Beltran Award in Gazette article

The Pennsylvania Gazette recently ran an article about the first annual Beltran Family Award for Innovative Teaching at the Kelly Writers House. Here is a link (PDF) to the article. And here is a link to the KWH web site page on this new annual award.

Simon Morris, "Rewriting Freud"

This is a 12-minute clip from a 3/6/13 talk by Simon Morris, sponsored by Writers Without Borders. Watch a video recording of the entire event via KWH-TV. Listen to an audio recording of this event. In a 45 minute presentation, entitled 'eating the book' Dr. Simon Morris presented four of his experimental bookworks that challenge conventional methods of reading and writing. Morris has been called 'philosophically irresponsible', a 'literary pervert' and an 'inspired lunatic'. From 2011-12, he was writer-in-residence at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Morris is one of the leading proponents of conceptual writing: a fusion of art and literature. In 2002 he founded the publishing imprint information as material. He lives in York, England and teaches at the University of Teesside where he is Programme Leader in Fine Art.

March 2013 highlights - audio

 

Click here to listen to a 2-minute audio highlight of March 2013 programs at the Writers House. Above from left: Nada Gordon, Ada Calhoun, the jacket of Capote's In Cold Blood.

KWH in Second Life

Did you know that the Kelly Writers House exists in Second Life as well as this first life? We don't host programs there very often, but you can certainly visit and have a look around.  Here's a little more, and here's an early-ish foray into poetry in SL. And here's a video about our approach.

John Ashbery on aging and memory

John Ashbery is interviewed by KWH Faculty Director Al Filreis on February 12, 2013, during Ashbery's stint as a KWH Fellow. Here they discuss poetry, aging and memory.

a history of the Writers House in 19 minutes

This is a video recording of the 15th anniversary celebration of the Kelly Writers House, held during homecoming weekend that year. Three of Al Filreis's former students, and KWH's first Director, Kerry Sherin Wright, presented their work. But before they did that, Al gave a high-speed talk on the founding of the Writers House three times in succession: first a "conservative" narrative of KWH, then a liberal narrative, and finally a radical narrative.

Locust Street looking east in 1953

This photograph was taken on May 29, 1953, on the 38th block of Locust Street in West Philadelphia. The photographer was looking east toward the center of the University of Pennsylvania. Today, from this vantage, one would see Locust Walk (not Street), and in the distance one would see the street go upward over the 38th Street pedestrian bridge. Along the right side of this view today one would see the edge of Harnwell House ("High Rise East") and then, further away, the front edge of the Class of 1920 Commons. The Samuel Sloan-designed house at 3805 Locust Walk - now the Kelly Writers House - is not visible here (as it is set back from the street), but near where we've placed a red dot is the street-side path that leads to the porch and front door of the house. For more information about this photograph, click here.