Marathon Reading: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (4/15/21)

Plants And Poetics: A Panel Discussion (//)

City Planning Poetics 10: Urban Futures (3/15/21)

Recycling Your Words: A Zine Workshop (2/18/21)

Eric Bazilian: "My Life As A Song" (11/5/20)

Mess+Process: Jessica Vaughn (10/29/20)

City Planning Poetics 9: Feeling The City (10/20/20)

An Introduction To Zines (10/1/20)

Poems From A Sinking City: A Conversation With Indonesian Poet Ahmad Khairudin (Adin) (9/24/20)

Waist Beads Workshop: Self-Love Through The Diaspora (2/4/20)

Daedalus Quartet: Migration Through Music (11/15/19)

City Planning Poetics 8: Urban Ruins (10/7/19)

City Planning Poetics 7: Carceral Justice (3/21/19)

Writing About TV: Magic (11/12/18)

Desegregation Remix: 3 Women Sing The Borders (11/8/18)

City Planning Poetics 6: Urban Revitalization (10/23/18)

Edible Books Contest (10/15/18)

A Conversation With Travel Writer Rolf Potts (4/3/18)

City Planning Poetics 5: The Queer Ordinary (2/22/18)

City Planning Poetics 4: Urban Memory (11/13/17)

Artist Erica Baum In Conversation With Al Filreis (11/8/17)

The Life And Music Of Lou Reed (10/19/17)

Edible Books Contest (9/26/17)

City Planning Poetics 3: Queer Placemaking (4/20/17)

Marathon Reading: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (3/30/17)

Valentines Day Chili Cook-Off + Chopped (2/14/17)

Penn Plays Fellowship Reading (1/20/17)

Writing About TV: Home (10/26/16)

Edible Books Party (9/16/16)

A Conversation With Sharon Hayes And Brooke O'Harra (9/7/16)

City Planning Poetics 2 (9/6/16)

Marathon Reading: If On A Winter's Night A Traveler (3/31/16)

Writing About TV: Real (3/16/16)

Sonic Poetry (2/18/16)

Sensible Nonsense (2/17/16)

Boundaries, Therapy, And The Writing Cure: The Case Of Anne Sexton (2/11/16)

Entrepreneurial Journalism Pitch Night (12/8/15)

Mapping With Light (9/3/15)

Marathon Reading: 100 Years of Solitude (4/23/15)

Symbiosis Gallery Opening (4/15/15)

Daedalus Quartet Performance (3/25/15)

Leonard Cohen Song Symposium (3/19/15)

7-Up on Rush (2/12/15)

Sensible Nonsense (2/5/15)

Jake Marmer's Hermeneutic Stomp (1/20/15)

Entrepreneurial Journalism Pitch Night (12/9/14)

Writing About Art (11/18/14)

Writing About TV: Girls (11/13/14)

Postcolonial Digital Humanities (10/27/14)

The Foreign Fork (10/20/14)

Edible Books Party (10/16/14)

Prometheus Unbound (4/9/14)

Symbiosis (4/9/14)

Jesse Malin (4/3/14)

Sensible Nonsense: Memoir/Kids Lit (2/25/14)

Robert Greenhut (3/4/14)

Writing About TV: The Family (2/25/14)

Marathon: Jazz (2/20/14)

Entrepreneurial Journalism (12/10/13)

Writing About Art: Glenn Ligon (12/5/13)

Kanye West Fest (11/11/13)

Cost of Coal (11/16/13)

Writing About TV (11/6/13)

Lit and Psych Together (10/29/13)

Joni Fest (10/24/13)

Blonde on Blonde (10/22/13)

Reinventing the Classroom (10/16/13)

Inga Saffron (10/16/13)

Jaap Blonk (10/14/13)

Edible Books (10/7/13)

Meredith Stiehm (10/1/13)

Michael Rauch (9/23/13)

Twit Crit Blog (4/11/13)

Timebank (3/14/13)

Round Up Holler Girl (2/20/13)

Sensible Nonsense (2/6/13)

Ken Lum (1/30/13)

Edible Books (1/29/13)

Penn Appétit 5th Anniversary (12/6/12)

Changing the Way We Drink (11/7/12)

Andrew Whiteman and Ariel Engle (10/24/12)

Writing About Art: Marcel Duchamp (10/9/12)

Charlie Morrow (10/8/12)

Dan Fishback and Ezra Berkley Nepon (9/11/12)

Material Construction (12/7/11)

Rolf Potts (11/15/11)

Kristina Ford (11/10/11)

Creative Economy (11/5/11)

Judy's Turn (11/2/11)

Flash Fiction Flash Mob (10/27/11)

Re:Activism in Philadelphia (10/15/11)

Edible Books (10/5/11)

September 17, 2024: Small Ball (the musical)

Join us for a discussion of the musical Small Ball. With book and lyrics by Mickle Maher, and music by the avant-rock duo Anthony Barilla and Merel van Dijk, Small Ball was birthed from the question: "What about a basketball musical?" Taking place in a world six months from today where every myth, every fairytale, and every work of fantasy fiction has been discovered to be real, Small Ball is the story of Michael Jordan (not the Michael Jordan), a down-on-his-luck journeyman basketball player who finds himself playing point guard for a newly formed basketball team of six inch tall players on the isle of Lilliput from Gulliver’s Travels. Is there mystery yet in this world of Great Disenchantment? The wildly comic and strange trip of love, loss, colonialist politics around very tiny people, and poor sportsmanship that is Small Ball, says Yes.

April 18, 2024: ANNUAL KWH MARATHON READING: GIOVANNI'S ROOM

oin us for a live marathon reading of Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel about love — and the fear of love — set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris. We’ll have food from the book, a special commemorative t-shirt for sale (free for all readers!), and extra copies of the novel so you can read along.

April 11, 2024: SINGER-SONGWRITER ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO

Alejandro Escovedo, a celebrated singer and songwriter, has as eclectic a background and body of work as any rock artist of his generation. As comfortable performing with a string ensemble as he is with an amped-up power trio, and as likely to bare his soul in his lyrics as he is to display some serious rock & roll swagger, Escovedo had already played an important role in punk (with the Nuns), roots rock (the True Believers), and alt-country (Rank & File) before he launched a solo career that's seen him work with everyone from Tony Visconti, John Cale to Bruce Springsteen. Beginning with 1992's Gravity, Escovedo's music has been consistently literate, ambitious, and eclectic, with 2001's A Man Under the Influence exploring different genres and approaches from track to track, while 2008's Real Animal and 2016's Burn Something Beautiful focused on passionate, guitar-based rock & roll. 2018's The Crossing (and its 2021 Spanish-language counterpart La Cruzada) told a richly detailed story of the immigrant experience. His latest, Echo Dancing, is a career-spanning collection that completely reinvents and re-records his previous work and traces a one-of-a-kind musical life from ‘70s New York punk to Austin's "musical conscience and hometown hero" (NPR Alt Latino) to unflinching advocate for musicians’ mental health and immigrant causes.

March 20, 2024: LOVE & ROCKETS: A CONVERSATION WITH JAMIE HERNANDEZ

Jaime Hernandez, co-author of the legendary comic book series Love & Rockets, will be joining Natalia Ramos Bellido for a conversation on the craft of comics and the series' legacy on the medium.

Jamie Hernandez was one of six siblings born and raised in Oxnard, California. His mother passed down a love of comics, which for Jaime became a passion rivaled only by his interest in the burgeoning punk rock scene of 1970s Southern California. Together with his brothers Gilbert and Mario, Jaime co-created the ongoing comic book series Love and Rockets in 1981, which Gilbert and Jaime continue to both write and draw to this day. Jaime’s work began as a perfect (if unlikely) synthesis of the anarchistic, do-it-yourself aesthetic of the punk scene and an elegant cartooning style that recalled masters such as Charles M. Schulz and Alex Toth. Love and RocketsLos Angeles Times Book Prize for his graphic novel, The Love Bunglers. In 2017, he (along with Gilbert) was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, and, in 2018, he released his first children’s book, the Aesop Book Prize-winning The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America. He is a lifelong Angeleno.

February 5, 2024: LORENE CARY'S LADYSITTING: MONOLOGUE, DIALOGUE, AND DISCUSSION