happy holidays from all of us

Happy holidays to all our presenters, audience members, friends and supporters from all of us at 3805 Locust Walk in Philadephia. By the way, are you following us on Facebook yet? Great way to keep up with what's going on here: click here for a direct link.

Talking about the art of Sigmund Laufer

Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee talk about Susan's father, Sigmund Laufer, whose art is currently on exhibit at KWH's Brodsky Gallery.

Stefan Sagmeister visits KWH

At right: Stefan Sagmeister, the designer-artist, being introduced by Kenny Goldsmith. Claudia Gould, director of the Jewish Museum and until recently director of the ICA here in Philly, then interviewed Sagmeister for an hour--part of a great day of events around Sagmeister's visit to Penn. The designer's work is central to the two-semester seminar being taught by Goldsmith as a collaboration between CPCW and the Writers House and ICA, co-sponsored by Penn's provost and by the School of Arts & Sciences. The next time the course will be offered is academic year 2013-14.

video interpretation of a poem

Several of our students have made this video interpretation of a poem by Edgar Allan Poe: "Bells."

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!