Graham Nash at the Writers House!

Yes, Graham Nash visited the Writers House for the annual Blutt Singer-songwriter Symposium. He was interviewed by Anthony DeCurtis, took questions for the audience and then surprised and delighted us by playing two songs: "Back Home," a pre-elegy for Levon Helm; and "Teach Your Children," which he dedicated to Anthony's daughter Francesca who was sitting in the first row.

gallery opening on September 24

Brodsky Gallery Opening

Erin Murray/Recent Work
6:00 PM, Tuesday, September 24

The first Brodsky Gallery show of the academic year features recent drawings by Philadelphia artist Erin Murray. Join us for a brief artist's talk, followed by a reception and time to view and enjoy the art.

Erin Murray was born in Philadelphia in 1979 and currently lives and works in that city. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001. Her work draws on the built environment to empathically explore themes of humanity. Recent solo exhibitions have been at Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York, the Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, and The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, DE. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia and Salon Zurcher in New York. In 2012 she was awarded the West Collects acquisition prize and joined the artist's collective Vox Populi. You can find her work published in New American Paintings, Tabletop Zine, and Dirty Laundry Magazine.

The Brodsky Gallery is an art gallery integrated with the ground floor of the Writers House. Up to six exhibitions take place during the academic year from September through May. Openings feature a reception for the artist and an accompanying program; examples include panel discussions, poetry readings, film screenings, and technique demonstrations by the artist. Through exhibiting a diverse array of art media and cross-disciplinary programming, the Brodsky Gallery at KWH seeks to engage Penn students and the broader Philadelphia community with the interrelationships between literary and visual arts. Thanks to the generosity of Michael and Heidi Brodsky, whose support makes our gallery space possible, the Brodsky Gallery is a permanent project of Kelly Writers House.

New podcast: excerpt from screenwriter Walter Bernstein's visit to KWH in 2003

In 2003, the screenwriter Walter Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, Fail-Safe, The Molly McGuires, etc.) was a Writers House Fellow. He gave a reading on a Monday evening, and then came back for the usual Tuesday morning interview conducted by Al Filreis. The full recording of the interview is of course available. But now, thanks to Emily Harnett, we are making a 20-minute excerpt available as a podcast. Emily introduces the excerpt and provides a clear context for Bernstein's visit to KWH. Please listen! And visit this page to find our 25 other KWH podcasts in the series.

Rivka, Kim, Lindsey, Lily & Rebekah

 
We All Feel Like It - featuring Rivka Fogel, Kimberly Eisler, Lindsey Todd, Lily Applebaum, Rebekah Caton at the Kelly Writers House on December 3, 2009, as part of the Whenever We Feel Like It Reading Series.

Paul Hendrickson, mentor

Paul Hendrickson meets up with three of his students - Jessica Goldstein, Naomi Shavin, and Trishula Patel - in Washington DC, at Kramerbooks on Dupont Circle on Tuesday July 2. Here is part of Paul's caption for this nice photo: "Jessica, graduate of the College 2011, has been at the Style section of the Washington Post almost since the day she graduated. She came as an intern that summer and impressed her editors to the extent that they wouldn't let her go home. She writes about art and theater and general culture and week in, week out, she fills up the paper. Last week, nothing to it, Style ran two of her stories on the same day. Naomi, rising senior in the College, is in the Washington bureau of the New Yorker this summer, working as a mad researcher for Ryan Lizza and Jane Mayer. She is following in the footsteps of Mike Morse, who graduated from Penn in May and did the same kind of work last summer. Naomi did major researching and backgrounding for Lizza on an immigration piece that has just appeared in the magazine. Trish, the College 2012, earned a master's degree from Columbia's graduate school of journalism this past spring and then won an internship at the Washington Post. She's out reporting every day for the metro section of the paper--little "briefs" and far more substantial stuff. Already she has scored a co-byline on A-1. (It was about Rusty the red panda who suddenly went missing at the National Zoo.) Note: In his 23 years as a staff feature writer in Style at the Post, the old guy in the photograph probably had no more than 4 or 5 front-page stories. Cool it, Trish!"

RealArts interns talk about their experiences

Video recording of a panel discussion about our "RealArts" internships. Listen to 2012 interns talk about their experiences. Click here.

Dante's magnificent seven

Lee Huttner discusses Dante's Magificent Seven at the 7-UP on Seven event at the Kelly Writers House, April 11, 2011. The 7-Up series is an annual program for which we invite seven guests to speak for seven minutes each about a topic. Each speaker gives their insight on some aspect of the chosen theme; interesting interpretations and musings always result.