WH Calendar: September 2007 (original) (raw)

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

Saturday, 9/1

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Sunday, 9/2

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Monday, 9/3

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Tuesday, 9/4

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Wednesday, 9/5

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Thursday, 9/6

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Friday, 9/7

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Saturday, 9/8

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Sunday, 9/9

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Monday, 9/10

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Tuesday, 9/11

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Wednesday, 9/12

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Thursday, 9/13

Bernadette Mayer writes in poetry and prose. She was born in Brooklyn, New York; she has been involved in the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York for many years, teaching workshops and serving as director of the program in the 1980s. She has worked as the co-editor for United Artists Press and the journal 0 TO 9. Her works include Two Haloed Mourners: Poems (Granary Books, 1998), Proper Name and Other Stories (New Directions, 1996), The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters (Hard Press, 1994), Sonnets (Tender Buttons, 1989), Midwinter Day (Turtle Island Foundation, 1982), The Golden Book of Words (Angel Hair, 1978), and_Ceremony Latin_ (Angel Hair, 1964). She is also known for her wonderful dancing.

Lee Ann Brown is Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. She is a poet and filmmaker whose first book, Polyverse (Sun & Moon, 1999), won the New American Poetry Series Award. Her second book, The Sleep That Changed Everything, appeared in 2003 from Wesleyan. She is also the founder and editor of the small press Tender Buttons.

This reading was recorded, and is available on PENNsound, along with individual Close Listening conversations with Charles Bernstein.

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Friday, 9/14

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Saturday, 9/15

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Sunday, 9/16

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Monday, 9/17

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Tuesday, 9/18

Michael Thomas Vassallo introduces the program. David Kessler's Shadow World

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Wednesday, 9/19

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Thursday, 9/20

Rae Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California, and grew up in San Diego. She is associated with the first generation of West Coast Language poets. She has published nine books of poetry, including_Extremities_ (The Figures, 1978), The Invention of Hunger (Tuumba, 1979),Precedence (Burning Deck, 1985), Necromance (Sun and Moon, 1991), and, most recently, Next Life (Wesleyan UP, 2007), as well as a memoir, True(Atelos, 1998). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies. She currently teaches writing at the University of California, San Diego.

This reading was recorded, and is available on PENNsound.

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Friday, 9/21

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Saturday, 9/22

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Sunday, 9/23

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Monday, 9/24

Emily Abendroth lives and works in Philadelphia. Less sea-girted and deep-girdled than she might wish, she was grateful for this reason to nuzzle snout with such waterlogged sequences - amongst the most pleasing embarking "when I had glutted myself with rolling about."

Justin Audia lives in Philadelphia. He learned everything he knows about sailors from Kenneth Anger, Herman Melville, and Guy Maddin.

Julia Bloch is the winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and the William Carlos Williams Prize for Poetry. Find recent work in Bay Poetics (Faux Press).

CA Conrad is the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2007), The Frank Poems (Chax Press, 2008). You can find him online at CAConrad.blogspot.com and at PhillySound.blogspot.com.

Ryan Eckes received his M.A. in poetry in 2007. The title of his thesis was Stolen Cars, which was a winner of the Frances Israel Manuscript Prize. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Exquisite Corpse, Vert,Main Street Rag, streetnotes, Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry, and others.

With a revolving instrumentation that usually includes violin, cello, guitar, organ, & percussion, My Invisible have been described as maintaining "a punk-rock subversiveness while gleefully coloring outside the lines of genre limitations. They're wry changelings, equally at home crafting waltz-time laments as they are writing off-the-cuff paeans to their favorite Detroit Piston. They even have their own cheer" (The Phoenix). Their song, "Implicit/Complicit," from their eponymous first album, is in the film for Book 15 of The Odyssey.
Tonight, Carolina Maugeri & Popahna Brandes of My Invisible will collaborate with Jack Grauer on new music.
For more information on My Invisible & CDs, go to www.myspace.com/myinvisible.

LIVE at the Writers House is a long-standing collaboration between the Kelly Writers House and WXPN FM (88.5). Six times annually between September and April, Michaela Majounhosts a one-hour broadcast of poetry, music, and other spoken-word art, along with one musical guest, all from our Arts Cafe onto the airwaves at WXPN. LIVE is made possible by generous support from BigRoc. For more information, contact Producer Erin Gautsche (gautsche@writing.upenn.edu).

This program is a preview event for the 215 Festival. For more information, please go to www.215festival.com.

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Tuesday, 9/25

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Wednesday, 9/26

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Thursday, 9/27

Media Credit: Pete Lodato

Alan Light is the author of The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys. He is the former editor in chief of Vibe, Spin, and Tracks magazines, and a former senior writer for Rolling Stone. He currently writes for the New York Times, Spin and other publications, and he was the founding editor of Tracks Magazine. He is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller Tupac Shakur and The Vibe History of Hip Hop.

Read The Daily Pennsylvanian's coverage of this event here.

About The Skills to Pay the Bills, The Story of the Beastie Boys:

In 1987, three white Jewish boys from New York City were the most fascinating phenomenon in the burgeoning rap music scene. No, really. The Beastie Boys, barely out of their teens, had just released_Licensed to Ill_, which quickly became the first hip-hop album to reach number one on the charts. Pairing vulgar and hilarious lyrics with heavy-metal-derived musical backing and a punk DIY attitude, the Beasties�MCA (Adam Yauch), King Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz), and Mike D (Michael Diamond)�changed the face of rap forever by bringing it into the mainstream. In the years that followed, they would change it again and again�musically, culturally, and politically.

To create The Skills to Pay the Bills, Alan Light spent years taping conversations with the group, their friends, roommates, producers, engineers, collaborators, and other artists from Madonna to Chuck D. Here, as told from the inside, is the fascinating tale of three rump-shaking, innovative rappers whose albums still go platinum and whose tours continue to fill arenas after more than two decades of making music. The Skills to Pay the Bills chronicles the Beasties� unique journey from the hardcore New York underground to the top of the Billboard charts. It is a story of larger-than-life personalities, noble causes, funky beats, and truly one of the most influential and ambitious groups of all time.

- Random House

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Friday, 9/28

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Saturday, 9/29

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Sunday, 9/30

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