7up Series at Kelly Writers House


the Kelly Writers House
presents


7-UP ON ROCK!

featuring

children's entertainer SAM ALLINGHAM
DJ LAUREN LIPSAY
Rock/paper/scissors judge DANIEL MCQUADE
rock critic MARIA TESSA SCIARRINO
crystal dream therapy by CACONRAD
Rocky expert and native Philadelphian BLAIR BORISH
and Rocky Horror actor MATT ROSENBAUM

Monday, 3/3/08 at 6PM
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia

For these and many more responses to the call of ROCK - as well as a smörgåsbord of rock-related treats (mud pies, worm cups, stone soup) - come down to the Writers House for 7-UP ON ROCK. We hope to see you there!

THE 7-Up SERIES is an annual program for which we invite seven guests to speak for seven minutes each about a topic. Each speaker gives their insight on some aspect of the chosen theme. For more information about the 7-UP series, visit:
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/wh/events/7up/

PhillySound reads at PEACE ON A

BE THERE FOR A GREAT NIGHT OF POETRY!
Saturday, MARCH 1st
8pm

166 Avenue A (btwn 10th & 11th)
APARTMENT #2
NYC

PhillySound READERS WILL BE:

CAConrad
Mytili Jagannathan
Dorothea Lasky
Chris McCreary
Frank Sherlock
Kevin Varrone

DON'T MISS THIS POETRY READING!

ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE
108 S. 13th St.
Philadelphia

SUNDAY, February 24th
4pm

SHANNA COMPTON
TERESA LEO
ELIZABETH SCANLON


hosted by CAConrad

Shanna Compton's books include For Girls (& Others), Down Spooky, and several chapbooks. Her poems and essays have recently appeared in Absent, Abraham Lincoln, Jumps Journal, Tool, and the Poetry Foundation website. The former associate publisher of Soft Skull Press, she founded Bloof Books (http://www.bloofbooks.com/) in 2007, and runs the DIY Poetry Publishing Cooperative (http://diypublishing.blogspot.com/).

Teresa Leo is the author of a book of poems, The Halo Rule (Elixir Press, 2008), winner of the Elixir Press Editor's Prize. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Women's Review of Books, New Orleans Review, Barrow Street, Italian Americana, Painted Bride Quarterly, Xconnect, and elsewhere. She has been a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Vermont Studio Center, and has received fellowships from the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She works at the University of Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Scanlon's poems have appeared in many magazines, including Boston Review, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Colorado Review, Court Green, CrossConnect, Ducky , Gulf Coast , The Journal , Lit, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ploughshares, Post Road, Swink, and in the Thunder Mouth Press anthology Poets Against the War. She has been featured on the web sites Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. She is co-editor of The American Poetry Review.