Past Events



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
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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

watch: a video recording of this event
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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…



FRANNY CHOI: READING AND CONVERSATION

Caroline Rothstein Oral Poetry Program
Feb 3, 2022 at -

co-sponsored by: the Asian American Studies Program, Excelano Project, Creative Writing Program, and the English Department

In honor of their daughter Caroline, whose longstanding…



WE ALL FEEL LIKE IT

hosted by: Michelle Taransky
Feb 2, 2022 at -

Twelve years after Michelle Taransky’s Whenever We Feel Like It series hosted its first “We All Feel Like It” reading in the Kelly Writers House Arts Café, the fifth “We all Feel Like It” reading will feature poets…