Past Events



A Showing from Queer Archives, Aesthetics, and Performance

hosted by Brooke O'Harra and the Students of ENGL/THAR 0785
Dec 9, 2024 at

Queer Archives, Aesthetics, and Performance's fall seminar in Creative Writing and Theatre Arts focuses on questions of how to access and represent the past, with a focus on queer, Black, feminist, and other…



A Reading from the KWH First-Year Seminar

hosted by Julia Bloch and the Students of ENGL 0402
Dec 5, 2024 at

Students in the Kelly Writers House First-Year Seminar have spent the semester discovering what it means to work in and around the "third space" of the Writers House as poets, fiction writers, journalists, and…



Experiments in Witnessing

A reading by the students of Syd Zolf
Dec 4, 2024 at

Please join us for an unforgettable reading by the students in ENGL/GSWS 3104, Poetry Lab, and ENGL/GSWS/COML 3501, Writing & Witnessing. They will share inventive poetry, creative nonfiction, and hybrid writing…



Book Launch & Reading: Who Is In the Room? by Brooke O'Harra

Nov 22, 2024 at -

Gather with Brooke O’Harra,…



Ross Gay: A Poetry Reading

sponsored by The Creative Writing Program
Nov 21, 2024 at

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What is a Citizen?

Nov 20, 2024 at

sponsored by the Creative Writing Program

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Novelist Gary Shteyngart

Friedman Fiction Program
Nov 19, 2024 at

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Chef to Chef

Shaina Loew-Banayan of Cafe Mutton in conversation with Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune
Nov 19, 2024 at

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Emerging Journalists: On Culture Writing

Povich Journalism Program
Nov 16, 2024 at

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Secret Symbiosis: Failure and Success in Arts and Entertainment

RealArts@Penn event with media executive Robert Sharenow
Nov 14, 2024 at

hosted by Anthony DeCurtis and sponsored by…