Cheever - Albee - Perloff

Our 2011 Kelly Writers House Fellows are featured on the main news page of the Penn web site. Neither Susan Cheever nor Edward Albee have visited the Writers House before. Marjorie Perloff has visited us several times. During one visit she gave a talk on O'Hara, Johns and Cage and PennSound makes available the recording of that lecture.

video of winner of fiction prize

Sanae Lemoine won first place in the annual Creative Writing fiction-writing contest. Click here to watch a 6-minute video recording of Greg Djanikian's introduction and Sanae's reading from her work. Click here and see the KWH web page calendar entry for this event, and from there you'll see links to full recordings, both video and audio, of the entire program - not just Sanae but the other winners as well. Everyone at the Writers House congratulates Sanae on this achievement.

2010-2011 ArtsEdge Resident

The Kelly Writers House and Facilities and Real Estate Services (FRES) of the University of Pennsylvania are excited to announce the recipient of the 2010-2011 ArtsEdge Residency: New York City-based poet and author Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz.

ArtsEdge is a collaborative residency project designed to encourage the careers of emergent writers. Residencies last for one year and include an apartment, studio space in the AIR Space artistic nexus on 40th street, and close affiliation with Penn's writing communities. ArtsEdge aims to support the work of emerging writers, to foster an environment that will inspire innovative writing, and to enrich West Philadelphia by encouraging young writers to live and work here.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is the author of the non-fiction book Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam (Soft Skull Press, 2008) -- which we featured for the 2008 Caroline Rothstein Oral Poetry Program. She's also written five books of poetry, most recently Everything is Everything (Write Bloody Press, 2010). Cristin's work has appeared in a wide variety of places including McSweeney’s Internet Tendancies, Rattle, Conduit, Barrelhouse, Pank, decomP, kill author, and La Petite Zine. She lives in New York City, where she helps run the NYC-Urbana Poetry series at the Bowery Poetry Club.

eco-poetics comes to KWH

We're very pleased to announce that Marcella Durand will be the CPCW Fellow in Poetics & Poetic Practice here at Penn for next year. In the spring semester she will teach a creative writing course in eco-poetics. Durand's bio and a brief description of her course are here.

Emily Harnett really gets David Milch

David Milch visited us this spring and most of the students in the Kelly Writers House Fellows seminar were enthralled by his work and by him. Among these was Emily Harnett. Emily was dazzled by Deadwood and then surprised at how brilliant she finally thought John from Cincinnati is--the latter being Milch's supposed one-season HBO flop. Emily wrote a paper about JFC and our YouTube maven Amaris caught up with her and filmed her reading this great paper. Click here and watch.

KWH on YouTube

Subscribe to the Kelly Writers House YouTube channel. It's been there for a while, but this summer we're adding a slew of video clips from a selection of our programs. Click here and click "subscribe." We're thankful already to our own hub member/staffer Amaris who has been uploading videos and will continue to do so all summer.

welcome to the Writers House

These days, when you enter the Writers House at 3805 Locust Walk in Philly, you'll see to your left in the vestibule an exhibit case displaying a new 15th Room Press broadside or some other new art object. You'll also be able to put on some earphones and listen to and watch excerpts from three or four recent KWH programs. Welcome to the Writers House! (Thanks to our director Jessica Lowenthal, who designed the case; and thanks for Steve McLaughlin for editing the looping video.)