WH Calendar: October 2003 (original) (raw)

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

Wednesday, 10/1

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.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)
7:30 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@piconap.com)

Thursday, 10/2

4:30 PM: Meet Fletcher Roberts, Music Editor, Sunday New York Times Arts and Leisure Section, for light snacks and conversation. Hosted by Anthony DeCurtis in conjunction with his class The Arts and Popular Culture. For more on this series, click here.

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)
7:00-9:30 PM in Room 202: English 1.307 (Jessica Lowenthal, jalowent@dept.english.upenn.edu)

Friday, 10/3

2:00-4:00 PM in Room 202: Talk Poets read Fanny Howe andRodrigo Toscano - email jalowent@dept.english.upenn.edufor more information.

Saturday, 10/4

Sunday, 10/5

11:00 PM: A 2-1-5 festival Warm-up - Live at the Writers House, featuring Jay Kirk, Iain Levison, Elisa Ludwig, Kathleen Volk Miller, Tom Devaney and musical guest A Wayward Wind, will air on 88.5-FM, WXPN.
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 who is especially obsessed with books and food. She writes about these topics for City Paper, Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle and Publishers Weekly, among others.
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 recentlyThe Philly Sound: New Poetry Weekend

Monday, 10/6

5:00 PM: Planning Committee meeting and gathering. (For more information about the "hub," write to wh@writing.upenn.edu).

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.
10:00-10:30 PM in Room 209: Steering Committee Meeting of the Undergraduate Writing Adving program

Tuesday, 10/7

12:00 PM: A lunchtime conversation with editors from The Land-Grant College Review Dave Koch and Josh Melrod, hosted byKaren Rile. RSVP to: wh@writing.upenn.edu
6:30 PM: The Alumni Visiting Series presents a reading by short story writer and editor Dave Koch and author Josh Melrod, hosted by Karen Rile.
Dave Koch graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 and now attends the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis, where he's also been awarded a teaching fellowship. Last summer, he attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Middlebury, VT on a "waiter's" fellowship. He founded the Land-Grant College Review with Josh Melrod in April 2002 and has been working on it night and day ever since.
Josh Melrod briefly attended the MFA program for creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis. His stories have appeared in numerous small literary journals. For the past two summers he attended the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia. Today he lives in New York and edits the Land-Grant College Review.

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.
5:15-7:30 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).
7:30-9:00 PM in Room 202: The Fish Writing Group (Nancy Hoffmann, nhoffmann@earthlink.net)

Wednesday, 10/8

6:00 - 8:00 PM: The 2-1-5 Literary Festival & the Kelly Writers House presents and evening with BigSmallPress an alliance of four independent book/literary journal publishers: Fence,McSweeney's,Open City, and Verse Press. The collective works together to promote new and unusual writers outside of the mainstream publishing system.
Hosted by Rebecca Wolff and Matthew Zapruder
Featured Readers Include:
Anthony McCann --Fence Books;
Anthony McCann's poems have appeared in various publications in North America and abroad. His first full length North American collection is Father of Noise, published by Fence Books and Saturnalia Books this year. He works as an English as a Second Language teacher in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives with his wife. On the 8th of October Anthony will be coming directly from Lithuania, where he was invited to read in the Druskininkai Poetic Autumn Festival by the Lithuanian government.
Jocko Weyland -- Open City;
Jocko Weyland is a contributing editor to Open City magazine and his writing has appeared in numerous magazines including Thrasher, The New York Times Magazine, Metropolis, and www.mrbellersneighborhood.com. His book The Answer is Never: A Skateboarder's History of the World was published by Grove in 2002.
Samantha Hunt --McSweeney's;
Samantha Hunt is an artist and writer from New York. Her first play, The Difference Engine, a look at the life and inventions of Charles Babbage, is currently in production. At the moment she is finishing a novel about electricity.
Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer --Verse Press.
Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer have collected their one word at a time collaborative poems, ranging from a few words to several pages, in Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and their live collaborations on last year�s cross-country tour are compiled on a CD due this fall. These two innovative poetic voices continue to excite and move audiences with poems created on the spot.
9:00 - 11:00 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 10.302: Creative Writing (Daisy Fried, daisyf1@juno.com)

Thursday, 10/9

The 2-1-5 Literary Festival
For more information about the festival see 2-1-5 Literary Festival website

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, 10/10

11:00-12:30 PM in the Publications Room: Write On! Coaches' Training Session
3:00-4:30 PM: John Edgar Wideman Conference
Roundtable Conversation featuring John Edgar Wideman, Daniel Wideman and Albert French. This event is co-sponsored by the John Edgar Wideman Society and the Kelly Writers House. Space is extremely limited. To rsvp, email the Writers House at wh@writing.upenn.edu.
Listen to a recording of this event.
The 2-1-5 Literary Festival
For more information about the festival see 2-1-5 Literary Festival website

Saturday, 10/11

Fall Break
The 2-1-5 Literary Festival
For more information about the festival see 2-1-5 Literary Festival website

Sunday, 10/12

Fall Break
The 2-1-5 Literary Festival
For more information about the festival see 2-1-5 Literary Festival website

Monday, 10/13

Fall Break

Tuesday, 10/14

Fall Break

Wednesday, 10/15

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
7:30 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, 10/16

4:30 PM: A reading and talk with Novelist and Former Editor of Vibe Magazine Danyel Smith. Hosted by Anthony DeCurtis in conjunction with his class The Arts and Popular Culture. For more on this series, clickhere. Listen to an audio recording of this event.

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)
4:30-6:00PM in Room 202: The Mods meeting. For more information contact Matt Hart (matthart@dept.english.upenn.edu)
7:00-9:00 PM in Room 202: Write On! Coaches' Training Session
8:30-10:00 PM in the Living Room: "Reading in the Drawing Room" with Myra Lotto's ENGL 001.309. Tonight: Frankenstein. For more information contact Myra Lotto (mlotto@english.upenn.edu).

Friday, 10/17

Poetics Weekend

Saturday, 10/18

Poetics Weekend
8 PM: Kelly Writers House, Penn's Creative Writing Program, and the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania present:Poetry and Empire: Post-Invasion Poeticsat the Institute for Contemporary Art (118 S. 36th St.)
To attend RSVP to:rsvppostinvasion@writing.upenn.edu
Featuring: Herman Beavers, Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei Brussenbrugge, Tim Carmody, Tom Devaney Greg Djanikian, Tim Donnelly, Rachel DuPlessis, Al Filreis, Michael Fried, Allen Grossman, Saskia Hamilton, Matt Hart, Fanny Howe, Erica Hunt, John Koethe, Jessica Lowenthal, Mark McMorris, Peter Middleton, Matt Merlino, Tracy Morris, Jennifer Moxley, Jena Osman, Bob Perelman, Bernie Rhie, Kathy Lou Schultz, Frank Sherlock, James Sherry, Josh Schuster, Ron Silliman, Rod Smith, Jennifer Snead, Susan Stewart, Rodrigo Toscano, and Rosmarie Waldrop.
This program was recorded and is available on PENNsound.

Sunday, 10/19

Poetics Weekend

Monday, 10/20

8:00 PM: an all WH HUB Live at the Writers House, featuring Al Filreis, Randall Couch, Sam Barrow, Seth Laracy, Adrienne Mishkin and musical guest **Phil Sandick + the Penny Loafers,**will tape in the Arts Cafe.
Al Filreis has been a member of Penn's faculty since 1985 and he's been an executive producer of this show since its inception 7 years ago. Al has published four books and is finishing his fifth--which is about what happened to modern poets when anticommunists got hold of them in the 1950s.
Randall Couch is a poet, translator, and critic whose work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Lone Star Review, the Philadelphia Inquirer, XConnect and elsewhere. A recent graduate of the MFA program at Warren Wilson College, he received a 2000 poetry fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He serves on the planning committee of Penn's Kelly Writers House, and is an adjunct professor of English at Arcadia University.
Phil Sandick graduated in May from the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in English. He is an Assistant Program Coordinator at the Kelly Writers House. As an undergrad, he sang as a tenor with Penny Loafers, a co-ed a cappella group on Penn's campus. Last year, Phil was involved with "Write On" at the Writers House, where he served as a writing coach with students from the Lea School. He also writes fiction and short stories.
Samantha Barrow is one of the new Assistant Program Coordinators at the Kelly Writers House. She is a local activist and poet, who helped to organize Ladyfest Philly, a four day, not-for-profit festival showcasing women's art and activism. In the Summer of 2002 she received a Leeway Grant to ride her motorcycle across the country and do readings at a variety of venues.
Seth Laracy is a senior in the College majoring in Psychology. He has worked at the Writers House since he was a freshman. He is currently working on making every poem ever read at the Writers House available online. Seth writes stories and poems and every once in a while throws together a stand-up comedy act.
Adrienne Mishkin graduated from Penn with a degree in English and the Biological Basis of Behavior in May of 2003. During her undergraduate years she was an active member of the hub and was one of the coordinators of the speakeasy open mic series. Since graduation, she has been working for the Hospital of the University, and has maintained strong ties with the house, including collecting and producing poetry about the house as part of the Junior Fellows program, and continuing to attend speakeasy and various hub functions.
Penny Loafers is an award winning, co-ed a cappella group at the University of Pennsylvania. They perform many gigs around campus, including this years Freshman Convocation. The Loafers have recorded six CD's including their latest release, "Stealing Time."
TO RETURN TO PENN'S HOMEPAGE CLICK HERE

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)
10:00-10:30 PM in Room 209: Steering Committee Meeting of the Undergraduate Writing Adving program

Tuesday, 10/21

A CPCW PROGRAM

3:00-4:30 PM: A Conversation with Peter Middleton, followed by a reading of his poetry at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, 3808 Walnut Street -- Room 111. Please RSVP to rsvppeter@writing.upenn.edu
Peter Middleton was born in 1950 in London, grew up in Cheltenham, and spent the years 1957-1960 and 1963-1965 in Maryland and Washington DC. He is the author of The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture (1992) and (with Tim Woods) Literatures of Memory: History, Time and Space in Postwar Writing(2000). A book of essays on performance, readership and consumption in contemporary poetry is forthcoming from University of Alabama Press. His poetry and essays have appeared in various magazines in the UK and US. He is a Reader in English at the University of Southampton. In 2003, Salt Press published his collection of poems, Aftermath.
More on Peter Middleton
6:30 PM: A reading featuring poets from Tender Buttons Press: Lee Ann Brown, India Radfarand Laynie Browne. Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program. A free and downloadable recording of this event in mp3 format is available on Lee Ann Brown's PennSound page.
Lee Ann Brown is Assistant Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. A poet and filmmaker whose first book,Polyverse (1999), won the New American Poetry Series Award, she is also the founder and editor of the small press Tender Buttons.
After earning a B.A. at Middlebury College in 1990, with intermittent studies at The Naropa Institute and the Aegean Center for Fine Arts, India Radfar came to live in New York City, encountering the large community of poets there through The Poetry Project and other reading venues. From 1992-94, she gave instruction in poetry to children in Bushwick, Brooklyn, which led to her present collaboration with anthropologist Jenny Fox on a book about the oral poetics of children. An extended stay in India followed by the death of her father, author and scholar of comparative religion, Lex Hixon, forced Radfar into a new space with her writing. Her first book, _India Poem,published in 2002, bridges her personal world with that of the country for which she was named. In 2003, she read at the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, in conjunction with an Indian filmmaker. She curently lives in Woodstock, N.Y. with her husband and son. Tender Buttons has just published her book The Desire to Meet the Beautiful.
Laynie Browne received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.F.A. from Brown University. With others, she has curated poetry series at The Ear Inn in New York City from 1992-1995, and later as a member of The Subtext Collective in Seattle 1996-2001. She received The Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry in 1993-1994, in 1994-1995, and again in 1995-1996. In 1998, her work was anthologized in the book Poet's Circle, edited by the former poet laureate, Robert Hass. In 2000, she received a Jack Straw Writer's Program Award. She has taught poetry-in-the-schools in New York City and Seattle. Her books are_Hereditary Zones, Acts of Levitation, Lore, Gravity's Mirror, Oneconstellation, Rebecca Letters, The Agency of Wind and the newest, Pollen Memory(originally written in 1992) from Tender Buttons press. Currently, she resides in Oakland, CA.

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.
5:15-7:30 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).

Wednesday, 10/22

6:30 PM: Literature in Translation: Lydia Davis andEdith Grossman will each discuss their latest translations, Lydia Davis: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust andEdith Grossman: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Introduced by Bob Perelman in collaboration with The Free Library of Philadelphia Lectures Series. A free and downloadable recording of this program in mp3 format is available on Lydia Davis' PennSound Page.
Lydia Davis is the author of the novel The End of the Story (1995), and five collections of short fiction, including her most recent work,Almost No Memory (1998), Break It Down (1986),Story and Other Stories(1983), Sketches for a Life of Wassily (1981), and The Thirteenth Woman (1976). Davis first received serious critical attention for her collection of stories, Break It Down, selected as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Praised by many critics for their formal and thematic eclecticism and compelling tightly-knit narratives the stories in Break It Down attest, as Michiko Kakutani has written in the New York Times, "to the authors's gifts as an observer and anarchist of emotion." The positive critical reception of Break It Down helped to win Davis a prestigious Whiting Writer's Award in 1988.
Edith Grossman is an award-winning translator of poetry and prose by leading contemporary Spanish-language writers, including Garbiel Garc�a M�rquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mayra Montero, Augusto Monterroso, Jaime Manrique, Juli�n R�os, and, of course, �lvaro Mutis. Her most recent translation is Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat and she is currently at work on Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote of La Mancha.
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 10.302: Creative Writing (Daisy Fried, daisyf1@juno.com)
5:00 PM in Room 209: The Latitudes Group presents Sanjay Krishnan. For more information, contact Rita Barnard, rbarnard@sas.upenn.edu
7:00-9:00 PM in Publications Office: XConnect Meeting. For more information, contact Michael Schwarz (jsz@isc.isc.upenn.edu)

Thursday, 10/23 * 6:30 PM: A reading by George Stanley introduced by Ron Silliman, with conversation and reception to follow.
George Stanley was born and raised in San Francisco where, in the sixties, he was a member of Jack Spicer's circle. A long time educator in Terrace, BC, Stanley is now retired and living in Vancouver. His books include The Stick, Opening Day, Temporarily, San Francisco's Gone, Gentle Northern Summer, and most recently, A Tall, Serious Girl(Qua Press). This event was webcast live and is now available as a free recording. Click here for the link. * 9:00 PM: an all WH HUB Live at the Writers House, featuring Al Filreis, Randall Couch, Sam Barrow, Seth Laracy, Adrienne Mishkin and musical guest Phil Sandick + the Penny Loafers,will air on 88.5 WXPN.
Al Filreis has been a member of Penn's faculty since 1985 and he's been an executive producer of this show since its inception 7 years ago. Al has published four books and is finishing his fifth--which is about what happened to modern poets when anticommunists got hold of them in the 1950s.
Randall Couch is a poet, translator, and critic whose work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Lone Star Review, the Philadelphia Inquirer, XConnect and elsewhere. A recent graduate of the MFA program at Warren Wilson College, he received a 2000 poetry fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He serves on the planning committee of Penn's Kelly Writers House, and is an adjunct professor of English at Arcadia University.
Phil Sandick graduated in May from the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in English. He is an Assistant Program Coordinator at the Kelly Writers House. As an undergrad, he sang as a tenor with Penny Loafers, a co-ed a cappella group on Penn's campus. Last year, Phil was involved with "Write On" at the Writers House, where he served as a writing coach with students from the Lea School. He also writes fiction and short stories.
Samantha Barrow is one of the new Assistant Program Coordinators at the Kelly Writers House. She is a local activist and poet, who helped to organize Ladyfest Philly, a four day, not-for-profit festival showcasing women's art and activism. In the Summer of 2002 she received a Leeway Grant to ride her motorcycle across the country and do readings at a variety of venues.
Seth Laracy is a senior in the College majoring in Psychology. He has worked at the Writers House since he was a freshman. He is currently working on making every poem ever read at the Writers House available online. Seth writes stories and poems and every once in a while throws together a stand-up comedy act.
Adrienne Mishkin graduated from Penn with a degree in English and the Biological Basis of Behavior in May of 2003. During her undergraduate years she was an active member of the hub and was one of the coordinators of the speakeasy open mic series. Since graduation, she has been working for the Hospital of the University, and has maintained strong ties with the house, including collecting and producing poetry about the house as part of the Junior Fellows program, and continuing to attend speakeasy and various hub functions.
Penny Loafers is an award winning, co-ed a cappella group at the University of Pennsylvania. They perform many gigs around campus, including this years Freshman Convocation. The Loafers have recorded six CD's including their latest release, "Stealing Time."
TO RETURN TO PENN'S HOMEPAGE CLICK HERE

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)
2:00-3:00 PM in Dining Room: Committee Meeting of the Critical Writing Program
4:30-6:30 PM in Room 209: Fiction Manuscript Writers Workshop. For more information, or to join, contact Marty Kathrins atkathrins@sas.upenn.edu.

Friday, 10/24

Saturday, 10/25

4:30 PM: Roundtable discussion with Osvaldo Romberg.

Sunday, 10/26

Monday, 10/27

5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe: A reading and conversation with writer Geoffrey O'Brien, co-sponsored by the University Library at Penn. Reception to follow program.
O'Brien is the author, most recently, of The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading. He has also written_Bardic Deadlines_, The Times Square Story, The Phantom Empire (nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism in 1993), Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties, and Hardboiled America as well as three books of poetry, Floating City: Selected Poems 1978-1995, The Hudson Mystery, and A Book Of Maps. His poetry, fiction, and criticism are widely published in periodicals including The New York Review of Books,The Village Voice, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Paris Review, Open City, Fence, The New Republic, Parnassus, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Talk and Film Comment. He was editor of The Reader's Catalog and is editor-in-chief of The Library of America. He is recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 1988 Whiting Foundation Writing Award.
Download an mp3 of this event here.

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: Addendum meets. For more 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, 10/28

5:30-7:00 PM: "Metropolis" art gallery reception for photographers Benjamin Tiven and Rachel Mackow. Curated by Peter Schwarz.

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)
12:00-2:00 PM: The Writing Center's senior advisor gathering
5:00 PM in Room 202: The American Literature Seminar. For more information contact Martha Schoolman (meschool@dept.english.upenn.edu).
7:30 PM in Arts Cafe: Talking Film Introductory Meeting

Wednesday, 10/29

11:00-1:00 PM: Halloween Reading at Penniman Library in Bennett Hall
12:00 PM: Lunchtime discussion with author and producer Robert Cort. (rsvp required to wh@writing.upenn.edu)
Penn alumnus Robert Cort has produced fifty-two films, including_Runaway Bride, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Mr. Holland's Opus, Save the Last Dance_, and Against the Ropes, starring Meg Ryan, which Paramount will release in the fall. A true Hollywood insider, for years Cort contemplated writing a history of the motion picture industry. When he finally put pen to paper, the result was ACTION! (Random House, 2003), a page-turning drama set against the last half century of the movie business. Prior to his career in the movie industry, Cort earned an MBA from the Wharton School, worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company, and served a two-year assignment with the Central Intelligence Agency. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Rosalie Swedlin, a manager of writers and directors. Invited to Penn under the auspices of the Penn Humanities Forum, Cort will speak at the Humanities Forum on the topic of belief and film on Tuesday, October 28.
**8:00 PM: Spookeasy! Poetry, prose, and anything ghouls.**The Writers House, in conjunction with the Undergraduate Advisory Board, celebrates Halloween a few days early with this very special Speakeasy open mic event. Come read your favorite scary stories and poems, bob for apples, and overdose on candy corn and pumpkin pie! Costumes are suggested but not necessary. (Please note that as this is a special event, the normal open mic format will be changed slightly. If you wish to read or perform something Halloween-appropriate, please RSVP to askspeakeasy@writing.upenn.eduto be put on the program. After all scheduled readers, we will return to our standard Speakeasy format and volunteers may present their less macabre material.) 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 10.302: Creative Writing (Daisy Fried, daisyf1@juno.com)
7:00-9:00 PM in Publications Office: XConnect Meeting. For more information, contact Michael Schwarz (jsz@isc.isc.upenn.edu)
8:00 PM: Room 202 held for Speakeasy

Thursday, 10/30

5:00-7:00 PM: Fighting Words: The Practical Art of Political Speech, Op-Eds, & Advocacy - a conversation withDavid Stone. Cosponsored with the Fox Leadership Program.
David Stone is the founder of Stone Media and an experienced writer, producer and director who has worked in communications law and public affairs television, campaigns and elections, as well as state and federal government. For full bio click Here.

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)
5:30-7:00 PM in Room 202: The Mods meeting. For more information contact Matt Hart (matthart@dept.english.upenn.edu)
8:30-10:00 PM in the Living Room: "Reading in the Drawing Room" with Myra Lotto's ENGL 001.309. Tonight: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. For more information contact Myra Lotto (mlotto@english.upenn.edu).

Friday, 10/31