September 1996
Sunday, 9/1
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Monday, 9/2
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Tuesday, 9/3
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Wednesday, 9/4
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:15-5:30 PM: Lorene Cary's ENGL 112 (upstairs)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Thursday, 9/5
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Friday, 9/6
Saturday, 9/7
Open House/Clean-up: noon-3pm
Sunday, 9/8
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Monday, 9/9
Writers House officially opens! noon-11pm every day...
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Tuesday, 9/10
9 PM: Penn Poets Society Meeting
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Wednesday, 9/11
7-9 PM: WH Moveable Feast, part of the Freshman Reading Project
We're having a "moveable feast" of our own! -- a catered dinner which follows an event here at the house. Writers House students, staff, and faculty will read from works by authors which Hemingway writes about in his book: Joyce, Stein, Fitzgerald, etc. All first-year students are invited to join us for a chance to hear more of the literature they have read about and to meet other people at Penn who share similar interests in writing.
Those already planning to read include:
- Sarah Giulian, C'97 -- Stein
The Writers House Moveable Feast will take place on Wednesday, September 11th, 7-9 pm. The first Planning Committee meeting of the year will immediately follow, so plan to stay if you are interested in becoming part of the group of people who feul the Writers House.
The WH will be open all through that first week for first-years and others in the Penn community to come and hang out and talk to each other (not quite Stein's studio, but the best we can do).
This Moveable Feast is not just another "freshman party." The focus of the WH is to blend the academic with the social, and we feel like this would be an ideal location for some of the FRP events.
We are also open to any ideas or suggestions -- E-mail us!.
9 PM: Planning Committee Meeting, Arts Cafe
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:15-5:30 PM: Lorene Cary's ENGL 112 (upstairs)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Thursday, 9/12
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Friday, 9/13
Saturday, 9/14
9-11 PM: Open Mic
Sunday, 9/15
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Monday, 9/16
9-10 PM: Writers Circle
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Tuesday, 9/17
8 PM: Cafe 88, Arts Cafe
Meetings and classes
- 4:30-7:10 PM: Gil Ott's ENGL 198
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Wednesday, 9/18
4:30 PM: Lorenzo Thomas Reading (sponsored by the Creative Writing Department)
- Reading: Lorenzo Thomas will give the opening reading of the Creative Writing program this coming Wednesday afternoon, the 18th, at 4:30. The reading will be at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, across from Chats.
- Dinner: A dinner with the poet, at the Writers House, will follow the reading. Space is limited and you *must* contact the Writers House to make a reservation. email: wh@writing.upenn.edu
- Talk: Earlier Wednesday afternoon, Thomas will give a talk on the poetry of Melvin Tolson in Herman Beavers' class (1 o'clock, 129 Bennett). Again, space is limited. But, on the other hand, Tolson is a *major* high-modernist, African-American poet whose current neglect is more or less scandalous.
Thomas was born in Panama; grew up in New York; was a member of the Umbra Workshop and helped edit Umbra magazine; has been associated with the St Marks Poetry Project in NY; and currently teaches at the University of Houston. He has published 6 books of poems, including The Bathers and Chances Are Few; his work has been widely anthologized, most recently in The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology; he has translated Vietnamese poetry.
His poetry is socially engaged, humorous, erudite & street-wise. Come hear Thomas's words this Wednesday. --Bob Perelman
6 PM: Dinner with Lorenzo Thomas (see above)
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:15-5:30 PM: Lorene Cary's ENGL 112 (upstairs)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Thursday, 9/19
5:30 PM: Ada Aharoni Reading
Ada Aharoni is an Israeli writers, poet and lecturer, whose works have won her worldwide acclaim. She writes in English and Hebrew, and has published twenty books which have been translated into several languages. She believes that literature can help in healing the urgent ailments of our planet, such as war and poverty. Among her many prestigious prizes are The British Council Award, the Keren Amos President Award, the Haifa and Bremen Prize, The World Academy of Arts and Culture Award and the Korean Gold Crown of World Poets Award in 1993. Aharoni is President of the XIII World Congress of Poets (Haifa, Israel, September 1992), and President of the International Friends of Literature Society.
She is a lecturer at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. She studied at London University, and received her M. Phil. in 1967, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she was awarded a Ph. D. on "Saul Bellow's Introspective Fiction" (1975). Her novel, THE SECOND EXODUS, was published in 1983, and MEMOIRS FROM ALEXANDRIA, in 1985. Her latest historical novel FROM THE NILE TO THE JORDAN, was published in 1994; in the same year she published THE PEACE FLOWER. She has published eight collections of poetry and two books of translations of the Israeli poet Shin Shalom, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Anthology: A SONG TO LIFE AND TO WORLD PEACE, as well as of the Literary Magazine GALIM (1987-1995). She is also one of the editors of the book: SAUL BELLOW: A MOSAIC (1993).
She has taught literature at the University of Haifa, and now teaches Sociology in the General Studies Department of the Technion in Haifa. She has been a guest lecturer and visiting professor at several American universities, and wrote the last version of NOT IN VAIN, while on sabbatical at Penn State University, where she taught in Women's Studies, and the Science, Technology and Society Program.
Ada Aharoni lives on Mount Carmel, in Haifa; she writes in the quieter moments of a busy and fruitful life.
There will be a play reading of "Inbar," a play based on one of Aharoni's novels, FROM THE NILE TO THE JORDAN, on Tuesday, September 17, at 7pm in the Penn Hillel Auditorium. "Inbar" tell of the struggles and survival of a young Egyptian Jewish woman at the time of the forming of the state of Israel. A reception and discussion with Ada Aharoni will follow the reading.
9-11 PM: Poetry Preceptorial
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Friday, 9/20
Saturday, 9/21
Noon: Bagels, Brunch and Poetry.
Discussion of Bob Perelman's The Marginalization of Poetry, available from Princeton University Press (1996). (Bob Perelman will be here!)
9-11 PM: Open Mic
Sunday, 9/22
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Monday, 9/23
7 PM: Mosaic Meeting
9-10 PM: Writers Circle
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Tuesday, 9/24
8 PM: Cafe 88, Arts Cafe
9 PM: Penn Poets Society Meeting
Meetings and classes
- 4:30-7:10 PM: Gil Ott's ENGL 198
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Wednesday, 9/25
4 PM: Grad Poetry Hour (for Penn grad students)
6:30-8:30 PM: PennMOO book discussion
Bob Perelman's The Marginalization of Poetry, available from Princeton University Press (1996). In conjunction with the Writers House/PennMOO On-line Workshop.
9 PM: Planning Committee Meeting, Arts Cafe
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:15-5:30 PM: Lorene Cary's ENGL 112 (upstairs)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Thursday, 9/26
6:30 PM: Penn and Ink introductory meeting
8 PM, Ben Friedlander Reading followed by Open Mic
9-11 PM: Poetry Preceptorial
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available
Friday, 9/27
3-4:30: Colloqium on "American Writers in Paris" (not in WH)
The SAS Department of English will mark the retirement of Professor Robert Lucid will a colloquium on "American Writers in Paris Following World War II" featuring author Norman Mailer and poet Richard Wilbur. Observations on the Left Bank after the Second World War from two American writers who were there.
Friday, September 27, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
The University Museum's Rainey Auditorium
3260 South Street
A reception in honor of Robert Lucid will begin at 4:45 p.m. in Hill House, 3333 Walnut St. For more information, contact Anita at mastroie@ben.dev.upenn.edu or 215-898-5262.