Past Events



Journalists Maureen Dowd and Ashley Parker

in conversation with Paul Hendrickson
Mar 11, 2024 at -

Povich Journalism Program

MAUREEN DOWD, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary and author of three New…



Poetry First Friday at the Ragged Edge

with Maya Pindyck and Taije Silverman
Mar 1, 2024 at -

Please join award-winning poets, Maya Pindyck and Taije Silverman, on March 1st at the Ragged Edge Coffee House in Gettysburg, PA. The First Friday poetry reading begins at 7 pm with an open mic followed by the…



Breathless/Living: Histories/Crises/Poetry

featuring Arielle Julia Brown, Julia Bloch, Ricardo Bracho, Roz Lee, Sof Sears, and Syd Zolf
Mar 1, 2024 at -

sponsored by the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies & the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies

In celebration of 50 years since the founding of Women’s Studies…



A Reading by Joseph Earl Thomas

hosted by Lise Funderburg
Feb 28, 2024 at -

sponsored by the Creative Writing Program

JOSEPH EARL…



A Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid

Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
Feb 27, 2024 at -

JAMAICA KINCAID is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, and gardener from St. John’s Antigua. She now lives in Vermont and works as a Professor of African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University…



A Reading by Jamaica Kincaid

Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
Feb 26, 2024 at -

JAMAICA KINCAID is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, and gardener from St. John’s Antigua. She now lives in Vermont and works as a Professor of African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University…



Gemini Wahhaj: A Reading and Conversation

Cheryl J. Family Fiction Program
Feb 22, 2024 at -

hosted by Karen Rile

GEMINI WAHHAJ is the author of…



Live at the Writers House: VoteThatJawn

A monthly radio show produced in collaboration with WXPN
Feb 19, 2024 at -

hosted by Alli Katz

Join us Monday, January 19, at 6:30 PM for a recording of LIVE at the Writers House, a long-standing collaboration of the people of Kelly Writers House and WXPN (88.5 FM).



A Conversation with Brian Hiatt of Rolling Stone

hosted by Anthony DeCurtis
Feb 15, 2024 at -

presented by RealArts@Penn & sponsored by the Povich Journalism Program

BRIAN…



Mad Poets Society Reading

featuring Laynie Browne, Pattie McCarthy, and Claire Marie Stancek, hosted by Sibelan Forrester
Feb 7, 2024 at -

The Mad Poets Society invites you to join us for the next First Wednesday reading, featuring three wonderful poets: Laynie Browne, Pattie McCarthy, and Claire Marie Stancek!