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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Tuesday, 10/1
- 6:30-7:30 PM: The Leeway Foundation will hold an application workshop for their upcoming Emerging and Established Artist Awards. 2003 Awards will be given in Fiction/Creative Nonfiction. The Awards are open to women writers living in Philadelphia's five-county area. For more information visit The Leeway Foundation, or call 215.545.4078.
- 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)
- 7:30 PM in 202: The Fish Writing Group (Nancy Hoffman: hoffmann@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.
Wednesday, 10/2
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything
Goes, an open mic
performance night. All are welcome!
- 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.
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, 10/3
- 5 PM: "Medical Writing: Getting Started, Getting Published," a
presentation by Dr. Robert Sataloff, MD, an eminent Philadelphia-area
ENT
specialist who is among those in the medical field who care deeply about
the quality of writing about medicine. This program will be
introduced by Penn's provost, Robert Barchi.
Robert Sataloff, MD, DMA, is Professor of Otolaryngology at Jefferson Medical College and chairman of the department of Otolaryngology at Graduate Hospital here in Philadelphia. He is an adjunct professor at Penn and Georgetown University as well. He is also Director of the Arts-Medicine Center and Director of the Voice Foundation's Annual Symposium on Care of the Professional Voice and conductor of the Thomas Jefferson Univesrity Choir and Orchestra. Dr. Sataloff has written more than 500 publications, including 23 textbooks. He cares deeply about how people the medical professions write. Among his many books are PROFESSIONAL VOICE: THE SCIENCE AND ART OF CLINICAL CARE (1991) are PERFORMING ARTS MEDICINE (1998, as co-editor), He is a long-time resident of Philadelphia, a graduate of Lower Merion High School and Haverford College.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 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).
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, 10/4
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, 10/5
- 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM: Post-Fringe Festival Workshop. Fringing the Page: A Conference and Workshop on beyond-the-page
poetry in Philadelphia
Fringing the Page is a free day of featured artist showcases, conversations, and presentations on beyond-the-page poetic work in Philadelphia--from object-based poetry and installation to spoken word and multimedia performance. It will provide a forum for local artists to share and discuss their projects, plan collaborations, and build community. Fringing the Page is a project of www.PoemsForRooms.com.
For more information, see www.PoemsForRooms.com or contact Laura Smith at ltsmith@sas.upenn.edu or (215) 387-6749
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, 10/6
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.
Monday, 10/7
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Songwriting Workshop Group will hold its inaugural meeting.
Are you a Closeted Songwriter? Lusty Lyricist? Speechless Mandolin Virtuso? Open Mic Maven? Full-fledged rockstar? Then consider joining the Kelly Writers House Songwriting Workshop Group!
The group will structure itself around the needs of its members. Use it as you see fit! Test out songs; discuss issues of genre, technique, and craft; and -- most importantly -- listen and learn from fellow songwriters. (Bring your instrument if you have one!) Students, faculty, staff, and community members -- from any genre -- all welcome!
For more information, contact Dan Fishback at fishback@sas.upenn.edu.
- 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
- 7-8 PM in Room 202: The Fish Writing Group (Nancy Hoffmann: nhoffmann@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.
Tuesday, 10/8
- 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)
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, 10/9
- 12-3 PM: A writing workshop with Lizzie Simon, author of Detour: My Bipolar Roadtrip in 4-D. The workshop is limited to 15 writers, please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu. Co-sponsored with the Office of Health Education for Mental Health Awareness Week. More information about Ms. Simon and the book can be found here.
- 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.
- 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)
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, 10/10
- 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 Toure, author of The Portable Promised Land.
Toure is the author of The Portable Promised Land, a collection of short stories published by Little, Brown and Company. The book features black people who can fly, a car with a stereo that plays just Stevie Wonder records, and the Right Revren Daddy Love, a most sexual preacher, a man whose church is in Brooklyn in an abandoned Kentucky Fried Chicken. Toure is also a Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone and has done cover stories on Alicia Keys, DMX, Lauryn Hill, and N'Sync. His work has also been featured in the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, the Village Voice, Playboy, Tennis Magazine, The Best American Essays of 1999, The Best American Sportswriting of 2001, and Zoetrope: All Story, where he won the Sam Adams Short Story Contest. He studied at Columbia University's graduate school of creative writing and lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. A novel called Soul City will arrive in the fall of 2003.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 6:30 PM in the Arts Café: A talk by Therese Eiben, Editor of
Poets & Writers Magazine: "The Arc of a Writer: From Inspiration to Publication,
A Practical Guide"
Therese Eiben became editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, which is published by the non-profit organization Poets & Writers, Inc., in January 1998. During her first year she supervised the planning and execution of a cover-to-cover redesign of the then 12-year-old publication. The redesigned Poets &Writers Magazine launched in January 1999. Since then, circulation has risen 22% and the magazine has received a FOLIO Ozzie Award for Best Redesign (1999, circulation under 100,000, trade publication category) and a FOLIO Editorial Excellence Award (2000, publishing/journalism category and 2001, publishing/journalism category).
Prior to working for Poets & Writers, Eiben worked as an independent researcher and editor for Time, Inc., primarily for Fortune magazine, since 1989. Previously, she edited non-fiction and fiction titles for Dembner Books, an independent publisher then distributed by W.W. Norton. She holds a masters degree in creative writing from Brown University. Her work has appeared in both business and literary venues, including Fortune, Time, Inc. Home Entertainment Series, the British Broadcasting Corporation, Artfolio, The Alaska Quarterly Review, and Poets & Writers Magazine.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 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).
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, 10/11
- The Writers House will be closed 10/11-10/13 for Fall Break
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, 10/12
- Closed for Fall Break
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, 10/13
- Closed for Fall Break
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, 10/14
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House, hosts the 2-1-5 Festival: The festival to merge rock and literature, on our
one-hour word and music radio show that tapes at Writers House and airs on 88.5 WXPN.
Featuring Meredith Broussard, Tom Devaney, Mary Richardson Graham, Neal Pollack and musical guests the Paul Green School of Rock Music. Hosted by Michaela Majoun.
Meredith Broussard is a freelance writer living in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in Philadelphia Magazine, the New York Press, and the Hartford Courant. Her critical comments on literature appear regularly in the Philadelphia City Paper and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is a member of the National Book Critics' Circle and the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists. Ms. Broussard is the editor of an anthology entitled The Dictionary of Failed Relationships (Three Rivers Press, May 2003), a collection of new fiction and personal essays by 26 women writers.
Tom Devaney is author of The American Pragmatist Fell In Love(Banshee Press), Program Director of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, and Producer of "LIVE" on 88.5 WXPN-FM. See Devaney's webpage here.
Neal Pollack is the author of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, now available in a glorious new paperback edition and as a 3-CD spoken-word "experience" from HarperAudio and Bloodshot Records. He will soon be the author of Poetry and Other Poems, a book of poetry, and My Life In Rock, a novel.
Mary Richardson Graham is married to the Big Jar and funds her lavish lifestyle by working for Community Legal Services. In her spare time she writes unpublished novels and eats cookies with her daughter.
The Paul Green School of Rock Music is an interactive,
performance based music school that operatives from
the premise that the best way to learn to do anything,
particularily music, is by doing it. The school
therefore stages numerous concerts throughout the year
featuring our students, all of which aspire to be real
rock concerts, complete with professional equipment,
light shows, and, when appropriate, smoke machines.
The school's founder, Paul Green, recent Penn alumnus, less invented the idea than stumbled upon it. As a guitar teacher putting himself through college he began to have his students jam with one another on weekends. Noticing how much better they were learning music theory when thus applied, and excited by how good they were getting at actually playing, he staged his first concert in Old City on a First Friday in October 1998. It was an instant sensation, and the resulting press, word of mouth, and good will got the ball rolling towards the school's present condition.
Currently The Paul Green School of Rock Music has over 100 students, taught by 14 fabulous teachers, who perform dozens of shows each year in front of thousands of fans.
For more information about the festival see 2-1-5 Literary Festival website
- 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)
- 6:30-8:30 PM in 202: Write On! Training Session. Write On! is a program that brings seventh graders from Lee School in West Philadelphia to the Kelly Writers House for a year-long writing workshop series. Students read, write and revise in small writing groups comprised of three Lee students and two Penn student coaches. Write On! is supported by Gear Up and the Writers House Esther T. Saxon Term Fund. (Sara Coelho: scoelho@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.
Tuesday, 10/15
- 7 PM, Arts Cafe: screening of Jon Avnet's Uprising, a film
about
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (See below: on Friday 10/18 Jon Avnet will be
visiting to speak about "the Holocaust, the media, and the power of
propaganda.")
Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Jon Avnet attended Penn in the late 1960's. Since then, he has gone on to become a successful feature film producer and director. Included in his directing credits are such successes as "Red Corner" (1997) with Richard Gere, "Up Close and Personal" (1996), featuring Michele Pfeifer and Robert Redford, and the critically acclaimed film "Fried Green Tomatoes" (1991), starring Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy. Over the past twenty years, Avnet has also produced a number of hit movies including "Risky Business" (1983), "Tango and Cash" (1989), "The Mighty Ducks" (1992), "The Three Musketeers" (1993), as well as the recent blockbuster "George of the Jungle" (1997). His recent film, Uprising, about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was aired on NBC in the fall of 2001.
- 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)
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, 10/16
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything
Goes, an open mic
performance night. All are welcome!
- 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.
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar (Carmen Esther Lamas: lamasc@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, 10/17
- 4:30 PM: The 2-1-5 Literary Festival presents "Poetry as Destination!" A reading, talk & history chat with spoken word
guru Bob Holman.
For more information about the festival see 2-1-5 Literary Festival website
Bob Holman has been dubbed "Ringmaster of the Spoken Word" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr in a New Yorker Magazine profile and "His generation's Ezra Pound," by San Francisco's Poetry Flash.
The series Holman produced for PBS, The United States of Poetry, featured over sixty poets including Derek Walcott, Rita Dove, Czeslaw Milosz, Lou Reed and former President Jimmy Carter, as well as rappers, cowboy poets, American Sign Language poets, and Slammers. USOP lives on as an anthology from Harry Abrams Publishers and soundtrack CD from Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records, a label Holman co-founded. He has appeared widely on TV: "Nightline," "Good Morning America," "ABC News Magazine," MTV's "Spoken Word Unplugged," and "The Charlie Rose Show," among others. The NEA has announced major preproduction support for his new poetry media project, The World of Poetry, the world's first digital poetry anthology.
Holman is chief curator for the biennial People's Poetry Gathering, he helps bring together oral poetry traditions from Africa (griot), Brazil (cordel), NYC (Braggin Rites), Mexico (decima) with hobo poets (U. Utah Phillips), cowboys (Wally McRae), blues poets (Sterling Plumpp) and rockers (Ani DiFranco) and the proverbial others in a 3-day "populist bacchanal."
He is guide for Poetry on About.com , consistently a banner site with 6,000 "Museletter" subscribers and 35,000 hits/week.
Holman's CD, In With The Out Crowd, was produced by needle-drop wizard Hal Willner. Holman's latest collection of poems, The Collect Call of the Wild (Henry Holt) was proclaimed "the first poetic drop-kick into the new millennium" by Next Magazine and "Impressive (to say the least)" by Robert Creeley. He is currently collaborating on Praise Poems, a book of poems and photos with Chuck Close. He co-edited Aloud! Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (also from Holt), winner of the American Book Award, having helped reopen the Cafe in 1989, where he ran the infamous Poetry Slams through 1996.
He has been awarded a NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, been funded by the NEA, New York State Council on the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. He is currently Visiting Professor of Writing and Integrated Arts at Bard College.
He is proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club , a performance space that is the first step towards his dream of a poetry-technology lab: Bowery Arts & Science.
A recording of this event that has been made available as part of the PENNsound project can be found here.
- 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).
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Mods: Penn Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group (Matt Hart: matthart@english.upenn.edu). Damien Keane, "The Weft of the Dial: Radio Propaganda and Ireland's Position in the Second World War."
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, 10/18
- 2-1-5 Literary Festival
- 3-5 PM, in the Arts Cafe: Jon Avnet,
"The
Holocaust, the media, the power of propaganda."
Listen to a recording of this event.
Avnet will discuss his own film, Uprising, and other Holocaust-related films, their depictions of the events and their relevance to events of today, and the power of propaganda and the media from Goebels to the today's media as a government-controlled mouthpiece.
Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Jon Avnet attended Penn in the late 1960's. Since then, he has gone on to become a successful feature film producer and director. Included in his directing credits are such successes as "Red Corner" (1997) with Richard Gere, "Up Close and Personal" (1996), featuring Michele Pfeifer and Robert Redford, and the critically acclaimed film "Fried Green Tomatoes" (1991), starring Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy. Over the past twenty years, Avnet has also produced a number of hit movies including "Risky Business" (1983), "Tango and Cash" (1989), "The Mighty Ducks" (1992), "The Three Musketeers" (1993), as well as the recent blockbuster "George of the Jungle" (1997). His recent film, Uprising, about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was aired on NBC in the fall of 2001.
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write On! Seventh graders from Lee School in West Philadelphia visit the Kelly Writers House for a year-long writing workshop series. Students read, write and revise in small writing groups comprised of three Lee students and two Penn student coaches. Write On! is supported by Gear Up and the Writers House Esther T. Saxon Term Fund. (Sara Coelho: scoelho@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, 10/19
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, 10/20
- 2-1-5 Literary Festival
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House, the 2-1-5 Festival: The festival to merge rock and literature, airs on
88.5 WXPN.
Featuring Meredith Broussard, Tom Devaney, Mary Richardson Graham, Neal Pollack and musical guests the Paul Green School of Rock Music. Hosted by Michaela Majoun.
Meredith Broussard is a freelance writer living in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in Philadelphia Magazine, the New York Press, and the Hartford Courant. Her critical comments on literature appear regularly in the Philadelphia City Paper and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is a member of the National Book Critics' Circle and the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists. Ms. Broussard is the editor of an anthology entitled The Dictionary of Failed Relationships (Three Rivers Press, May 2003), a collection of new fiction and personal essays by 26 women writers.
Tom Devaney is author of The American Pragmatist Fell In Love(Banshee Press), Program Director of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, and Producer of "LIVE" on 88.5 WXPN-FM. See Devaney's webpage here.
Neal Pollack is the author of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, now available in a glorious new paperback edition and as a 3-CD spoken-word "experience" from HarperAudio and Bloodshot Records. He will soon be the author of Poetry and Other Poems, a book of poetry, and My Life In Rock, a novel.
Mary Richardson Graham is married to the Big Jar and funds her lavish lifestyle by working for Community Legal Services. In her spare time she writes unpublished novels and eats cookies with her daughter.
The Paul Green School of Rock Music is an interactive, performance based music school that operatives from the premise that the best way to learn to do anything, particularily music, is by doing it. The school therefore stages numerous concerts throughout the year featuring our students, all of which aspire to be real rock concerts, complete with professional equipment, light shows, and, when appropriate, smoke machines.
The schools founder, Paul Green, recent Penn alumnus, less invented the idea than stumbled upon it. As a guitar teacher putting himself through college he began to have his students jam with one another on weekends. Noticing how much better they were learning music theory when thus applied, and excited by how good they were getting at actually playing, he staged his first concert in Old City on a First Friday in October 1998. It was an instant sensation, and the resulting press, word of mouth, and good will got the ball rolling towards the school's present condition.
Currently The Paul Green School of Rock Music has over 100 students, taught by 14 fabulous teachers, who perform dozens of shows each year in front of thousands of fans.
For more information about the festival see 2-1-5 Literary Festival website
- 6:30 PM in Room 202: Film screening for English 012 "Writing about Film"
- 6-7 PM in Room 209: The Undergraduate Writing Advising Program
(contact R.J. Lehman at rlehman@seas.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, 10/21
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Café: The newly dubbed songwriting workshop SOS, Sharing Our Songs meets in the Arts Café. For more information, contact Dan Fishback at fishback@sas.upenn.edu.
- 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)
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, 10/22
- 5:00 PM: Planning Committee meeting and gathering. (For more information about the "hub," write to wh@writing.upenn.edu
- 7:00 PM: Multi genre artist Jessica Hagedorn will read from her work. Cosponsored by the
Pan-Asian American
Community House and the Asian American Studies Program.
Hagedorn was born and partly
raised in
Manila, Philippines. She and her family immigrated to San Francisco, where she
became active in the literary and larger cultural scene in the 1970s. Ms. Hagedorn now lives in New York City.
Hagedorn has published numerous writings including the novels Dogeaters (National Book Award nominee for Fiction) and Gangster of Love, poetry collection Danger and Beauty, and the anthology Charlie Chan is Dead. Her play adaptation of Dogeaters has been produced at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse and New York City's Joseph Papp Public Theater, directed by Michael Greif. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, the NEA, Sundance, and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, she is presently at work with various film and theatre projects, and a new novel. Jessica Hagedorn was introduced by Clifford Bersamira '03.
- 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)
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, 10/23
- 5:00 PM: The Alumni Visitors Series presents Meredith Stiehm.
Meredith Stiehm was a writer and producer for the television series "ER" from 2000 to 2002. As Co-Executive Producer of "ER" in 2001, she received an Emmy Award Nomination for Outstanding Drama Series. As a writer and producer for "NYPD Blue" from 1996 to 2000, she received Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series in 1999 and Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series, with David Milch, in 1998. She also wrote for "Northern Exposure" and "Beverly Hills, 90210" from 1994 to 1996.
Last year, Stiehm wrote "A Fair and Even Chance," a television movie for ABC/Disney, about the first national spelling bee in 1908. Her co-writer was her sister Jamie Stiehm, a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. She has also written plays produced in Los Angeles, among them "Little Rosa", "Holiday House/Between the White Curtains" and "Hallelujah Junction." Her 1993 musical, "Rules For Girls" was nominated by the LA Weekly as Musical of the Year. Stiehm's latest project, a pilot for a detective series set in Philadelphia, will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and CBS.
Stiehm was born in Madison, Wisconsin and grew up in Santa Monica, California. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 with a B.A. in English/Playwriting. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
- 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.
- 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)
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, 10/24
- 7 PM:
It is with great pleasure that the Kelly Writers House and the Creative
Writing Program of the University of Pennsylvania invite you to a
celebration of Daniel Hoffman in honor of his recently published book of
poems, Darkening Water, and his continuing presence for over 35 years
as
mentor and friend to all of us in the Penn community.
The festivities will begin at 7:00 PM with a reading by Dan from his new
collection and a reception to follow. RSVP by email to
whdan@english.upenn.edu or by telephone to (215) 573-9749.
For many years the Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Penn before his retirement, Dan came to the University in 1966, and began teaching literature courses in the English Department as well as one poetry workshop each year for students of exceptional ability. That one workshop, it turns out, was the foundation upon which the Creative Writing Program as we know it now was built. Without his tireless efforts and his sustaining mentorship over the years, the program that now offers some 10-14 workshops in three different genres each semester and instructs close to 300 students each year, would not have existed. It is with deep gratitude that we acknowledge his years at Penn, as notable scholar of American literature and folklore, as award-winning poet with 11 books of verse, and as founder and abiding spirit of the Creative Writing Program.
For more information about Dan Hoffman's new book, Darkening Water, click here. To read Gregory Djanikian's introduction of Dan Hoffman, click here.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 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).
- 5:15 PM in Room 209: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group discusses Mark Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination (1744). For more informatino, or to join, contact Brett Wilson: bdwilson@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.
Friday, 10/25
- 1-2 PM: Folklorist and poet Simon Lichman will read from his poetry. Co-sponsored with the Center For
Folklore and Ethnography.
Dr. Simon Lichman is the director of The Centre for Creativity in Education and Cultural Heritage, Jerusalem, Israel. He has a Ph.D. in Folklore and has worked in the fields of Applied Folklore and Education for twenty-six years. Dr. Lichman designed and directs the Traditional Creativity In School Communities Project which uses folklore to give Arab and Jewish children, parents, grandparents and teachers ongoing opportunities to get to know something of each others' ways of life. He teaches the Use of Folklore in Multicultural Education and Co-existence Work to teachers working in the field, as well as David Yellin Teachers' Training Seminar, Jerusalem. He also lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where his courses have included Applications of Folklore in Education, Medieval Drama, Ritual Drama, Cultural Anthropology and Creative Writing. A member of Penn International, he has served as the Chairman of the Israel Association of Writers in English and has edited a number of issues of its journal, arc His own collection of poetry is called, Snatched Days.
- 2:30 PM in Room 209: Writers House Talk Poets (Bob Perelman perelman@english.upenn.edu)
- 3:30 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eye: A poetry
working group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.com)
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write On! Seventh graders from Lee School in West Philadelphia visit the Kelly Writers House for a year-long writing workshop series. Students read, write and revise in small writing groups comprised of three Lee students and two Penn student coaches. Write On! is supported by Gear Up and the Writers House Esther T. Saxon Term Fund. (Sara Coelho: scoelho@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, 10/26
- 1:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eye, a poetry writing group (Paige Menton: menski@sprynet.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.
Sunday, 10/27
- 6-7 PM in Room 209: The Undergraduate Writing Advising Program (contact R.J. Lehman at rlehman@seas.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, 10/28
- 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)
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, 10/29
- 5-7 PM: Art Gallery Reception for the Sibylla Benatova and
Summer Jellison. The show runs from 10/01 to 11/01/02.
Curated by Peter Schwarz.
Sibylla Benatova is a graduate of the Academy of Theater and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, and also holds an MA in Pupper Theater Stage Design. She has worked as a costume and stage designer (1994-2000) on numerous productions and has also exhibited fine arts in several exhibitions in Bulgaria and the US. Benatova's current paintings are her own technique of paper collage, watercolor, and silver/gold foil. In addition to the exhibit at the house, an online exhibit was mounted.
Summer Jellison received a BFA in Printmaking from the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, where she won the Alexander A. Goldfarb Purchase Prize and graduated Summa Cum Laude. A 2000 MA graduate of the University of the Arts' Book and Printmaking program, Jellison debuts her explorations of the figure as exercises in portraiture, paint and composition. In addition to the exhibit at the house, an online exhibit was mounted.
- 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)
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Proposals Hublet Meeting
- 6:30 in Room 209: J.R.R. Tolkien Preceptorial with Prof. Jennifer Snead.
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, 10/30
- 7:00 PM: Audiocast 99th Birthday Celebration, Reading & Conversation featuring Carl Rakosi
A reading and conversation with CARL RAKOSI via live audiocast - 7 PM (eastern time), Wednesday, October 30, co-moderated by Tom Devaney & Al Filreis. Join us for a reading, conversation and celebration with this legendary poet, who will join us from his home in San Francisco. The program will be audiocast live worldwide. You can join us by coming to the Kelly Writers House at 3805 Locust Walk in Philadelphia, where an audience will converse directly with Rakosi by an amplified telephone connection. That conversation will be audiocast, and thus you can also join us, wherever you are, by making a simple connection to the web. Audiocast participants will be able to pose questions for Carl Rakosi via email. If you intend to participate, please write to whrakosi@english.upenn.edu and be sure to indicate if you will attend at the Writers House or will participate from a distance through the audiocast. For much more about Rakosi and this event, see "Carl Rokosi at the Kelly Writers House" and the webcast page here. Carl Rakosi was introduced by Writers House Program Coordinator Tom Devaney.
Carl Rakosi began publishing his poetry in the 1920s. His work was published by Ezra Pound and others in magazines assoicated with a group of writers now known as the "Objectivists." His Collected Poems was published in 1986 by the National Poetry Foundation. His Poems 1923-1941 (published by Sun and Moon Press) won the PEN Center USA West award in 1996. Carl Rakosi lives in San Francisco.
- 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.
- 8 PM in Room 202: Hollywood Club Internship Panel
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, 10/31
- 8:00 PM: Halloween Extravaganza SPEAKEASY: Poetry, Prose & Anything
Goes, an open mic
performance night. All are welcome!
- 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).
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Mods: Penn Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group (Matt Hart: matthart@english.upenn.edu). John Lessard, "Travelling Light: Constructivism and the impulse towards Dematerialisation."
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.