WH Calendar: September 2000 (original) (raw)

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All events take place at the Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia (U of P).

Friday, 9/1 * 9:30-11:30 in the Arts Cafe: "Voices, Vision, and Vocabulary: Poetry from Outside." You are welcome to join this New Student Orientation seminar led by Shawn Walker--two hours of fun with language, reading a few poets who operate under theories of "dictation" (like Spicer) and enjoying them and doing a few collaborative writing exercises. Any of you out there are welcome to attend, first year students or not. Write for more info if you are interested.

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Saturday, 9/2

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Sunday, 9/3

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Monday, 9/4

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Tuesday, 9/5 * 9:00-11:00 PM: Speakeasy Open Mic Night for the Class of 2004! New Student Orientation Program: Join the students at Writers House for this year's first of the popular bi-weekly series, Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. Bring your stories, poems, monologues, comedies, or simply come to listen and soak it all in!

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Wednesday, 9/6

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Thursday, 9/7 * 4:00-6:00 PM: Writers House folks at Graduate and Professional New Student Reception and Resource Fair in Annenberg

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Friday, 9/8 * 3:30 PM: Suppose An Eyes: A Poetry Working Group meets in Room 209

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Saturday, 9/9

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Sunday, 9/10

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Monday, 9/11

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Tuesday, 9/12 * 4:30 PM: Planning Committee Meeting and Gathering

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Wednesday, 9/13 * 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes

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Thursday, 9/14

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Friday, 9/15

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Saturday, 9/16

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Sunday, 9/17 * 11:00 PM: Live at the Writers House airs on 88.5 FM WXPN

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Monday, 9/18 * 4:00-6:00 PM: Theorizing in Particular presents Slavoj Zizek, speaking on "A Lacanian Plea for Fundamentalism." This program will be webcast. Co-sponsored by the English Department, the French Institute for Culture and Technology, the German Department, the History Department, the Kelly Writers House, the Philadelphia Lacan Study Group and Seminar, the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and the Religious Studies Department. Reception to follow.
Slavoj Zizek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana/ Slovenia. His many books include The Sublime Object of Ideology, Tarrying with the Negative, The Ticklish Subject, and most recently, The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For.
Listen to an audio recording of this event. * 7:30-10:00 PM in Room 209: The Fish Writing Group.

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Tuesday, 9/19

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*** 9-10:30 AM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-301 (Lamas)** *** 10:30-12 PM in Room 202: Comp Lit 009-303 (Lamas)** *** 10:30-12 PM in Room 209: English 65 (Barnard)** *** 3-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 135 (Kuriloff)** *** 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 145 (Hendrickson)** *** 6:00-7:00 PM in Room 202: Xconnect staff meeting** *** 7:00-10:00 PM in Room 209: Penn Review meeting**

Wednesday, 9/20 * A Franz Kafka translation program, organized by the German Department in conjunction with the Penn Freshmen Reading Program and co-sponsored by the Kelly Writers House.
4:00-6:00 PM: Uneasy Pieces: Translating Franz Kafka and Robert Walser. A seminar and workshop for undergraduate and graduate students led by Susan Bernofsky (Bard College).
8:00 PM: The Task of Translation: Gregor Samsa's Metamorphosis into an American and Other Transformations. A discussion with Susan Bernofsky (translator of Robert Walser, The Robber) and Stanley Corngold (translator of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and author of the novel Borrowed Lives. A reception with follow.
Susan Bernofksy is the translator of two works of fiction by Robert Walser--the novel The Robber and _Masquerade and Other Stories_--as well as Gregor von Rezzori's Anecdotage. She teaches German at Bard College and is currently completing a book on translation theory and practice in the German Romantic period.
Stanley Corngold has written four books of criticism, The Commentator's Despair: The Interpretation of Kafka's "Metamorphosis", The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory,, Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form and Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature, is translator and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Metamorphosis, and author of a novel, Borrowed Lives (with Irene Giersing).

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Thursday, 9/21

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Friday, 9/22 * 2:00 PM: Volunteer Info meeting for Gear Up after-school writing program with 7th graders at Lea Elementary

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Saturday, 9/23 * 11:00 AM-6:30 PM: Clark Park Festival at 43rd and Baltimore. Writers House will have a table with calendars and poems -- come by and see us! * 1:30-3:30 PM: Saturday Reading Cooperative Tutor Information Session * 4:00 PM: The Laughing Hermit Reading Series presents Anne Colwell and Marisa de los Santos
Anne Colwell is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware Parallel Program in Georgetown. Her book, Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1997. Her first book of poems,Believing Their Shadows, has been a finalist for the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham Prize, the Anhinga Prize, New Issues Poetry Prize and the Quarterly Review of Literature. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including, most recently, California Quarterly, Evansville Review, Phoebe, Eclectic Literary Forum, Southern Poetry Review, and Writer's Voice. Poetry is also at the heart of her research interests and she has published several essays concerning American poets, including an article in Conneticut Review on Anne Bradstreet and Affliction/Conversion Narrative and an article in Journal X about Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Fish." She lives in Milton, Delaware.
Marisa de los Santos was educated at the University of Virginia, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Houston. Her first book of poems_From the Bones Out_ was published in April 2000 in the University of South Carolina Press's James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Chelsea, among others. She has received a Delaware Arts Council Grant and a Rona Jaffe Writers Award. She is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware and lives with her husband David Teague and their young son Charles in Philadelphia.

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Sunday, 9/24

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Monday, 9/25 * 3:00-4:30 PM in the Arts Cafe at Writers House: Information meeting for 2001 Pew Fellowships in the Arts. With Christine Miller from Pew.
The Pew Fellowships in the Arts provides financial support directly to artists so that they may have the opportunity to dedicate themselves wholly to the development of their artwork for up to two years. A goal of the Pew Fellowhips in the Arts is to provide such support at a moment in an artist's career when a concentration on artistic development and exploration is most likely to contribute to personal and professional growth. The art forms that will be selected in 2001 include Fiction and Creative Nonfiction, Media Arts (Audio, Film, Video), Photography and Printmaking. To be eligible for the Pew Fellowships you must be a Pennsylvania resident of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery or Philadelphia county, be 25 years of age or older, and you may not be a full or part-time matriculated student. For more information, come to this informational meeting!

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Tuesday, 9/26 * 5:00 PM: The Writers House welcomes Gerd Stern for a reading and discussion, followed by a dinner (RSVP for dinner required to wh@writing.upenn.edu or 215-746-POEM).
Gerd Stern's book First Poems and Others was published in 1952. A second volume, Afterimage appeared in 1965. During the early sixties Stern started using cut out words to create visual collages, and soon after that started making kinetic pieces using flashing lights, and electro-mechanical components to construct poem sculptures. These were first shown at New York's Alan Stone Gallery and in Stern's first one-person show at the San Francisco Museum of Art. The next phase of work included multi-channel word visuals and sounds cut out of the real world, titled "the Verbal American Landscape." Influenced by Marshall McLuhan's written work, Stern appeared and was associated with McLuhan for a number of years. Stern was one of the founders of "USCO" a group of artists, engineers and poets creating multi-media performances and environments which toured the U.S. museum and university venues during the sixties. Their work appeared at the Museum of Modern Art, Brandeis University, University of California, Walker Art Museum, the Riverside Museum and many others. USCO also designed one of the first multi-media discotheques, named, "The World" featured on the cover of Life Magazine. Stern now lives in New Jersey and also spends time at his home, "Poetreef" on the island of Jamaica. Click here for more info about Gerd Stern.

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Wednesday, 9/27 * Tentative: 6:00 PM: Women's Long Poems Discussion Group * 7:00 PM: Introductory meeting for Manuck! Manuck! a fiction writing group. RSVP required to jeffre34@wharton.upenn.edu. * 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes * Tonight's meeting cancelled: 7:00-8:30 PM in Room 209: Lacanian Reading and Writing Group

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Thursday, 9/28 * 6:00 PM: Reading by fiction writer Rick Moody, hosted by the Kelly Writers House and the Creative Writing Department.
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Rick Moody's novels are Garden State (Pushcart Press, 1992), The Ice Storm (Little, Brown & Co., 1994), and Purple America (Little, Brown & Co., 1997). He also has a collection of stories, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven (Little, Brown & Co., 1995), and has co-edited, with Darcey Steinke, the anthology Joyful Noise: The New Testament Revisited (Little, Brown & Co., 1997). His short work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. His forthcoming collection of stories, Demonology, will be published in winter of 2001.
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Friday, 9/29

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Saturday, 9/30

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