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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).

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Tuesday, 5/1

• Ending at 12noon today: 24-Hour Writing Advising!
• 5:00 PM: Planning Committee End-of-the-year Celebration

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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.


• 1:00-3:00 PM in the dining room: Writing Advisors' end-of-the-year lunch party
• 5:30-7:00 PM in Rooms 202 and 209: Nonfiction Writing Group meeting

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Wednesday, 5/2

• 7:00 PM: End-of-Semester reading by the students of Lorene Cary's Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop: Greta Pane, Megan O'Leary, Blake Martin, Jason Beerman, Kerry Kumabe, Katherine Newman, Katherine Hurley, Andy Rosenberg, Tom Swan, Joe Lee, Aimee James, Mark Hutson, Anna Cory-Watson, Kireema Sprowal, Rachel Robbins, and Susan Collins

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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.


• 12:00-2:00 PM throughout the House: Final Mellon Writing Groups meeting of the semester
• Tentative: 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group
• 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Manuck-Manuck, a fiction writing group

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Thursday, 5/3

• Final exams begin

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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.


• 10:00 AM-12:00 noon in the Arts Cafe: Poetry workshop with KIPP Academy students, led by Al Filreis
• 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle

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Friday, 5/4

• 4:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, a Poetry Working Group

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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.

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Saturday, 5/5

• 1:00-4:00 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative Graduation Ceremony. The Saturday Reading Cooperative is a literacy-enrichment program for second-graders from Lea Elementary School.
• 4:00 PM: The Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents readings by Catherine Savage Brosman and Dzvinia Orlowsky
  Catherine Savage Brosman's creative works include five poetry volumes, among them Places in Mind and Passages, and in prose, The Shimmering Maya and Other Essays. A native of Colorado and longtime resident of New Orleans, she studied at Rice University and in France to earn her doctorate in French. She is currently professor emerita at Tulane University and honorary research professor at the University of Sheffield in England.

  Dzvinia Orlowsky is a founding editor of Four Way Books and a contributing editor to Agni and The Marlboro Review. She has taught as Faculty Fellow at the Mt. Holyoke Writers' Conference (South Hadley, Massachusetts), as well as the Boston Center for Adult Education (Boston, Massachusetts), Gemini Ink (San Antonio, Texas) and the Stonecoast Writers' Conference (University of Southern Maine). Her poems have appeared in a number of magazines including American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Field, Columbia, and The Massachusetts Review. Her translations and co-translations of contemporary Ukrainian poets appeared in an anthology entitled From Three Worlds: New Writing from the Ukraine published by Zephyr Press in 1996 (Somerville, Massachusetts). In 1992 Minatoby Press published her chapbook entitled Burying Dolls and both her full-length collections, A Handful of Bees (1994) and Edge of House (1999), were published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Dzvinia Orlowsky is a 1998 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council poetry grant as well as a 1999 recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development grant.

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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.

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Sunday, 5/6

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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.

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Monday, 5/7

• 12:00 noon: The Poets and Painters Series presents a reading by poet Mary Julia Klimenko. Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Fine Arts and the Kelly Writers House. (At 6:00 pm painter and sculptor Manuel Neri will give a talk as part of the Connie Cohn Lecture Series in Meyerson Hall B-3).
  Listen to an audio recording of this program.
  Mary Julia Klimenko began writing poetry twenty-eight years ago while attending Solano Community College in Northern California. She began modeling for Manuel Neri in 1972. In 1974, she began college, graduating in 1983 with BA and MA Degrees in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. From 1983 to 1986, she taught creative writing at San Francisco State University and began to be published in various literary journals including the Berkeley Poetry Review and Inedit Noveau, a Belgium literary magazine. Her work has been translated into French by the translator Levi Wagenmaker. She has twice received the Browning Society's award for dramatic monologue. Mary Julia founded and was director of the Benicia Writers' Guild from 1985 through 1987. In 1986, she returned to college, attending the University of San Francisco, where she received a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology. After a two-year internship, she passed California state board examinations to become a licensed California Marriage, and Family, Therapist. She is also a certified hypnotherapist. Ms. Klimenko has been in private practice since 1991. Her theoretical foundation is Jungian and she specializes in individuation, creativity, and development of the self. She continues to write poetry as well as collaborate with Neri. They have given several sculpture/poetry workshops and informal talks with poetry readings by Klimenko to museums and art galleries including the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport, CA; St. Mary’s College in Moraga, CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA; Fresno Art Museum, CA; Artists Forum Gallery in San Francisco; Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; Mill’s College, Oakland, CA; and Boston University regarding the interface of poetry and visual art.

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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.


• 5:15-7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club, a staff writing workshop
• 7:30-10:00 PM in Room 209: Fish Writing Group

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Tuesday, 5/8

• During the day: Senior Art Show hangs

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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.

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Wednesday, 5/9

• 7:00 PM: Crayon Magazine #3 Launch Party & Reading Crayon 3, in a way similar to the premier festschrift for Jackson Mac Low's 75th birthday, is a book or anthology more than the usual issue of a literary magazine. In its pages are presented a surprising and unpredictable mix of prose essays and new poetry from many of the most brilliant poets publishing today, and one, Fernando Pessoa, who has been dead for some time now. Crayon 3, writes one of its admirers, is "beautiful, thoughtful, coherent, and has a kind of integrity I rarely see in any magazine. I can see the editors really thinking through what they want the magazine to stand for, to value, to care about."

  Crayon 3 features new translations of, and an interview on, Fernando Pessoa's "heteronymic" project, by Chris Daniels and Dana Stevens; a collection of essays on the favorite writers/books of many contemporary poets, including: Albon on Mandelstam and 13 other writers, Andrews on Brecht, Brannen on Johnson, Child on Ashbery, Chirot on Rimbaud, Cole on tales of Grimm and Anderson, Danon on Eliot, Durgin on Schuyler, Fitterman on Milton, Hansen on Niedecker, Lookingbill on Plath, Moriarty on Blake, Mossin on Shelley, Myles on Smithson, Rosenfield on Madeline and Vogue, Shoptaw on Clare, Silvers on Haraway, Wallace on Rimbaud; and new poetry by Alcalay, Cabri, Champion, Durgin, Ferguson, Greenberg, Harryman, Kocik, Kovac, Machlin, Robinson, and Sheridan. Pub Date: April 2001 / 280 pages / $16.00

  Please join Andrew Levy, co-editor of Crayon, with guests Chris Daniels (Oakland, CA), translator of Pessoa and performer extraordinaire, Andrew Mossin (Philadelphia) poet and critic, and Deirdre Kovac (Brooklyn, NY), poet and co-editor of Big Allis, for a Crayon 3 publication launch Reading and Party at the Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, May 9th at 7PM. Refreshments will be served and copies of Crayon 3 will be available for purchase.

  "Since its first issue, CRAYON has forged a unique space for itself in the world of literary journals and small magazines. Through its consistently high production values, and the intriguingly diverse range of work it gathers, CRAYON is grounded in a historical sense of what counts in American writing, so clearly displayed in the features on Jackson Mac Low & Russell Atkins. Situated far from the mainstream, CRAYON forms a significant new tributary for those navigating the life blood of contemporary letters." --Ammiel Alcalay

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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.


• Tentative: 5:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: 20th Century Reading Group

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Thursday, 5/10

• 4:00-6:00 PM in Room 202: The Twentieth Century Reading Group presents a presentation by Jonathan Eburne: "Surrealism and the Art of Crime"
  From Jonathan Eburne: "We will be reading the first two sections of a dissertation chapter entitled "On Murder, Considered as One of the Surrealist Arts." My chapter develops a working definition of this "art" of murder by examining the Surrealist response to four criminal figures at different periods in the movement's history. In the first section, I discuss Benjamin Peret's brief 1920 article about a recent sexual murder, "Assassiner," which scorns the murderer for aesthetic rather than for moral reasons (since, unlike more celebrated criminal "geniuses," the killer was unable to distinguish himself from something other than a perverted satyr obeying murderous instincts). While Peret's ironic tone might be said to articulate the "anti-art" polemics of the Parisian Dada circles in which he participated, Peret's statement that "a crime only interests us insofar as it is an experiment," suggests that the notion of beauty he derives from his analysis of the murder anticipates Surrealism's more analytical aesthetic theories, in which "beauty" itself would bear an ethical imperative brought about by its "application toward life." My second section discusses how the group's transition from a rebelling faction within the Paris Dada to "official" surrealists relies upon their debates and disagreements over the role of murders, and of Lautreamont's murderous text, *Les Chants de Maldoror,* in the somnambulistic trances which Rene Crevel introduced to the proto-surrealist group in 1922. The "scandal" of such crime stories, I argue, provoke the group to revise its initial "purely literary" rebellion against Dada as a more ethically-charged aesthetic project. Surrealism's later political committments would realize the full stakes of this revision, for it meant not only that the group increasingly recognized an ethical component within artistic production, but, more broadly, that the morality of the 1920's and 1930's was itself a cultural product ripe for critique and revision."

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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.


• 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Philosophy Circle

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Friday, 5/11

• Last day of Final Exams

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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.


• 4:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, A Poetry Working Group

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Saturday, 5/12

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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.

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Sunday, 5/13

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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.

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Monday, 5/14

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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.

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Tuesday, 5/15

• 5:30-7:00 PM in Room 202: Nonfiction Writing Group last spring 2001 meeting

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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.

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Wednesday, 5/16

• 4:30-6:00 PM: Reception for College House faculty

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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.

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Thursday, 5/17

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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.

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Friday, 5/18

• 12:30 PM: Conversation with Philadelphia Inquirer writer Jim O'Neill about the Writers House Planning Committee Book List
• 4:00-7:00 PM: A Moveable Feast, organized for Penn's Alumni Weekend
  Starts at the University Museum
  Listen to a recording of this program.
  33rd and Spruce Streets
  The School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Fine Arts invite you to join an "arts crawl," featuring some of the extraordinary cultural institutions that thrive here at Penn. Begin at the University Museum with a Curator’s Tour of the world famous Egypt galleries. Cross the street to beautifully renovated Irvine Auditorium for a recital by a talented student string quartet. Stroll to Frank Furness’s landmark library where History of Art professor Larry Silver will introduce Transformation: Jews and Modernity, 19th and 20th century works on paper at the Arthur Ross Gallery. Saunter down Locust Walk, turn right at 36th and discover Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall, named for the celebrated cartoonist who located his eponymous Family in a dead ringer for College Hall. It is the first permanent home for the Fine Arts at Penn. The last stop is the Kelly Writers House, where light refreshments and a spoken word presentation will ends our cross-campus crawl.

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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.

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Saturday, 5/19

• Alumni Day

• 4:00 PM: Reception for Senior Art Show, featuring work by Enrique Landa (painting), Sarvelia Peralta-Duran (mixed media), Jacquelyn Saylor (photography), Natalia Urminska (photography and poetry), and Suzanna Urminska (mixed media), curated by Suzanna Urminska. This show will be hung from May 9 through May 21.
• 5:30 PM: The Writers House Annual Capstone Program for Graduating Seniors will celebrate the work and achievements of graduating members of the Writers House Planning Committee, who include Tim Coble, Aaron Couch, Melissa DuClos, Leigh Esposito, Peter Holst, Rich Hong, Joe Lee, Pam Kuklinski, Blake Martin, Bethann Miller, Rumela Mitra, Tahneer Oksman, David Perrelli, Hannah Sassaman, Jose Serrano, Elizabeth Silver, Suzanna Urminska, and Kandice Zeman. This event was recorded; click here for links to MP3 files of the presentations.

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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.

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Sunday, 5/20

• 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 FM WXPN

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Monday, 5/21

• Commencement

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Tuesday, 5/22

• Writers House closed for programs until early September.

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Wednesday, 5/23

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Thursday, 5/24

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Friday, 5/25

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Saturday, 5/26

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Sunday, 5/27

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Monday, 5/28

• Memorial Day

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Tuesday, 5/29

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Wednesday, 5/30

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Thursday, 5/31

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