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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Friday, 12/1
- 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, 12/2
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, 12/3
- 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, 12/4
- 5:30 PM - in the Arts Cafe: Aaron Dorfman from American Jewish World Service speaks about crisis in Darfur.
This event is hosted by Al Filreis' "Representations of the Holocaust" course and is co-sponsored by Kol Tzedek, West Philadelphia's progressive synagogue.
Aaron Dorfman is the director of Jewish education at AJWS. Before joining AJWS, Aaron completed a three-year Wexner Graduate Fellowship with a master's degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a year of study at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem. Prior to becoming a Wexner Fellow, Aaron spent eight and a half years teaching and leading youth programs at Temple Isaiah, a Reform congregation in Lafayette, California. At Temple Isaiah, Aaron focused on social justice and political advocacy programming, creating a Jewish youth foundation and involving young people in volunteer work and political activism.
Listen to a recording of the event.
- 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, 12/5
- 6:00 PM: A reading and conversation with poet Arthur Sze.
Arthur Sze, an internationally known poet, has taught at the
Institute of American Indian Arts for more than a decade. He is the
author of eight volumes of poetry and his poems have appeared
internationally in such magazines and anthologies as: The American
Poetry Review; Boston Review; Carnet de Route (Paris);
Chicago Review; Conjunctions; Denver Quarterly;
Dim Sum (Hong Kong); Field; The Georgia Review;
Harvard Magazine; The Iowa Review; The Kenyon Review;
and many others. His poems have been translated into Chinese, Italian,
Romanian, and Turkish, and he has won numerous awards from the Lannan
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.Sze was a Visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University (2005), an Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Doenges Visiting Artist at Mary Baldwin College (2004-2005), and has conducted residencies at Brown University, Bard College, and Naropa University. He is currently a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and poet laureate of Santa Fe.
The poems Arthur Sze will read: "Before Sunrise"; "Earthshine" in seven sections; "X and O"; "Didyma" in ten sections. All of the poems are from Quipu, Copper Canyon Press, 2005.
This reading was recorded and is available on PennSound.
- 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, 12/6
- 2:00 - 3:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Jazz Concert by Myra Lotto's English 009.339 class.
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading with Lynn Levin's English 10 Class
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
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Listen to a recording of the event.
- 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, 12/7
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Translating Hebrew Fiction: Haim Sabato & S. Yizhar, an event featuring two translators: Yaacob Dweck (translator of Haim Sabato) and Nicholas de Lange (translator of S. Yizhar), cosponsored by the Jewish Studies Program.
- Born in Egypt to a family of Aleppo Jews, Haim Sabato emigrated to Jerusalem as a child. His most recent Hebrew novel, The Dawning of the Day: A Jerusalem Tale, offers a nostalgic portrait of Levantine Jewish life in Jerusalem in the middle of the twentieth century. It has just been published in English by the Toby Press.
- S. Yizhar (pen-name of Y. Smilansky, 1916-2006) is considered by
many critics the greatest contemporary Hebrew writer. His controversial
epic novel of the 1948 war, Days of Ziklag, completed in 1958, is
a unique literary creation that powerfully questions the rhetoric of
Zionist utopianism. After thirty years of silence as a writer, in 1992
Yizhar suddenly found his voice again with the first of three
autobiographical novels, Preliminaries. In this vivid evocation
of the life of the pioneering Zionist settlers in Palestine, their hopes
and dreams, their disappointments and failures are chronicled through
the eyes of a child. This is the first of his novels to be translated
into English, and will be published shortly by Toby Press.
The event will celebrate the English translations of two Hebrew novels: Haim Sabato's The Dawning of the Day: A Jeruselem Tale and S. Yizhar's Preliminaries. Translators Yaacob Dweck and Nicholas de Lange will read from their respective translations of Sabato and Yizhar, and lead an engaging discussion about translating Hebrew fiction.
A recording of this program in mp3 format is available here.
Yaacob Dweck, the translator, is pursuing a doctorate in history at the University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas de Lange, the translator, is well known for his translations of contemporary Hebrew fiction, including Amos Oz's recent autobiographical novel, A Tale of Love and Darkness. He has a day job as Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Cambridge University.
- 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, 12/8
- Fall term classes end
- 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, 12/9
- 9:00 AM-12:00 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.
Sunday, 12/10
- 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, 12/11
- Reading Day
- 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.)
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, 12/12
- Reading Day
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading with Greg Djanikian's English 113 Poetry Workshop.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: Radium, a fiction group. For more information, contact Erin Gautsche (gautsche@writing.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).
- 7:00 - 9:00 PM in the Dining Room: 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, 12/13
- Final Exams
- 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, 12/14
- Final Exams
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, 12/15
- Final Exams
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Saturday, 12/16
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Sunday, 12/17
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Monday, 12/18
- Final Exams
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Tuesday, 12/19
- Final Exams
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Wednesday, 12/20
- Final Exams
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Thursday, 12/21
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Friday, 12/22
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Saturday, 12/23
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Sunday, 12/24
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Monday, 12/25
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Tuesday, 12/26
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Wednesday, 12/27
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Thursday, 12/28
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Friday, 12/29
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Saturday, 12/30
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Sunday, 12/31
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