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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Sunday, 10/1
- 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, 10/2
- 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, 10/3
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading and discussion with Paul LaFarge.
Paul LaFarge is a frequent contributor to McSweeney's and is the author of Haussmann, or the Distinction (Picador, 2002), a New York Times Notable Book, The Artist of the Missing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), winner of the California Book Award, and The Facts of Winter (McSweeney's, 2005). He lives out of his car. He is also a leading scholar on the work of Paul Poissel, one of the least known of the little-known French "tiny metaphysician" writers of the late 19th century. Listen to a recording of Anna Levett reading an excerpt from The Facts of Winter: MP3.
Listen an audio recording of this program.
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- 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)
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Radium, a fiction group. For more information, contact Erin Gautsche (gautsche@writing.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, 10/4
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A discussion with Judith Rodin. . Attendance by confirmed rsvp only. A podcast was produced about this program: go here to select this program from a list of our podcasts.
The first Penn alumna - and the first woman - to be named
President of the University,
Judith Rodin graduated with honors in 1966 with a B.A. in Psychology. After
receiving her PhD from Columbia University she joined the faculty at
Yale
University and served as Yale's provost from 1992 to 1994. She is currently
President of the Rockefeller
Foundation, which works to expand opportunities for the disadvantaged.
Rodin has published more than 200 articles and chapters in academic
publications and authored or co-authored eleven books, including most
recently, Public Discourse in America: Conversation and Community in the
Twenty-First Century.
To hear a recording of this event in mp3 format, please click 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 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, 10/5
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A poetry reading by Daisy Fried, introduced by Greg Djanikian, co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Daisy Fried is the author of two books of poems, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), a finalist for the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and She Didn't Mean to Do It, (Pittsburgh, 2000), which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. She has been awarded the Cohen Award from Ploughshares, a Pushcart Prize, the Leeway Award for Excellence in poetry, a Bread Loaf Writers Conference fellowship and the Pew Fellowship in poetry. A Hodder Fellow at Princeton University in '04-'05, she has taught creative writing at University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College and through Warren Wilson College's low-residency MFA program. She is currently Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College, and lives in Northampton, MA and South Philly. This year, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry.You can here the recording of this program here.
- 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, 10/6
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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.
- 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)
Saturday, 10/7
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 10/8
- 7:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Al Filreis' Holocaust class screens video testimonies of Holocaust survivors from the Yale University Video Archive
- 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, 10/9
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A conversation with George Anastasia, introduced by Dick Polman. Seating is limited; please RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu
Veteran Philadelphia journalist George Anastasia has been writing about organized and disorganized crime for thirty-five years, covering casino gambling in Atlantic City, mob hits in Philadelphia and criminal prosecutions throughout the country. The Philadelphia Inquirer reporter is the author of five books. His work has appeared in Penthouse, Playboy and The Village Voice. He also has been featured on several network television news magazine reports about organized crime and has worked as a consultant on projects for ABC Primetime, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.
Anastasia's most recent book was a New York Times bestseller -- The Last Gangster (ReganBooks/Harper Collins, March 2004), the story of Ron Previte, Skinny Joey Merlino and the demise of the Philadelphia mob. His other books include Blood and Honor (William Morrow & Co., 1991), which Jimmy Breslin called "the best gangster book ever written"; NYT bestseller The Summer Wind (Regan Books/HarperCollins, 1999) about the Thomas Capano-Anne Marie Fahey murder case; The Goodfella Tapes (Avon Books, 1998), and Mobfather (Kensington Books, 1993).
Anastasia is also the author of a novella, The Big Hustle (Philadelphia Inquirer Books, 2001) and has contributed to two anthologies of Italian-American writers, A Sitdown with the Sopranos and Don't Tell Momma. Born in South Philadelphia and raised in southern New Jersey, Anastasia is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1969) with a B.A. in French Literature. He has also studied at Swarthmore College and the University of Florida and has been an adjunct professor/lecturer at Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and Temple University.
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading with Ann Fisher-Wirth
Born in Washington D.C., Ann Fisher-Wirth, whose father was in the
U.S. Army, spent her childhood in Germany, Pennsylvania, Japan, and
Berkeley, California. Now a professor of English at the University of
Mississippi, Ann has a B.A. in English literature from Pomona College, and
a Ph.D in English and American Literature from Claremont Graduate School.
President of the International Association for the Study of Literature and
Environment, Ann teaches poetry, environmental literature, and yoga. She
has been both a Fulbright Senior Lecturer and a Fulbright Distinguished
Chair. Diane Lockward, in a review of Wirth's Blue Window, writes,
"Fisher-Wirth smacks you with one hand, then comforts you with the
other. Boldness is countered by tenderness, brutality by beauty, and
destruction by healing."
To hear a recording of this event in mp3 format, please click 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, 10/10
- 11:30 AM: a lunchtime conversation with journalist Judy Bachrach, led by Avery Rome and cosponsored by the
Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. Please RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a seat.
Judy Bachrach is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine as well as a regular contributor to Allure. She has interviewed people as diverse as Kurt Waldheim and Christina Aguilera. A native New Yorker, Bachrach graduated from Chatham College in Pittsburgh and got her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She has been a TV critic for the Baltimore Sun, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, a feature writer for the Style section of the Washington Post, a political columnist for the Washington Star, and a contributor for Inquirer Magazine. She speaks French, Italian, some German and three words of Arabic, and cooks well in any language.
- 6:00 PM: A celebration of Dick Polman's appointment as Povich Writer-in-Residence at the Center for Programs
in Contemporary Writing (CPCW), honoring donors Maury Povich and Connie Chung.
Readers and presenters included Rebecca Bushnell (Dean of SAS), Dennis DeTurck (Dean of the College), Al Filreis, Tovah Poster and other former and current students of Dick Polman, Connie Chung, and Maury Povich.
Maury Povich (C'62) has enabled CPCW and the School of Arts & Sciences to appoint the first-ever full-time Writer-in-Residence.
Dick 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 1980s, 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 as 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. He returned to school, in a sense, two years ago when he won a fellowship and spent a semester auditing courses at Penn -- including two in the English department. But it's not all work. Dick loves jazz, baseball, tennis, novels, movies, and his family. He has a son in college, and a daughter in high school. His wife, Elise Vider, is director of communications for Center City District, the agency charged with promoting and enforcing a clean and safe Center City Philadelphia.
This event was covered by an article in the Daily Pennsylvanian: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/about/news/povichwriterres2.html. Some photos from the event are posted below.
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- 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)
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 209: In Words, a journaling group. For more information, please contact Blair Borish (borish@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.
Wednesday, 10/11
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6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a Hanging Loose Press event with Bob Hershon and Donna Brook.
Bob Hershon is a poet whose collections include Into a Punchline, The German Lunatic, and Calls from the Outside World. He is co-editor of Hanging Loose Press and executive director of The Print Center, a non-profit gallery in Philadelphia.
Donna Brook received an Honors English degree from the University of Michigan and a Masters from Wayne State University in Detroit. Her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, California Quarterly, Hanging Loose, kayak, Massachusetts Review, Telephone, Verse, and The World, among many others. Her poetry has been awarded an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She has recently published her fourth collection of poems, A More Human Face, with Hanging Loose Press. A teacher for many years, Ms. Brook is now a freelance writer and editor.
Click here to listen to a complete audio recording of Bob Hershon's reading at this event.
Click here to listen to a complete audio recording of Donna Brook's reading at this event.
- 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)
- 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.
- 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 202: Lacanians meeting. For more information contact Patricia Gherovici (PGHEROVICI@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, 10/12
- 4:30-5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: a reception for Nathan Brackett, hosted by Anthony DeCurtis. Please RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Nathan Brackett was raised in a small town outside Boston, where his exposure to 80s hip-hop got him serious about music criticism. He attended the University of Wisconsin and wrote for their newspaper, The Daily Cardinal. After graduating, he worked at a national publication before landing a spot in the Gloucester, MA offices of Musician magazine as an intern. In 1991, he took an office job at their New York City offices so as to put himself in the center of the magazine world. This move paid off as after only a few years, he held the title Assistant Editor at Musician and also freelanced for Vibe, Option and Grand Royale. In 1995, he took the job of Music Editor at Time Outs new NYC offices, but soon after accepted an offer from Rolling Stone. After only six months at Rolling Stone, he was promoted to Reviews Editor and has held this position since.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe:
the EMERGENCY
reading series presents a reading and discussion with Sarah Dowling and Jena Osman, introduced by Julia
Bloch.
A recording of the entire program is available here: MP3.
Sarah Dowling is originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, and lives in Philadelphia. She recently completed
an M.A. in creative writing at Temple University and is currently a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania. Her
work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in How2, Descant, In/Vision, Taproot II, and The
Mitre. A recording of Sara Dowling reading her poetry is available here: MP3
Jena Osman's most recent book of poems is An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books, 2004). Her book The Character (Beacon Press, 1999) was the winner of the 1998 Barnard New Woman Poets Prize. Other publications include Jury (Meow Press), Amblyopia (Avenue B), and Twelve Parts of Her (Burning Deck Press). Her poems have appeared in Big Allis, Conjunctions, Hambone, O-blek, Verse, and elsewhere. Osman is the editor, with Juliana Spahr, of the literary magazine Chain. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Fund for Poetry, and has been a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, the Djerassi Foundation, and Chateau de la Napoule. In 2006, she was awarded the Pew Fellowship in the Arts for poetry.Osman received an M.A. in poetry and playwriting from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in English from the Poetics Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the director of the creative writing program at Temple University, where she teaches poetry workshops and seminars on contemporary poetry and poetics. Recent courses have included "Documentary Poetics" and "Hybrid Genres: Visual, Sound, and Performance Poetries." A recording of Jena Osman reading her poems can be found here: MP3
The EMERGENCY reading series is made possible in part by the Kerry Sherin Wright Prize.
- 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, 10/13
- 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, 10/14
- 11:00 AM (dining room & living room): Gathering of Al Filreis' advisees and their families
- 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.
Sunday, 10/15
- 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, 10/16
- 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.)
- 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM: A fiction writing workshop on "Point of View" with Penn alum Adam Sexton.
Adam Sexton teaches literature and creative writing at NYU and expository writing at Parsons School of Design. His books include Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway and Other Greats (McGraw-Hill, 2005) and Love Stories (Citadel, 2003). His writing has been published in the New York Times, the Village Voice, and the Boston Phoenix, and he has read from his work or appeared on panels at Yale University, NYU, and SUNY Binghamton. Sexton received his B.A. in English from Penn and his M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from the School of the Arts at Columbia University.
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, 10/17
- 4:30 - 6:30 PM in Room 202: Andrew Maykuth presents "Talking to People who Don't Want to
Talk to You: How do you get sensitive information out of sources?" This program is part of the
Journalism Bootcamp series, and is co-sponsored by the Daily Pennsylvanian.
Andrew Maykuth is the Philadelphia Inquirer's correspondent at large. He was raised in Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He worked for a couple of years at the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune before coming to Philadelphia in 1982. Maykuth covered local news until the Inquirer sent him on his first international assignment to Nicaragua in 1985. Since then, he has traveled to 49 countries in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East and south Asia on Inquirer assignments. He also spent four years as the Inquirer's New York correspondent. His work has been recognized by the Overseas Press Club, the Population Institute's Global Media Awards, Lincoln University's Unity Awards, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association and The National Association of Black Journalists. He was also a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University in 2002.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing
presents Djelal Kadir
Djelal Kadir is The Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature at Penn State University. Professor Kadir is the author of The Other Writing: Postcolonial Essays in Latin America's Writing Culture (Purdue, 1993), Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric As Conquering Ideology (California, 1992), Questing Fictions: Latin America's Family Romance (University of Minnesota, 1986), and Juan Carlos Onetti (Twayne Publishers, 1977). He is currently president of the International American Studies Association.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 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 - 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, 10/18
- 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)
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Math 570 studies hardcore.
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, 10/19
- 4:30-5:30 PM in the Dining Room: A reception for Tom Kuntz, hosted by Anthony DeCurtis. Please RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Tom Kuntz is the editor of "Word for Word," a column of topical excerpts in the New York Times. He is also the author of The Sinatra Files, an examination of the FBI dossier of Frank Sinatra.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Andrew Lampert on "How To Speak (See) & What To Say (Hear)." Introduced by Kenneth
Goldsmith.
As an artist, Andrew Lampert works in film, video and performance. He primarily focuses on live multiple-projector pieces, portraits, short-term installations and private performances. His 3-screen installation/performance VARITIES OF SLOW and OKKYUNG DUET, a film performance with cellist Okkyung Lee, were included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES, a performance piece originally staged in 2000, was revived last year at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. His work has been presented at the New York Film Festival, the Lux Centre, The Rotterdam Festival, the Images Festival and at institutions in the US, Mexico, Canada, UK, Holland, France and Russia.
As an Archivist, Lampert works at Anthology Film Archives where he is responsible for the day-to-day maintenance and preservation of the collection. He is currently preserving films by artists including Paul Sharits, Bruce Conner, Harry Smith, Greg Sharits, Marie Menken, Melvin Van Peebles, Robert Breer, Carolee Schneemann and Wallace Berman. As a Programmer, Lampert curates Anthology's regular UNESSENTIAL CINEMA, AUDIO VERITE and PERSONAL ARCHIVE shows, as well as a variety of festivals, series and one-off screenings. Lampert is also Director of Public Opinion Laboratory. (EG 9.21.06)
Download a recording of this event here.
- 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).
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, 10/20
- 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, 10/21
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, 10/22
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, 10/23
- Fall Break
- 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, 10/24
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: On Hold for Theorizing.
- 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, 10/25
- October 25 - 27, 2006: a three-day workshop on modern poetry for Penn alumni, held at Frost Valley YMCA, and led by Faculty Director Al Filreis and featuring Julia Bloch and Jessica Lowenthal. For more information, including a brief video of the 2006 retreat, click here.
- 6:00 PM: Art Gallery reception for Life in Fondwa: Daily Struggle, Eternal Hope, an exhibition of
documentary by Rebecca Sherman. This exhibition is cosponsored by International House, the
Institute of Environmental Studies, and the Center for Folklore and Ethnography.
Selected images from the exhibit can be found here.
For more information, contact Peter Schwarz (hschwarz@sas.upenn.edu).
- 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)
- 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.
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, 10/26
- 1:00 - 2:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: DISCUSSION
A conversation about writing and literature in the digital age, featuring four promintent poets: Charles Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania), Jena Osman (Temple University), Bob Perelman (University of Pennsylvania), and Ron Silliman (Silliman's Blog). Listen to an audio recording of this event. - 2:30 - 5:30 PM: OPEN MACHINE OPEN HOUSE
Electronic literature available for reading and discussion throughout the downstairs area, with guided tours at 3:30pm and 4:30pm. Electronic literature is accessible on computers for interaction and reading throughout the first floor of the Writers House. - 3:30 and 4:30 PM: "Guided tours" of selected works by Electronic Literature Collection, vol 1 editors: Stephanie Strickland and Nick Montfort.
- 4:00 - 5:30 PM in the Dining Room: WET DIGITS WORKSHOP - An introductory digital writing workshop for newcomers to HTML, led by Nick Montfort (University of Pennsylvania). RSVP required. Contact wh@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a place.
- 5:30 - 7:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Readings and Presentations of Electronic Literature Collection contributors. Special Guests include Mary Flanagan (Hunter College), Aya Karpinska (Brown University), Stuart Moulthrop (University of Baltimore), Noah Wardrip-Fruin (University of California, San Diego), and Aaron Reed (Salt Lake City).
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Stephanie Strickland's print volumes include True North and The Red Virgin. Her hypermedia work includes The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot. V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L'una (Penguin 2002) was selected by Brenda Hillman for the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of America. As the McEver Chair in Writing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Strickland produced TechnoPoetry Festival 2002. Nick Montfort is an author of interactive fiction including Winchester's Nightmare and Ad Verbum, and he wrote the first academic book about the form, Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction. Montfort collaborated with William Gillespie to write The Ed Report, an online novel and hoax, and 2002, a 2002-word story in the form of a palindrome. He is currently a doctoral candidate in computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. |
- 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)
- 7:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
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, 10/27
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- 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)
- 3:00-7:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
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, 10/28
- Homecoming Weekend
- 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Open House at Kelly Writers House.
- 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Annual Celebration of Nonfiction Writers.
- 9:00 AM-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow.
- 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM in the Publications Room: First Call meeting. For more information, contact Shira Bender (shiratb@gmail.com)
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Review Meeting. For more information, contact Adam Fisher (adamfish@sas.upenn.edu).
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House, with 88.5 WXPN and host Michaela Majoun,
presents readers from Philadelphia Stories, featuring Robin Parks, Curtis Smith, Marc Schuster,
Raima Evan and Scott Glassman and musical guest The Baird Sisters. LIVE is made possible by generous support
from BigRoc.
Robin Parks' fiction has appeared in Bellingham Review, Prism International, The Raven Chronicles and other journals, and has won the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. Parks has an MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she was the Presidential Fellow in Creative Writing. Originally from Southern California, she lived for many years on a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest, and now calls Bryn Mawr, PA her home.
Curtis Smith has published two collections of short-short stories, a novel, and has a new novel out next spring. His fiction and essays have appeared in over thirty-five journals. His work has been nominated for a number of Pushcarts.
Marc Schuster teaches English at Montgomery County Community College. He defended his doctoral dissertation at Temple University in May of 2005, and is a founding member of the Elliot Court Writers' Workshop. His fiction has appeared in After Hours, Schuylkill, Redivider and Weird Tales.
Raima Evan grew up in Swarthmore, PA and now lives with her husband, two children, and her cat. She is an assistant dean at Bryn Mawr College. Her one-act play, "Goodnight Firefly Ravine," was produced at Actors Theater of Louisville and published in Dramatics Magazine.
Scott Glassman lives in South Jersey and works in the medical education field. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Iowa Review, Sentence, and others. He also currates the INVERSE Reading Series in Philly.
The Baird Sisters, "Old-time cuties on an Appalachian bender," hail from Philadelphia and the farmlands of New Jersey. They weave their lovely web of vocals and (mostly) acoustic instruments, playing a range of music from traditional Appalachian ballads to sparsely lush originals. More information at www.thebairdsisters.com.
- 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).
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 202: Film screening for the course COML 009.301 "The Persistence of Tragedy".
- 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)
- 7:00-9:00 PM in Room 209: In Words, a journaling group. For more information, please contact Blair Borish (borish@sas.upenn.edu).
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk
KWH just celebrated its 10th anniversary as the heart of Penn's writing community. Renew your acquaintance or get to know this lively and innovative home for writers of all ages and genres as you join members of the Writers House community and its staff for informal conversation and coffee throughout the afternoon.
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| This event is featured in Eric Karlan's NOTES FROM THE GREEN COUCH, a series of summaries and analyses of Writers House events. Click on the image above. |
Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk
The Kelly Writers House community is proud to present its second annual Homecoming Celebration of Alumni Nonfiction Writers! This year features a panel discussion on "The Real Life of a Non-Fiction Writer," with a stellar lineup of Penn alumni writers in journalism and nonfiction, including Financial Editor at NBC Today Jean Chatzky, C'86, Political Correspondent for GQ Magazine Lisa DePaulo, C'82, best-selling author and Vanity Fair Contributing Editor Buzz Bissinger, C'76, and award-winning author and columnist Stephen Fried, C'79. Join us for a candid conversation on how working writers juggle lives, careers, families, editors, and critics -- and stay for a gala reception (with plenty of time for informal chatting) afterwards. Please RSVP to 215-573-9748 or rsvphomecoming@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 require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 10/29
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, 10/30
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, 10/31
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.