Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Tuesday, November 12, 6 PM: A poetry reading by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, 6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe, introduced by: Charles Bernstein. Berssenbrugge is the author of The Heat Bird (1983), winner of the American Book Award; Empathy (1989), winner of the PEN West Award; Sphericity (1993); Endocrinology (1997), a collaboration with the artist Kiki Smith; Four Year Old Girl (1998), winner of the Western States Book Award; Nest (2003); and I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems (2006).

Blonk, Bernstein, Snelson

From left to right: Jaap Blonk, Charles Bernstein & Danny Snelson. Recently Jaap Blonk visited the Writers House to perform some of his own and others' sound poems.

the 2013-14 KWH staff

Visit our staff page to learn more about this fabulously talented staff.

the very first episode of "Live at the Writers House"

This is Jeff Wachs, the very first on-air host of KWH's long-running radio program, "Live at the Writers House," aired on WXPN. We started the show in 1997. Sarah Giulian, then a junior, was the show's creator and director. Al Filreis and Vinnie Curran, Faculty Director of KWH and Station Manager of XPN respectively, were Executive Producers. And Jeff was the host. The photo above shows Jeff standing at the old KWH podium in the unrenovated Arts Cafe, wearing his stage pass, introducing the very first performer on episode 1. Recently "Live at the Writers House" recorded its 100th episode.

Video of Matt Yglesias of Slate at KWH

Watch our one-hour interview/conversation with Slate's economics correspondent Matthew Yglesias, recorded on Tuesday, October 1 (the first day of the federal government shutdown): http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/tv/reruns/watch/152054. This event was part of the annual Weber Symposium. Click here to see information about and recordings of previous years' symposia.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis reads "Letter 8" from a new project called "Interstices"

Click here to watch a video recording of Ron Silliman's introduction to this reading.

poetry communities conference

Last year KWH hosted a conference on "Poetry Communities." Most of the talks presented at that gathering are now available at Jacket2 magazine.