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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).
Wednesday, 9/1
- 9:00-4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe & Dining Room: Critical Writing Teaching Fellows Training Session
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, 9/2
- New Student Orientation
- 9:00-4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe & Dining Room: Critical Writing Teaching Fellows Training Session
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, 9/3
- New Student Orientation
- 9:00-4:00 PM in the Arts Cafe & Dining Room: Critical Writing Teaching Fellows Training Session
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, 9/4
- Kelly Writers House closed
- New Student Orientation
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, 9/5
- Kelly Writers House closed
- New Student Orientation
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, 9/6
- New Student Orientation:
7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe at the Kelly Writers House: Join us for our annual NSO Speakeasy, an open mic performance night spotlighting the Class of 2008. All types of readings are welcome, original or not. All are welcome!
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, 9/7
Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edu for more info.
Wednesday, 9/8
- First day of classes!
- 5:00 PM in the Dining Room and Arts Cafe: CPCW Reception welcoming incoming faculty
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@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.
Thursday, 9/9
- Art Gallery Exhibit Opens: Enthalpy and Entropy, Biomorphological Transformations, works on paper by Ruslan Khais, 9/28--10/22
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@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.
Friday, 9/10
- 5:00 PM: Writers House Work-Study Staff Meeting
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@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, 9/11
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, 9/12
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, 9/13
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 5:20-7:20 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club. For more information, or to join, contact John Shea at john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu.
- 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: 34th Street Poets will hold their first meeting.
- 7:30-11:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: The Excelano Project is holding auditions. For more information contact Caroline Rothstein at Cercall@aol.com.
- 8:00 PM in Room 202: A screening for JC Hallman's ENGL 125-306.
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, 9/14
- 12:30-1:30 PM in the Dining Room: CPCW Faculty Roundtable Brown Bag Lunch Meeting
- 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: Word.Doc Inaugural Event with guest speaker Chris Feudtner
Chris Feudtner , MD PhD MPH, is a pediatrician at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who focuses on improving the lives of children with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) and their families. His is an attending physician and director of research for both the Pediatric Advance Care Team (which provides palliative, end-of-life, and bereavement services) and the Integrated Care Service (which cares for hospitalized children with chronic conditions and technology-dependent health care needs). As a historian of medicine, Chris recently published a work on the history of diabetes in America, entitled Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Ill ness (University of North Carolina Press, 2003). In the field of medical ethics, Chris has worked on understanding medical student ethical development and on the interface of ethics and public health policy regarding immunizations and the care of children with complex chronic conditions.
Word.doc is a student-conceived and organized group for pre-meds, medical students, staff, and faculty interested in narrative medicine and the arts. For more information or to join contact Kerry Cooperman (kerryc@sas.upenn.edu) or go to the word.doc website at http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/archival/events/worddoc/.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, a poetry workshop. Any interested in writing poetry is welcome to attend. For more information, please contact Pat Green (patgreen@vet.upenn.edu).
- 7:30-11:00 PM in the Arts Cafe (first floor): The Excelano Project is holding auditions. For more information contact Caroline Rothstein at Cercall@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.
Wednesday, 9/15
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome! For more information, email askspeakeasy@writing.upenn.edu
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@writing.upenn.edu)
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Reality Writes, a workshop dedicated to creative nonfiction. For more information email Mary Hale Meyer at MaryHale.Meyer@jevs.org.
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, 9/16
- 5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Reading in Celebration of Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary
Poetry by Mexican Women, featuring Ofelia Pérez Sepúlveda, Cristina Rivera-Garza, and Jen
Hofer
Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women is a fully bilingual collection featuring the work of eleven Mexican women poets, none of which has been translated into English before. These are poets from all over Mexico: Mexico City, Culiacán, Cordoba, Guadalajara, Monclova. Their work, collected together here for the first time, provides a taste of the adventurous new spirit infusing contemporary Mexican literature. Sin puertas visibles won the 2004 Eugene Kayden National Translation Award, a prize given annually by the University of Colorado at Boulder, for the best original translation into English of an important critical, scholarly, or creative work in the humanities.
Ofelia Pérez Sepúlveda was born in Guadalupe, Nuevo León in 1970. She currently lives in Monterrey, where she works as a writer and producer at a local radio network and as coordinator of a regional literary center. Her books include La inmóvil percepción de la memoria (Verdehalago and Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León, 2000) and the chapbook De todos los santos: herejes (Ediciones Toque, Guadalajara: 1995). Translations of her poetry into English have been published in the journal kiosk, and in the anthology Sin puertas visibles (ed. and trans. Jen Hofer, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), and are forthcoming in The Bitter Oleander.
Cristina Rivera-Garza was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas in 1964. She is the author of three novels, Lo anterior (Tusquets Editores, 2004), La cresta de Ilión (Tusquets Editores, 2002), and Nadie me verá llorar, which won the 2001 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz prize (Tusquets Editores and the National Council for Culture and the Arts, 2000). Among her other books are La más mía (poetry, Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, National Council for Culture and the Arts, 1998), La guerra no importa (short stories, Editorial Joaquín Mortiz and the National Institute of Fine Arts, 1991), and Ningún reloj cuenta esto (short stories, Tusquets Editores, 2003). Translations of her poetry into English have been published in the magazine Voces de México and in the anthology Sin puertas visibles (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003); her first novel was released in English in 2003 as No One Will See Me Cry (trans. Andrew Hurley, Curbstone Press, 2003). Two new books are forthcoming in English: the book-length poem the arsonist: essays on self-translation, and the English-language version of La cresta de Ilión. She currently lives in Tijuana, and teaches Mexican history as an Associate Professor in the History Department at San Diego State University.
Jen Hofer edited and translated Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003) and a feature section on contemporary Mexican poetry for issue #3 of the journal Aufgabe. Her recent books of poetry include the chapbook lawless (Seeing Eye Books, 2003), slide rule (subpress, 2002), and The 3:15 Experiment (with Lee Ann Brown, Danika Dinsmore, and Bernadette Mayer, The Owl Press, 2001). She is co-editor, with Rod Smith, of Aerial #10, a forthcoming critical volume on the work of the poet Lyn Hejinian. Her writings against the war in Iraq and the war on terror can be found in the special anti-war issue of A.BACUS, and in the anthology Enough (O Books, 2003); other poems, prose texts and translations appear in recent issues of 26, Bombay Gin, Circumference, Conundrum, kiosk, NO: A Magazine of the Arts, and in the book Surface Tension: The Problematics of Site (Errant Bodies Press, 2003). She lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches in an adult education program and works as a court interpreter.Download a recording of this event here.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 5:15-7:00 PM in Room 202: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter at dporter@english.upenn.edu or Jared Richman at richman@english.upenn.edu.
- 7:30-11:00 PM in Room 202: The Excelano Project is holding auditions. For more information contact Caroline Rothstein at Cercall@aol.com.
- 7:30 PM in Room 202: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets one Wednesday per month throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members. Contact Fred Ollinger at follinge@piconap.com for more information.
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, 9/17
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1-2:30 PM in Room 202: Comparative Literature's graduate student meeting
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, 9/18
- 4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: A Reading by Poets of the Eternal NOW! Anthology, featuring Ryan Eckes, Jim
Cory, Susan Windle, and Sandy Crimmins with stevenallenmay as host and poet.
stevenallenmay is a poet, writer, performance artist, events coordinator, series curator and host, filmmaker, collage maker, and experimenter with technology & language. He is the creator of 'Bardfest', the first 30 day poetry festival to occur in the US during April, National Poetry Month. He founded Berks Bards, inc. a 501 (c) 3 poetry nonprofit organization and served as President from 1999-2001. He co-founded poetry festivals including Lebanon Poetry Project (2000) and Lancaster Poets Out Loud (2001) before moving to Philadelphia where he presented 'Poets Among US' in April 2003.
s - a - m is the author of Plastic Sunrise (2003), the assembler of Spontaneous Chili (2001), a collection of internet-constructed poems made in an AOL chatroom during 1998-99 as well as the author of Vintage Steven (2000) , a chapbook. In 1999 he collaborated with online artist "Bird" culminating with the chapbooks Numraga and Pyxis. He is Cofounder and CEO of Plan B Press which has published 12 books of poetry including the Eternal NOW! anthology in December 2003.
Currently he is in the Arts Management Program at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.
Ryan Eckes has written many, many poems, a small percentage of which have been published by Exquisite Corpse, Main Street Rag, and other lesser-known journals. In 2002 Gil Ott selected one of Ryan's poems as a runner-up in the "Philadelphia City Paper Writing Contest," noting the poem's "impeccable minimalist pacing." Ryan received an impeccably minimalist award of $0, in contrast to the winner's $350. Admittedly, this made Ryan a little angry. Today, his poems are neither impeccable nor minimalist.
Jim Cory, who lives in the Bella Vista section of Philadelphia, published his first poem 30 years ago in a little magazine at State College, PA called The Morning Breeze. Since then he's appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and published seven chapbooks of poems, in addition to short stories and essays. He has been a PA Arts Council and Yaddo fellow, frequent reader, and sometime editor of the work of other poets. One of his recent publication is 'Facts in the Case of E.A.P. (or) Low Road to Eldorado,' a chapbook-length poem about the life and writing of Edgar Allan Poe. Jim Cory's latest book is SAIL published by Plan B Press.
Susan Windle is the founder of Voices of a Different Dream, an ensemble of women who create a unique and inventive blend of poetry and song for the fostering of peace within and among us. With the ensemble and on her own, she has been writing and performing poetry in the Philadelphia area for over twenty-five years. With a strong belief in the healing and transforming power of poetry, Susan has presented her work in varied settings—as part of worship services, in nature centers, art and cultural centers, coffee houses, women’s conferences, universities and schools, for audiences ranging from the very young to the very old. She is co-author of Already Near You: Poetry in Concert with poet Ellen Ford Mason and, with Voices of a Different Dream, co-creator of two recordings: Unimagined Possibilities and You Know My Name. A volume of her poetry, Between the Doors, will be released in the fall of 2004. A lover of artistic collaboration, Susan has created and exhibited poem-prints with painter Sara Steele. These are fine art reproductions in which image and word support and converse with each other. Susan lives in Northwest Philadelphia with her partner of 28 years and their rapidly growing sons. For more about Susan and to hear and see some of her work, see susanwindle.com and voicesofadifferentdream.com.
Sandy Crimmins has published her fiction and poetry nationally in printed and electronic literary magazines such as American Writing, Isosceles, City Primeval, The Implosion, Hysteria and femmesoul and in the anthologies The Eternal NOW!, Meridian Bound, Pagan's Muse and Poets Against the War. Her fiction has been read as part of David Sanders'™ Writing Aloud program at the InterAct Theatre and she has written and performed spokenword shows with musicians, fireeaters and dancers. One such show, Iowa Summer, created with guitarist Richard Drueding and percussionist Stephe Ferraro, was released on CD. Her recent show, El Cid In Flamenco and Flame, is a full length work performed in collaboration with musician David Falcone, choreographer Tomas Dura and a company of six flamenco dancers.
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, 9/19
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, 9/20
- 5:30 PM: Writers House Planning Committee ("Hub") Meeting and Gathering. (For more information about the "hub" or to RSVP, write to wh@writing.upenn.edu.)
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@dept.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.
Tuesday, 9/21
- 7 PM : The Writers House community welcomes eminent poet, writer Ron Silliman. Reading and
discussion. This event is part of the
PennSound archive, thus
downloadable
MP3 files of each poem are available
here.
Photo by Jeff Hurwitz
Ron Silliman has written and edited 25 books to date, most recently Woundwood. Since 1979, Silliman has been writing a poem entitled The Alphabet. In addition to Woundwood, a part of VOG, volumes published thus far from that project have included ABC, Demo to Ink, Jones, Lit, Manifest, N/O, Paradise, (R), Toner, What and Xing. Silliman was 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.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@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.
Wednesday, 9/22
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@writing.upenn.edu)
- 6:00 PM in Room 202: Word.Doc meeting. For more information, please email Kerry Cooperman at kerryc@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, 9/23
- 4:30 PM: Hold for program hosted by Anthony DeCurtis in conjunction with his class, The Arts and Popular Culture.
- 6:30 PM: A reading by author Nathalie Anderson
Nathalie Anderson's first book, Following Fred Astaire, won the 1998 Washington Prize from The Word Works. Her
two further collections - Crawlers and Quiver - are currently under consideration by publishers. Anderson's
poems have been singled out for prizes and special recognition from the Joseph Campbell Society, The Cumberland Poetry
Review, Inkwell Magazine, The Madison Review, New Millennium Writings, Nimrod, North
American Review, and The Southern Anthology, and have also appeared in APR's Philly Edition, Cimmaron
Review, Cross Connect, Denver Quarterly, DoubleTake, Louisville Review, Natural Bridge,
Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, The Recorder, Southern Poetry Review, and Spazio Humano;
and in the Ulster Museum's collection of visual art and poetry titled A Conversation Piece. She has authored libretti
for two operas - The Black Swan and Sukey in the Dark - and is currently at work on a third collaboration with
the composer Thomas Whitman and Philadelphia's Orchestra 2001, an operatic version of Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in
Bohemia." A 1993 Pew Fellow, she serves currently as Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and she
teaches at Swarthmore College, where she is a Professor in the Department of English Literature and directs the Program in
Creative Writing.
Download a recording of this event here.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@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.
Friday, 9/24
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@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, 9/25
- 4:30 PM: Magazine Spotlight featuring DUCKY and small spiral notebook: Tom Hartman,
Managing Editor of DUCKY, and Felicia Sullivan, Editor of Small Spiral
Notebook, host an afternoon reading of poetry from the latest issues of
their magazines.
Readers include Felicia Sullivan, Elaine Bleakney and Meredith Broussard (_The Dictionary of Failed Relationships) for Small Spiral Notebook, and Helen Mallon, Texas-via-Brooklyn poet Shafer Hall and Daniel Nester, whose new book is entitled God Save My Queen II: - The Show Must Go On.
Edited and published in Philadelphia, DUCKY (www.duckymag.com) is a magazine of poetry and prose in English that features new work by some of the most original voices in contemporary literature.
About small spiral notebook: online for over three years, the auspicious literary & arts journal, small.spiral.notebook, celebrates its first print edition in 2004. small spiral notebook vision is simple: publish the very best poetry & prose free of pretension and literary politics with a special focus on emerging writers.
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, 9/26
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, 9/27
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116.301 with Marc Lapadula (lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 115.301 with Karen Rile (krile@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 202: 34th Street Poets Meeting
' 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, 9/28
- 6-8:00 PM: Art Gallery Reception
acrylic on paper, 2004
Enthalpy and Entropy
Biomorphological Transformations
by Ruslan Khais
9/8 through 10/22
Artist Reception: 9/28, 6-8pm
Ruslan Khais attended the Moldavian State Pedagogical University (Moldava) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia). Khais has exhibited internationally and has won numerous awards, among them "Best in the Show", Berman Museum of Art, and PAFA's Thomas Eakins Memorial Prize for Figure Painting. Khais' work is in numerous private collections.
Curated by Peter Schwarz
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 112.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 010.301 with Tom Devaney (tdevaney@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 5-7:00 PM in Room 202: Americanist Group. For more information, please contact Martha Schoolman (meschool@dept.english.upenn.edu).
- 6-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes, a poetry workshop. Any interested in writing poetry is welcome to attend. For more information, please contact 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.
Wednesday, 9/29
- 6:00 PM: 7-up on Gold: A luminous exploration of the color gold
The Kelly Writers House, in conjunction with the Esther Klein Gallery's Color Project, present seven members of the Writers House and Penn community speaking, reading, telling stories, and singing for seven minutes each on the color gold. Gold and Gold imagery abound in literature, art, and daily life so join us for a no-holds-barred program about this meaningful hue! Speakers include Talia Stinson, Professor of Earth and Environmental Science Hermann Pfefferkorn, Kelly Professor of English and Faculty Director & The Kelly Writers House Al Filreis, Jenny Suen, The Kelly Writers House Director Jennifer Snead and archaeologist who specializes the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean William (Brad) Hafford. Hosted and moderated by Tom Devaney. For more about this event, and an audio recording, please click here.
- 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. All are welcome! For more information, email askspeakeasy@writing.upenn.edu
- 10-11:00 AM in Room 202: English 125.306 with J.C. Hallman (JCHallman1@aol.com)
- 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 006.301 with Claire Satlof (csatlof@sas.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 155.301 with Paul Hendrickson (phendric@english.upenn.edu)
- 2-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 010.302 with Jennifer Snead (jsnead@writing.upenn.edu)
- 1:30 PM to 3 PM in Arts Cafe: Collaboration Session for New Critical Writing Program Instructors.
- 5-7:00 PM in Room 202: Marx Reading Group.
- 6:30-8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Writing Group meeting. For more information, email Carmen Lamas at lamasc@sas.upenn.edu.
- 7:00 PM in Room 202: Reality Writes, a workshop dedicated to creative nonfiction. For more information email Mary Hale Meyer at MaryHale.Meyer@jevs.org.
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, 9/30
- 4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe: Word.Doc presents an evening of narrative
medicine with Dr. Rita Charon
Join the members of Word.Doc in an open discussion/workshop about narrative medicine with Columbia University's Rita Charon.
Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D. is a general internist and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University where she directs the Programs in Narrative Medicine, Humanities and Medicine, and the Clinical Skills Assessment Program. Dr. Charon graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1978, trained in internal medicine at the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Hospital in New York, completed a year's fellowship in general internal medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1982, and has practiced general internal medicine since 1981 at Columbia. She received the Ph.D. in English at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 1999, having written her doctoral dissertation on the use of literary methods in understanding the texts and the work of medicine.
Word.Doc, a student-organized group, aims to gather undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and anyone who is interested in writing and narrative medicine to discuss and experience the ways in which medicine, narrative, literature and art inform one another in creative and useful ways. For more information, visit our website or contact Kerry Cooperman at kerryc@sas.upenn.edu.
- 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: English 016.401 with Amparo Padilla (amparo@sas.upenn.edu
- 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM in Room 202: English 135.303 with Valerie Ross (vross@writing.upenn.edu)
- 12-1:30 PM in Room 202: English 003.301 with Lydia Fisher (lydiaf@sas.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301 with Anthony DeCurtis (adecurtis@aol.com)
- 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 135.301 with Max Apple (maxapple@dept.english.upenn.edu)
- 1:30-3:00 PM in the Arts Café: English 088 with Al Filreis (afilreis@writing.upenn.edu)
- 3:30 -4:30 PM in Arts Cafe: Technology check-up with CPCW tech crew
- 5:15-7:00 PM in Room 202: The Eighteenth Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter at dporter@english.upenn.edu or Jared Richman at richman@english.upenn.edu.
- 9:00 PM in Room 202: Join members of the Writers House hub in watching the first presidential debate!
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.
