September 2015
September 2015
Tuesday, 9/1
Wednesday, 9/2
Kelin Loe and Luke Bloomfield
with Excelano poet Kendall Finley
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
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Luke Bloomfield is a poet based in Northampton, Massachusetts where
he teaches in the English department at Smith College. His book of
poems, Russian Novels, was published in 2014 by Factory Hollow Press,
which also published his chapbook, The Duffel Bag, in 2011. James Tate
once described Bloomfield's poetry as a "writhing monster of
well-being," and Publisher's Weekly writes that his poems "retain a
bizarre tenderness that tap at the mystery of existence." Bloomfield's
poems have been featured in jubilat, Barrelhouse, LIT, iO Poetry,
Souvenir, The Poetry Society of America, and elsewhere, and have been
nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. He is a graduate of the MFA Program
for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where
he also received his BA in French and Philosophy.
Thursday, 9/3
Mapping with Light
8:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
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To the naked eye, there is no way to distinguish which bright objects
in the sky are stars or galaxies, near or far. As a result, we often
forget how shockingly far or massive some objects in space really are.
Even your favorite constellation is most likely a hodgepodge of
different types of galaxies, galaxy clusters, and colors of stars. Our
eyes sometimes trick us into thinking the extent of space is just a
surface, because we cannot grapple with such disparate distances and
sizes. This immersive demonstration — created by Therese Paoletta with
the the help of a Creative Ventures Capital Grant — will play on our
preconceptions of what lies beyond our immediate surroundings, space.
Featured will be images supplied by the Dark Energy Survey.
Friday, 9/4
Kelly Writers House Open House
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM throughout the house
The Kelly Writers House Open House is an opportunity for new and
returning students to explore the House. We'll have t-shirt and book
giveaways, writing stations, and plenty of ways for you to meet student
leaders of various writing initiatives (literacy outreach, Penn
magazines, writing exchange groups, and more).
Saturday, 9/5
Sunday, 9/6
Monday, 9/7
Tuesday, 9/8
Reina Maria Rodríguez with translator Kristin Dykstra
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
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Reina María Rodríguez was born in Havana in 1952 and lives there
still. In Cuba she is recognized as a major poet and also as an advocate
for non-governmental cultural spaces. Her rooftop home, informally known
as la azotea de Reina, has served as a salon for the Cuban literary
community for many years. English translations of her work include La
Detencion del Tiempo/Time’s Arrest (Factory School 2005), and Violet
Island and Other Poems (2004) and The Winter Garden Photography (2009),
both from Green Integer.
Wednesday, 9/9
Speakeasy Open Mic Night
7:30 PM in the Arts Cafe
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Our student-run open mic night welcomes all kinds of readings,
performances, spectacles, and happenings. Bring your poetry, your
guitar, your dance troupe, your award-winning essay, or your stand up
comedy to share.
Thursday, 9/10
Jerome Rothenberg
A poetry reading
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
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Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally celebrated poet with over
ninety books of poetry and twelve assemblages of traditional and
avant-garde poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred and Poems for
the Millennium, volumes 1-3.
Recent books of poems include
Concealments & Caprichos, A Cruel Nirvana, A Poem of Miracles, and
Retrievals: Uncollected & New Poems .
His most recent big
book is Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, and Barbaric Vast
& Wild: An Assemblage of Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to
Present has just been published as volume 5 of Poems for the
Millennium. Scheduled for 2016 is A Field on Mars: Poems ,
to be published in simultaneous English and French editions by Presses
Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre.
Friday, 9/11
Saturday, 9/12
Sunday, 9/13
Monday, 9/14
Tuesday, 9/15
Wednesday, 9/16
Celebration of
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
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Julia Bloch is the author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson (a finalist
for the Lambda Literary Award) and Valley Fever, and is the recipient of
the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and the William Carlos Williams
Prize for poetry. Along with poetry in numerous journals and
anthologies, she has published essays and reviews in Journal of Modern
Literature, Tripwire, The Volta, and elsewhere. She spent several years
as an editor in the Bay Area before earning an MFA in poetry at Mills
College and a PhD in English at the University of Pennsylvania, and for
two years taught literature at the Bard College Master of Arts
Teaching program in Delano, California. In 2011, she returned to
Philadelphia to work as associate director of the Kelly Writers House,
and in fall 2015 she became director of the Creative Writing program at
Thursday, 9/17
BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME
Al Filreis and Patrick Bredehoft in Conversation about Bob Dylan
12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
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After more than five decades, Bob Dylan continues his enduring presence as one of the
greatest American songwriters. Join us for a lunchtime discussion of his writing, politics,
and influence, with a special focus on the album Bringing it All Back Home.
Dylan has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the
best-selling he has received numerous awards including Grammies,
a Golden Globe, and an Academy A he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters
Hall of Fame. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for "his
profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of
extraordinary poetic power." In May 2012, Dylan received the Presidential Medal of
Freedom from President Barack Obama.
Poetry and the art of the book
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe and throughout the first floor
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This exhibition will showcase a selection of exciting contemporary small
press and hand made and printed work from four small, poetry-focused
presses -- Belladonna*, Fact-Simile Editions, Nightboat Books and the
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. The show will explore the ways in which
scale, color, texture, construction,
choice of materials and more come
together with the text when poetry is represented as a two-dimensional
art object. Members of each press represented in the show -- Rachel
Levitsky of Belladonna*, Travis and JenMarie MacDonald of Fact-Simile
Editions, Stephen Motika of Nightboat Books and Brenda Iijima of
Portable Press -- will speak at this exhibition opening event, both
about the works in the show generally and about their specific printing
and design processes. Afterward, we'll continue the conversation in the
gallery with a reception, and time to read and view all of the small
press works on display.
This show is a collaboration between the Writers House and the
PHILALALIA annual small press, hand made poetry and art fair, with
special thanks to Kevin Varrone who helps organize PHILALALIA and to
Brian Teare for his help in organizing the gallery show.
Friday, 9/18
Saturday, 9/19
Sunday, 9/20
Monday, 9/21
Writers House Planning Committee Meeting
5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
RSVP: jalowent@writing.upenn.edu
From the time of its founding in , the Kelly Writers House
has been run more or less collectively by members of its community. Our
original team of intrepid founders—the group of students, faculty,
alumni, and staff who wanted to create an independent haven for writers
and supporters of contemporary writing in any genre—took for themselves
the name "the hub." "Hub" was the generic term given by Penn's Provost,
President, and other planners who hoped that something very innovative
would be done at 3805 Locust Walk to prove the viability of the idea
that students, working with others, could create an extracurricular
learning community around common intellectual and creative passions. To
this day, the Writers House Planning Committee refers to itself as "the
hub"—the core of engaged faculty, student, staff, and alumni volunteers
from whom the House's creative energy and vitality radiates.
Tuesday, 9/22
Wednesday, 9/23
Thursday, 9/24
presents Asali Solomon
A fiction reading
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
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Asali Solomon received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’
Award for the stories later collected in Get Down, her first book, which was a finalist
for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. In 2007 she was named one of the
National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” Her novel
Disgruntled (FSG 2015) is a coming-of-age story set in
Philadelphia.
Solomon teaches English literature and creative writing at Haverford
College. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two sons.
Friday, 9/25
Saturday, 9/26
Sunday, 9/27
Monday, 9/28
at the Writers House
7:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
LIVE at the Writers House is a
long-standing collaboration between the people of Kelly Writers House
and WXPN (88.5 FM). Six times annually between September and April,
the Kelly Writers House hosts a one-hour broadcast of poetry, music, and other
spoken-word art, all from our Arts Cafe onto the airwaves at WXPN. LIVE
is made possible by generous support from BigRoc.
Ras Mashramani lives and writes in West Philadelphia and is a
founding member of the Philly grown science fiction collective,
Metropolarity. She has served as new media editor at APIARY magazine,
and completed an online erotica series with writer Carolyn DeCarlo,
entitled DOWN. You can also find her work at the Painted Bride
Quarterly, Bedfellows Magazine, and Metropolarity's Journal of
Speculative Vision and Critical Liberation Technologies.
Alex Smith is a queer black activist, poet, DJ, actor, musician, afro
punk/afro-futurist chronicler of the naughty universe. Smith’s work
speaks to the edge, to the post-fringe dystopia slowly creeping upon us.
He is the founder and curator of the queer-empowered Laser Life sci-fi
reading series. Alex also has a short story collection titled Gang Stalk
Oprah. You can also find him in the recently released Samuel Delany
tribute anthropology, Stories for Chip.
A Philadelphia native, M.Eighteen writes and performs speculative fiction
about bodies, objectification, intimacy, class, neighborhood, land,
community and the violence in relying binaries to order the world.
Eighteen writes All That's Left, an episodic post-binary dystopian
cyborg anime type jawn. It can be seen online for free at
. They are a 2014 recipient of Leeway Foundation Art
and Change Grant and featured reader in the 2015 Trans Literary Salon.
Rasheedah Phillips is a public interest attorney, author, mother, Afrofuturist
and Aries living and working in Philadelphia. She is the creator of The
AfroFuturist Affair, a grassroots community formed to celebrate,
strengthen, and promote Afrofuturistic and sci-fi concepts and culture
through creative events and creative writing. She recently published her
first speculative fiction collection, Recurrence Plot (and Other Time
Travel Tales), an anthology of experimental essays from Black visionary
writers titled Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice. Phillips was
recently a 2015 artist-in-residence with Philadelphia Neighborhood Time
Based in Philadelphia, Camae Defstar is a community activist, a curator, and a poet and
plays music under the name Moor Mother Goddess.
She draws inspiration from experimental, punk, rap, and noise to make
songs. She describes her music as low fi/dark rap/ chill step/ blk girl
blues/ witch rap/ coffee shop riot gurl songs and much more. She works
with the groups Black Quantum Futurism and Afrofuturist Affair and is
one of the driving forces behind the Philly show series ROCKERS that are
held on Lancaster avenue at Lava Space.
Tuesday, 9/29
5:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
co-sponsored by: The Daily Pennsylvanian, The Nora Magid Mentorship Prize and
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A star-studded alumni panel of journalists and media experts reveals
what you need to know to get a job in print or broadcast journalism,
book publishing, new media, and beyond.
Hoping to work in journalism or publishing after college? A knowledgeable panel of four
Penn alumni & who have held every job in the business & will discuss the early trials,
tribulations, and eventual bliss of working in the media. Come get the scoop, as these
professionals will field your questions and advise aspiring writers and editors on the
ever-changing landscape of new media.
David Borgenicht (C’90) is the CEO and owner of Philadelphia
book publisher Quirk Books, co-author of the best-selling
“Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook.” Quirk publishes 25
books a year, including international best-seller Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.
Jessica Goodman (C’12) is a Digital News Editor at
Entertainment Weekly, where she runs the music and books sections of
. Previously, she was an Entertainment Editor at
The Huffington Post, and has written
for the Village Voice,
Maria Popova (C’07) is a reader and writer, and writes
about what she reads on her Brain Pickings blog,
which is included in the Library of Congress archive of culturally valuable materials.
She has also written for Wired UK
and The Atlantic, The New Yorl Times
and Smithsonian Magazine. In 2012, she was named among the 100 Most
Creative People in Business by Fast Company Magazine.
Stephen Fried (C’79) (moderator) is a best-selling and
award-winning journalist who teaches
non-fiction writing at Penn and the Journalism School at Columbia University. He is a former
contributing editor at Vanity Fair, GQ,
Glamour and Philadelphia Magazine,
his sixth book, “A Common Struggle” will be published in October.
Wednesday, 9/30
David Maraniss and Paul Hendrickson in conversation
12:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
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David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. In
addition to Barack Obama: The Story, Maraniss is the author of five
critically acclaimed and bestselling books, When Pride Still Mattered: A
Life of Vince Lombardi, First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton,
They Marched Into Sunlight – War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October
1967, Clemente – The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero, and Rome
1960: The Summer Olympics That Stirred the World. He is also the author
of Into the Story: A Writer’s Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and
Loss, The Clinton Enigma and coauthor of The Prince of Tennessee: Al
Gore Meets His Fate and "Tell Newt to Shut Up!"
David is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Pulitzer for national
reporting in 1993 for his newspaper coverage of then-presidential
candidate Bill Clinton. He also was part of The Washington Post team
that won a 2008 Pulitzer for the newspaper's coverage of the Virginia
Tech shooting. He has won several other notable awards for achievements
in journalism, including the George Polk Award, the Dirksen Prize for
Congressional Reporting, the ASNE Laventhol Prize for Deadline Writing,
the Hancock Prize for Financial Writing, the Anthony Lukas Book Prize,
the Frankfort Book Prize, the Eagleton Book Prize, the Ambassador Book
Prize, and Latino Book Prize.
A poetry reading by Rob Halpern
6:00 PM in the Arts Cafe
Hosted by: Julia Bloch
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After Julia Bloch introduced him as one of her
“favorite humans,” poet Rob Halpern captivated an Arts Cafe audience
with a reading of his evocative, surreal and sometimes humorous work. He
shared poems based on dreams and autopsy reports, then moved into a
series he described as “lyrical.” The evening concluded with Halpern
fielding questions on political content in his work and his poems’
relationship to their audience. Halpern reassured the audience that it’s
okay for them to laugh at his poetry, and described his poetics as
outlining a “politics of love.”
Rob Halpern is the author of several books of poems including Rumored
Place (Krupskaya 2004) and Disaster Suites (Palm Press 2009), which was
recently translated into Dutch as Rampensuites as part of the
Contemporary Poetry in Translation series published by Amsterdam’s
literary arts foundation, Perdu. Music for Porn was published in 2012
(Nightboat Books) and Common Place just appeared from Ugly Duckling
Presse. Together with Taylor Brady, Rob also co-authored the book length
poem Snow Sensitive Skin (Atticus/Finch 2007, reissued by Displaced
Press 2011). [———] Placeholder, a book length selection of his poetry
and prose drawing from all these books, was recently published in the UK
by Enitharmon. His critical essays can be found in Journal of Narrative
Theory, Modernist Cultures, Chicago Review and online at The Claudius
App. Currently, he’s translating Georges Perec’s early essays on
aesthetics and politics, which appear in various publications, including
Review of Contemporary Fiction and Paul Revere’s Horse. Rob lives
between San Francisco and Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he teaches at
Eastern Michigan University and Huron Valley Women’s Correctional非常喜欢我们的认识完全是“巧合”我挺喜欢这妞常常听到小S称呼他,读书人.读书人具备了儒雅和风度,但不酸我还是喜欢到处行走
哈！毫不犹豫的写下题目的时候，我也哈哈笑起来!
几年没写博客了，也是物是人非云云等等。但人生嘛，总是有得有失，只要生活有些许不一样，当然是好的方面，我觉得都是上天给予特别的你和我的。欣然接受吧！
这些年，深圳的房价是越发恐怖了。都到了我望尘莫及的地步了，这是我的失策啊。以后再细细道来。
回到题目上，进步。自我的进步！
2013年，一直单身的我，终于拍拖了，接着近一年的中国，悉尼两地奔波，当然还有旅游地方，日本，曼谷，清迈，韩国就三次这些地方的踏足，我这一年颇为忙绿的。终于在2014年的9月，完成了人生蜕变，成为人妻。呵呵。
婚后生活还算是美满，起初我们还是分居两地，我将福田的房子卖掉之后，在罗湖口岸重新买了一套，目的为2，：1，罗湖便宜，手上剩点钱，我去悉尼再投资买买房啥的；,2，因为要经常往返海外，口岸房子比较方便；3，如果我去国外了，口岸房租比福田房子贵近一倍，我房子不欠贷款，就是净赚嘛。哎，事实再一次证明了，计划赶不上变化呀，我原本算盘打好了，但我先生突然又决定跟合伙人来中国做红酒生意，所以直到目
出し巻き卵(だしまきたまご)
鸡蛋打散，加入糖或者盐（可以选择甜味或者咸味）
平底锅热后给油，将鸡蛋液倒入锅内，中间起泡泡的地方弄碎它，搅动，折叠蛋饼
将剩余的蛋液再倒入锅中，结合上一个。
&& 终于到达了东京，我开始激动起来，哈哈可能是觉得要开始大购物了吧。哎女人都是这样，买东西很变态。不过购物是安排在了明天，我已经兴奋的开始看攻略和地图了。今天先要去看看日本的皇宫，是天皇还住的地方，虽然没有什么实权，但是政府每年还是花2亿元养着天皇，为的是颜面和精神象征。皇宫门外有大片绿色的草地，修剪好的树木，显得一片宁静，真的是太静了。只有门口威武的楠木正成将军的雕像依然忠诚地陪伴着。哦，还有零星几个警察骑着自行车来来往往。皇宫就如一座孤岛般，被隔离开来。
浅草，也是东京市区内，浅草寺为景点的一个地方，除了拜神
&&& 作为一个港口城市来说，横滨无疑拥有了大海，船只，港口这些代表设备。同时也有日本最大的唐人街，以广东人居多，各种饮食行业遍布，无疑让你有了回到中国的感觉。对于我们这些游客来说无所谓，但是对于长期居住生活在异乡的中国游子来说，唐人街的存在，对于他们的意义，是亲切，是家人，更是一种寄托吧。
&& 今天很放松，所以可以多写一点，多贴一些图片。今天小蜜蜂很勤劳呢。。继续继续。
&& 日& 目的地
ふじさん（富士山）
在前往富士山时我们路过了一个游乐场，进去逛了一圈并且吃了餐饭，这里有个世界一等的过山车，听说是世界最长的呢。游乐场本身没什么特别，如果不是去坐过山车，我建议是不用去的。很遗憾，我因为害怕激动游戏，没有去体验一把。不过光是看，已经觉得震撼了，用朋友的话：好复杂哦。
&&& 对不起各位了哦，迟到的第三章日本旅行篇，因为我的懒惰，所以没有很快跟进，现在可以继续了。。。。
仍旧是京都篇，上次介绍了世界第一等的京都车站，确实让我振奋了。全钢铁的制造，复杂有序的结构，前后通达，在一个古典的城市内，反差了极具现代化和未来感的车站，不仅对设计师原广司佩服不已。京都火车站分地下3层，地上饭店部分16层，百货商店部分12层，塔屋1层，
高达60米。实际上京都车站不仅仅是一个车站了，已经成为一个庞大的综合建筑体，有百货，咖啡屋，酒店，古董屋，电影院，展览厅，甚至还有地方政府的办事处在里面呢。照片在上一篇中已经发布过了，大家可以观看一下。
位于京都车站门口一出来便可以见到的京都瞭望塔，总高131米，看起来就像海边的灯塔一样。这也是跟许多国家塔不同的特点，好像不久去过的巴黎看到的埃菲尔铁塔，采用的开放型的设
绝对不是祭奠爱情的心情。。。。。。
打了几个字，又删除了几个字，犹犹豫豫不知道要如何写下去。然后终究这也是一段可以记载的经历，怕的是将来回想不起来，给子孙讲的时候漏掉了细节。还未30，都已经流露出了老态了，让人发笑吧。
跟W认识到交往是4个月。时间非常短，一度得这突如其来的爱情，完全超出了我的构想范围，来得那样匆匆。到现在，我依然相信，这是爱情。只是不纯粹而已。我被动得觉得找个对你好的人，不错。那天我跟他回忆，
我的博客今天5岁332天了，我领取了徽章.&&
，我在新浪博客安家。
，我写下了第一篇博文：《开张总是新鲜的》。
，我上传了第一张图片到相册。
感情的事情很奇怪，如难听之说，全是犯贱。粗了点！聊起来，却人人能接受。
你若进一尺，对方反而喋喋不休，抬起了架子；
我像个男的，想法及其简单，百般无趣后，我突然觉悟，算吧算吧，只想着你那句，无论何时我心里都有你。也不去计较过程了。可你知否，有几个人能靠一句话支撑那渺渺的爱情。我总觉得我的爱情就是在穿梭人群中，能望去的那个人头晃动，当你看过来的时候，我知道就是你。可你毕竟不是捡来的。。。。
当我突然想冷静下来，不再自讨没趣时，你却又热起来。。外人听起来，这怕是两个人耍耍花枪，装腔作势吧。我同你说，这样我怕是要癫了，你说，别癫，是我错，我想太多。你开心点。你若不在乎，何不让我就这样下去；可你若在乎，改变你的说话方式，别老冲冲的。我要的并不多，只期待我们甜蜜和平。
你安排了一切让人看起来诚意的事情，总提过年跟你回家的事，总提你爸爸妈妈关心我们的话题；可你以为这样就是确定了吗？我们相处还很难，不用心，媳妇就这样娶回家了？
今天跟一个男性朋友约了喝早茶。我跟同事听了他一通对男人女人的定义。起初是笑，后来我想了一下，觉得似乎可以套用。
你们女人总是想的很复杂，我们希望你们能直白的表达自己的意思。不要总让我们猜。
例如如果前一个月每个星期都一起去看场电影，只要后来有一次没去，你们心里就不开心了，虽然不说；但是第二次没去，你们肯定爆发。问题就上升到了，你是否还爱我的问题。
为什么要将问题上升呢，这只是一个问题。并没有其他牵连吧。
你们喜欢不停的问，你爱不爱我；
我说：可是男女之间这些问题也是情趣吧。}