January 2009
Thursday, 1/1
Friday, 1/2
Saturday, 1/3
Sunday, 1/4
Monday, 1/5
Tuesday, 1/6
Wednesday, 1/7
Thursday, 1/8
Friday, 1/9
Saturday, 1/10
Sunday, 1/11
Monday, 1/12
Tuesday, 1/13
Wednesday, 1/14
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 158 Global Journalism with Peter Tarr
Thursday, 1/15
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111 Poetry and Poetics with Rachel Levitsky
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Mark Rosenthal
Friday, 1/16
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 170 Advanced Projects in Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis
Saturday, 1/17
Sunday, 1/18
Monday, 1/19
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 159 Political Commentary in the Blog Age with Dick Polman
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 121 Writing for Children with Van Doren
Tuesday, 1/20
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents:
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 110 Writing at Writers House with Jessica Lowenthal
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes Meeting. For more information, contact Pat Green: patricia78@aol.com.
Wednesday, 1/21
8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 158 Global Journalism with Peter Tarr
- 8:00 - 10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Cinema. For more information, contact Dustin Blank at dustin.s.blank@gmail.com
Thursday, 1/22
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111 Poetry and Poetics with Rachel Levitsky
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Mark Rosenthal
Friday, 1/23
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 170 Advanced Projects in Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis
Saturday, 1/24
Sunday, 1/25
Monday, 1/26
7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: LIVE at the Writers House tapes with host Michaela Majoun.
LIVE at the Writers House is a long-standing collaboration between the Kelly Writers House and WXPN FM (88.5). Six times annually between September and April, Michaela Majoun hosts a one-hour broadcast of poetry, music, and other spoken-word art, along with one musical guest, all from our Arts Cafe onto the airwaves at WXPN. LIVE is made possible by generous support from BigRoc. For more information, contact Producer Erin Gautsche (gautsche@writing.upenn.edu).
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 159 Political Commentary in the Blog Age with Dick Polman
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 121 Writing for Children with Van Doren
Tuesday, 1/27
5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: "Rebuilding The Temple: Typesetting George Herbert Several Centuries Out of Context"
Print inevitably creates several degrees of separation between manuscript and finished form, author and audience. Taking George Herbert's posthumously published collection of poems, The Temple, into account, this panel will discuss the paper trail of Herbert's manuscripts through to their 17th century incarnations, as well as the process of adapting them to print form today. The problems that arise along the way ultimately cast the typesetter as both a source of survival for the poems through print and, paradoxically, the chief cause of textual variants and deformations of the author's work.
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 115 Advanced Fiction Writing with Max Apple
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 110 Writing at Writers House with Jessica Lowenthal
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose an Eyes Meeting. For more information, contact Pat Green: patricia78@aol.com.
Wednesday, 1/28
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Bridge from Brooklyn to Boston?: Kafka Imagining America.
How did Franz Kafka, who never traveled outside Europe, come to write a novel set in the United States? Is the Prague-born Kafka, who had American relatives and read critical accounts of this country by European travelers, fashioning a topsy-turvy version of the American dream? To what extent is his vision of America a dark fantasy along the lines of his famous story "The Metamorphosis"?
Mark Harman, translator of Kafka's novel The Castle (Schocken Books/Random House) — which won the Modern Language Association's first Lois Roth Award — recently completed for the same publisher a new translation of Kafka's engaging first novel, Amerika: The Missing Person (pub. date November 18, 2008). The session at Kelly Writers House will include a reading of a short extract and a panel discussion addressing such questions as well as the challenges involved in translating modern classics.
Harman, who has taught a popular course on Kafka, Joyce, and Beckett at Penn, is currently Chair of Modern Languages and Professor of English and German at Elizabethtown College.
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155 Documentary Writing with Paul Hendrickson
- 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM in Room 209: English 158 Global Journalism with Peter Tarr
Thursday, 1/29
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 209: English 111 Poetry and Poetics with Rachel Levitsky
- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in Room 202: English 130.402 with Mark Rosenthal
Friday, 1/30
Meetings and classes (may require registration or permission; email for more info)
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 170 Advanced Projects in Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis