Kelly Writers House Daily

RealArts interns talk about their experiences

2013-05-19T15:42:00.001-04:00

Video recording of a panel discussion about our "RealArts" internships. Listen to 2012 interns talk about their experiences. Click here.

Dante's magnificent seven

2013-05-06T12:41:00.004-04:00

Lee Huttner discusses Dante's Magificent Seven at the 7-UP on Seven event at the Kelly Writers House, April 11, 2011. The 7-Up series is an annual program for which we invite seven guests to speak for seven minutes each about a topic. Each speaker gives their insight on some aspect of the chosen theme; interesting interpretations and musings always result.

"Sensible Nonsense" at KWH

2013-04-15T19:12:00.000-04:00

For more about this event, click here.

Watch Anthony DeCurtis interview Loudon Wainwright

2013-04-03T21:02:00.002-04:00

Loudon Wainwright III interviewed by Anthony DeCurtis - KWH's 2013 installment of our Blutt Singer-Songwriter Symposium. You can watch a video recording of the complete program by clicking here.

Roger Angell at KWH - new podcast

2013-03-31T12:22:00.000-04:00

Roger Angell at the Kelly Writers House in 2005 as a Writers House Fellow, greeting then-student Jamie-Lee Josselyn. Today we have released episode 25 in the "Kelly Writers House Podcasts" series. The episode is introduced by Amaris Cuchanski, based on an excerpt from the full recording of a one-hour interview/discussion edited by Nick DeFina. Writers House podcasts can be found here, and can also be found in iTunes. The full recording of the discussion with Angell, and a recording of his presentation the night before (about baseball and memoir) can be found on Angell's KWH Fellows page.

LISTEN TO THE SHOW

Kaegan Sparks - video

2013-03-27T08:30:00.000-04:00

Kaegan Sparks was KWH's art gallery curator for several years. She also got very involved with the ICA, a relationship that began when she took Kenny Goldsmith's year-long seminar on writing about contemporary art. Click here to watch a video of Kaegan talking about her KWH experience.

marathon reading

2013-03-21T23:08:00.000-04:00

Every year the people of the Writers House come together to read an entire book - a marathon reading. This year the book was In Cold Blood. Above you see our living room during the reading: watch out for the police tape and the dead body!

Beltran Award in Gazette article

2013-03-11T21:47:00.001-04:00

The Pennsylvania Gazette recently ran an article about the first annual Beltran Family Award for Innovative Teaching at the Kelly Writers House. Here is a link (PDF) to the article. And here is a link to the KWH web site page on this new annual award.

Simon Morris, "Rewriting Freud"

2013-03-07T07:55:00.001-05:00

This is a 12-minute clip from a 3/6/13 talk by Simon Morris, sponsored by Writers Without Borders. Watch a video recording of the entire event via KWH-TV. Listen to an audio recording of this event. In a 45 minute presentation, entitled 'eating the book' Dr. Simon Morris presented four of his experimental bookworks that challenge conventional methods of reading and writing. Morris has been called 'philosophically irresponsible', a 'literary pervert' and an 'inspired lunatic'. From 2011-12, he was writer-in-residence at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Morris is one of the leading proponents of conceptual writing: a fusion of art and literature. In 2002 he founded the publishing imprint information as material. He lives in York, England and teaches at the University of Teesside where he is Programme Leader in Fine Art.

March 2013 highlights - audio

2013-03-04T17:12:00.000-05:00

Click here to listen to a 2-minute audio highlight of March 2013 programs at the Writers House. Above from left: Nada Gordon, Ada Calhoun, the jacket of Capote's In Cold Blood.

KWH in Second Life

2013-03-03T08:56:00.001-05:00

Did you know that the Kelly Writers House exists in Second Life as well as this first life? We don't host programs there very often, but you can certainly visit and have a look around. Here's a little more, and here's an early-ish foray into poetry in SL. And here's a video about our approach.

John Ashbery on aging and memory

2013-02-28T21:24:00.002-05:00

John Ashbery is interviewed by KWH Faculty Director Al Filreis on February 12, 2013, during Ashbery's stint as a KWH Fellow. Here they discuss poetry, aging and memory.

a history of the Writers House in 19 minutes

2013-02-17T10:40:00.000-05:00

This is a video recording of the 15th anniversary celebration of the Kelly Writers House, held during homecoming weekend that year. Three of Al Filreis's former students, and KWH's first Director, Kerry Sherin Wright, presented their work. But before they did that, Al gave a high-speed talk on the founding of the Writers House three times in succession: first a "conservative" narrative of KWH, then a liberal narrative, and finally a radical narrative.

Locust Street looking east in 1953

2013-02-14T22:11:00.003-05:00

This photograph was taken on May 29, 1953, on the 38th block of Locust Street in West Philadelphia. The photographer was looking east toward the center of the University of Pennsylvania. Today, from this vantage, one would see Locust Walk (not Street), and in the distance one would see the street go upward over the 38th Street pedestrian bridge. Along the right side of this view today one would see the edge of Harnwell House ("High Rise East") and then, further away, the front edge of the Class of 1920 Commons. The Samuel Sloan-designed house at 3805 Locust Walk - now the Kelly Writers House - is not visible here (as it is set back from the street), but near where we've placed a red dot is the street-side path that leads to the porch and front door of the house. For more information about this photograph, click here.

Ken Lum

2013-02-13T08:47:00.003-05:00

Ken Lum, new director of undergraduate Fine Arts at Penn and important language-y artist, visited KWH recently for a lunchtime program moderated by Al Filreis. For more about the event and about Ken, click here.

2013-02-03T15:09:00.004-05:00

This video is an excerpt from "pitch night" for our "Entrepreneurial Jounalism" class taught by Sam Apple. These two student presentations proposed new applications to address current trends and problems in long-form nonfiction writing and publishing. You can watch the complete video - with all the student pitches - here. This program was sponsored by our Creative Ventures program.

Jena Osman

2013-01-23T19:09:00.000-05:00

Jena Osman reading from "Corporate Relations" during the Osman/Patti McCarthy double reading, 2/23/2013, hosted by the "Whenever We Feel Like It Series," curated by Michelle Taransky.

James Surowiecki at Weber Symposium

2013-01-15T20:46:00.002-05:00

James Surowiecki visited KWH for the annual Weber Symposium, which features a discussion with a writer about finance and economics. Both audio and video recordings of this event are now available, linked to the event entry in the Writers House web calendar.

our house in 1908

2013-01-02T10:08:00.001-05:00

3805 Locust Walk in 1908!

10 new paid RealArts summer internships

2012-12-21T13:35:00.000-05:00

I am very pleased to announce the 2013 Real Arts@PENN internships - the fifth summer of this innovative project. This program is intended to support creative Penn undergraduates doing art in the realm of practice. This year, RealArts is sponsoring ten paid ten internships:

Viacom Creative Services
Rolling Stone Magazine
Brooklyn Films
Philadelphia Magazine
Original Film
David Stern and Stuart Gibbs, Writers
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Nickelodeon Animation Studios
Shore Fire Media
The Jewish Museum

Yes, RealArts will pay you a stipend to work in such venues. This summer's stipends will be $4000.

We're happy to emphasize that RealArts internships and programs are open to students in all four undergraduate schools.

Why are we doing this? What other projects will we sponsor? How do you apply? When is the deadline? Go here:

www.writing.upenn.edu/realarts

Maria Popova in the NY Times

2012-12-02T18:50:00.001-05:00

Former Penn Creative Writing student and Writers House regular Maria Popova was recently featured in an article in the New York Times. Her blog is called "Brain Pickings."
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Jenny Egan receives award

2012-11-17T10:11:00.000-05:00

Recently Jennifer Egan - who in her time at Penn was a Creative Writing student and has since become a close friend of the Writers House - was presented with the "Creative Spirit Award" at Penn during homecoming weekend. Diana Cavallo presented the award; Diana taught Creative Writing at Penn for many years, and was Jenny's teacher.

KWH hosts online course on mod & contemp poetry

2012-04-18T08:59:00.000-04:00

Enroll here. The course is free and begins on September 1.

Karen Rile wins Beltran Family Teaching Award

2012-03-22T10:56:00.001-04:00

The following happy message has been sent to many friends of the Writers House:

I'm very pleased to announce the winner of the first annual Beltran Family Award for Innovative Teaching & Mentoring at the Kelly Writers House. She is Karen Rile, a super-devoted and extraordinarily talented teacher who has taught part-time as a member of the Creative Writing faculty for many years. She offers writing workshops in fiction and creative nonfiction, and year after year her students, in their evaluations and otherwise, give her the highest possible praise as mentor and supportive writerly presence. She has always gone way out of her way to help emergent writers. And she has long been a friend of the Kelly Writers House and a member of the KWH community. We are pleased that this award will provide her with a $1,000 stipend and up to $2,200 to spend on organizing and hosting a program at the Writers House in the coming academic year (2012-13).

We will be celebrating Karen as our first Beltran Award winner at our end-of-year "hub" party at the Writers House starting at 5 PM on Wednesday, April 25. We will honor her again at the program she sponsors next year.

If you know and share our admiration of Karen, please feel free to congratulate her on this honor: krile@writing.upenn.edu.

10 paid summer internships - RealArts@PENN

2012-03-15T09:36:00.002-04:00

We received hundreds of applications again this year for ten paid summer RealArts@PENN internships. Below is a list of the students who have been appointed as RealArts interns for 2012.

For more about RealArts: CLICK HERE.

We want to thank Mingo Reynolds, who coordinates RealArts; and Anthony DeCurtis, Director of RealArts and creator of the series of RealArts events and symposia at the Kelly Writers House. We also wish to thank Dirk Wittenborn, Paul & Ossi Burger, & Alan Berger for their support of RealArts.

The quality of the applications was very high, the competition acute.

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Interning with the Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial blog "Say What?” will be Lalita Clozel. Lalita is a junior majoring in Philosophy and Economics.

Nadine Zylberberg will be interning at Original Film. Nadine is a Communication and Cinema Studies major, with a minor in French, and she is a writer for the Daily Pennsylvanian.

The intern at Philadelphia Magazine will be Eillie Anzilotti. Eillie is a junior concentrating in Creative Writing, and minoring in Fine Arts.

Natalia Fuller, a junior History of Art major who focuses in Contemporary Art, will be interning at The Jewish Museum this summer.

The intern at Viacom Creative Services (formerly MTV Creative Services) will be Jake Spinowitz. Jake is a junior and a Creative Writing student.

This years Rolling Stone magazine intern will be Joe Pinsker. Joe is a junior studying nonfiction and journalistic writing and is an editor at 34th Street.

Elaine Ogden, a junior majoring in English, will be working at Brooklyn Films in L.A. with producer/director Jon Avnet.

The intern at Nickelodeon Animation Studios will be Kirby Dixon. Kirby is a junior Visual Arts major with a minor in Spanish.

Tim Delaney will be working in L.A. with screenwriters David Stern and Stuart Gibbs. Tim is a junior English major with a focus in Cinema Studies, and he is also a Communications major.

The intern for Shore Fire Media is Greg Bonnem, a junior studying Communications and Hispanic Studies.