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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Saturday, 3/1
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Sunday, 3/2
- 7:30-9:00 PM in Room 209: A meeting of Reality Writes III, one of three writing groups dedicated to sharing and workshoping Creative Nonfiction. For more information, or to join, contact Beandrea Davis at btd@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, 3/3
- 2-5 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 with Professor Al Filreis
- 8:00 PM: Live at the Writers House, a one-hour word and music radio
show that tapes at the Kelly Writers House and airs on 88.5 WXPN. Presenters include Tanya
Maria Barrientos, Allie D'Augustine, Dan Histon, Courtney Mandryk,
Robert Strauss, and Ron Swegman, and musical guest Andy Bresnan.
Tanya Maria Barrientos is a columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where she has been a staff writer for 17 years. Born in Guatemala, she was brought to the United States by her parents when she was three, and was raised in El Paso, Texas. A graduate of the Univ. of Missouri, she wrote for the Dallas Times Herald before coming to Philadelphia. Her fiction writing was awarded the 2001 Pew Fellowship in the Arts and also a 2001 Pennsylvania Council of the Arts grant. The Washington Post called her debut novel FRONTERA STREET (NAL/Penguin Putnam 2002) "engrossing" and described Barrientos as "a distinctive new voice to watch." Her second novel FAMILY RESEMBLANCE (NAL/Penguin Putnam 2003) will be in bookstores in July.
Allie D'Augustine writes poetry and prose. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania last year. Her next nonfiction piece will be on the New York School of poets. Allie lives in Philadelphia and has a full schedule of poetry readings this spring, at Molly's Bookstore, the Kelly Writers House, and Robin's Bookstore.
Dan Histon has been writing since the '70s. He teaches yoga in New Jersey and Philadelphia and plays in a gospel band in Atlantic City. Histon has been a real estate broker in Manayunk for 20 years.
Courtney Mandryk is a writer and an artist living in Philadelphia. She graduated from Penn State University with honors this past May with degrees in painting and drawing and English. She now works at the Kelly Writers House.
Robert Strauss is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Strauss has worked as a reporter at Sports Illustrated, a feature writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, a news and features producer at KYW-TV in Philadelphia, and a TV critic for the Asbury Park Press. He graduated with a BA in Philosophy from Carleton College, where he was the last man off the bench on the freshman basketball team, and attended the University of California Graduate School of Journalism.
Andy Bresnan is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger, composer, and producer, and for twelve years has been the Artistic Director of the Big Mess Orchestra and Big Mess Cabaret. After his first band Junior Mints faded away he played with the Ben Vaughn Combo, Baby Flamehead, and more recently with Butterfly Joe. Baby Flamehead put out a nationally released album and toured extensively in the U.S. and Canada, playing on CBC's "Brave New Waves" and on NPR's "Mountain Stage". Andy has produced CDs by Big Mess (1997) and Butterfly Joe (2000). Also, along the way, he has played guitar, bass, drums, accordion, tuba, trombone, and sundry instruments with groups ranging from symphony orchestras to the mummers' fancy brigades, and from Ted Puss and the Stompers to Benny and the Vildechayas. During the same twenty years or so, he co-founded the Big Mess Theater company with college pal Greg Giovanni. Starting with accordion, trumpet and tuba, the Big Mess Orchestra grew steadily, providing on-the-fly education in composition and arranging, until the group reached the point of putting on a full-scale original operetta (1992's "Lucy" at the Painted Bride). With the second or third cabaret Big Mess produced, the orchestra and the cabarets had become a distinct organism from Big Mess Theater. They've been putting on cabarets at the Trocadero at 10th and Arch St. for the last ten years with what is now a 16-piece ensemble and a rotating who's who of Philadelphia singers, actors, poets, dancers, fire-breathers, and more than a few performers whose category of talents and abilities remains obscure. In those ten years Andy was also commissioned to compose and perform music with choreographers including Asimina Chremos, Karen Bamonte, and SCRAP performance group, as well as being hired for his first film score. In the past year, he has produced 2 cabarets, written and performed the score to "Poe's Own Twilight Zone" with Lucidity Suitcase at Christ Church, and orchestrated his Big Mess Theme for none other than the Philadelphia Orchestra, when Big Mess Cabaret hosted the Orchestra's Halloween do at the Kimmell Center. The coming months will be busy with creating music for Myra Bazell's summer performance at Lincoln Center, and with co-producing - with help from his wife - their first child sometime in the coming weeks.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop (Robert Strauss, rsstrauss@comcast.net)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285: Writers House Fellows Seminar (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:15 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 5:15 to 7:15 PM in Room 202: The monthly meeting of the Penn & Pencil
Club, the writing group for employees of the University and Health
System. For more information contact: john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu
- 5:30 PM in Room 209: A songwriting workshop, S.O.S. (Sharing our Songs) meets every other week to discuss issues of genre, technique, and craft; and -- most importantly -- listen and learn from fellow songwriters. (Bring your instrument if you have one!) Students, faculty, staff, and community members -- from any genre -- all welcome! For more information, or to join, please contact Dan Fishback at fishback@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.
Tuesday, 3/4
- 1:30 to 3:00 PM: "Forgiveness
and Subjectivity" Theorizing presents Kelly Oliver.
Kelly Oliver is Chair of the Philosophy Department and Professor of Women's Studies at Stony Brook University. She has written six books and edited eight books, including Reading Kristeva, Womanizing Nietzsche, Subjectivity without Subjects, Family Values, Witnessing: Beyond Recognition, Noir Anxiety, The Portable Kristeva, The French Feminism Reader and Between the Social and the Psyche: Psychoanalytic Social Theory. She is the author of over fifty articles on Phenomenology, Contemporary French Philosophy, and Feminism. Currently she is finishing a book entitled The Colonization of Psychic Space: Toward A Psychoanalytic Social Theory, forthcoming from Stanford University Press.
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Poetry and Translation Reading by Kathryn Hellerstein and Lisa Katz,
cosponsored
by the Jewish Studies Program and the Middle East Center.
Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein is the Ruth Meltzer Senior Lecturer in Yiddish and Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a poet and a translator, as well as a scholar of Yiddish poetry. Hellerstein's books include her translation and study of Moyshe-Leyb Halpern's poems, In New York: A Selection (Jewish Publication Society, 1982), Paper Bridges: Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky (Wayne State University Press, 1999), and Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology, of which she is co-editor (W. W. Norton, 2000). Hellerstein has published her poems and translations in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Tikkun, Religion and Literature, Bridges, Four Hundred Years of Jewish Women’s Spirituality, Reading Ruth, and other journals and anthologies. Her current projects include Anthology of Women Yiddish Poets and a critical book, A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, supported in 1999-2000 by a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation.
Dr. Lisa Katz teaches literary translation in the English Department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she has lived since 1983. Excerpts from her poem "Thesaurus," in the April Mississippi Review, have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is English language editor of the Israel domain of the Rotterdam Poetry International website. Her translations from the Hebrew appear in current issues of The American Poetry Review, Runes, Ariel, Bridges and online at The Drunken Boat Spring and Fall 2002.
- 10:30 AM-12 PM in Room 202: English 197.001.301: Writing Seminar in Literature (Jared Richman, richman@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00-8:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eye, a poetry writing group (Pat Green patgreen@vet.upenn.edu)
- 5:00-7:00 PM in Room 209: Dissertation Writing Group - For more information, contact Lalitha Vasudevan at lmv@dolphin.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, 3/5
- Noon: Lunchtime workshop with Johanna Drucker,
rsvp only to wh@writing.upenn.edu or 215 746-POEM; spaces
strictly limited to twelve participants. For more about Drucker's visit
see the 6 PM event listed just below.
- 5:00-6:30 PM: Virtual
Codex: a talk by Johanna Drucker at the Penn
Humanities Forum in collaboration with the Kelly Writers House, to help mark the "Year of the Book" at Penn.
RSVP at 215-573-8280.
Drucker is a printer and a scholar whose scholarship centers on visual representations of language and the history of experimental poetry, the alphabet, and artists' books. She is the author of The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination (Thames and Hudson, 1995); The Century of Artists' Books (Granary Books, 1995); and The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923 (University of Chicago Press, 1994). She is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.
In September 2001 Johanna Drucker joined Charles Alexander for a reading and symposium on material poetics. That event is linked here; it was webcast live and the recording is linked here.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome!
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:00-6:45 PM in Room 202: A meeting of the Hollywood Club. For more information, or to join, contact Jack Brooks at jakeb@sas.upenn.edu.
- 5:15-6:15 PM in Room 209: A meeting of the Undergraduate Advisory Board (Adam Levin: adlevin@sas.upenn.edu).
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Study Group, email lamasc@sas.upenn.edu for info.
- 7:00-9:30 PM in Room 202: Nancy Bentley's English 283 screens the film Portrait of a Lady by Campion.
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, 3/6
- 1:30 PM: Theorizing presents Peter
Goodrich at Houston Hall 311.
This lecture will explore the laws of friendship in professional spaces. It is an excursion -- philological and iconological as well as theoretical -- on the politics of friendship in the intimate public sphere.
Peter Goodrich, founding dean of the department of law, Birkbeck College, University of London, was appointed professor of law at Cardozo (NYU) in 1999. He received an LL.B. degree in 1975 from the University of Sheffield, England and a Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Edinburgh. Professor Goodrich has written extensively in the areas of law and literature and semiotics. He has authored eight books and has two more forthcoming: Histories and Theories of Law: A Textbook in Contemporary Jurisprudence (with Costas Douzinas), to be published by Oxford University Press, and The Laws of Love, to be published by Cambridge University Press. He is editor of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law and editor-in-chief of Law and Critique.
- 5:00-7:00 PM: Grad Student Reading cosponsored with the Graduate Student Center. For more information email: gsc@pobox.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM -12:00 PM in Room 202: English 001.301: Writing about Literature (Stephanie Harzewski, sharzews@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in the Dining Room: Philosophy Circle. For more information or to join, contact Paul Flynn
- 4:30-6:00 PM in Room 202: Mods: Penn Modernism and Twentieth Century Studies Group (Matt Hart: matthart@english.upenn.edu, Damien Keane: dkeane@english.upenn.edu). Rachel Buurma, from Penn's English Department, presents.
- 5:15-7:00 PM in Room 209: Eighteenth-Century Reading Group (Brett Wilson: bwilson@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.
Friday, 3/7
- Spring Break begins at close of classes
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write On! Seventh graders from Lea School in West Philadelphia visit the Kelly Writers House for a year-long writing workshop series. Students read, write and revise in small writing groups comprised of three Lea students and two Penn student coaches. Write On! is supported by Gear Up and the Writers House Esther T. Saxon Term Fund. (Sara Coelho: scoelho@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, 3/8
- Spring Break
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, 3/9
- Spring Break
- 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 WXPN
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, 3/10
- Spring Break
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, 3/11
- Spring Break
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, 3/12
- Spring Break
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, 3/13
- Spring Break
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, 3/14
- Spring Break
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, 3/15
- Spring Break
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, 3/16
- Spring Break
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, 3/17
- Classes resume after Spring Break
- Noon-1:30 PM, in the Writers House dining room: Tea with GLORIA LOOMIS, eminent literary agent. PROGRAM IS FULL. Tea and light lunch provided (and coffee, too).
Gloria Loomis owns and runs a small, distinguished literary agency called Watkins-Loomis; the firm dates back to 1908. It was founded by Ann Watkins and represented Edith Wharton, Dorothy Sayers, Raold Dahl and other important writers. Among the writers whom Gloria Loomis represents currently are Walter Mosley, Francois Gilot, Anna Devere Smith, Cornel West and about a hundred others. She represented the late June Jordan, who was a Writers House Fellows in 2001.
- Noon-1:30 PM, in the Writers House dining room: Tea with GLORIA LOOMIS, eminent literary agent. PROGRAM IS FULL. Tea and light lunch provided (and coffee, too).
- 6:30 PM: The Writers House Fellows Program presents
WALTER BERNSTEIN, a reading. The
webcast
of this event
is available for viewing.
Among the most eminent living screenwriters, Walter Bernstein was first a regular contributor to The New Yorker and wrote for some of early television's finest dramatic shows. He is best known as the writer of films, among them Fail Safe, The Molly Maguires, The Magnificant Seven, and The Front (for which he received an Academy Award nomination). During the anticommunist period, he was blacklisted and could not work openly as a writer. His memoir, Inside Out, is an account of this experience. For more about Bernstein and about the Writers House Fellows program, please click here.
Watch the reading of this event here.
- 2-5 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 with Professor Al Filreis
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop (Robert Strauss, rsstrauss@comcast.net)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285: Writers House Fellows Seminar (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:15 PM in Room 209: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 7:15 PM: No event in 202
- 5:30 PM in Room 209: A songwriting workshop, S.O.S. (Sharing our Songs) meets every other week to discuss issues of genre, technique, and craft; and -- most importantly -- listen and learn from fellow songwriters. (Bring your instrument if you have one!) Students, faculty, staff, and community members -- from any genre -- all welcome! For more information, or to join, please contact Dan Fishback at fishback@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.
Tuesday, 3/18
- 10 AM: The Writers House Fellows Program presents WALTER
BERNSTEIN, in
an
interview conducted by Al Filreis, preceded by a brunch. RSVP required;
write to whfellow@english.upenn.edu.
For more about the Writers House Fellows program,
please click
here. The
webcast
of this event
is available for viewing.
Watch the discussion of this event here.
- 6:00 PM: Fiction writer Kate Wheeler will read from her work,
co-sponsored by Penn's Creative Writing Program.
Kate Wheeler is the author of a short story collection "Not Where I Started From" Houghton Mifflin 1993, and a novel "When Mountains Walked" Houghton Mifflin 2001. Her short stories have been included in the O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She has received an NEA, Guggenheim, Whiting Award and Pushcart Prize. Wheeler's travel journalism has been anthologized, including a piece in Best American Travel Writing 2002. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with David Guss, an anthropologist, and their dog Antis. She travels widely and sometimes teaches Buddhist meditation.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 10:30 AM-12 PM in Room 202: English 197.001.301: Writing Seminar in Literature (Jared Richman, richman@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@english.upenn.edu)
- 5:00-7:00 PM in Room 209: Dissertation Writing Group - For more information, contact Lalitha Vasudevan at lmv@dolphin.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, 3/19
- 5:00 PM: The Alumni Visitor Series presents fiction writer and poet Dennis Barone. You can download an MP3 recording of the entire reading, or you can
listen to the Writers House podcast show featuring this
reading.
Dennis Barone is a Professor of English at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of three books of short fiction: Abusing the Telephone (Drogue Press, 1994), The Returns (Sun & Moon Press, 1996), and Echoes (Potes & Poets Press, 1997). Echoes received the 1997 America Award for most outstanding book of fiction by a living American writer. He is also the author of a novella, Temple of the Rat (Left Hand Books, 2000), and he is editor of Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995). Most recently Quale Press published The Disguise of Events, a chapbook (July, 2002). Left Hand Books published his selected poems, entitled Separate Objects, in 1998. His essays on American literature and culture have appeared in journals such as American Studies, Critique, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction. A graduate of Bard College, he received his Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, and in 1992 he held the Thomas Jefferson Chair, a distinguished Fulbright lecturing award, in the Netherlands. Dennis Barone will be introduced by Gil Ott.
Click here to visit Barone's PennSound page - 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome!
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Study Group, email lamasc@sas.upenn.edu for info.
- 8:30 PM in Room 209: Donne Reading Group - a new group dedicated to reading about and from John Donne. For more information or to join, please contact Adrienne Mishkin at amishkin@sas.upenn.edu
- 6 PM - 7:30 PM in Room 202: Seminar on Mark Behr's "The Smell of Apples."
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, 3/20
- 12:00-1:30 PM in the Dining Room: A lunch time program with
poet, novelist, Harvard Law School graduate,
law center research fellow
Brad Leithauser. This program, the
first of its kind, is part of a new annual collaboration with the
University of Pennsylvania Law School. For more information
about this program, click
here.
Brad Leithauser was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School. For three years he was a research fellow at the Kyoto Comparative Law Center in Japan and subsequently lived in Italy, England, Iceland and France. Leithauser is a novelist, a poet, and teacher. He is currently Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He lives in South Hadley, Massachusetts with his wife, Mary Jo Salter, also a poet. - Leithauser will also speak at the University of Pennsylvania in Silverman 245A from 5:00-7:00 PM. Please see click here for more information.
- 10:30 AM -12:00 PM in Room 202: English 001.301: Writing about Literature (Stephanie Harzewski, sharzews@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in the Dining Room: Philosophy Circle. For more information or to join, contact Paul Flynn
- 4:30-6:30 PM in Room 209: Fiction Manuscript Writing Workshop. For more information contact Jeff Phillips: jkp@sas.upenn.edu
- 6:15-7:45 in 202: A meeting of the Hollywood Club (Jake Brooks: jkb@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.
Friday, 3/21
- 4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Lorene Cary meets informally
with the students of Write On! as part of "One Book, One
Philadelphia."
- 5:30 PM at the Penn Bookstore: Lorene Cary and students from Write On! read from work they have written in response to stories of the Underground Railroad. This program is part of "One Book, One Philadelphia."
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write On! Seventh graders from Lea School in West Philadelphia visit the Kelly Writers House for a year-long writing workshop series. Students read, write and revise in small writing groups comprised of three Lea students and two Penn student coaches. Write On! is supported by Gear Up and the Writers House Esther T. Saxon Term Fund. (Sara Coelho: scoelho@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, 3/22
- 1:00 PM in room 209: Suppose an Eye, a poetry writing group (Pat Green patgreen@vet.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.
Sunday, 3/23
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, 3/24
- 6:30 PM: The Writers House Fellows Program presents LAURIE ANDERSON, a reading-performance. RSVP's
required to whfellow@english.upenn.edu.
An avant-garde performance artist with a huge popular reputation, Laurie Anderson has written and performed Stories from the Nerve Bible, her remarkable interpretation of Moby-Dick, and United States (opening at BAM in an 8-hour performance). She has toured the world many times with shows ranging from relatively simple spoken-word performances to elaborate multimedia events and exhibits. She has shared a stage with Cab Calloway, toured with William Burroughs, studied art history with Meyer Schapiro, and covered a presidential election for NPR. For more about Laurie Anderson and about Writers House Fellows, please click here.
Watch the reading of this event here.
- 2-5 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 with Professor Al Filreis
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop (Robert Strauss, rsstrauss@comcast.net)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285: Writers House Fellows Seminar (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:15 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.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, 3/25
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| Laurie Anderson, a 2003 Writers House Fellow, March 24-25 |
- 10 AM: The Writers House Fellows Program presents
LAURIE ANDERSON, in an interview conducted
by Al Filreis, preceded by a brunch. RSVP required; write to whfellow@english.upenn.edu.
For more about Laurie Anderson and about Writers House Fellows, please
click here.
Watch the discussion of this event here.
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- 6:00-8:00 PM: The Penn Humanities Forum, Kelly Writers House,
and Alfred A. Knopf invite you to a book party honoring
Paul Hendrickson and his new book, Sons of Mississippi.
For more information, see here.
Please note, this event takes place at the Penn Humanities
Forum and registration is required.
Paul Hendrickson was a staff feature writer in the Style Section of The Washington Post for twenty-three years, from 1977 to 2001. He now has a full-time appointment in the creative writing program of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches a workshop in advanced narrative nonfiction and also a course in the prose documentary form. His last book, The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War, was published by Knopf and was a 1996 finalist for the National Book Award. He has authored two other nonfiction books as well, and one was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- 10:30 AM-12 PM in Room 202: English 197.001.301: Writing Seminar in Literature (Jared Richman, richman@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145.301: Advanced Non-Fiction Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301: Fiction Writing Workshop (Max Apple, maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 115.301: Advanced Fiction Writing (Karen Rile, krile@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, 3/26
- 8:00 PM: "A Community of Words," hosted by Dan Fishback. As part of the QPenn celebration, writers from the LGBT community will share their original work along with a piece that inspired them when they were struggling with their identities. For more information contact Dan Fishback: fishback@sas.upenn.edu
- Listen to a recording of this event.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301: Documentary Writing (Paul Hendrickson, phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
- 8 PM in Room 209: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@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, 3/27
- 12:00 PM: A lunchtime program and conversation with Jeff Berg the
Chairman and CEO of International Creative Management. RSVP only to
wh@writing.upenn.edu or 215-746-POEM.
Jeffrey Berg is the chairman and chief executive officer of International Creative Management, Inc., a talent and literary agency representing clients in the fields of publishing, motion pictures, television, music, theater, and news and public affairs. One of the leading agents in the entertainment industry, Mr. Berg graduated with honors in English from the University of California at Berkeley and received a Master of Liberal Arts from the University of Southern California. In 1969 he joined Creative Management Associates, one of ICM's predecessor agencies, as a literary and film agent and was named president of the company in 1980 and rose to chairman in 1985.
Mr. Berg, who has lectured on management and finance in the arts at The London School of Economics, is presently on the Board of Visitors of the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA and also serves on the Board of Directors of Oracle Corporation and the American Film Institute. He lives in Pacific Palisades with his wife and their two daughters.
- 3:30-4:30 PM: Parallel Poetry: A talk by poet Simon Pettet.
Simon Pettet
Picture by Jon Bidwell - 5:00 PM: The Poet and Painter Series presents a reading by poets Simon Pettet and Andrew McNeillie.
Simon Pettet is the author of Selected Poems (Talisman) and the forthcoming Come Va (Porto dei Santi), translated by Alberto Masala with an introduction by Robert Creeley. He is also the author of several books in collaboration with many artists, notably the photographer Rudy Burckhardt and the painter Duncan Hannahand. He also compiled The Selected Art Writings of James Schuyler for Black Sparrow.
Robert Creeley has written about Pettet that, "He has been such a bright and consistent light amidst the usual gathering glooms. He lives as though life were its own pleasure, which it is and must obviously be. He sounds those same simplicities of profound music Blake also knew. He moves with a deft and practiced quiet. 'It is as though he were telling us/ that this small space/ contains the pattern for/ all eternity.' He speaks the truth."
Andrew McNeillie is currently the senior editor for literature at Blackwell’s publishers, McNeillie is a graduate of Magdalen College and the editor of Virginia Woolf’s Essays and Diaries. He is also the author of a memoir, An Aran Keening, and a recent volume of poetry entitled Nevermore, which was nominated for a national prize for first volumes of poetry in 2001.
Pettet's visit was cosponsored by the Graduate School of Fine Arts and the Creative Writing Program. McNeillie's visit was cosponsored by the English Department.
Listen to Pettet's reading on his PennSound author page
- 10:30 AM -12:00 PM in Room 202: English 001.301: Writing about Literature (Stephanie Harzewski, sharzews@english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 088.001: Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in the Dining Room: Philosophy Circle. For more information or to join, contact Paul Flynn
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, 3/28
- 3:30-5:30 PM: Write On! Seventh graders from Lea School in West Philadelphia visit the Kelly Writers House for a year-long writing workshop series. Students read, write and revise in small writing groups comprised of three Lea students and two Penn student coaches. Write On! is supported by Gear Up and the Writers House Esther T. Saxon Term Fund. (Sara Coelho: scoelho@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, 3/29
- 4:00 PM: A Memorial reading for Alexandra Grilikhes.
Alexandra Grilikhes was among the most gifted and visionary poets ever to call Philadelphia home. A talented editor, a penetratingly insightful novelist, a wise soul and a good friend, she will be sorely missed. We will celebrate her life and art on Saturday, March 29, at 4 pm. Those speaking and reading will include Adam Fieled, Jim Cory, Leonard Gontarek, Janet Mason, and Anne Kaier. For more information email Adam Fieled: afieled@hotmail.com.
Poet and novelist Alexandra Grilikhes died on February 8, 2003 of breat cancer. As a poet, she published nine small-press collections, among them Isabel Rawsthorne standing in a street in Soho, & other poems (1972), Sea Agon (1976), On women artists: poems (1981), Blue Scar: & other poems (1988) and as a novelist she published, Yin Fire, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in 2002. Ms. Grilikhes taught Creative Writing, Writing Memoir, and Women's Studies at the University of the Arts for more than two decades and as an innovator in literary broadcasting, she hosted the only literary programs in Philadelphia on public radio for ten years. For 12 years, she edited and published the independent literary arts journal American Writing: A Magazine, which ceased publication in 2002.
A native New Yorker, Ms. Grilikhes earned a bachelor's degree from Queens College of the City University of New York. She studied art history at Bryn Mawr College, and she received a master's degree in library science from Columbia University.
Listen to a recording of this event.
- 2:30-4:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative
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, 3/30
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, 3/31
- Art Exhibit for Michelle Ortiz, Surviving the Encounter - Exploring Movement and Contradiction through the
Passage of Remembrance, closes.
- 2-5 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285 with Professor Al Filreis
- 5:00 PM: Planning Committee meeting and gathering. (For more
information about the "hub," write to wh@writing.upenn.edu)
- 8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: For one night only: STAND-UP NIGHT at the Writers House featuring Seth Laracy, Anne
Putnam, Matt Rosenbaum, and Jill Ivey hosted by Carrie "C-Dawg" Greene.
Listen to an audio recording of this event.
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 135: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop (Robert Strauss, rsstrauss@comcast.net)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2:00-5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: English 285: Writers House Fellows Seminar (Al Filreis, afilreis@english.upenn.edu)
- 7:15 PM in Room 202: The Penn Review Literary Magazine. The Penn Review Literary Magazine exists to provide the opportunity for publication to all University of Pennsylvania affiliated writers. We invite any interested writers to submit their work, as well as attend our meetings, which cultivate a forum for University of Pennsylvania students to discuss literature and to participate in the creation of a literary magazine. If interested, please contact Stephanie Langin-Hooper, smlangin@sas.upen.edu.
- 5:30 PM in Room 209: A songwriting workshop, S.O.S. (Sharing our Songs) meets every other week to discuss issues of genre, technique, and craft; and -- most importantly -- listen and learn from fellow songwriters. (Bring your instrument if you have one!) Students, faculty, staff, and community members -- from any genre -- all welcome! For more information, or to join, please contact Dan Fishback at fishback@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.