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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Sunday, 4/1
- 6:30 PM: A reading & discussion of Stephanie Bachula's prize-winning play, Have Your Words and Eat Them, Too.
For the third year in a row, the Front Row Theatre Company and the Kelly Writers House have sponsored a playwriting fellowship. Please join us for a public reading and discussion of the winning play, to help prepare the work for a capstone staged reading. More information is available at www.frontrowtheatreco.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.
Monday, 4/2
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Seventh Annual Gay Talese Lecture Series, featuring Gay Talese. The
Gay Talese Lecture Series is presented by the Writers House in conjunction
with the National Italian American Foundation. A reception will
follow. Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
The annual Gay Talese Lecture Series was conceived of and is supported by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in conjunction with the Kelly Writers House. Each year for the past six years, the National Italian American Foundation has sponsored one public performance by an Italian American author of note, held at the Kelly Writers House. To read more about the Gay Talese Lecture Series, its past speakers, and NIAF's recently instituted lecture series at Villanova University, click here.
Gay Talese was a reporter for The New York Times from 1956 to 1965. Since then he has written for the Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and other national publications. He wrote his first non-fiction 'short stories' for Harper's in 1963. Described by Tom Wolfe as the inventor of 'New Journalism,' his style reached maturity in his best-selling non-fiction 'novels,' The Kingdom and the Power (1969), about the New York Times, and Honor Thy Father (1971), about the Mafia. His Unto the Sons was published in 1992. Talese lives with his wife, Nan, in New York City. He is a visiting writer at the Master of Professional Writing Program University of Southern California each spring.
Listen to a recording of the event.
- 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, 4/3
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a reading and conversation with Joe Bageant, introduced by Linh Dinh, CPCW Fellow in Poetics and Poetic Practice.
Joe Bageant has lived in Boulder, CO, on a Coeur d'Alene Indian reservation in Idaho, and in Central America. He has worked as a bartender at a reservation bar, at a magazine selling pesticides, and as a farmer, with horses and without electricity. He now lives in Garifuna village of Hopkins, Belize, where he's finishing the essays in Deerhunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, to be released by Random House Crown in June, 2007. You can read his writing at www.joebageant.com
You can here the recording of this program 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.
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, 4/4
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe:
EMERGENCY
presents John Coletti and Thomas Devaney.
![[Tom Devaney; Photo credit: Zoe Strauss]](images/devaney.jpg)
Thomas Devaney is the author A Series of Small Boxes, forthcoming from Fish Drum Press (May
2007). His books include
The American Pragmatist Fell in Love and Letters to Ernesto Neto. His poems have been published in The American Poetry Review,
Jubilat, Fence, and translated into French and published in Arsenal, Java, and Poesie. Projects and collaborations with the
Institute of Contemporary Art include: a performance "No Silence Here, Enjoy the Silence," for the "Locally Localized Gravity" exhibit (2007), and "The Empty House" tour at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site for "The Big Nothing" exhibit
(2004). He was program coordinator of the Kelly Writers House from 2001 to 2005. He is a Penn Senior Writing Fellow in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. For more information
visit: http://writing.upenn.edu/~tdevaney.
John Coletti grew up in Santa Rosa, California and Portland, Oregon before moving to New York City twelve years ago. He is the author of Physical Kind (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs/Boku Books 2005), The New Normalcy (BoogLit 2002), and Street Debris (Fell Swoop 2005), a collaboration with poet Greg Fuchs with whom he also co-edits Open 24 Hours Press.
This program was recorded and is available in mp3 format 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 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, 4/5
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The MACHINE presents: It Came From the Forums.
Since the dawn of the web, millions of message board users have come together in small groups, huddling for warmth, spinning memes, developing subcultures and sub-subcultures. Join us for a screening and discussion of the folk art of the forum.
Listen to a recording of the program.
- 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, 4/6
- 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, 4/7
- Reading by students in Herman Beavers English 113 Class.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 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, 4/8
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.
Monday, 4/9
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5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading and roundtable discussion, featuring
winners of the CPCW Literary Journalism
Fellowships Mara Gordon
(C'08) and Gabe Crane (C'08) as well as nationally acclaimed
editors Lee Eisenberg (C'68, ASC'70) and Daniel Okrent.
For more about the CPCW Literary Journalism Fellowships, go
here.
Penn alumnus Lee Eisenberg served as editor in chief at Esquire before overseeing creative development at TIME magazine. Eisenberg's newest 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.
This event is featured in Eric Karlan's NOTES FROM THE GREEN COUCH series of summaries and analyses of Writers House events. Click on the image above. Daniel Okrent has spent more than 25 years in magazine and book publishing. His most recent book, Public Editor Number One: The Collected Columns (May 2006), gathers together his reflections as the first Public Editor of the New York Times. He has also served as an editor at TIME, as managing editor at LIFE magazine, and as founding editor of New England Monthly magazine, twice a winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Mr. Okrent is also known as a founder of Rotisserie baseball, the forerunner of numerous fantasy sports games.
Mara Gordon is a history major at Penn, with a minor in English. She is a weekly columnist for the Daily Pennsylvanian, where she has also served as a News Editor. Mara's fellowship project examines the impact of pharmaceutical company money on medical research at Penn. The piece follows the activities of an activist group that is trying to help provide affordable medicines in developing nations.
Gabe Crane is a junior from Berkeley, California. He is an editor with 34th Street Magazine, and a former Kelly Writers House intern. Currently, he is interning with The Next American City, a quarterly publication dealing with urban issues. This summer, Gabe will paddle down the Mississippi River in a canoe, blogging along the way. Gabe's fellowship project examines the struggle for control of a landfill known as the Albany Bulb in the San Francisco Bay area.
A free, downloadable recording of this event in mp3 format is available 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.
- 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, 4/10
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a reading and discussion with Nathalie Anderson and Elaine Terranova.
Nathalie Anderson received her Ph.D. from Emory University, her M.A. from Georgia State University, and her B.A. from
Agnes Scott College. She has received two Academy of American Poets Awards, three Preston Awards, and a Frost Award, and has
been a Fellow of Yaddo Artists' Colony. Her collection of poems Following Fred Astaire twice was a finalist in the
National Poetry Series competition. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, the Cimarron Review, and the
Denver Quarterly. She teaches English literature and poetry writing at Swarthmore College, where she is director of the
Creative Writing program.
Click here to listen to Nathalie Anderson's part of the recording.
Elaine Terranova is the author of The Cult of the Right
Hand (Doubleday, 1991), which won the 1990 Walt Whitman Award
of the Academy of American Poets, Damages (Copper Canyon, 1996), and The Dog's Heart. Her translation of
"Iphigenia at Aulis" is
included in the Euripides III volume of the Penn Greek Drama Series (1998). Her most recent collection of poems is Not
To: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2006). Terranova's work has been showcased by the New Yorker, the
American Poetry Review, the Prairie Schooner, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and Parnassus
Magazine. Currently she serves as a reading and writing specialist and creative writing professor at the Community College
of Philadelphia.
Click here to listen to Elaine Terranova's part of the recording.
- 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, 4/11
12:00 PM: Alumni Mentor lunch with May Lee.
May Lee is currently the Chief Operating Officer at RowenWarren where she's responsible for all strategic and business functions. During her tenure, she's overseen double-digit growth over the last two years and has expanded RW's client list to include a retail and financial services practice. Prior to joining RowenWarren, she was co-founder of MarketBoy, Inc., an Internet software firm, specializing in adapting financial services auctions methods to the retail and business procurement sector. May honed her knowledge of financial services on the trading floor at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where she spent six years in a variety of capacities, including acting as counsel to the Fixed Income Division, chief of staff for the heads of the Fixed Income Division, and chief operating officer of the Credit Derivatives desk. May's career prior to law school was spent in the People's Republic of China where she worked at Kamsky Associates as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies such as AIG and WR Grace, helping them enter the Chinese market. May graduated with a B.A. in Economics and History from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the NYU School of Law. She currently serves as Trustee for the New York University School of Law as well as on the board for the National Partnership for Women and Families.
- 8:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy! open-mic night: Poetry, Prose, Anything Goes!
- 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.
- 6:00-8:00 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.
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes meeting. For more information contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@earthlink.net).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 4/12
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: THE BLUTT
SINGER-SONGWRITER SYMPOSIUM AT THE KELLY WRITERS HOUSE presents
ROSANNE CASH.
The first Blutt Singer-Songwriter
Symposium at the Kelly Writers House featured
Rosanne Cash. The event took place on April 12. Anthony DeCurtis moderated a
Q&A with Rosanne, and she played several of her songs, including "Black
Cadillac." The session was recorded and audio is available for free download on
the Writers House Blutt page.
The July/August 2007 issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette includes a
good article
about the program. Rosanne will be a hard act to follow, as it were, but we'll
be hosting another singer-songwriter symposium next spring. The photo here is
of Sam Preston, Penn's eminent demographer and former dean (and avid songwriter
himself), with Rosanne after a wonderful celebratory dinner in the Writers House
dining room.
Listen to a recording of the 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 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, 4/13
- 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, 4/14
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.
Sunday, 4/15
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.
Monday, 4/16
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6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents poet, essayist,
editor, and memorist Donald Hall. This event is RSVP only; please RSVP to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9749. This event is FULL.Donald Hall has published fifteen books of poetry, including The Painted Bed (2002) and Without: Poems (1998). In addition to poetry, he has also written several collections of essays (among them Life Work and String Too Short to be Saved), a children's book (Ox-Cart Man, which won the Caldecott Medal), and a number of plays. His recurring themes include New England rural living, baseball, and how work conveys meaning to ordinary life. He is regarded as a master both of poetic forms and free verse, and a champion of the art of revision. Hall has won many awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships and a Robert Frost Medal, and has served as poet laureate of his home state of New Hampshire. He continues to live and work at Eagle Pond Farm.
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, 4/17
- 10:00 AM in the Dining Room: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents a brunch and
interview with Donald Hall, led by Al Filreis. This event is RSVP only; please
RSVP to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9749.
Donald Hall has published fifteen books of poetry, including The Painted Bed (2002) and Without: Poems (1998). In addition to poetry, he has also written several collections of essays (among them Life Work and String Too Short to be Saved), a children's book (Ox-Cart Man, which won the Caldecott Medal), and a number of plays. His recurring themes include New England rural living, baseball, and how work conveys meaning to ordinary life. He is regarded as a master both of poetic forms and free verse, and a champion of the art of revision. Hall has won many awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships and a Robert Frost Medal, and has served as poet laureate of his home state of New Hampshire. He continues to live and work at Eagle Pond Farm.
Watch the discussion of this event here. - 4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Poetry Reading by Herman Beavers' English 113 (Africana Studies 114) course.
Listen to a recording of the program.
- 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.
- 5:30-8:30 PM in Room 202: Kitsi Watterson's final class party. For more information contact kwatters@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, 4/18
- 4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading by students in Linh Dinh's Poetry and Poetics course.
- 7:30 PM in the Dining Room: Art Gallery reception. For more information, contact Peter Schwarz
(hschwarz@sas.upenn.edu).
The Kelly Writers House Art Gallery Presents
"Bog Down"
an exhibition featuring Alana Bograd
on display at the Writers House April 2, 2007 to April 30, 2007
Listen to a recording of the event.
- 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, 4/19
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6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Junior Fellows event with John Carroll.
John Carroll, a Penn Class of '05 graduate, spent the spring of 2006 auditing the Kelly Writers House Fellows course, which featured visits from Richard Ford, Cynthia Ozick, and Ian Frazier. Particularly struck by Richard Ford's idea of finding "a place to stand" in his New York Times op-ed "Our Moments Have All Been Seized," John carried the idea with him throughout the semester, which helped him find similar ideas in the texts of Ozick and Frazier.
John's Junior Fellows project, "A Place to Stand Productions," is a result of this time in the course digesting and talking about this idea of "a place to stand," a place that Ford would like us to find through literature. John's project involves a daily recreation of a text -- whether a poem, song, excerpt, quote, short story, etc -- that will help someone find that place to stand. John will then mail these recreated texts -- which he will recreate on a typewriter, in true Ian Frazier style -- to randomly selected addresses in Philadelphia.
Each recreated text will come with a mailing and web address for the recipients to respond and find more information. If someone is particularly struck by the recreated text or the project's aims, John hopes they will reply and become part of a network that will grow throughout the year -- and hopefully beyond. John's final program -- scheduled for April 19, 2007 -- will include readings of selected texts, as well as thoughts from the participants who have received "A Place To Stand" mailings and have joined the network.
Listen to a 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 130.402 with Rosenthal.
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 112.302 with Diane Mckinney-Whetstone.
- 12:00-1:30 PM in the Arts Cafe and Dining Room: CINE 009 final class celebration. Contact Jacqui Sadashig for more information (sadashig@sas.upenn.edu).
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe and Dining Room: ASAM 009 final class celebration. Contact Jacqui Sadashig for more information (sadashig@sas.upenn.edu).
- 5:30-8:30 PM in Room 202: Kitsi Watterson's final class party. For more information contact kwatters@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, 4/20
- 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, 4/21
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.
Sunday, 4/22
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6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: 12 Philadelphia Stories, featuring the student writers of Paul Hendrickson's documentary project class, English 155.
Presenting: St. John Barned-Smith, Evangel Fung, Annie Fredrickson, Jim Goldblum, Bec Nyst, Gabe Oppenheim, Hillary Smith, Aaron Stein, Leanne Ta, Rich Topaz, Yashas Vaidya, & Jon Wall.
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, 4/23
- 5:30 PM: the End-of-Year Hub party!
For downloadable recordings and much more about this - and previous years' - hub party, go
here. Be sure to read
Eric Karlan's
"Notes
from the Green Couch" entry on this event.
Richard Lawrence, once again manning the grill at the end-of-year hub party
- 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)
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, 4/24
- 4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Greg Djanikian's Poetry 118 Advanced Poetry Workshop.
- 5:30 PM at the Rosenwald Gallery, 6th Floor of the
VanPelt-Dietrich Library Center:
Mixed Media, Mixed Company
Conjunctions at the Common Press,
an exhibition opening.This exhibit looks at some of the collaborations that have come out of the Common Press, the letterpress studio at Penn, in its first year of production and juxtaposes them with the poetry broadsides from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Founded in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, the press provides a mixed media environment where students interested in the book arts can move between digital and manual text and image making. It encourages collaborations among writers, printmakers, and others across the University. The Common Press is a joing effort of the Kelly Writers House, the Library, and the Fine Arts program in the school of design.
The 15th Room Press, Kelly Writers House's imprint in the Common Press, makes hand-set and printed letterpress broadsides in limited editions that feature the work of visiting poets, and "hub" community members, as well as participating in other collaborative projects with Common Press partners.
Free and open to the public (photo ID required at Library entrance) Rosenwald Gallery, 6th Floor of the VanPelt-Dietrich Library Center 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia (entrance by the Button on Locust Walk) Reservations appreciated, but not required, to (800)390-1829 or Friends@pobox.upenn.edu
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a book release party for Linh Dinh's Jam Alerts, co-sponsored by the Asian American Studies Program and the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
Listen to a recording of the event.
Linh Dinh was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1963, came to the US in 1975,
and has also lived in Italy and England. He is the author of two
collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and
Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press 2004), and three books of poems,
All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish 2003), American Tatts (Chax
2005) and Borderless Bodies (FactorySchool 2006). His work has been
anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004
and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other
places.
Linh Dinh is also the editor of the anthologies Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven Stories Press 1996) and Three Vietnamese Poets (Tinfish 2001), and translator of Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry of Phan Nhien Hao (Tupelo 2006). Blood and Soap was chosen by the Village Voice as one of the best books of 2004. Dinh is the 2006 Writing Fellow in Poetics & Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania.
To hear a recording of this and other readings by Linh Dinh, please see his PENNSound page.
- 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.
- 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, 4/25
- 2:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Creative Writing Contest Winners Reading. For deadlines and more information about CPCW contests, prizes and
fellowships, please see: http://writing.upenn.edu/awards.
Listen to an audio recording of the full event here.
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a reading by Lorene Cary's English 145 class.
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy Speakeasy, the ultimate in Speakeasy. Poetry, Prose, Anything Goes! in theme!
For more information contact askspeakeasy@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 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 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, 4/26
- 10:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: Modern Poetry Symposium presented by Al Filreis for seventh-grade students visiting Philadelphia from The KIPP Academy. Former Penn student Elliott Witney has taught with the KIPP Academy, a special charter school for urban children, for several years. Witney was among the founding members of the Writers House "hub" or Planning Committee in 1995-96. Each year Witney and his colleagues visit Penn and are taught by several members of the faculty, and there is an annual visit to the Writers House. Members of the Writers House community are welcome to join this symposium. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu . For more information about the KIPP Academy, please see http://www.kipp.org/.
- 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, 4/27
- 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, 4/28
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.
Sunday, 4/29
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.
Monday, 4/30
- 10:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: Modern Poetry Symposium presented by Al Filreis for seventh-grade students visiting Philadelphia from The KIPP Academy. Former Penn student Elliott Witney has taught with the KIPP Academy, a special charter school for urban children, for several years. Witney was among the founding members of the Writers House "hub" or Planning Committee in 1995-96. Each year Witney and his colleagues visit Penn and are taught by several members of the faculty, and there is an annual visit to the Writers House. Members of the Writers House community are welcome to join this symposium. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu. For more information about the KIPP Academy, please see http://www.kipp.org.
- 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)
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.