giving thanks for great KWH people

John Carroll, Jamie-Lee Josselyn & Arielle Brousse - real Writers House originals - gather together with many others at the annual Writers House Thanksgiving, on the Monday evening of Thanksgiving week.

"PennMOO" was a forerunner of the Writers House

A virtual poetry slam for hundreds of students worldwide, in PennMOO in March 1995 - weirdly a crucial forerunner to the development of the Writers House six months later. A MOO is/was a pre-graphical synchronous "chat" space where many people could meet to "do" things, including collaboratively create poems and other writing forms. Here's your link to the "way-back machine" copy of the web invitation to this event.

Mike Magee & Kristen Gallagher, 2 KWH founders, back in the house

When Mike Magee and Kristen Gallagher spent a day back at the Writers House - to participate in a ModPo webcast and to be PoemTalkers for a new episode of PoemTalk - they naturally inclined to the kitchen, where they fell back into the Writers House scene that they indeed helped to create as founding members of the "hub" back in 1995-96.

conceptualists in the house

From left to right: Tracie Morris, Kenny Goldsmith, Mike Magee and Al Filreis. On November 14 they gathered to present a live webcast to thousands of the students in ModPo, a massive open online course hosted by the Kelly Writers House. There were also dozens of ModPo'ers in the Arts Cafe, folks who traveled, some from far away, to be present. A recording of the webcast is now available.

Tracie Morris in the house

Tracie Morris at the Kelly Writers House, 6 PM, Thursday, November 14. If you cannot join us in person, watch via live video stream: HERE.

Tracie Morris is a poet, performer and scholar. She works extensively as a singer, sound artist, writer, bandleader and actor. Her installations have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, Ronald Feldman Gallery, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and the New Museum. She holds an MFA in poetry from Hunter College and an MA and PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. Dr. Morris is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute.

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.