Novelist (and memoirist and short story writer) MARY GORDON will be visiting the Writers House here in Philadelphia as a Kelly Writers House Fellow - next Monday and Tuesday (April 27-28).
The Tuesday morning session - an informal interview & conversation, moderated by me - is an event in which you can participate. You can watch it live on KWH-TV. But, more, we encourage you to ask Mary Gordon questions by sending them by email. And we also encourage you to phone us with your questions--to talk directly to Ms. Gordon and me.
The Tuesday morning event will begin at precisely 10:30 AM eastern time.
To participate in the KWH-TV live Mary Gordon program, please RSVP to
We at PennSound are pleased to announce our newest author page: that of JennifWe at PennSound are pleased to announce our newest author page: that of Jennifer Scappettone. Jen has been to the Writers House twice recently. Her page now includes a Segue/Bowery Poetry Club reading; both audio and video of a session she did at KWH with Lyn Hejinian, hosted by Rachel Levitsky; another session in which she read a series of her poems; and a conversation with me, done as a PennSound podcast.
I'm pleased to see that a New York Times education blog, responding to a high-school senior's choice among Barnard, Tufts and Penn, mentions that a reason to choose Penn is the Kelly Writers House. Okay, then...
John Giannotti has recently completed a sculpture of Matthew Henson, the African American explorer who assisted Robert Peary in the first visit to the North Pole on April 6, 1909. The sculpture will be part of a new maritime museum built out of an old church (the church was original constructed of ballast stones from the days when Camden was a shipbuilding town and busy port). PBS-affiliated NJN ran a segment on John and the Henson sculpture yesterday and here it is as a video recording. The piece on John comes at around 13 minutes into the program.
Meaghan O'Rourke began to write poetry after being assigned Wallace Stevens's "This Solitude of Cataracts" in a class. This fact came out in an interview with a student newspaper in north Texas where O'Rourke recently gave a reading.
novelist on KWH-TV
The Tuesday morning session - an informal interview & conversation, moderated by me - is an event in which you can participate. You can watch it live on KWH-TV. But, more, we encourage you to ask Mary Gordon questions by sending them by email. And we also encourage you to phone us with your questions--to talk directly to Ms. Gordon and me.
The Tuesday morning event will begin at precisely 10:30 AM eastern time.
To participate in the KWH-TV live Mary Gordon program, please RSVP to
whfellow@writing.upenn.edu
- at which point we will send you simple instructions for connecting to the video and for posing questions.
Writers House Fellows are made possible by an ongoing generous grant from Paul Kelly.
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Kelly Writers House Fellows: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/fellows/
2009
* Robert Coover
* Joan Didion
* Mary Gordon
2008
* Art Spiegelman
* Lynne Sharon Schwartz
* Jerome Rothenberg
2007
* John McPhee
* Jamaica Kincaid
* Donald Hall
2006
* Richard Ford
* Cythia Ozick
* Ian Frazier
2005
* Roger Angell
* E.L. Doctorow
* Adrienne Rich
* Lyn Hejinian
2004
* Russell Banks
* James Alan McPherson
2003
* Walter Bernstein
* Laurie Anderson
* Susan Sontag
2002
* Michael Cunningham
* John Ashbery
* Charles Fuller
2001
* Tony Kushner
* David Sedaris
* June Jordan
2000
* Grace Paley
* Robert Creeley
* John Edgar Wideman
1999
* Gay Talese
Jennifer Scappettone
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choosing
I'm pleased to see that a New York Times education blog, responding to a high-school senior's choice among Barnard, Tufts and Penn, mentions that a reason to choose Penn is the Kelly Writers House. Okay, then...
"what a great face he had"
start with Stevens