independent writing workshops and poetry classes for children and adults. Autumn is deeply interested in the way that socioeconomic class and memoir come to play in poetry, and she has researched and taught about both topics. This fall she will lead a workshop on writing about class in "classless" society at the Power of Words Conference at Goddard College.
Dan Maguire's work has won numerous prizes and awards and has appeared in The Mad Poets Review, The Comstock Review, The Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Paterson Literary Review, Big City Lit, The Philadelphia Inquirer and others. In May of 2000, the editors of The American Poetry Review selected him for a special workshop with the poet Robert Bly. He won first prize for poetry at the Philadelphia Writer's Conference in 2000 and again, in 2001. In February of 2004, he read at the Library of Congress of the United States. He has led poetry workshops through the Gloucester City (NJ) Adult Education Program, and the 2 Rivers Writers group. In 2005, he led one of the sessions at the first joint-workshop for disabled and non-disabled poets, held at Inglis House, in Philadelphia. He has also led workshops at the National Convention of State Poetry Societies and at the Philadelphia Writers Conference. His first volume of poetry, Somewhere Between, was published by Brief Candle Press, through a grant from the English Speaking Union. His second book will be published this fall.
Devin Greenwood was raised
in the pine-barren town of Browns Mills, NJ the son of black and white
school teachers. Possessed of a unique musical and spiritual vision,
he has produced and influenced many of the artists in the emerging Philadelphia
folk-rock scene, an eclectic group bound by its textural tentacles and
broad lyrical scope. He recently released his eponymous debut
EP, featuring five tracks from the past year's sessions at Scullville
Studios in the south-jersey pines, produced by Greenwood and mixed with
Rachel Russell and Shelly Yakus.
About the EP, WXPN's Bruce Warren writes "Since the early 2000s, Devin Greenwood has been at the center of a creative revitalization of the local music scene here in Philly due in large part to his work with Amos Lee, John Francis, Birdie Busch and Denison Witmer. Finally though, we have a solo album from Greenwood, undeniably one of Philly's most creative and talented musicians."
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).
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutor Training with Valerie Ross (vross at writing.upenn.edu)
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Room 202: English 009.315 Cult Classics with Megan Cook (cookm at sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Room 202: Anthropology 009.303 The Meaning of Money with Brad Hafford (whafford at sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing with Karen Rile
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 274.301 Writers House Fellows Seminar with Al Filreis
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34h Street Poets meeting
- 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM in Room 202: Penn Review 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.