October 1996

During the fall of 1996, five events were held in the series called "Theorizing in Particular."

Tuesday, 10/1

8 PM: Cafe 88, Arts Cafe

Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available

Wednesday, 10/2

3 PM: Grad Poetry Hour (for English grads)

9-11 PM: Poetry Discussion Group (part of Planning Committee activities; agenda -- affiliating Xconnect)

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, 10/3

8-10 PM: House Band

9-11 PM: Poetry Preceptorial

Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available

Friday, 10/4

Saturday, 10/5

9-11 PM: Open Mic. Featured Reader: Edward Francis

Edward Francis is the award-winning author of Walt Disney is Frozen and Mickey Mouse is a Millionaire. His work has appeared in numerous journals nationwide, and he placed second in a fifth grade spelling bee.

Sunday, 10/6

Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available

Monday, 10/7

5:30 PM: Reading by visiting writers Juliana Spahr and Chris Stroffolino

Author of eight collections of poetry herself, Juliana Spahr is also the founding editor of Leave Books (Buffalo), co-editor of A Poetics of Criticism (Leave Books, 1993), and co-editor of Chain magazine. She currently teaches at SUNY Albany. Juliana will be speaking on the creation of a journal (specifically CHAIN) at the panel/discussion.

Chris Stroffolino is currently finishing his PhD as SUNY Albany and lives in NYC. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Oops (Pavement Saw Press, 1994), and Cusps (Ariel/Edge, 1995) and has contributed poems, essays, and reviews to many journals such as Talisman, Apex of the M, Sulfur, and APR. Chris will present a paper on the (tentative) topics of Bob Perelman and literary community.

7:00 PM: Dinner with visiting writers Juliana Spahr and Chris Stroffolino (RSVP)

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, 10/8

4:30 PM: Panel/Discussion with Juliana Spahr, Chris Stroffolino, and Gil Ott: "Editing and Community"

For twenty years, Gil Ott has edited and published books of poetry and fiction, as well as the internationally-acclaimed journal Paper Air, under the imprint of Singing Horse Press. he is a widely-published poet, with ten books and numerous essays and other writings to his credit. He is also active as a community arts organizer, based in Philadelphia. Gil will speak on literary community at the panel/discussion.

8 PM: Cafe 88

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, 10/9

9 PM: Planning Committee Meeting

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, 10/10

8-10 PM: House Band

9-11 PM: Poetry Preceptorial

Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available

Friday, 10/11 through Tuesday, 10/15

Writers House is Closed for Fall Break

Tuesday, 10/15

8 PM: Cafe 88, Arts Cafe

Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available

Wednesday, 10/16

9-11 PM: Poetry Discussion Group (part of Planning Committee activities)

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, 10/17

8-10 PM: House Band

9-11 PM: Poetry Preceptorial

Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available

Friday, 10/18

3 PM: Grad Poetry Hour (for English grads)

4 PM: Reading by Xconnect contributors Doug Lawson and David McNair, Arts Cafe

David McNair was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where he received his MFA in Fiction. His work has appeared in numerous peridicals, including the Virginia Quarterly Review(where it was nominated for a Pushcart Prize), the Blue Penny Quarterly (where it received a Readers' Choice Award for Fiction) and in the current issue of /~xconnect in print. He lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Doug Lawson's fiction has appeared in the Mississippi Review-Web, the Sycamore Review, the Willow Review, /~Xconnect, and is forthcoming next month in Glimmer Train Stories. His collection of stories "A Patrimony of Fishes" will appear in 1997 from Red Hen Press (Valentine Group). He received a Transatlantic Review Award in Fiction, a Henry Hoyns Fellowship from the University of Virginia, and currently edits The Blue Moon Review, an online journal formerly known as The Blue Penny Quarterly.

7 PM: Dinner with Lawson and McNair, Dining Room (RSVP)

Xconnect will be serving Sushi:

Salmon
Tuna
Flounder
California Roll

and Miso Soup.

Saturday, 10/19

Noon: Bagels, brunch, and poetry w/ Lawson and McNair, Dining Room

9-11 PM: Open Mic. Featured Reader: Leonard Gontarek

Leonard Gontarek has been a cab driver, movie projectionist, bookstore manager, and teacher in the Vermont Poets-in-the-Schools program. His poems have appeared in The Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Exquisite Corpse, and Hanging Loose. In 1994 he was awarded a poetry fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is the author of St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris, published by Telephone Books. His latest book is Van Morrison Can't Find His Feet, published by My Pretty Jane Press.

Sunday, 10/20

Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available

Monday, 10/21

6:30 PM: Penn and Ink

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, 10/22

8 PM: Cafe 88, Arts Cafe

Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available

Wednesday, 10/23

4:30 PM: Ann Lauterbach Reading (sponsored by UPenn Creative Writing)

6:00 PM: Dinner with Ann Lauterbach (RSVP)

7:00- 8:00 PM: Voyage Out Reading

7:30 PM: Theorizing in Particular: Approaches to Cultural Interpretation

Guest: Dr. Warren Breckman, History, University of Pennsylvania
"Feuerbach, Marx and the Imagination of Philosophy"

9 PM: Planning Committee Meeting

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, 10/24

8-10 PM: House Band

Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available

Friday, 10/25

3 PM: Grad Poetry Hour (for English grads)

Saturday, 10/26

9-11 PM: Poetry Slam V hosted by Jeff Wachs

Sunday, 10/27

Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available

Monday, 10/28

5:30 PM: Reading and Open Discussion with Xconnect contributor Robert Sward, Arts Cafe

Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Sward is the author of 14 books including Four Incarnations -- New & Selected Poems. Chosen by Lucille Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award, he teaches for Cabrillo College and the University of California Extension in Santa Cruz.

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, 10/29

5:30 PM: Panel Discussion: Robert Sward, Dave Deifer, Bruce Schimmel

"ezines and publishing in online literary publications" (see article)

6:30 PM: Dinner with Robert Sward, Dining Room (RSVP)

8 PM: Cafe 88, Arts Cafe

9 PM: Penn Poets Society Meeting

9-11 PM: Writing Discussion Group (part of Planning Committee activities)

Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors available

Wednesday, 10/30

5:30 PM: Dinner with Anita Desai (RSVP)

7:30 PM: Theorizing in Particular: Approaches to Cultural Interpretation

Guest: Dr. Curtis Bowman, Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
"Odysseus and the Siren Call of Reason: The Frankfurt School Critique of Reason"

9 PM: Halloween Bash

Come in Full Costume
FREE FOOD
Bobbing for Apples
Gothic Music

Featuring Readings by Faculty and Students:

9pm: Shawn Walker (Welcome)
9:05 John Richetti ("The Raven")
9:10 Lisa New (presentation by her kids in costume)
9:15 Greg Farrington (campfire stories)
9:25 Joshua Schuster (a piece from Italo Calvino)
9:30 Judith Rodin (from Frankenstein)
9:35 Al Filreis ("The Raven" Part II)
9:40 Quilligan, Bowers, Gamer: 3 witches scene from MacBeth
9:50 Dan Tran (original about giant squirrels)
9:55 Valerie Swain-Cade McCoullum (Lord of the Rings, JRR T)
10:05 Jeff Wachs (from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark)
10:15 Elliott Witney
10:25 Ben Nelson (Egyptian Myth)
10:30 Party!

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