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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Sunday, 2/1
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 2/2
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: HOLD for Travel Award Program
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 2/3
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Reading and Conversation with Ray Scheindlin, cosponsored by the Jewish Studies Program.
Ray Scheindlin's newest book, The Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage, combines new translations of Judah Halevi's poetry with a critical examination of some of his letters. He is the author of many books, including A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood (Oxford, 2000), The Book of Job (Norton, 1999), and Wine, Women and Death: Mideavil Hebrew Poems on the Good Life (Oxford, 1999).
Review of The Song of the Distant Dove: "This luminous and elegant study brings to life one of the most remarkable personalities of medieval Judaism, the Spanish Hebrew poet and philosopher Judah Halevi at the moment of his fabled pilgrimage to the land of Israel, and in doing so, captures an entire Jewish culture in all its complex yearnings. By combining his unequaled gifts as a scholar, literary translator, and interpreter of poetry, Scheindlin has produced a book quite unlike any other in contemporary Jewish writing."--David M. Stern, Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew in the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
"Literary scholars will find much that is new here, for Scheindlin is the most sensitive reader of these texts among Hebrew poetry scholars today. He also places the Hebrew poet squarely in his Islamic/Arabic context. With his integrated, interdisciplinary approach to the poet's pilgrimage, blending literature, philosophy, religion, and history, the author makes a very important contribution." --Mark Cohen, Princeton University, author of Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages.
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/4
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Writers without Borders presents a reading and talk by Chinese poet Zhimin Li.
Poet and scholar Zhimin Li is currently serving as Associate Professor in The School of Foreign Studies of Guangzhou University, as well as Director of The Chinese and Western
Culture Study Institute and Director of The English Training Center of Guangzhou University. He also serves as the Secretary-General of English Poetry Study Association of China,
and the Vice Secretary-General of Foreign Literature Study Association of Guangdong Province. Li's books include Appreciations on William Shakespeare's Works (1998, 2001, 2005,
2007), Selective Readings of Twentieth Century English and American Poetry (2003), New Chinese Poetry under the Influence of Western Poetics: The Origins, Development and
Sense of Nativeness (2005), and Poetics Reconstruction: The Form and The Image (forthcoming in 2008).
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 2/5
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 2/6
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 170 Advanced Projects in Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/7
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 2/8
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 2/9
- 5:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A meeting of the Writers House Planning Committee (the "Hub"). Please RSVP to jalowent@writing.upenn.edu.
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 2/10
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading and conversation with poet Mark Halliday. Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
- 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.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/11
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
- 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 PM - 10:00 PM in Room 202: Penn Cinema. For more information, contact Dustin Blank at dustin.s.blank@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 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 2/12
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A lunchtime reading and Q & A with poet Tisa Bryant, moderated by Rachel Levitsky. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu to reserve a spot.
- 8:00-10:00 PM in room 209: Appleonions Penn Bookclub. For more information, contact Yilise Lin at yilise@sas.upenn.edu
Tisa Bryant was born on a U.S. Air Force base during the Vietnam War, and raised in Boston & Plymouth, MA. As a writer, poet, and radical cineaste, Bryant's work often traverses the boundaries of genre, culture and history, splicing, juxtaposing and threading seemingly disparate elements from personal history, film, and observations as a global citizen, into multi-layered texts that demand new forms. Her first book, Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), is a collection of original, hybrid essays that remix narratives from Eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black presences operating within them. In her introduction to Tisa's recent reading, Stacy Szymaszek, director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York, said, "Like the great Edouard Glissant, her work is at once novel, essay and poetry, these modulations emerging and transmuting in a practice he calls 'spiral retelling.'" Bryant has served as a juror for the San Francisco International, Gay and Lesbian, and Independent film festivals, has written essays for the gallery shows of visual artist Laylah Ali, and is a founding editor/publisher of the hardcover annual, The Encyclopedia Project.
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 2/13
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 170 Advanced Projects in Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/14
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 2/15
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 2/16
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).
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 2/17
6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A celebration of Ron Silliman and The Alphabet.
Ron Silliman has written and edited over 30 books to date. Silliman was the 2006 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and was a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council as well as a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 1998. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works as a market analyst in the computer industry.
The Alphabet is a remarkable and notorious literary achievement, decades in the making, one continually debated, discussed, and imitated since fragments first appeared in the 1970s. Consisting of twenty-six smaller books, one for each letter of the alphabet, it employs language in ways that are startling and innovative. Over the course of the three decades during which it has appeared — in journals, magazines, and as stand-alone volumes — its influence has been wide-ranging, both on practicing poets and on critics who have had to contend with the way it has changed the direction of American poetry.
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/18
- 6:00 PM: A film screening and discussion with the director. Introduced by Kathy DeMarco.
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 2/19
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 2/20
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 170 Advanced Projects in Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/21
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 2/22
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Monday, 2/23
6:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents Robert Coover. RSVP only; please RSVP to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9749.
Robert Coover is an avant-garde novelist, critic and playwright lauded for experimental forms and techniques that mix reality and illusion, frequently creating otherworldly or surreal situations and effects. A leading proponent of hypertext fiction and metafiction, Mr. Coover is known as a true revolutionary in contemporary American literature and language.
Mr. Coover's first novel, The Origin of the Brunists, won the William Faulkner Award in 1966. He is also the recipient of the Brandeis University, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment of the Arts, Rhode Island Governor's Arts, Pell, and Clifton Fadiman Awards, as well as Rockefeller, Guggenheim, Lannan Foundation, and DAAD fellowships. His latest honor is the Dugannon Foundation's REA award for his lifetime contribution to the short story.
His most recent books are The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Directors' Cut, Stepmother, and A Child Again. Other works include the collection of short fiction, Pricksongs and Descants, a collection of plays, A Theological Position, such novels as The Public Burning, Spanking the Maid, Gerald's Party, Pinocchio in Venice, John's Wife, Ghost Town and Briar Rose.
As the T.B. Stowell Adjunct Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University, Mr. Coover teaches courses in electronic writing and mixed media, including "CaveWriting," a spatial hypertext writing workshop in immersive virtual reality, as well as standard workshops. He is one of the founders of the Electronic Literature Organization and he created Brown's Freedom to Write Program in 1989. The New York Times said, "As his dazzling career continues to demonstrate, Mr. Coover is a one-man Big Bang of exploding creative force."- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Tuesday, 2/24
- 10:30 AM in the Arts Cafe: The Kelly Writers House Fellows Program presents Robert Coover. RSVP only; please RSVP to whfellow@writing.upenn.edu or call 215-573-9749.
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Theorizing presents:
- 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.
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 2/25
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes!
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Thursday, 2/26
- 12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Lyn Hejinian & Jennifer Scappettone, a lunchtime conversation between poets, moderated by Rachel Levitsky. RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: PoemTalk with Alan Loney.
Join PoemTalk moderator and host Al Filreis and three friends in the poetics community as they discuss a single poem from the PennSound archive. PoemTalk is sponsored by the Writers House and CPCW in collaboration with the Poetry Foundation. For more, see poemtalkatkwh.blogspot.com. If you would like to be a member of the live audience, rsvp to podcasts@writing.upenn.edu.
Alan Loney, poet and freelance writer, made limited edition books by hand from 1974 to 1998, most recently as the printer and co-director of The Holloway Press at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. In 1995 Loney convened the first conference on The History of the Book in New Zealand and co-edited a series of essays derived from that conference (A Book in the Hand, eds. Penny Griffith, Peter Hughes & Alan Loney, Auckland University Press 2000). He began publishing poetry in the late 1960s and has described his discovery of Charles Olson's Maximus Poems as decisive: "Everything I have written since then has been informed by the lessons learnt in that, for me, extraordinary and illuminating encounter" ("The Influence of American Poetry on Contemporary Poetic Practice in New Zealand," Journal of New Zealand Literature 10, 1992).
Alan Loney was the Auckland University Literary Fellow in 1992. He resigned as printer and co-director of the Holloway Press in 1998 and now lives in Melbourne, Australia.
His recent poetry collections are: Envoy (Puriri Press, 1996), Sidetracks: Notebooks 1976 - 1991 (AUP, 1998), Mondrian's flowers (Granary Books, USA, 2002), Imago Mundi (Melbourne, limited edition, 2003) and Rise (Janus Press, USA, 2003).
Loney's recent prose titles include: Reading/Saying/Making: Selected Essays 1977-2000 (The Writers Group, 2001), The Falling: a memoir (AUP, 2001), Bruno Leti Studio 2002 (limited edition, Melbourne, 2002), Bruno Leti, Survey, Artists Books 1982-2003 (Geelong Gallery, 2003), Caroline Williams: Uneasy White (Janne Land Gallery, 2003), Meditatio: the printer printed: manifesto (Cuneiform Press, USA, 2004), Leonardo on nothingness (Electio Editions, 2004), Kairos: Where there is poetry (Electio Editions, 2004).
- 7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: HOLD for KWH Art Opening.
Jennifer Scappettone is the author of From Dame Quickly (forthcoming from Litmus Press in 2008), and of several chapbooks: Ode oggettuale, a bilingual poemetto translated into Italian with Marco Giovenale (La Camera Verde, 2008); Err-Residence (Bronze Skull, 2007); and Beauty [Is the New Absurdity] (dusi/e kollectiv, 2008). She is at work on a manuscript called Exit 43, an archaeology of the landfill and opera of pop-ups, for Atelos. Other current projects include Lagoon/Lacuna: Venice and the Digressive Invention of the Modern, a critical monograph on the city of Venice as a crucible for modernist experimentation; Neosuprematist Webtexts, filmed phrasal stills; poetry for The Last Performance [dot org], a text-visualization project sponsored by the Goat Island Performance Collective; and a range of translations from Italian. She was guest editor of Aufgabe 7, devoted to contemporary Italian poetry of research. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing and associate faculty of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.
Lyn Hejinian's most recent published book of poetry is Saga / Circus (2008). A collection of works written in collaboration with Jack Collom, Situations, Sings, also came out in 2008. The Language of Inquiry, a collection of essays addressed to issues in poetics and epistemology, was published in 2000. She is the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets. Other collaborative projects include Qúê Trân with music by John Zorn and text by Hejinian, two mixed media books (The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill and The Lake) created with the painter Emilie Clark, and the award-winning experimental documentary film Letters Not About Love, directed by Jacki Ochs. She is one of the ten authors of a multi-volume project titled The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975-1980. Hejinian teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Friday, 2/27
- 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM in Room 202: English 170 Advanced Projects in Popular Culture with Anthony DeCurtis
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Saturday, 2/28
- 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
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-573-WRIT or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.