Jacket2

KWH regulars already know how proud and happy we are about Jacket2, a new poetry/poetics magazine which launched in April and is already going strong. J2 is edited and published out of the Writers House in close association with PennSound, PoemTalk and other Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing projects. Recently J2 released the newest episode of PoemTalk - on a poem by John Wieners - which was recorded at KWH. J2's feature on poetry in 1960 is based on a symposium held at the Writers House last December. We hope all fans and friends of the Kelly Writers House will have a look at Jacket2, and let us know what you think of our newest venture.

1960 symposium published as J2 feature

Back in December 2010, some 60 people gathered in our Arts Cafe to talk about the poetry and poetics of the year 1960 - 50 years later. They heard short presentations by various poets, each having written in effect a retrospective review of a book of poems published that year. Then there was a lively Q&A in the usual KWH style. The entire event was recorded; the presentations made available to us as typescripts; the Q&A was transcribed. New materials were added. Others wrote responses and additional retrospective reviews. And the whole thing - a big "feature" - was recently published in Jacket2. Go here and have a look at - and listen to - the feature.