RealArts@PENN summer internships

Here is a video introduction to our "RealArts@PENN" summer internship program. Click here for more.

Amina Gautier on November 29

On Tuesday, November 29, starting at 6 PM, our "Cheryl Family Fiction Series" presents Amina Gautier. Amina Gautier is the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for her short story collection At-Risk (University of Georgia Press). Over sixty-five of Gautier's stories have been published, appearing in Best African American Fiction, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Southern Review among other places. Her work has been honored with scholarships and fellowships from Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Ucross Residency, and Sewanee Writer's Conference and has been awarded the William Richey Prize, the Jack Dyer Award, the Schlafly Microftiction Award, the Danahy Fiction Prize, and a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Gautier teaches at DePaul University.

new PoemTalk episode now out

PoemTalk is a series of 30-minute podcasts/radio shows recording at the Writers House monthly. The format is simple: four people from the world of poetry and poetics gather to talk about a single poem for which there's a recording in the vast PennSound archive. Recently the 47th PoemTalk episode was released. Click here and have a listen!

Jennifer Egan back at KWH

our Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing

The Kelly Writers House is affiliated with CPCW, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing. KWH was founded in 1994-95; then, in 2003, all of Penn's writing programs converged to form a center with associated organizations: the Creative Writing Program, the Critical Writing Program, the Writers House, and then, soon, PennSound (now the largest archive of recorded poetry anywhere), the Bassini Writing Apprentices, the CPCW/ICA yearlong seminar on contemporary art and writing, the PoemTalk podcast series, RealArts@Penn, and others. All friends and denizens of the Writers House are invited to explore our community, and give us a call at 215-746-POEM or stop by 3805 Locust if you ever have any questions about how to take fullest advantage of the resources of our writing block down here at 38th.

Video excerpt from a celebration of Gertrude Stein

Dylanfest on October 20 at 6 PM

Nine Dylanists each talk about - and briefly play - one favorite Dylan song. It's Thursday, October 20, at 6 PM, to help celebrate Dylan's 70th birthday. We've got quite a line-up. Cecilia Corrigan on "Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat"; Anthony DeCurtis on "The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar"; Greg Djanikian on "Señor"; Al Filreis on "Series of Dreams"; John Giannotti on "Bob Dylan's Dream"; Jessy Ginsberg on "Up to Me"; Alan Light on "Where Are You Tonight"; Ralph Rosen on "Idiot Wind"; Nina Wolpow on "Don't Think Twice." And Jessy Pepi Ginsberg will perform her own arrangement of "Up to Me."