Past Events



THE CLAW: A READING

Featuring Piyali Bhattacharya, Ariel Delgado Dixon, Stephanie Feldman, Carmen Maria Machado, Sara Nović, and Asali Solomon
Mar 24, 2022 at -

PIYALI BHATTACHARYA is the editor of the NEA grant-winning anthology, Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion . She is currently finishing her first novel,…



JULIA BLOCH, MAXE CRANDALL, AND LARISSA LAI

A Poetry Reading
Mar 15, 2022 at -

JULIA BLOCH grew up in Northern California and Sydney, Australia. Her most recent book of poetry is The Sacramento of Desire. She is the recipient of the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award from the San…



MARY KAY ZURALEFF

A fiction reading
Feb 25, 2022 at

hosted by: MAX APPLE
co-sponsored by: the CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM
watch: a video recording of…



MIXTAPE POETRY PROJECT

Beltran Family Program
Feb 25, 2022 at

watch: a video recording of this event via KWH-TV



A CONVERSATION WITH FASHION CRITIC RACHEL SEVILLE TASHJIAN

A RealArts@Penn program
Feb 24, 2022 at -

Hosted by: Anthony DeCurtis

Sponsored by: Creative Ventures

RACHEL SEVILLE TASHJIAN (C'11) is the fashion critic at GQ and the creator of the newsletter Opulent…



HELED TRAVEL GRANT PRESENTATIONS: GRACE LEAHY AND IAN MCCORMACK

Feb 24, 2022 at -

This program is online only.

Heled Travel and Research Grants enable students to travel and conduct research for significant writing projects. Join us for presentations by two Heled Grant recipients: Grace…



A FOREST ON MANY STEMS: ESSAYS ON THE POET'S NOVEL

A celebration of a new anthology edited by Laynie Browne
Feb 17, 2022 at -

Please join us to celebrate the publication of the anthology, A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet's novel, edited by Laynie Browne, with contributors Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Julia Bloch, Marcella…



A CONVERSATION WITH SHARON HAYES AND BROOKE O'HARRA

Creative Ventures program
Feb 16, 2022 at

watch: a video recording of this event
listen: to an …



SUPPLEMENT LAUNCH PARTY

hosted by Ariel Resnikoff and Orchid Tierney
Feb 16, 2022 at

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A BOOK LAUNCH FOR WEIKE WANG'S JOAN IS OKAY

A reading and Q&A, with Weike Wang and special guest Sully Burns
Feb 7, 2022 at -

Sponsored by: the Creative Writing Program

Deceptively spare yet quietly powerful and laced with sharp humor, Joan Is Okay — the new novel by Weike Wang — touches on matters that feel deeply…