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Woodstock at 50
Three people sitting on high stools on a stage surrounded by windows, two playing guitars and one speaking or singing into a microphone.

Author Anthony DeCurtis (center) teaches writing at Penn and holds conversations with and about musicians at the Kelly Writers House. 

Woodstock at 50

During three days of Woodstock in August of 1969, Anthony DeCurtis of the School of Arts and Sciences was 18, growing up in New York City and obsessed with the music that would form the foundation of his writing and teaching.
Penn remembers and celebrates Toni Morrison
Amy Gutmann and Toni Morrison seated on stage with flags behind them Toni Morrison appears on stage with University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann in 2012. Morrison was awarded the Trustees' Council of Women's Beacon Award.

Penn remembers and celebrates Toni Morrison

The Penn community recalls the life and legacy of renowned author and teacher Toni Morrison, H‘88.
Immersed in poetry at the Library of Congress
Student standing in lobby of marble building wearing an Identification badge.

Joyce Hida, a rising junior, is a summer intern at the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Immersed in poetry at the Library of Congress

Rising junior Joyce Hida is making the most of her RealArts summer internship, working at the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Looking at the invisible minority
Cover of book titled Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation

Looking at the invisible minority

In a new book, English Professor David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han illuminate the lives and struggles of Asian-American students over a 20-year period.

Penn Today Staff

You can’t hurt a poem, and other lessons from Charles Bernstein
One image of Charles Bernstein presently and another of Charles Bernstein from the 1970s

Now and then: Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Photo: Omnia Magazine)

You can’t hurt a poem, and other lessons from Charles Bernstein

The award-winning poet writer of libretti, translator, and archivist looks back on his career.

Penn Today Staff

‘Ladysitting’
Professor standing in front of a blackboard.

Lorene Cary, a senior lecturer in creative writing, has written a memoir about caring for her grandmother in her final year, “Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century.” (Photo: Eric Sucar) 

‘Ladysitting’

A new memoir by Lorene Cary, “Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century,” describes the year she spent caring for her grandmother in her home.
‘What can be done today?’
Aminata Sy sits with student reading a book to them.

Aminata Sy with a student in the African Community Learning Program. (Photo: Omnia Magazine)

‘What can be done today?’

Senior Aminata Sy founded a program for Philly kids and will soon head to Congress to begin her Rangel Graduate Fellowship.

Susan Ahlborn

Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan stands in front of classroom holding papers in hand.

Novelist and Penn alum Jennifer Egan taught a literature course on modern fiction this semester as an artist-in-residence. 

Studying novels with novelist Jennifer Egan

Pulitzer-Prize winning author Jennifer Egan returns to her alma mater to teach a course on English literature.