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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Friday, 5/1
- 2:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Teach and Delight: a joint reading of excerpts from memoirs, teaching experiences, and profiles by students in Lorene Cary's creative writing classes.
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, 5/2
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.
Sunday, 5/3
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.
- 6:00 - 9:00 PM in Room 209: Transhumanist Discussion Group. For more information, go to: http://www.hagp.org/transhumanism.html
Monday, 5/4
10:00 AM in the Arts Cafe: "Modern Poetry Symposium" presented by Al Filreis for 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
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.
- 9:00 PM in Room 209: F-Word Meeting. For more information, contact Deeptee at deeptee@sas.upenn.edu.
Tuesday, 5/5
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, 5/6
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 PM - 3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Critical Writing Portfolio Review Session
Thursday, 5/7
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.
- 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Critical Writing Portfolio Review Session
Friday, 5/8
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.
- 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Critical Writing Portfolio Review Session
Saturday, 5/9
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.
Sunday, 5/10
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Monday, 5/11
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Tuesday, 5/12
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Wednesday, 5/13
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Thursday, 5/14
- 8-10 PM in room 209: Appleonions Penn Bookclub. For more information, contact Yilise Lin at yilise@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, 5/15
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.
Saturday, 5/16
May 16, 4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Alumni Authors Series presents Nick Spitzer, "American Routes: Songs and Stories from the Road."
Please RSVP to whalumniweekend@writing.upenn.edu or (215) 573-9748.
Folklorist Nick Spitzer is professor of communication and American studies at Tulane University where he began as a Mellon humanities fellow in 2004. Nick is also the producer and host of the radio program American Routes, distributed nationally to over 225 stations and a half million listeners each week by American Public Media. A 1972 Penn graduate, Spitzer majored in anthropology and served as program director of WXPN-FM. He went on to work on air at the legendary "underground radio" WMMR FM, before "taking my Jack Kerouac-Woody Guthrie journey across America." He settled in Austin and worked on the seminal "alt country" radio station KOKE FM and later received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas in 1986 with a dissertation on zydeco music and Afro-French Louisiana culture. Along the way, Nick served as founding director of the Louisiana Folklife Program, and edited Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to the State (1985), and The Mississippi Delta Ethnographic Overview (1979) for the National Park Service. He helped create the Folklife Pavilion at the 1984 World's Fair where he curated The Creole State: An Exhibition of Louisiana Folklife (1984-2004). He became senior folklife specialist at the Smithsonian (1985-1990) and artistic director for the Folk Masters concert/broadcasts from Carnegie Hall and Wolf Trap (1990-97) and the Independence Day concerts broadcast from the National Mall (1992-2001).
Nick has been a commentator/producer for NPR's All Things Considered and Fresh Air, PBS's Great Performances, CBS' Sunday Morning, and ABC's Nightline and Evening News w Peter Jennings. Spitzer directed the film Zydeco: Creole Music and Culture in Rural Louisiana (1986), and has produced or annotated two dozen documentary recordings. In 2002 Nick co-curated 'Raised to the Trade': Creole Building Arts of New Orleans at New Orleans Museum of Art. He is co-editor of the book Public Folklore (1992, 2007) and co-author of Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul (2006, on Penn Press). A former resident scholar at the School of American Research in Santa Fe and a Fellow of the American Folklore Society, Spitzer received the Benjamin Botkin Award in Public Folklore, an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Excellence in Broadcasting Award for American Routes, and was named Louisiana Humanist of the Year in 2006 for cultural recovery efforts after the catastrophe. His interests include Gulf Coast ethnography, cultural creolization. American vernacular music/culture, and public cultural policy. Nick was a 2007 Guggenheim fellow working on traditional creativity in Louisiana Creole communities.
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, 5/17
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Monday, 5/18
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Tuesday, 5/19
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Wednesday, 5/20
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Thursday, 5/21
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Friday, 5/22
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Saturday, 5/23
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Sunday, 5/24
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Monday, 5/25
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Tuesday, 5/26
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Wednesday, 5/27
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Thursday, 5/28
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Friday, 5/29
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Saturday, 5/30
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Sunday, 5/31
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