WH Calendar: September 2003 (original) (raw)

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

Monday, 9/1

• New Student Orientation
• House Opens at 1:00 PM
• 7:00 to 9:00 PM: Join us for **Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, & Anything Goes,**an open mic performance night spotlighting the Class of 2007. 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.edufor more info.

Tuesday, 9/2

• 12:00 - 4:00 PM: New Student Orientation Open House at the Writers House!
• 4:30 PM: Writers House Work-Study Staff Orientation 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.edufor more info.

Wednesday, 9/3

• First Day of Classes

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.edufor more info.

• 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 10.302: Creative Writing (Daisy Fried, daisyf1@juno.com)

Thursday, 9/4

• 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Writers House Open Today. We will be open for regular hours starting Monday, 9/8.

Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edufor more info.

• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301: The Arts and Popular Culture (Anthony DeCurtis, adecurtis@aol.com)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)

Friday, 9/5

• 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM: Writers House Open Today. We will be open for regular hours starting Monday, 9/8.

Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edufor more info.

Saturday, 9/6

• Writers House closed

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.edufor more info.

Sunday, 9/7

• Writers House closed

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.edufor more info.

Monday, 9/8

• Writers House open for regular hours!
• 5:00 PM: Planning Committee meeting and gathering. (For more information about the "hub," write to wh@writing.upenn.edu)
• "Seeing the Self: Young Artists Explore Themselves through Pictures and Words" exhibit opens. It will run until 9/30.

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.edufor more info.

• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Robert Strauss, straussr@english.upenn.edu)
• 5:30-7:30 PM in Room 202: Penn and Pencil Club. For more information, or to join, contact John Shea at john.shea@uphs.upenn.edu.
• 5:15-7:00 PM in Room 209: The Eighteenth-Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter (dporter@english.upenn.edu) or Jared Richman (richman@english.upenn.edu).
• 7:45 PM-10:45 PM in Room 202: The Excelano Project: Spoken Word Group (Auditions) for more information contact Obinna Obilo (oobilo@wharton).

Tuesday, 9/9

• 5:30-7:00 PM: Art Gallery Reception: "Seeing the Self: Young Artists Explore Themselves through Pictures and Words."
  Three teenage youths from The Attic, a Center City community center for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered youth, explore their lives through the medium of photography. Concieved and facilitated by KWH 2002 Junior Fellow Blake Martin, with assistance provided by Writers House Art Curator Peter Schwarz. The show will run from 9/2 through 9/30/03.

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.edufor more info.

• 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 Eyes Poetry Group. For more information, or to join, contact Pat Green at patgreen@mail.vet.upenn.edu.
• 6:30-7:15 PM in Room 202: Hollywood Club Board Meeting
• 7:30 PM-10:45 PM in Room 202: The Excelano Project: Spoken Word Group (Auditions) for more information contact Obinna Obilo (oobilo@wharton).

Wednesday, 9/10

• 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. 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.edufor more info.

• 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 10.302: Creative Writing (Daisy Fried, daisyf1@juno.com)

Thursday, 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.edufor more info.

• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301: The Arts and Popular Culture (Anthony DeCurtis, adecurtis@aol.com)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
• 7:30 PM-10:45 PM in Room 202: The Excelano Project: Spoken Word Group (Auditions) for more information contact Obinna Obilo (oobilo@wharton).
• 8:30-10:00 PM in the Living Room: "Reading in the Drawing Room" with Myra Lotto's ENGL 001.309. Tonight: Robinson Crusoe. For more information contact Myra Lotto (mlotto@english.upenn.edu).

Friday, 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.edufor more info.

Saturday, 9/13

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.edufor more info.

Sunday, 9/14

Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edufor more info.

Monday, 9/15

• WH Coordinator Hold

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.edufor more info.

• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Robert Strauss, straussr@english.upenn.edu)
• 7-9 PM in Room 209: Write On! Coordinators and Coaches Meeting

Tuesday, 9/16

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.edufor more info.

• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Robert Strauss, straussr@english.upenn.edu)
• 8:00-10:00 PM in Room 202: Philosophy Circle Meeting

Wednesday, 9/17

• 6:30 PM: A Night of New Translations -- featuring poet-translatorsEugene Ostashevsky, Marcella Durand, and Craig Dworkin, hosted by Caroline Crumpacker.
  The bilingual poetry reading series presents bi-(and sometimes tri- and quatre- etcetera) readings of poetry and by poets from all over the world. We look to represent some of the dialogues taking place between poets in different countries, and to foster further dialogue. Tonight's reading will look at some of the influences of modernism on poetries from Brazil, Russia and France.
  Eugene Ostashevsky translates Russian absurdist poetry of the 1930s by members of the OBERIU group: Aleksandr Vvedensky, Nikolai Zabolotsky and Daniil Kharms. He was awarded the 2003 Wytter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. His translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Fence, Conjunctions, Modern Poetry in Translation, Common Knowledge, New American Writing and the_Germ_.
  Marcella Durand is the author of a full-length collection, Western Capital Rhapsodies (Faux Press, 2001), as well as several chapbooks, including City of Ports (Situations, 1999). She is currently co-editing an anthology of contemporary French poetry, forthcoming from Talisman House, and the editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter. Her essays, poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Ecopoetics, Chain, Fence, Verse, Fulcrum,Poesie, and other journals.
  Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading The Illegible(Northwestern UP) and the editor of Eclipse and the UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing. His edition of the collected poems of Vito Acconci will be published in January. He will be reading from my translation of Haroldo de Campo's book _Signantia Quasi Coelum_[Paradisiacal Signifiers], which will be published in The De Campos Reader, Ed. Sergio Bessa and Odile Cisneros (forthcoming later this year from Northwestern UP).
  You can hear a recording of the program in mp3 format here.

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.edufor more info.

• 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 10.302: Creative Writing (Daisy Fried, daisyf1@juno.com)
• 6:30 to 8:00 PM in Room 209: Lacan Study Group. For more information, email lamasc@sas.upenn.edu
• 7:00 to 9:00 PM in Publications Office: xconnect meeting
• 7:30 PM in Room 202: Manuck!Manuck!, a group that meets every other Wednesday throughout the semester to share and discuss fiction written by its members (Fred Ollinger: follinge@piconap.com)

Thursday, 9/18

• 6:30 PM: The Kerry Prize Talk featuring Sesshu Foster and Karen Tei Yamashita hosted by Mytili Jagannathan, in collaboration with the Asian Arts Initiative.
  Sesshu Foster is the author of two books of poetry, Angry Days and City Terrace Field Manual, and a recent novel, Atomik Aztex. He also co-edited the anthology Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry. 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.edufor more info.

• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301: The Arts and Popular Culture (Anthony DeCurtis, adecurtis@aol.com)

• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)

Friday, 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.edufor more info.

Saturday, 9/20

• 4:30 PM: "Personal Mythologies II" with Katie Haegele, Adam Fieled, and Brian Freedman
  What inspires artists to create? In this performance, writers Freedman, Haegele, and Fieled will attempt to answer this and other questions, in the process giving the audience a peek into the realm of personal myth. Dreams will be delineated, fancies set forth, and the artist's shamanic self revealed. These writers will emphasize what experiences, feelings, and circumstances have compelled them to create a "personal mythology". You will hear both the work and what is behind it"
  Brian Freedman received his BA from Penn State and his MA from NYU. His writing has appeared in The Wine Spectator and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He recently finished his first novel,"Shock-Art."
  Katie Haegele is a contributing editor for the _Philadelphia Weekly,_where she writes a book column. Her creative non-fiction has appeared in the Utne Reader, Adbusters, and MediaBistro.com. She received a BA in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998.
  Adam Fieled is a poet, musician, and playwright. He has released two albums: "Darkyr Sooner" (all music) on mp3.com, and "Raw Rainy Fog," on Radio Eris Records (spoken word). He is the founder of This Charming Lab, an artists co-op that has staged shows, with local and national acts, at venues like the Khyber, La Tazza 108, and, yes, the Kelly Writers House. He is finishing a BA at the University of Pennsylvania. For more information email Adam Fieled at: afieled@hotmail.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.edufor more info.

Sunday, 9/21

• 10:00 AM - ?? in the Arts Cafe: "Austen 'til It Hurts": A Marathon Reading of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey cosponsored by the English Undergraduate Advisory Board.

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.edufor more info.

• 6:00-7:00 PM in Room 209: Steering Committee Meeting of the Undergraduate Writing Advising Program

Monday, 9/22

Please note that some of the discussions and classes listed below are open to the public and some require advance registration or enrollment. Call 215-746-POEM or e-mail wh@writing.upenn.edufor more info.

• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Robert Strauss, straussr@english.upenn.edu)
• 7:00-8:00 PM in Room 202: Write-On! New Coaches' Information Session
• 8:30-9:30 PM in Room 202: Write On! New Coaches' Information Session

Tuesday, 9/23

• 4:30 - 6:00 PM: Proposals Hublet Meeting. For more information emailtdevaney@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.edufor more info.

• 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)
• 5:15-7:00 PM in Room 202: The Eighteenth-Century Reading Group. For more information contact Dahlia Porter (dporter@english.upenn.edu) or Jared Richman (richman@english.upenn.edu).
• 6:00-8:00 PM in Room 209: Suppose An Eyes Poetry Group. For more information, or to join, contact Pat Green at patgreen@mail.vet.upenn.edu.

Wednesday, 9/24

• 8:00 PM: Speakeasy: Poetry, Prose, and Anything Goes, an open mic performance night. 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.edufor more info.

• 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 10.302: Creative Writing (Daisy Fried, daisyf1@juno.com)
• 8:30 PM in Room 202: Inaugural meeting for fresh buckets, a new literary/arts publication at Penn. For more information contact Jeremy Greenfield (brod5green@aol.com).

Thursday, 9/25

• 7:30 PM: The Writers House community welcomes eminent poet, literary critic, and performance artist Charles Bernstein. Reading, discussion and reception. RSVP to rsvpcharles@writing.upenn.edu
  Charles Bernstein is perhaps best known as one of the founders of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement of the 1970s. He remains one of America's liveliest advocates and practitioners of radically inventive poetry. The title of his new collection, With Strings, suggests the lush arrangement of a musical work as well as the unacknowledged implications of our everyday agreements. Just as language binds us together with its associated meanings, With Strings bounces against the ties that rend us apart as they fasten us together. From his samplings of everyday life, to his demented yet sonorous iambic beats, Bernstein has once again created a poetry of our time, for our time, and by our time.
  He will teach as a member of the English department's creative writing faculty. And we are very pleased that he has joined the writers and teachers and students and friends of writing at the Kelly Writers House who call our house a literary home away from home.
  Click here for a summary of Bernstein's life and work. Clickfor a recording of the reading (MP3 files).

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.edufor more info.

• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 202: English 117.301: The Arts and Popular Culture (Anthony DeCurtis, adecurtis@aol.com)
• 1:30-4:30 PM in Room 209: English 10.301: Creative Writing (Tom Devaney, tdevaney@english.upenn.edu)
• 8:30-10:00 PM in Room 209: "Reading in the Drawing Room" with Myra Lotto's ENGL 001.309. Tonight:Persuasion. For more information contact Myra Lotto (mlotto@english.upenn.edu).

Friday, 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.edufor more info.

Saturday, 9/27

• 4:30 PM: A book signing with Monique Gordon author of the poetry activity book for children Binky's Words.
  Monique Gordon is a native of Philadelphia who has been writing poetry since childhood. Her vivid memories of adventurous journeys inspire verses and stories for all age levels, including Binky's Words, a poetry activity book for ages 10-13. Gordon has performed in numerous venues, such as The Book Corner for Friends of the Free Library, LIVE at Writers House, and October Gallery LIVE. Gordon participated in U. Penn Veterans Administration Hospital "Centennial Reflection for W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk," and wrote, produced, and designed props for a play featured in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2002-03. Gordon teaches for the Philadelphia Board of Education.

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.edufor more info.

Sunday, 9/28

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.edufor more info.

Monday, 9/29

• 12:00 - 1:30 PM: The Alumni Visitors Series hosts a lunch program with poet and Atlanta Review editor Lee Passarella. Please RSVP to wh@writing.upenn.edu.
  The poetry of Lee Passarella has appeared in Chelsea; Cream City Review; The Formalist; Antietam Review; Mediphors; The Literary Review; The Wallace Stevens Journal; War, Literature, & the Arts; The Writer's Journal; PoetryBay; Red River Review; and other periodicals. Work is forthcoming in Tar River Poetry, Edge City Review, and Raintown Review. His long narrative poem based on the American Civil War, Swallowed Up in Victory, published by White Mane Books, appeared in May 2002.
  He works as senior technical writer for a major producer of accounting software. Passarella also teaches English part-time at Georgia Perimeter College in Lawrenceville, Georgia, and acts as senior literary editor for Atlanta Review magazine.
• 8:00 PM: A 2-1-5 festival Warm-up - Live at the Writers House, featuring Jay Kirk, Iain Levison, Elisa Ludwig, Steve Volk, Kathleen Volk Miller, Tom Devaney and musical guest A Wayward Wind, will tape in the Arts Cafe.
  Jay Kirk has written for Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Chicago Reader, Philadelphia City Paper, The Nation, and Nerve.com. His first story for Harper's, "My Pimp, My Undertaker," was selected for Best American Crime Writing 2003.
  Iain Levison is the author of A Working Stiff's Manifesto (Random House, pb), an account of his post-collegiate work experience, consisting of forty-two jobs in ten years. He lives in Philadelphia, where he once worked as an Emergency Medical Technician while attending Villanova. Levison was born in Scotland and raised in the U.S. He served in the Royal Highland Fusiliers. Since The Layoffs (Soho Press, hc) is his first novel.
  Elisa Ludwig is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. Her restaurant reviews have appeared in the Philadelphia City Paper since 2002 and she has written features about food for Gourmet, Eating Well, and the New York Post, among others.
  Steve Volk has worked at Alternative Weeklies in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia for most of the last six years, writing about 50 cover stories on everything from cabbies and cops to coroners and capo di capos. He has freelanced to_Rolling Stone_ and the Philadelphia Inquirer, among other publications.
  Kathleen Volk Miller is Director of the Camden Online Poetry Project, a multi-disciplinary Internship program which helps produce the Painted Bride Quarterly, Mickle Street Review, and the _Nick Virgilio Poetry Project.She is also managing editor of the Painted Bride Quarterly. She writes fiction, essays and articles
  Tom Devaney is the author of_The American Pragmatist Fell in Love (Banshee Press). He teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania where he is coordinator of the Kelly Writers House. Devaney is a regular free-lance writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer and for the past two years he has helped to plan the 2-1-5 festival and most recently The Philly Sound: New Poetry Weekend

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.edufor more info.

• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 202: English 116: Screenwriting (Marc Lapadula, lapadula@dept.english.upenn.edu)
• 2:00-5:00 PM in Room 209: English 145: Advanced Non-fiction Writing (Robert Strauss, straussr@english.upenn.edu)
• 8:00 PM in Room 202: Addendum Writing Club and Literary Magazing introductory meeting; for information, contact Alicia Oltuski (Licicom@aol.com).
• 10:00-10:30 PM in Room 209: Steering Committee Meeting of the Undergraduate Writing Advising Program

Tuesday, 9/30

• 4:30 PM: The Poet & Painter Series presents Lytle Shaw andEmilie Clark, in collaboration with the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvaniaand the Creative Writing Program.
  Lytle Shaw's books include The Lobe (Roof) and Cable Factory 20 (Atelos).
  Emilie Clark has collobrated on a mixed media book entitled_The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill_ with the poet Lyn Hejinian (Granary Press). Shaw and Clark have worked on several collaborations and both co-edit Shark, a journal of art and writing.
• "Seeing the Self: Young Artists Explore Themselves through Pictures and Words" will close today.

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.edufor more info.

• 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)