Past Events



Phillip Lopate in Conversation with Max Apple

Apr 15, 2021 at -

Phillip Lopate, whose new book is The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945-1970, will be in (virtual) conversation with our very own Max Apple.…



John Marshall: The final founder | A conversation with Robert Strauss | Tue 3/16

Povich Journo Program
Mar 9, 2021 - Mar 16, 2021 at -

Povich Journo Program presents John Marshall: The final founder

A conversation with Robert Strauss, hosted by…



The Sensible Nonsense Project

supported by the Lucy F. DeMarco Fund for Youth Literature
Mar 4, 2021 at -

Help us honor the humor, pathos, and enduring wisdom of children’s books through a celebration of The Sensible Nonsense Project, curated by Arielle Brousse (C'07, SPP'12) and supported by the Lucy F DeMarco Fund for…



We All Feel Like It

hosted by Kelly Writers House
Mar 3, 2021 at -

Join us on Wednesday, 3/3 6:00 PM ET on YouTube for WE ALL FEEL LIKE IT. Twelve years after Michelle Taransky’s reading series “Whenever We Feel Like It'' hosted its first “We All Feel Like It” reading in the Kelly…



The Good Poem Project

Supported by Kelly Writers House Junior Fellows Prize
Feb 9, 2021 at -

Supported by the Kelly Writers House Junior Fellows Prize, the Good Poem Project is a collaborative experiment exploring how we assign value to poems. Sure, we know that poetry is subjective, but for both casual…



A Conversation with Mirin Fader

hosted by Jamie-Lee Josselyn
Feb 2, 2021 at -

Mirin Fader is a Staff Writer for the Ringer. She wrote for Bleacher Report from 2017–20. She's written for the Orange County Register, …



Mournings We Collect for One Another: Whatever Sky Awaits Us

A reading by students of Laynie Browne
Dec 10, 2020 at -

Please join us at this online reading to celebrate the writing from Laynie Browne's two sections of Poetry and Memoir. Enjoy energetic cross-genre writing in many forms—from experiments in attention, poetry walks,…



Narrative Collage

A reading by students of Karen Rile
Dec 9, 2020 at -

The most interesting journey isn’t a straight line. In our fall workshop we’ve been exploring fiction and creative nonfiction using nontraditional techniques including nonlinear segments, multiple voices, found texts…



Stories from the Deep

Readings by students in Kathryn Watterson's memoir workshop
Dec 8, 2020 at -

An intimate reading of stories written and curated by students in Kathryn "Kitsi" Watterson's course Writing & Remembering: A Memoir Workshop.



A Conversation with David Browne

A RealArts@Penn Program
Nov 19, 2020 at -

A senior writer at Rolling Stone, David Browne is the author of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup and So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead,…