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November 1996

Friday, 11/1

3 PM: Grad Poetry Hour (for English Grads)

Saturday, 11/2

Homecoming Reception

9-11 PM: Open Mic. Featured Readers: Daniel Hales

Daniel Hales is completing his MFA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the guidance of James Tate, where he teaches literature and writing. His poetry has been awarded the prestigious Small Poems Under Glass Award, known widely as the Pulitzer of the greater Amherst metropolitan region.

Sunday, 11/3

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

Monday, 11/4

3:30 PM: Reading and visit by Diane Williams and Christine Schutt

Diane Williams is the author of The Stupefaction (Knopf 1996), a collection of stories and a novella, This Is About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate and Some Sexual Success Stories Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear. She is coeditor of Story-Quarterly, lives in New York City, and is a Penn alumna. She will be visiting the Writers House with her collegue Christine Schutt on November 4th for a 3:30 PM reading. Afterwards we will discuss possibilities of affiliating a new journal she is working on with the Writers House.

Christine Schutt is the author of Nightwork (Knopf 1996), a collection of stories. She was born and raised in Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison and received an M.F.A. from Columbia University. She lives and teaches in New York City.

post-reading discussion (bring your own dinner): affiliating with their journal

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)

Tuesday, 11/5

Vegetarian Dinner (RSVP)

8 PM: Reading by the contributors to Voyage Out

8 PM: Cafe 88, Front Seminar Room

9 PM: Penn Poets Society Meeting

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

Wednesday, 11/6

7-8 PM: Voyage Out Meeting

9 PM: Planning Committee Meeting, Arts Cafe

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

Thursday, 11/7

1-3 PM: Afternoon of FREE live jazz, coffee, pastries

8-10 PM: House Band

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

Friday, 11/8

3 PM: Grad Poetry Hour (for English Grads)

Saturday, 11/9

9-11 PM: Show and Tell

Sunday 11/10

8:30 PM: Cafe 88 (pizza)

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

Monday, 11/11

7 PM: Mosaic Meeting

9-10 PM: Writers Circle

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

Tuesday, 11/12

8 PM: Cafe 88, Arts Cafe

9:30 PM: UAB Meeting in Upstairs Seminar Room

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

Wednesday, 11/13

4:30 PM: Reading by Jennifer Shute (hosted by Lorene Cary)

Jennifer Shute Jennifer Shute is coming through Philly on tour with her new book, a second novel called Sex Crimes. Shute is a professor at Hunter College. Her first novel, Life Size dealt with anorexia. This one is also about obsession, sexual obsession, as you could guess from the title.

5:30 PM: Xconnect meeting in Upstairs Seminar Room

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

Guest: Dr. Jean-Michel Rabate (Upenn English Dept.)
"Joyce's Lice of Life"

9 PM: Discussion Group

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

Thursday, 11/14

5 PM: Reading by Haim Gouri

Haim Gouri Haim Gouri is one of Israel's most distinguished poets; he is in America for the publication by Wayne Staste Press of a large volume of his poems in translations. He is 74, born in Israel in 1923, was active in rescusing Jews from DP camps and fought in nearly all Israel's early wars, and now is considered with Yehuda Amihai as one of Israel's leading poets. His poetry often reflects the volatile mood of the country. He is also a great raconteur.

6:30 PM: No Exit Opening (sponsored by the Artist Guild)

7-8 PM: No Exit Poetry Reading

8-10 PM: House Band

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

Friday, 11/15

3 PM: Grad Poetry Hour (for English Grads)

No Exit reading and performance

Saturday, 11/16

9-11 PM: Open Mic. Featured Reader: Aaron Yeats Perry

Aaren Yeatts Perry is the recipient of a 1990 Writing Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has worked for ten years as a Philadelphia-based poet, writer, and cultural activist. He teaches poetry in elementary and middle schools in the region. His work draws from his childhood in the Midwest and his travels in Latin America/Caribbean, Southern Asia, Europe, and the U.S. He is Technical Director of mainstage productions at the Painted Bride Art Center. He has published recently in The Blue Guitar, The Painted Word, Painted Bride Quarterly, Long Shot Review, and other magazines. His book, Poetry Across the Curriculum, will be published by Allyn and Bacon in 1997.

Sunday, 11/17

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

Monday, 11/18

6:30 PM: Penn and Ink

7 PM: Mosaic Meeting

9-10 PM: Writers Circle

8 PM: English 401 meeting, upstairs Reading Room

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

Tuesday, 11/19

4-6 PM: Grad Student Poetry Reading

7-8:30 PM: Ma'ayan Poetry Reading with Kathryn Hellerstein (Judaic Studies). Discussion to follow

8 PM: Cafe 88, Arts Cafe

9 PM: Penn Poets Society Meeting in Upstairs Rear Reading Room

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

Wednesday, 11/20

2:00-3:30 PM: Writing Workshop with Penn alumna Diane McKinney-Whetstone

A Native Philadelphian, Diane McKinney-Whetstone is a recent recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, a Discipline Winner in the Pew Fellowship on the Arts, and a regular participant in the Rittenhouse Writers Group Workshops. Ms. McKinney-Whetstone has written non-fiction in a multitude of formats for the past twenty years; however, Tumbling is her first novel.

Diane McKinney-Whetstone is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (CW '75) and is a public affairs officer for the USDA Forest Service. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband Gregory and twins Taiwo and Kehinde. She will be giving a workshop (bring fiction to be reviewed) at the Writers House at 2 pm on November 20th, and will be reading that evening at 4 pm at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 133 South 36th Street, as part of the SAS Alumni Lecture Series.

4:30 PM: Kristin Hunter-Lattany reading

Kristin Hunter-Lattany received the Moonstone Black Writing Celebration Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. She is the author of eight published novels, four each for children and for adults. All of her novels have been widely translated and well received. God Bless the Child (1964) won the Philadelphia Athenaeum Literary Award; The Landlord (1966) was made into a film in 1970; and her popular novel for teens, The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou (1968), received the Council on Interracial Books for Children Award, the National Conference of Christians and Jews Award, and many other awards. Kristin has been a writer for the Pittsburgh Courier, an advertising copywriter, an information officer for the City of Philadelphia, and, until retirement in 1995, an instructor in English at the University of Pennsylvania.

A Delaware Valley native, she lives with her husband, John Lattany, in southern New Jersey. her new novel for adults, Kinfolks, is forthcoming in October from One World/Ballantine Books. Kristin is reading at the Writers House at 4:30 pm on Wednesday, November 20th.

7-8 PM: Voyage Out Reading

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

Dr. Peter Stallybrass, English, University of Pennsylvania
"Marx's Coat"

9 PM: Planning Committee Meeting, Arts Cafe (open to public)

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

Thursday, 11/21

7-10 PM: Writing Advisors in Rear Reading Room

8-10 PM: House Band

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

Friday, 11/22

3 PM: Grad Poetry Hour (for English Grads)

Saturday, 11/23

9-11 PM: Show and Tell

Sunday, 11/24

9 PM: Performance of Sartre's "No Exit" and Artist's Guild exhibition "Hell is Other People"

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

Monday, 11/25

5:30 PM: Reading by John Prendergast and Carole Bernstein

John Prendergast and Carole Bernstein John Prendergast is a Philadelphia native, University of Pennsylvania and John Hopkins alumnus. He currently edits the Pennsylvania Gazette. His first novel, Jump (Mid-List Press, 1995), won the Mid-List Press 1994 First Novel Series Award.

Carole Bernstein's first full-length poetry collection, Familiar, will be published in 1997 by Hanging Loose Press. She is also the author of And Stepped Away from the Circle, winner the the 1994 Sow's Ear Chapbook Competition. Her poems have appeared in many magazines including Antioch Review, Chelsea, The Ledge, Poetry, Shenandoah, and Yale Review, and in the anthologies Unsettling America (Viking, 1994), and The Philomathean Society Anthology of Poetry in Honor of Daniel Hoffman (Philomathean Society, 1996). She received an Honorable Mention in the 1993 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. Ms Bernstein received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Graduate Writing Seminars in 1988. She works as a freelance copywriter and marketing consultant.

7 PM: Punchbowl meeting in upstairs Seminar Room.

7 PM: Mosaic Meeting

9-10 PM: Writers Circle

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

Tuesday, 11/26

8 PM: Cafe 88, Arts Cafe

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

Wednesday, 11/27 through Sunday, 12/1

Writers House Closed for Thanksgiving