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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Wednesday, 11/1
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a lunch program with Christopher Lawford. Please RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a seat.
Christopher Kennedy Lawford is an actor, writer, and activist in the substance abuse recovery movement who lives in Southern California. His memoir, Symptoms of Withdrawal: A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption (William Morrow, 2005), explores his life as the firstborn child of famed Rat Pack actor Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy, sister to John F. Kennedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford grew up with presidents and movie stars as close relatives and personal friends. Born into enormous privilege as well as burdened by gut-wrenching family tragedy, Christopher Kennedy Lawford now shares his life story, offering a rare glimpse into the private worlds of the rich and famous of both Washington politics and the Hollywood elite.
To hear a recording of this program in mp3 format, click here.
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
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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)
- 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, 11/2
- 12:00 - 1:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: An Hour of Dandyism and Book Launch with Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy. Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a seat.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Audio Archiving and the Discovery of the Lost John Coltrane/Thelonious Monk Quartet Recordings, an event with Larry Applebaum from the Library of Congress and jazz critic Francis Davis, in collaboration with Ars Nova Workshop as part of "The New Thing: Perspectives in Jazz Criticism" series.
South Jersey native Lord Whimsy is the author of the new book The Affected Provincial's Companion (Bloomsbury) and will discuss such arcane subjects as Silk on the Nipple, The Joys of Lepidoptery, The Limped Wrist, Assessing One's Man-Antler and How to Ride a Highwheel. In addition, Lord Whimsy will discourse at length on the topic of Metrosexuals: The New Dandies? If your interest is peaked, you can find out more at lordwhimsy.com.
From a Library of Congress Press Release (April 6, 2005):
At a press conference today in Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress announced that historically significant concert tapes,
featuring the legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and iconic saxophonist John Coltrane, had been uncovered in the
Library's recorded sound collection during preparation for preservation. The 1957 tapes were recorded at Carnegie Hall by the
Voice of America (VOA) for broadcast overseas but have never been heard in the United States. The VOA concert tapes also include
performances that same evening by the late Ray Charles, tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, and the
Zoot Sims Quartet with Chet Baker. (Full Press Release)
Larry Appelbaum is the Senior Studio Engineer and jazz specialist at the Library of Congress where he works on preserving the library's audio and video collections. His writing has appeared in JazzTimes, Swing Journal, Jazznin, and Jazzeit as well as the book Jazz: The First Century (William Morrow, 2000). He also curates a jazz film series, produces concerts of creative improvised music, and hosts a radio program on WPFW-FM in Washington DC.
Raised in Philadelphia, Francis Davis is a jazz critic and writer whose works include Jazz and Its Discontents: A Francis Davis Reader (2004), The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People, (2003) and Bebop and Nothingness: Jazz and Bebop at the End of the Century (1998). He is also a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and a regular writer on music for the New York Times.
A recording of this event can now be found 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, 11/3
- 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, 11/4
- 1:00-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe and the Dining Room: Penn Alexander School Write On! End-of-Year Celebration.
Join us as we celebrate the end of another year of Write On! with the Penn Alexander School -- all are welcome!
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, 11/5
- 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, 11/6
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A lunch program with novelist Jennifer Weiner, introduced by Dick Polman.
Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Jennifer Weiner's first novel, Good In Bed, was hailed as "a crackling debut." Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Cannie emerges as one of the most engaging, realistic female characters in years." Now five years later, Weiner has over six million copies of her novels in 33 countries. She has written the critically-acclaimed In Her Shoes, Little Earthquakes, and Goodnight Nobody, which reached #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. The film of In Her Shoes -- starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, and Shirley MacLaine -- was named one of EW's Top Ten Films of 2005. Her latest is The Guy Not Taken, a collection of eleven magical, heartbreaking, and hilarious tales about a lifetime's worth of winning and losing at love.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Reading with Alice Notley, cosponsored by the Creative Writing Department.
Alice Notley, American poet based in Paris, is the author of around thirty books including the epic poem The Descent of Alette, and Mysteries of Small Houses, Pulitzer-prize finalist and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her book-length poem, Disobedience, won the Griffin International Prize. Notley recently edited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, with co-editors Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan. She is also the author of Coming After: Essays on Poets and Poetry. Her newly published works are Grave of Light: Selected Poems 1970-2005 (Wesleyan) and Alma, or the Dead Women (Granary Books).
The live webcast of this event was recorded and is now available. You can see the video and listen to the audio clips here .
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Dick Polman
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting. For more information contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.net).
- 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club meeting. For more information contact John Shea (John.Shea@uphs.upenn.edu).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 11/7
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents a lecture with Anna McCarthy, "Cyranoid Modalities in Screen Preformance".
Anna McCarthy is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Cinema Studies at NYU, and Co-Editor of the journal Social Text. She is author of Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space (Duke University Press, 2001) and coeditor of the anthology Media/Space: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age (Routledge, 2004). Her work in film and television history and theory includes articles in October, Journal of Visual Culture, GLQ, Montage/AV and the International Journal of Cultural Studies. Her current research traces fantasies of governing by television in the postwar U.S.
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 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes poetry group meeting. For more information contact Pat Green (patricia78@aol.com).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 11/8
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Book release party for Girly Man by Charles Bernstein, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics.
Charles Bernstein teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Pennsylvania, with an
emphasis on modernist and contemporary art, aesthetics, and performace. He has published three collections of essays - My
Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago, 1999), A Poetics (Harvard, 1992), and Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984
(Sun & Moon, 1985; rpt Northwestern, 2001). He is the author of over twenty collections of poetry including With
Strings (Chicago, 2001), Republics of Reality: 1975 - 1995 (Sun & Moon, 2000), Dark City (Sun & Moon,
1994), The Sophist (Sun & Moon, 1987); rpt Salt Publishing, 2004), Islets/Irritations (Jordan Davies, 1983;
rpt Roof Books, 1992), and Controlling Interests (Roof, 1980). His libretto Shadowtime, for composer Brian
Ferneyhough, was published in 2005 by Green Integer and was performed as part of the 2005 Lincoln Center Festival. Bernstein
is the editor of several collections: Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (Oxford, 1999), 99
Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium (Duke, 1998), The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public
Policy (Roof, 1990), and the poetics magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, whose first issue was published in 1978. He is the
editor of the Electronic Poetry Center and co-director (with Al Filreis) of PennSound.
Download a recording of this event 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)
- 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, 11/9
- 4:30-5:30 PM in the Dining Room: A reception for Bill Crandall, hosted by Anthony DeCurtis.
Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Bill Crandall is the editor-in-chief of AOL Music and has also been an editor for RollingStone.com.
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5th annual "WRITERS HOUSE NEW YORK" at the Meisel Gallery in SoHo (141 Prince Street). For the 5th consecutive year, Louis and Susan Meisel generously sponsor this benefit - for our Young and Emerging Writers Fund.
- 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, 11/10
- 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, 11/11
- 4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Laughing Hermit presents a reading by Lia Purpura.
Lia Purpura was awarded a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose. Her collection of essays, Increase, won the Associated Writing Programs Award in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2000. Her collection of poems, Stone Sky Lifting, won the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award and was published in 2000 as well. She is also the author of The Brighter the Veil (winner of the Towson University Prize in Literature), and Poems of Grzegorz Musial: Berliner Tagebuch and Taste of Ash, translated on a Fulbright year in Poland. A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching/Writing Fellow in Poetry, she has published poems and essays in many magazines, including Agni Review, Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and Ploughshares. Lia Purpura is Writer-in-Residence at Loyola College in Baltimore, MD, and teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA Program in Tacoma, WA. Her essay "Autopsy Report" was a“Notable Essay in Best American Essays: 2004, and "Glaciology" was awarded a 2005 Pushcart Prize.
Listen to a recording of the event.
- 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, 11/12
- 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, 11/13
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House, with 88.5 WXPN and host Michaela Majoun,
presents readers from Plan B Press, and musical guest Joshua Heard Park.
LIVE is made possible by generous support from BigRoc.
Recordings of this episode in mp3 format are available here.
Daniel Collins is a poet, musician and documentary filmmaker currently living in Media, Pennsylvania. His poetry stems from his close connection with the wilderness, drawn from his childhood experiences in rural Maine, and is informed by his travels underground and overground through the blurred alleys, mountain passes, highways and byways of this strange world. He spent many years in Ithaca, New York, where he was a co-founder and member of the grassroots poetry collective, Compassionately Stoneground Books. He has published his work in poetry anthologies by Compassionately Stoneground Books and Plan B Press, along with academic essays and articles. He has performed poetry and music at venues all over the East Coast. When not working on films, he's gigging in Philadelphia. When not gigging, he's writing. When not writing, he's chasing the everpresent muse.
Jim Mancinelli is a Philadelphia poet, schooled in the alley-ways of the Italian ghetto, hearing folk tales, looking at people upside-down, and freed by a beat with a beat. Jim has published in Sea Change, the Schuylkill Valley Journal for the Arts, in NOW! (then), a poetry anthology comprised of poets who have read for the Eternal NOW! poetry series at Robin's Bookstore, in multiple issues of Philadelphia Poets, and in Poetry Ink, an anthology of Philadelphia poets published in 2006 by Plan B Press. He has been a featured reader for Poets + Prophets, Giovanni's Room, Voices and Visions, and at Robin's Bookstore for the Eternal Now! Poetry Series in Philadelphia. Jim represented Robin's Bookstore's Eternal Now! Poetry Series at the second Annual Philadelphia Poetry Festival at the Central Library. He has read in Wilmington at the Buzz Cafi and was invited to read at the Italian-American Festival on June 6, 2004 in Philadelphia. In March of 2006, Jim was a featured reader in the Monday Night Series at the Central Library. In 2005 and in 2006, Jim was part of the 215 Literary Festival. His first chapbook, Primer, is self-published. A new collection of poems, In Deep, published by Plan B Press appeared in August, 2004. Two poetic political broadsides, A Bundle of Sticks, and A Proud Son Writes Home, are self-published indictments of the Bush administration's policies and the oppression of the GLBT community. Jim has also been a judge for two consecutive years in the Plan B Press poetry chapbook contest and the short fiction contest.
Ryan Eckes is a poet, born and raised in Philadelphia. He currently studies and teaches at Temple University. His work is forthcoming in Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry and Pocket Myths #4: The Odyssey. Two chapbooks will be published in 2007, one by Plan B Press, tentatively titled when we come to it, and one by Mooncalf Press.
Sandy Crimmins has been published in a variety of print and electronic journals, including American Writing and Philadelphia Stories, and in the anthologies The Eternal Now, Meridian Bound and Pagan's Muse. Her work has been read as part of the WritingAloud series in Philadelphia and in venues from Boston to Washington, DC. One show, Iowa Summer, created in collaboration with musicians Richard Drueding and Stephe Ferraro, was released on CD. Her most recent show, El Cid in Flamenco and Flames, brought together musician David Falcone, choreographer and fireeater Tomas Dura and a troupe of flamenco dancers for a new look at the poem "The Lay of the Cid."
Samantha Barrow is a Philadelphia based poet, activist, educator, spoken word artist and producer. She first gained recognition locally and nationally when she embarked on a three-month, cross-country spoken word tour on her motorcycle. She was awarded a grant to fund that trip from the Leeway Foundation. Last summer, Barrow toured the U.S. on her bike again to celebrate "Grit and Tender Membrane," the full-length manuscript of poetry and tales from her first tour, published by Plan B Press. She was awarded another Leeway grant to fund this tour and to facilitate erotic poetry workshops with survivors of sexual abuse along the way.
Joshua Heard Park has become an exciting new addition to the Philly local music scene. His debut EP entitled, "City Living", was recently released to a sold out audience at the World Cafe Live in Philadelphia. This lyrically driven singer/songwriter counts John Prine, Dan Bern, and Rufus Wainwright among his strongest influences, and consistently delivers poignant songs derived from his own life experience and the ever evolving world that surrounds him. With a raw passion that is evident with every note, Joshua brings an energy to the stage that truly has a significant impact on the listeners. More information at www.joshuaheardpark.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).
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, 11/14
- 4:30 - 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Journalism Bootcamp, co-sponsored by the Daily Pennsylvanian.
- 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 202: Radium, a fiction group. For more information, contact Erin Gautsche (gautsche@writing.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, 11/15
- 6:00 - 8:00 PM: Art Gallery reception for "The Figurative," with artists Betty Schaefer and Shirley
Steele.
"The Figurative" exhibition will be on display from November 13, 2006 until December 22, 2006. 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)
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, 11/16
- 12:00 PM: Subduing Demons in America: John Giorno, Buddhism and the Avant-Garde with Marcus Boon, a lunch introduced by Kenny Goldsmith. Please RSVP to attend: wh@writing.upenn.edu.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe:
EMERGENCY reading series presents a reading and
discussion with Noah Eli Gordon, Jason Zuzga and Kate
Greenstreet.
A recording of the entire program is available here: MP3.
Noah Eli Gordon will have two books appear in 2007: Novel Pictorial Noise (selected by John Ashbery for the 2006 National Poetry Series) and A Fiddle Pulled From the Throat of a Sparrow (New Issues, winner of the Green Rose Prize). He is the author of the book-length poem The Frequencies (Tougher Disguises, 2003), a collection of three long poems The Area of Sound Called the Subtone (Ahsahta Press, 2004, selected by Claudia Rankine for the Sawtooth Prize), an e-book notes toward the spectacle (Duration Press) and chapbooks from Margin to Margin, Anchorite Press, and Anon Books. Ugly Duckling Presse recently published That We Come To A Consensus, a chapbook written in collaboration with Sara Veglahn. His reviews have appeared in dozens of journals, including Boston Review, The Poker, 26, Jacket, and The St. Marks Poetry Project Newsletter. He writes a new chapbook review column for Rain Taxi, teaches creative writing at the University of Colorado at Denver, and has an essay slated to appear in Burning Interiors: On the Poetry of David Shapiro (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, forthcoming). These are the poems Noah performed at this reading: "Scorched Anecdote"; "Flag"; "Four Allusive Fields" from A Fiddle Pulled From the Throat of Sparrow (forthcoming March 2007, New Issues); an excerpt from Novel Pictorial Noise (forthcoming September 2007, HarperCollins); "A New Hymn to the Old Night" from A Fiddle Pulled From the Throat of Sparrow. A recording of Noah Eli Gordon reading his poems can be found here: MP3.
Jason Zuzga is currently a PhD student in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the nonfiction editor of FENCE magazine, and his poetry and nonfiction have appeared in such journals as The Yale Review, jubilat, Tin House, Seneca Review and VOLT. He was the 2005-2006 James Merrill Poet-in-Residence in Stonington, CT and a 2001-2002 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellow. He received his MFA in poetry and nonfiction from the Univerity of Arizona. A recording of Jason Zuzga reading his poems can be found here: MP3.
Kate Greenstreet's first book, case sensitive, is just out from Ahsahta Press. Her chapbook, Learning the Language was published by Etherdome Press last fall. Born in Chicago, Kate has lived mostly on the east and west coasts of the U.S., currently back on the Atlantic side, in New Jersey. She received a Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts in 2003. Her poems have appeared in Bird Dog, Conduit, can we have our ball back?, GutCult, Diagram, Octopus, POOL, The Massachusetts Review, No Tell Motel, Fascicle, Barrow Street, Kulture Vulture, and other journals. She has new work forthcoming in Saint Elizabeth Street, Track and Field, Cannibal, and Vanitas. These are the poems Kate Greenstreet read at this reading: 1. Bridge; 2. Complications from a fall; 3. "the inner landscape"; 4. accessory; 5. Diplomacy; 6. I want you to see me; 7. safe home; 8. If water covers the road; 9. "on the way to the ice". A recording of Kate Greenstreet reading her poems is here: MP3.
John Giorno has been a key figure in American poetry for the last forty years, and a long term practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. Associated with the Beats and celebrated for his production of the Dial-A-Poem recordings and his high energy performances, Giorno's own poetic work, with its startling montages of Buddhist and transgressive sexual imagery has been largely neglected. This event will explore the ways in which Giorno's highly original use of montage, sound poetry and narrative voice confound categories of avant-garde and lyrical poetry, and will discuss the possibilities of a Buddhist poetics emerging from Giorno's work.
Marcus Boon is an Associate Professor of English at York University, Toronto. He is the author of The Road to Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Harvard, 2003) and wrote the introduction to Walter Benjamin's On Hashish (Harvard, 2006). He is currently working on a book on Asian religions and twentieth century writing, and editing John Giorno's Selected Poems.
Listen to a recording of the event.
- 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutoring with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 261.301 The Holocaust with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 Creative Non-Fiction Writing with Max Apple (maxapple1@comcast.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 117.301 The Arts and Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 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, 11/17
- 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, 11/18
- 1:00-:300 PM in the Arts Cafe and Dining Room: Lea School Write On! End-of-Year celebration.
Join us as we celebrate the end of another year of Write On! with the Lea Elementary School -- all are welcome!
- 2:00-4:00 PM in Room 209: Reading Between the Lines, a women's book group. For more information, please contact Jamie Alter (jlalter@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.
Sunday, 11/19
- 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, 11/20
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: a lunch program with Fred Mann, presented by Dick Polman. Please RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a seat.
Fred Mann is General Manager of Philly.com, the web home of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. In that role, he oversees all editorial and business operations of the site -- the largest locally-based news and information site in the region. A long-time print journalist, Fred has been involved in the online world since 1994 when he left an assistant managing editor's job at the Inquirer to start Philly.com. During nearly a dozen years in the Inquirer newsroom, Fred oversaw both daily and Sunday Features content (Daily Magazine, Entertainment, Travel, Food, Weekend, etc.) and served as Editor of the prize-winning Inquirer Magazine for five years. Prior to his 20-year tenure with Knight Ridder and the Inquirer, Fred was National Editor of the Hartford Courant. He also created a syndicated west coast news service which provided coverage to a dozen major papers including the Boston Globe, Newsday, the Miami Herald and the Detroit Free Press. He has reported for Time magazine and other national journals. And he survived three years as a press secretary in the United States Senate.
- 6:00 PM in the Dining Room: Hub Thanksgiving! To read about what really went down that evening,
click here (pictures included!).
- 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, 11/21
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents a talk with Daniel Heller-Roazen, The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation.
Daniel Heller-Roazen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His areas of interest include Greek and Roman letters; the transmission of classical learning to the Arabic world and to the Latin West; the vernacular literatures of the European Middle Ages; medieval Arabic, Hebrew and Latin philosophy; and twentieth-century philosophy. Heller-Roazen is the author of Fortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language (Zone Books, 2005), The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation (Zone Books, Forthcoming) and editor or translator of many books by Giorgio Agamben. He is currently preparing the Norton Critical Edition of The Arabian Nights.
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 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes poetry group meeting. For more information contact Pat Green (patricia78@aol.com).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 11/22
- Thanksgiving Break Begins at close of classes
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 156.301 Writing from Photographs with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 Creative Writing with Lynn Levin (iamblel@aol.com)
- 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, 11/23
- Happy Thanksgiving!
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, 11/24
- Thanksgiving 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, 11/25
- Thanksgiving 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, 11/26
- Thanksgiving 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, 11/27
- 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Meeting and Gathering. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Room 202: PSCI 009-301 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: PSCI 009-302 with Keally McBride (keally@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 130 with Alec Sokolow
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 158.301 Advanced Journalistic Writing with Dick Polman
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 112.301 Fiction Writing Workshop with Karen Rile (krile@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets meeting. For more information contact Cindy Savett (savettc@comcast.net).
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 11/28
- 11:30 AM in the Arts Cafe: A lunch program with Michael Sokolove, introduced by Avery Rome and cosponsored by the
Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. Please RSVP to
wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Michael Sokolove is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, as well as the author of the acclaimed Hustle: The Myth, Life, and Lies of Pete Rose. He has appeared on numerous national television and radio news shows, including ABC's Good Morning America and Prime Time Thursday, ESPN's Outside the Lines, and CNN's Paula Zahn Now. He has been a guest on the National Public Radio shows Fresh Air, The Tavis Smiley Show, and Only a Game.
At the New York Times Magazine, and previously with the Sunday magazine of the Philadelphia Inquirer, he has written on a wide range of topics - from life in inner-city America, to eco-terrorism, to presidential politics, to the question of whether would-be assassin John Hinckley should go free. Sokolove's specialty has been the sociology and culture of sports, and he has done some of the most important and provocative writing about sports today.
Sokolove's latest work, The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw, displays the same kind of distinctive writing about sports -- combining on-the-ground reporting and evocative story-telling with fresh thinking and new insights. By looking at one team, the 1979 Crenshaw High Cougars, the greatest assemblage of talent in the history of high school basketball, Sokolove explores the myth that sports is the ticket out of the city.
Sokolove lives in Bethesda, Md., with his wife, Ann Gerhart, a writer for the Washington Post, and their three children, Sara, Sofia, and Bill.
- CANCELLED: Poets and Painters event. For more information contact Peter Schwarz at hschwarz@sas.upenn.edu.
- 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 202: The Play's the Thing. For more information, contact Christine Otis (plays.2006@hotmail.com).
- 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, 11/29
- 6:00 PM: A reading with Richard Burgin, fiction writer and editor of Boulevard, co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Richard Burgin is a fiction writer, editor, and critic who teaches creative writing, literature, and journalism courses at Saint Louis University. He is the author of nine books including the story collections Fear of Blue Skies, The Spirit Returns, Private Fame, Man Without Memory (each of which was listed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as one of the Notable Books of the Year), and the novel Ghost Quartet. He has won four Pushcart Prizes for his stories and is the founder and editor of the internationally distributed literary journal Boulevard, which has won numerous national grants, awards, and honors in its 18 years of existence.
You can here the recording of this program 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, 11/30
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: an evening with writers from the Philadelphia Weekly, hosted
by Anthony DeCurtis.
Cassidy Hartmann graduated from Penn in 2005 and has been working at the Philadelphia Weekly for a year and a half. She began as a staff writer, but is now also PW's film editor. For her weekly column "Out of Towner," she interviews real and quasi-celebrities of her choosing.
Daniel McQuade is a 2004 Penn graduate. While majoring in English, Daniel spent nearly 50 hours a week at the offices of the Daily Pennsylvanian, eventually serving as the paper's Sports Editor and later the managing editor of 34th Street Magazine. Daniel, now a staff writer at Philadelphia Weekly, writes the award-winning blog "Philadelphia Will Do" for the paper. He is also a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.
Liz Spikol, a Philadelphia native, is the senior editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the column "The Trouble With Spikol" as well as the (cleverly named) blog "The Trouble With Spikol," which focuses on mental healthcare issues. As a writer she contributes to the news, music and arts sections on a regular basis. As an editor, she corrects her mistakes.
Steve Volk is perhaps the one person left at the Philadelphia Weekly who did not graduate from the University of Pennsylvania (though he is planning to pick up a UPenn sweatshirt when he gets around to it). He writes mostly about drugs, crime and the courts, but he sometimes veers into the ether, including a recent cover story about a local demon hunter. He has also been published in Rolling Stone, Men's Journal and Vibe magazines.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 10:30 AM-12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.305 Peer Tutoring with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 261.301 The Holocaust with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135.301 Creative Non-Fiction Writing with Max Apple (maxapple1@comcast.net)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 117.301 The Arts and Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.