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

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Sunday, 9/1

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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, 9/2

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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, 9/3

• 7-9 PM: O P E N H O U S E --> W r i t e r s H o u s e ! New Student Orientation for the Class 2006. Open to all!

• 8-10 PM: Speakeasy Open Mic Night: Class of 2006!

  As part of the New Student Orientation students will join Writers House for this year's first of the popular bi-weekly series, Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, & Anything Goes, an open mic performance night spotlighting the Class of 2006. Bring your stories, songs, poems, monologues, comedies, or simply come to listen and soak it all in!

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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, 9/4

• 2:00-4:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Reading Project discussion group led by Prof. Al Filreis.

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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, 9/5

• First Day of Classes!

• Art Gallery: "Mostar/Sarajevo: Modernist Ruins", photographs by Erika Tapp. The reception will be held on 9/26 (see 9/26 for more information).

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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.


• 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
• 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).

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Friday, 9/6

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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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Saturday, 9/7

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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, 9/8

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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, 9/9

• Writers House open for regular hours!

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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.


• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
• 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)
• 5:15 to 7:00 PM in Room 202: The monthly meeting of the Penn & Pencil Club, the writing group for employees of the University and Health System. For more information contact: john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu
• 9:30-10:45 PM in Room 209: Writing Advisor's Steering Committee (Beandrea Davis: btd@sas.upenn.edu)

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Tuesday, 9/10

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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.


• 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
• 6:00-8:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eye, a poetry writing group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.com)
• 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Fish Writing Group (Nancy Hoffmann: nhoffmann@earthlink.net)
• 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club, a screenwriting group (Jake Brooks: jakeb@sas.upenn.edu)

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Wednesday, 9/11

• A day-long commemoration of the events of 9/11/01 will take place on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. For more information about programs, tributes and vigils, please see the Penn 9/11 Web Site.

  Writers House will commemorate 9/11 with a quiet and informal open house. We will have a television on and, as always, a space for people to be quiet and together.

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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.


• 9 AM-12 PM in Room 202: Graduate Course (Rita Bernard)
• 9 AM-12 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 589: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis)
• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
• 2-5 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Writing in the Documentary Tradition (Paul Hendrickson)
• 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.

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Thursday, 9/12

• Please note that the Planning Committee Meeting has been re-scheduled. The first Planning Committee Meeting of this academic school year will be held on September 23rd at 5:00PM. Scroll down for more details!

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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.


• 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
• 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
• 8:00 PM in 202: Penn Philosophy Circle (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu)
• 6:0O-7:00 PM in 202: The Penn-Edison Partnership (Al Filreis: afilreis@english)
• 7:30 PM in 209: Mosiac Board Meeting (An Lam: ansl@sas.upenn.edu)

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Friday, 9/13

• 3:30-5:30 PM: Writers House Workstudy Staff 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.


• 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eye: A poetry working group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.com)

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Saturday, 9/14

• 4:00 PM: The Philadelphia Fringe Festival presents "Personal Mythologies," a reading by Jim Cory, Alexandra Grilikhes & Adam Fieled

  What inspires artists to create? In this performance, poets Cory, Grilikhes and Fieled will attempt to answer this and other questions, in the process giving the audience a peek into the realm of personal myth. Dreams will be delineated; fancies set forth; and the artist's shamanic self be revealed. These artists will emphasize what experiences, feelings, and circumstances have compelled them to create a "personal mythology." You will hear both the work and what is behind it.

  A native New Yorker, Alexandra Grilikhes has taught Creative Writing, Writing Memoir, and Women's Studies at the University of the Arts for more than two decades. A long-time innovator in literary broadcasting, she hosted the only literary programs in Philadelphia on public radio for ten years. Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications Library, she organized and produced four groundbreaking international annual festivals of Films by Women at the Annenberg Center for the Arts. Her first novel, "Yin Fire," was a Lambda finalist in 2002.

  Adam Fieled is a poet, actor, singer and songwriter whose work has appeared in "American Writing," "Night Rally," and "Siren's Silence." His album "Darkyr Sooner" is available here. He has acted as a member of New York's 13th Street Repertory Theater Company, and had four one-act plays produced by the "Outlaw Playwrites Theater Company" of State College, PA. He is finishing his BA at the University of Pennsylvania.

  Jim Cory has published six chapbooks of poems. He also writes essays and fiction. In 2000, his story, "An Ideal Couple," was awarded the Richard Hall Memorial Short Story Prize by the Lambda Literary Foundation. He has been a PA Arts Council and Yaddo fellow in poetry and is currently working on several large projects, including a book-length poem about the architect Louis Sullivan.

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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, 9/15

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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, 9/16

• 4:00 PM: An Information Session for the Penn-Edison Group in the Arts Cafe.

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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.


• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
• 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)

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Tuesday, 9/17

• 6:30 PM: A Tribute reading for Kenneth Koch, June Jordan, Philip Whalen & John Weiners, poets we admire who died during the summer of 2002, by the Writers House community and area poets. For information contact: wh@writing.upenn.edu.
• Listen to a recording of this event.

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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.


• 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)

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Wednesday, 9/18

• 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome!

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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.


• 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)

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Thursday, 9/19

• 1:00 PM: A lunchtime program and discussion on micro-publishing and little magazines with small press editors and publishers Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith. Contact wh@writing.upenn.edu to RSVP.

• 6:00 PM: Poets and small press editors Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith will read from their work. Hosted by the Creative Writing Program. Both Smith and Nguyen edit Skanky Possum magazine and press.

  Hoa Nguyen, born near Saigon January 26,1967, moved to the States when she was 18 months old. She grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC and studied poetry at New College of California in San Francisco, California. She now lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, the poet Dale Smith, and their son, Keaton Thomas. Together they publish Skanky Possum, a small poetry journal and book imprint. She also teaches creative writing in a variety of settings with youth and adults, and leads a popular online workshop through Teachers & Writers in New York. In 2002, subpress published Your Ancient See Through, a full-length collection of her poems with drawings by Philip Trussell. Hoa Nguyen was introduced by Lauren Smith Rile.

  Dale Smith was born in Garland, Texas, in 1967. American Rambler, a digressive narrative in prose and verse about the peregrinations of the 16th century conquistador Cabeza de Vaca, appeared in 2000. Work from it was selected by Robert Creeley for the Best American Poetry 2002. The Flood & the Garden, a daybook, was published recently by First Intensity Press. Other work has appeared in Mungo vs. Ranger, Baffler and the Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series. Smith has lived in Yemen, Oregon and California and currently resides in Austin with his wife, the poet Hoa Nguyen.

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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.


• 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
• 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).

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Friday, 9/20

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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.


• 3:30 PM in 209: Writers House Talk Poets (Bob Perelman perelman@english.upenn.edu)

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Saturday, 9/21

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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, 9/22

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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, 9/23

• 5:00 PM: Planning Committee meeting and gathering. (For more information about the "hub," write to wh@writing.upenn.edu).

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Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some 1 require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.


• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
• 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)

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Tuesday, 9/24

• 6:30 PM: SIGHT: Poetry in Collaboration with Video & Film Curated by the St. Mark’s Poetry Project and hosted by Joanna Fuhrman.

  Featuring short video and film collaborations with: Samantha Hunt, Elana Kim, Rick Synder, Joshua Beckman, James Walsh, Martha Colburn, Cort Day, Kate Egan (Penn MFA '01), Adeena Karasick, Marianne Shaneen, Amie Siegal, Aaron Kunin, Joshua Mosley, Noelle Kocot, Christine Caballero, Jeffrey McDaniel, Sarah Zwerling, Lisa Lubasch, Daniel Klienfeld, Brian Blanchfield and others. A discussion with some of the filmmakers and poets (including Jeff McDaniel, Amie Siegel, Sarah Zwerling, Joshua Mosley, Lisa Lubasch, and Aaron Kunin) will follow the screening.

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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.


• 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
• 8:00 PM in Room 202: The Hollywood Club, a screenwriting group (Jake Brooks: jakeb@sas.upenn.edu)

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Wednesday, 9/25

• 7:00 PM: Jeremy Sigler Poet, and Matt Hart, will read from their work as a part of the Alumni Visitor Series.

  Listen to an audio recording of this event.

  Jeremy Sigler is a writer, artist, and a teacher. He is the author of two books of poetry, To and To (1998), and Mallet Eyes (2000), both of which were published by Left Hand Books, a press which was founded by the late Fluxus artist, Dick Higgins. Sigler received his undergraduate degree in Painting from The University of Pennsylvania in 1991, and his MFA in sculpture from UCLA in 1996. Sigler's poetry has appeared in The Hat and Pierogi Press, and his prose has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and index magazine. He has also published illustrations in the Dutch architecture magazine, Hunch. Sigler has shown his art work at Printed Matter, Artists' Space and Tricia Collins Gallery in New York. He is currently collaborating on an artist¹s book with the painter Dan Walsh, which will be shown at Paula Cooper Gallery in the spring. He has also done collaborative art works with painters Jonathan Lasker and Peter Halley, and game designer Eric Zimmerman. He teaches at Yale University and the Maryland Institute College of Art and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

  Matt Hart was born in Manchester, England. Educated at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Sussex, Matt moved to Philadelphia in 1997, where he is a PhD Candidate in English at Penn. Matt's poems have been published in periodicals such as Kenning, Xconnect, Ixnay, Lipstick 11, COMBO, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has been collected in The Boog Reader: Philadelphia (NY: Boog Lit, 2000); the Faber & Faber anthology, First Pressings (London, 1998); and in two chapbooks, Matthew Hart: Ibid New Poets II (Edinburgh: Ibid, 1997) and A Compass or Centre (Philadelphia: Money Cat Books, 2001). Matt loves Summer.

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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.


• 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Creative Writing (Max Apple)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson: phendric@english.upenn.edu)
• 8 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@sas.upenn.edu)

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Thursday, 9/26

• 4:30-5:30 PM in the Arts Café: Writing Outside the Lines: Visiting writers for Anthony DeCurtis's "Writing About the Arts" class features Barbara O'Dair, Editor of Teen People.

  Barbara O'Dair is currently the editor of Teen People, a five year old startup at Time Inc. that had one of the most successful launches in publishing history. It currently is the newsstand leader in the teen magazine category with a 1.6 million circulation. Barbara started her journalism career after graduating from Barnard with a degree in American Studies from Barnard College. First she worked as the director of Alternative Press Syndicate, which published a quarterly magazine called Alternative Media. Then she moved to High Times as the managing editor, the Village Voice as a copyeditor and left three years later as a senior editor for news and features. After relocating to California, she worked first as a projects editor at the LA Weekly, then a general assignment reporter at the Orange County register. Back in NY in the early '90s she was, respectively, part of the Entertainment Weekly startup team, deputy music editor at Rolling Stone, executive editor and then editor at US magazine when it was still a monthly, executive editor at Details and executive editor at Harper's Bazaar, which she left in 2000. She began at Teen People in early 2001.

  While at Rolling Stone, she began and completed work on an MFA in poetry at a long-distance program located at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina. She also published a book called Trouble Girls, the Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock in 1998. In 1987, while at the Village Voice, she edited a collection of essays by women called Caught Looking, Women, Pornography and Censorship.

  She lives in Montclair with her partner and her two daughters.

• 5:30-7:30 PM: Art Gallery Reception for "Mostar/Sarajevo: Modernist Ruins" photographs by Erika Tapp.

  Erika Tapp, a recipient of Cornell University's Edilitz Grant for this project and a current William Penn Fellow, presents her photographic documentary of Bosnian Modernist architecture damaged during the Balkan Wars (1992-1995). Tapp spent two consecutive summers in Bosnia, participating in architectural and planning workshops focused on the complex process of postwar reconstruction. This exhibit is the culmination of extensive research and documentation of another facet of war: the deliberate targeting for destruction of another culture's architectural heritage. This exhibit will also travel to Cornell University.

  The show runs from 9/5 to 9/28/02.

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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.


• 10:30-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 103.001: Poetry (Susan Stewart) (Contact Loretta Williams: loretta@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 1:30-4:30 in Room 202: English 117: Writing About the Arts (Anthony DeCurtis)
• 8:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle, an informal discussion group that meets once a week, where members present on issues of interest in philosophy, literature, art and science (Paul Flynn: pflynn@sas.upenn.edu).
• 3:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: Carl Rakosi Reading Group. Contact wh@writing.upenn.edu. For more information about the Carl Rakosi 99th birthday live Audiocast on October 30, 2002 click here.
• 4:30-6:30 in 202: Mods: Penn Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group (Matt Hart: matthart@english.upenn.edu). Michael Awkward, "'something like wholeness': Al Green's Call Me and the Struggle for Structural Integrity."
• 5:00 PM in 109: Writers House and the Partners' Program collaboration: a workshop on poetry for two public school teachers. (Kerry Sherin: ksherin@english.upenn.edu)

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Friday, 9/27

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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.


• 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eye: A poetry working group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.com)

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Saturday, 9/28

• 1:00-4:00 PM: The Philadelphia Poetry Festival: The most comprehensive poetry festival in the City at the Central Branch of Philadelphia Free Library, Logan Circle on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

  Friends of the Free Library's BOOK CORNER presents the Philadelphia Poetry Festival, the largest, most comprehensive celebration of poetry of its kind; from 1:00-4:00 PM Saturday, September 28 at Montgomery Auditorium at Central Library on beautiful Logan Circle. Over 15 of the region's diverse poetry and cultural organizations, publications and reading series will gather under one roof to demonstrate the vitality of poetry in Philadelphia. Admission is free and open to all. Expect to be enchanted by unique voices representing diverse organizations such as: Mad Poets Society, The Writers House, Lady 99 FM, Asian Arts Initiative, Painted Bride Quarterly, Prophets and Poets, Keepers of the Culture, Art Sanctuary, Robins Books, Big Jar, Molly's Cafe and more. Readers from the Writers House include poets and planning committee members HERMAN BEAVERS and AN LAM, as well as BOB PERELMAN, the event's keynote speaker. EMCEE Leonard Gontarek, a renowned local poet, longtime promoter of reading series and manager of Book Corner, is sure to delight the audience with a few surprise performers and readers. A refreshment reception will follow at Friends of Free Library used bookstore, Book Corner, located directly behind Central Library on Wood Street.

  Call: Book Corner at 215-567-0527 for more information.

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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 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eye, a poetry writing group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.com)

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Sunday, 9/29

• 6:30 PM in Room 202: Film screening for English 012 "Writing about Film"

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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, 9/30

• 7:00 PM: The Local Spotlight Series presents Ducky Magazine featuring readings by Sally Dawidoff, Matt Zapruder and others, hosted by Tom Hartman and Scott Edward Anderson. Website: http://www.duckymag.com/

  Listen to a recording of this event. (Note: Audio is damaged)

  Writer and editor Tom Hartman is the founding editor of DUCKY. Previously a Senior Editor at Painted Bride Quarterly, his poems,essays, reviews and other writings have appeared in La Petite Zine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia City Paper and elsewhere. His interview with novelist Martin Amis appeared in DUCKY's inaugural issue. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, Mr. Hartman is also the curator of the Nick Virgilio Poetry Project at Rutgers University--Camden.

  Scott Edward Anderson received the Nebraska Review Award in Poetry in 1997, won the 1998 Larry Aldrich Emerging Poets Competition, and will be poet-in-residence at the Millay Colony in November 2002. Anderson's poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines, including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Cortland Review, Xconnect, and Terrain. His reviews and essays have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Bloomsbury Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and other publications. He is the author of a natural history guide book, Walks in Nature's Empire, published by The Countryman Press in 1995. A Contributing Editor with the Painted Bride Quarterly, Anderson is also one of the founding editors of the literary journal Ducky (www.duckymag.com).

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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.


• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 145.302: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Robert Strauss)
• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 270.301: Problems in the Interpretation of African American Poetry (Herman Beavers)
• 6:30-9:10 PM in Room 209: (Mytili Jagannathan: mytilij@yahoo.com)
• 6:30-9:30 PM in 202: Write On! information session (Sara Coelho: scoelho@sas.upenn.edu)

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