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4/22

Emma Copley Eisenberg: Reading and Conversation

Kelly Writers House Entrance.
Emma Copley Eisenberg, the Philadelphia-based author of the novel “Housemates,” a national bestseller and named best book of the year by The Boston Globe, People, NBC, Them.Us, Autostraddle, and Kirkus Reviews, will visit for a reading and conversation with the Penn community.

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

2/12

Penn and Pencil Reading

Exterior of the Kelly Writers House with a path to the front door.
Penn staff who are members of the Penn and Pencil creative writing club share poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

6:00 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

11/20

What is a Citizen?

Exterior of the Kelly Writers House with a path to the front door.
Youth voting activists from Penn and West Philadelphia High School recite monologues on what it means to be a citizen today. Food will be served.

6:00 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

9/4

Dear Penn Freshmen

Exterior of the Kelly Writers House with a path to the front door.
Kelly Writers House hosts a public reading of favorite “Dear Penn Freshmen” letters, a collection of letters written by Penn upperclassmen addressing their freshman year selves about things they wish they knew in their first year.

7:00 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

4/29

Maggie Nelson

A yellow and green victorian house
Scholar and poet Maggie Nelson reads. Nelson is the author of several poetry collections, including “The Argonauts,” which won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2015. A conversation with her will follow on April 30 at 10 a.m.

6:30 p.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

4/22

New Translations from Kharkiv

Exterior of Kelly Writers House.
Katerina Derysheva, a displaced poet from Ukraine who is a poet-in-residence at Penn, will present works that border between phenomenological and linguistic research. This bilingual event presents Derysheva’s work in the original Russian and in new English translations.

12:00 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

4/5

The Art of Governance

Perry World House exterior
Perry World House invites the former president of Peru and Penn Alum Francisco Sagasti to recount his administration during the COVID-19 pandemic and a time of great political and economic uncertainty.

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Hybrid; Perry World House, 3803 Locust Walk and Zoom

2/7

Jim Fielding

Penn Bookstore
James Fielding discusses his experience as a queer executive in the corporate world. Fielding is the author of “All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive's Journey to Living and Leading Authentically.”

5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut St.

2/5

Lorene Cary’s ‘Ladysitting’

Professor standing in front of a blackboard.
Kelly Writers House hosts this panel discussion featuring a scene reading and discussion about Lorene Cary’s play, “Ladysitting.” Registration is required to attend in-person.

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

11/29

Penn and Pencil Club Reading

A yellow and green victorian house
Members of the Penn and Pencil Club, a creative writing workshop for Penn staff that crosses many University departments, read fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

6:00 p.m.

Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk

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