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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Friday, 9/1
- 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: CPCW Writing Tutor Training
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, 9/2
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, 9/3
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.
Monday, 9/4
- Labor Day
- 7:00 PM in the Garden: NSO Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
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, 9/5
- New Student Convocation and Opening Exercises
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, 9/6
- First day of classes
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 Writing from Photographs with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 Creative Writing with Lynn Levin (iamblel@aol.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 9/7
- 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutoring with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 261.301 The Holocaust with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 Creative Non-Fiction Writing with Max Apple (maxapple1@comcast.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 117.301 The Arts and Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 9/8
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 9/9
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, 9/10
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, 9/11
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Words That Comfort: How Terrorism and
9/11 Affected the NYC Lower East Side Poetry Community," with
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is a boot-stomping wit-slinging sass
machine, living and writing in New York City. Founder of the
three-time National Poetry Slam Championship Venue,
NYC Urbana, Cristin is
the author of four books of
poetry including Oh
Terrible Youth, which will be published by the The Wordsmith Press
in January 2007. Cristin has performed around the world, with extended
residencies in Australia and a commision for New York City's Chamber
Dance ballet company. She is currently finishing her history of the
poetry slam movement for Soft Skull
Press, slated for publication in 2008. For more information,
please see her website:
http://www.aptowicz.com.A recording of this event is now available here.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Dick Polman
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting. For more information contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.net).
- 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club meeting. For more information contact John Shea (John.Shea@uphs.upenn.edu).
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, 9/12
- 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutoring with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 261.301 The Holocaust with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop with Max Apple (maxapple1@comcast.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 Advanced Non-Fiction Writing with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes poetry group meeting. For more information contact Pat Green (patricia78@aol.com).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 9/13
- 12 PM in the Arts Cafe: a lunch program with alumnus, memoirist, and
former Daily Pennsylvanian Executive Editor Greg Manning. RSVP required to
wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Greg Manning is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked as a
reporter, an editor, and in senior marketing positions in the financial information
industry at Telerate Systems Incorporated, as a Partner at Market Data Corporation, and as
a Senior Vice President of Euro Brokers, which was based at the World Trade Center. In
November 2002 he joined Cantor Fitzgerald, and in 2004 moved to eSpeed, where he is Vice
President of Intellectual Property Development. He is the author of the New York Times
bestseller, LOVE, GREG & LAUREN: A Powerful True Story of Courage, Hope, and
Survival, which has been published in seven languages and was chosen
as an Alternate selection by Doubleday Book Club and was a finalist for
the Books for Better Life Award. The book was excerpted by Reader's
Digest and featured in newspapers, magazines and on television around
the world. With his wife, Lauren, he was honored by the Anti-Defamation
League at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and has been featured on
NBC's Today Show, the Oprah Winfrey Show and on CNN's
Larry King Live. He served on the Advisory Council of the 9/11 United Services Group, a consortium of human service organizations that helped coordinate assistance for victims of the Trade Center attack and their families.
To hear a recording of this event in mp3 format, please click here. This event was also featured in a Kelly Writers House podcast. You can also view a 4-minute video clip (QuickTime).
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 Writing from Photographs with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 Creative Writing with Lynn Levin (iamblel@aol.com)
- 7:30 PM - 9:30 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, 9/14
- 6:00 PM: A reading and conversation with Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St. John's College, Cambridge.
She is the author of three novels, The Keep, The Invisible Circus and Look at Me, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, as well as a short story collection, Emerald City. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Zoetrope and Ploughshares, among others, and her journalism appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine.
She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Recordings of this event:
- 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutoring with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 261.301 The Holocaust with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 Creative Non-Fiction Writing with Max Apple (maxapple1@comcast.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 117.301 The Arts and Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 9/15
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00-4:00 PM in Room 202: WATU teaching assistant training with Patrick Wehner
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, 9/16
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 9/17
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review Meeting. For more information, contact Adam Fisher (adamfish@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.
Monday, 9/18
- 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM in the Dining Room: a Word.Doc lunch and meeting with Rita Charon.
Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D. is a general internist and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University where she directs the Programs in Narrative Medicine, Humanities and Medicine, and the Clinical Skills Assessment Program. Dr. Charon graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1978, trained in internal medicine at the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Hospital in New York, completed a year's fellowship in general internal medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1982, and has practiced general internal medicine since 1981 at Columbia. She received the Ph.D. in English at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 1999, having written her doctoral dissertation on the use of literary methods in understanding the texts and the work of medicine.
Word.Doc aims to gather undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and anyone who is interested in writing and narrative medicine to discuss and experience the ways in which medicine, narrative, literature, and art inform one another in creative and useful ways. Through writing, sharing and discussing our own narratives, art and indeas in the informal, intellectually-stimulating space of the Kelly Writers House, we explore how narrative, art and medicine connect in our own lives and how we might be able to make use of these relationships. To join our program, to join our listserv or for further information about Word.Doc, please email Nicole Saint-Louis at nicole.saint-louis@uphs.upenn.edu. For more information about Word.Doc, see http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/archival/events/worddoc.
An audio recording of this event is now available. To listen to it, click here.
- 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Meeting and Gathering. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Dick Polman
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 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, 9/19
- 4:30 - 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Journalism Bootcamp with Philadelphia Inquirer political
columnist Dick Polman, co-sponsored by the Daily Pennsylvanian. Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu, as seating is limited.
Philadelphia Inquirer political columnist Dick Polman recently cut back on his writing in the Inquirer print edition and entered the blogosphere. Is he now held to different standards? Come discuss blogs and the responsibilities of bloggers with Dick Polman.
Polman has covered the last three presidential elections as national political reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, but that's only his most recent stint in journalism. In his 16 years at the Inquirer, he has also been, among other things, a foreign correspondent based in London; a baseball writer covering the Philadelphia Phillies; a general-assignment feature writer in the feature section; and a longtime contributor to the newspaper's Sunday magazine - writing long pieces about everything from Nazi war criminals to the comeback of the condom. In the early '80s, he wrote three columns a week for the Hartford Courant, and, at age 24 in 1975, he was the founding editor of an alternative newspaper, the Hartford Advocate, that stressed long feature articles and commentary. The Advocate, which still publishes, serves the same function that the City Paper does in Philadelphia. Dick attended George Washington University, where he served as managing editor of the college newspaper and graduated with a BA in Public Affairs in 1973.
- 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutoring with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 261.301 The Holocaust with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop with Max Apple (maxapple1@comcast.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 Advanced Non-Fiction Writing with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.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, 9/20
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 Writing from Photographs with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 Creative Writing with Lynn Levin (iamblel@aol.com)
- 6:00 PM in Room 202: Jabberwocky meeting. For more information contact Tracy Byford (tbyford@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.
Thursday, 9/21
- 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutoring with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 261.301 The Holocaust with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 Creative Non-Fiction Writing with Max Apple (maxapple1@comcast.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 117.301 The Arts and Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM in Room 202: Word.Doc meeting. For more information contact Nicole Saint-Louis (nicole.saint-louis@uphs.upenn.edu).
- 9:00-11:00 PM in Room 202: UTV13 Information Writers Meeting. For more information, contact kenji@UTV13.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.
Friday, 9/22
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:00-4:00 PM in Room 202: WATU teaching assistant training with Patrick Wehner
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, 9/23
- Challenging Collections, a day-long event in collaboration with the Philadelphia Center for the Book. RSVP required to attend; contact Michelle Wilson at mwilson@philadelphiacenterforthebook.org.
- 10:00 AM - 12:00 NOON: The Ins and Outs of Writing a Grant Prospectus, a workshop with Jae Rossman. Artists and attendees are invited to bring a book or a book mockup to get ideas on writing a prospectus to gain funding or to sell their specific book.
- 12:00 NOON - 1:00 PM: Lunch Break
- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Keynote Address by Sandra Kroupa
- 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Roundtable discussion about bookmaking and collection featuring local artists and librarians. Panelists include:
- 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Art Gallery Reception for Arte Pagina, work by members of the Philadelphia Center for the Book, curated by Peter Schwarz and Theresa Jaynes.
Curator of Book Arts at the Yale University Library, Ms. Rossman assists researchers, curates exhibitions of materials in the collection, and promotes the use of the collection in addition to other activities. Rossman is on the board of directors at the Center for Book Arts in New York City. In 2005, she curated a show there titled 30 Years of Innovation: A survey of Exhibition History at the Center for Book Arts, 1974-2004. Once a year, she publishes a book of art essay through her private press, the Jenny-Press.
Sandra Kroupa is the Book Arts and Rare Book Curator in the Special Collections Division at the University of Washington Libraries. She has worked in Special Collections for nearly 37 years, most of that time involved with the book arts. Kroupa writes, lectures, teaches classes, curates exhibitions, gives workshops on book arts-related topics both historical and modern, and participates in the UW's PhD program in Textual Studies. A founding member of the Book Arts Guild, a regional book arts organization begun 25 years ago, Kroupa schedules lectures and workshops of visiting artists and acts as membership secretary of the group. She has apprenticed to a bookbinder, owns two letterpresses, and regularly participates in workshops and specialized courses in order to better assist students in understanding book history and creating their own books. One of her areas of specialty is 19th Century American Literature, especially the work of women writers. Kroupa is currently working on a personal research project on Koberger style book bindings of the 15th Century.
Listen to an audio recording of this program.
Iris R. Snyder is the Coordinator of Public Services and Exhibitions for Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library. Her responsibilities include providing reference services, providing bibliographic instructions to students and faculty, curating library exhibitions, and selecting material for Special Collections in the fields of horticulture, women's studies and artists' books. Among her recent exhibitions are From Verne to Vonnegut: A Century of Science Fiction, Personal Visions: Artists Books at the Millennium, and Defining her Life: Advice Books for Women. Ms. Snyder holds a B.A. degree from Chatham College and a M.S. in Library and Information Science from Drexel University.
Clarissa Sligh makes photographic based images, artists' books' and text based installations. Born in Washington DC, Sligh's life was altered when she became the lead plaintiff in the 1955 school desegregation case in Virginia (Clarissa Thompson et. al. vs. Arlington County School Board). From that moment forward, her work as a student and as a professional took into account change, transformation, and complexity - themes that related to her experiences fostering social justice. Her undergraduate work was in mathematics and painting, while her graduate work included finance at the University of Pennsylvania as well as photography at Howard University. Her recent exhibitions include: GLORIOUS HARVEST: Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2004 and TRIENNAL 9 FORM AND CONTENTS: Corporal Identity-Body Language, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (with the Klingspor Museum, Offenbach) and the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, 2003. Sligh's work is in collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Victorian and Albert Museum, London. Awards for Sligh's work include the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award, Anonymous Was A Woman, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography. From 1988 to 1995, Sligh was National Coordinator of Coast to Coast National Women Artists' of Color Artists' Book Project. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania and the International Center of Photography in New York City.
Diane Windham Shaw has been the Special Collections Librarian and College Archivist at Lafayette College since the mid 1980s. She received her BA and MLS from Emory University, where she spent the early years of her career as an archivist. At Lafayette's Skillman Library she has been actively collecting artists' books since 2000. The collection benefits from the library's close relationship with Lafayette's Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI) and its director Curlee Raven Holton. In 2005-06, Skillman Library, the EPI, and the Williams Center Art Gallery collaborated on a year-long humanities festival celebrating "The Book," with five artists' books shows on campus.
Kristine Paulus recently relocated to Philadelphia to become the assistant archivist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology. Prior to working at Penn, she was the reference librarian for the New York Historical Society's Departments of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections. After receiving a master's in information and library science at Pratt Institute, Kristine also pursued the study of book arts at the Center for Book Arts in New York. In addition to studying at CBA, she also volunteered there extensively. Projects she worked on at CBA included cataloguing their entire collection of artists' books and broadsides.
Katie Amelia Baldwin is an experienced bookbinder and printmaker, often combining her own letterpress text with woodcut images. Her experience working as an artist in other cultures has been fundamental to the development of her work. In 2004 she represented the Mid-Atlantic States of the Nasgasawa Art Park Pilot Project. The residency was funded through a Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Grant. In 2000, The Barbara Deming Foundation in New York City provided a book production grant for Baldwin to hand-print and bind an edition of woodblocks depicting a story of personal loss and transformation due to the events of a house fire. She has also received funding through the Evergreen State College for a residency in St. Andrews, Scotland to hand-print and bind a book of woodblock prints. She was selected through the Philadelphia Print Collaborative to work at the University of Pennsylvania to produce a limited edition print for the 2005 portfolio. Recently, she received a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant to travel in Cuba. In 2006 she was the resident artist at Prescott College and has returned from traveling and working in Mexico. She recently received an Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts to complete a portfolio of ten prints about her neighborhood in Philadelphia. Katie Baldwin received her Masters of Fine Arts in printmaking and book arts from the University of the Arts in 2004. Her work is included in the Library Special Collections at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA and in The Seattle Arts Commission Small Works Permanent Collections in Seattle, WA.
Participating artists: Olivia Antsis, Alice Austin, Amanda D'Amico, Erin Elman, David Gillespie, Elizabeth Gross, Robert Lewis, Melanie Mowinski, Michael Neff, Sun Young Kang, Tara O'Brien, Phuong Pham, Jude Robison, Mary Tasillo, Elysa Voshell, Susan Viguers, Mark Wangberg, and Graham Watson.
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, 9/24
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review Meeting. For more information, contact Adam Fisher (adamfish@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.
Monday, 9/25
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House, with
88.5 WXPN and host Michaela Majoun, presents: "DISH: Food Writers Read", featuring Jason Fagone, Carolyn
Wyman, Elisa Ludwig, Rick Nichols, and musical guest Red Heart the Ticker.
Jason Fagone is the author of Horsemen of the Esophagus, a book that chronicles America's competitive eating circuit. He has also been a journalist for two city magazines, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia.
Carolyn Wyman is the author of Jello: A Biography, Spam: A Biography: The Amazing Story of America's "Miracle Meat!", and Better Than Homemade: Amazing Foods That Changed the Way we Eat. She also gives biweekly tours at Reading Terminal Market.
Elisa Ludwig is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. Her restaurant reviews have appeared in the Philadelphia City Paper since 2002 and she has written features for Gourmet, Eating Well, and the New York Post, among others.
Rick Nichols is a Philadelphia native (a product of rowhouse Mayfair) who moved as a child to Lower Bucks County and later to New England. He writes about food for the Philadelphia Inquirer and has appeared in the last three annual Best Food Writing (Marlowe & Company).
Red Heart the Ticker is the musical home of Robin MacArthur and Tyler Gibbons (formerly Mildew and Star). Red Heart's first album For the Wicked was recorded in 2005 in a barn in Vermont. While recording they were living in a cabin (they built) with no running water and no plumbing. The album is about geography and the poetry of places. It was bred in isolation. It is about drinking, and blinking, and has been compared to The Innocence Mission, The Cowboy Junkies, Wilco, and Emmylou Harris. They now live in the wonderful city of Philadelphia.
A recording of this program in mp3 format is available here.
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Dick Polman
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 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, 9/26
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents The Craft of Brokeback Mountain, a lecture by D.A. Miller.
D.A. Miller is the John F. Hotchkis Professor of
English and Film Studies
at
University of California-Berkeley. Professor Miller works in the areas of nineteenth-century fiction, film, and gay and cultural studies. Among his many publications are Jane Austin, or the Secret of Style (Princeton University Press, 2003), Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical (Harvard University Press, 1998), Bringing out Roland Barthes (University of California Press, 1992), and The Novel and the Police (University of California Press, 1988). Miller's current projects involve Hitchcock, Fellini, and the postwar European art film.
- 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutoring with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 261.301 The Holocaust with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop with Max Apple (maxapple1@comcast.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301 Advanced Non-Fiction Writing with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes poetry group meeting. For more information contact Pat Green (patricia78@aol.com).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 9/27
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 Writing from Photographs with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 Creative Writing with Lynn Levin (iamblel@aol.com)
- 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM in Room 209: Reality Writes meeting. For more information contact Mary Hale Meyer (mhmeyer65@earthlink.net).
- 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM in Room 202: Pennumbra meeting. For more information about this science-fiction writing group contact Steve at landist@sas.upenn.edu.
- 9:00-11:00 PM in the Dining Room: Introductory Penn Review meeting. For more information, contact Adam Fisher (adamfish@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.
Thursday, 9/28
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: John Coltrane and Impulse
Records, an event
celebrating the release of The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records with author Ashley Kahn and
saxophonist Carl Grubbs, in collaboration with Ars Nova Workshop as
part of "The New Thing: Perspectives in Jazz Criticism" series.
Listen to audio recordings of this program: Part 1 and Part 2.
The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records by Ashley Kahn: Published by W. W. Norton & Co, this book recounts in layman-friendly terms the full story of this unusual and fascinating company, tracing its near two-decade arc of artistic triumphs and unlikely marketing coups. Leaning on extensive archival research and interviews with well over fifty musicians, industry executives and producers, The House That Trane Built also features over a hundred lavish illustrations, as well as thirty-six album profiles detailing the inside stories of some of the most enduring jazz recordings of all time.
Ashley Kahn is an award-winning journalist, radio/TV producer, and author of The House That Trane Built (Norton), A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (Viking/Penguin), and Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (Da Capo Press). He has garnered two ASCAP/Ralph J. Gleason awards and a Grammy nomination for his liner notes to a number of historic music collections. In addition, he is director/producer of the documentary Made in Heaven: The Story of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue (Sony Music), a cultural essayist for National Public Radio's Morning Edition, held the position of music editor at VH1, and was primary editor of Rolling Stone: The Seventies (Little, Brown). His byline continues to appear in such publications as The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, TV Guide, New York Observer, New York Newsday, JazzTimes, MOJO (UK), The Guardian (UK), Jazz (France), and GQ (Japan). He also served as a tour manager with Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Debbie Harry & the Jazz Passengers, and many other music groups.
Carl Grubbs, alto, soprano, and tenor saxophonist, is a native of Philadelphia, PA. He received early training from John Coltrane, who was married to his cousin, Naima. Through his family he was close to many of the history-making musicians of the 1950's and 60's. He was a guest soloist at the Philadelphia performace of Reggie Workman's current project African Brass, a tribute to John Coltrane. Carl's career can best be described as one of diversity; composor, performer, teacher, leader, recording artist, and presenter. With his late brother Earl Grubbs he formed the Visitors, a quintet that recorded for Muse record label in the early 1970's. Carl is a former member of the Julius Hemphill Saxophone Sextet; this group toured the United States and Europe performing two productions; Hemphill's Long Tongues: A Saxophone Opera and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Production, Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Promised Land.
- 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutoring with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 261.301 The Holocaust with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 Creative Non-Fiction Writing with Max Apple (maxapple1@comcast.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 117.301 The Arts and Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 9/29
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 9/30
- 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.