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Jack Spicer at 100

The Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia

A Conversation with Daniel Benjamin (co-editor of Spicer's Collected Letters) hosted by: Timmy Straw and Julieta Vittore Dutto co-sponsored by: the Creative Writing Program rsvp: register here to attend in person Daniel Benjamin received his PhD in English and Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley. With Kevin Killian and Kelly Holt, he edited Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The […]

A poetry reading by Marcella Durand

The Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia

About the Poet: Marcella Durand's latest books are A Winter Triangle, which received the Poetic Justice Institute Prize in 2024 and was published this fall by Fordham University Press, and The Light Factory, a collaboration with her mother, painter Suzan Frecon, published by Insurance Editions 2025 with support from David Zwirner Gallery. She is the co-editor with […]

A Poetry Reading by Greg Djanikian

The Kelly Writers House 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia

Join us at the Writers House for a reading by acclaimed poet Gregory Djanikian, who was for many years the Director of Creative Writing at Penn. Djanikian’s latest book, Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems, written over several decades, takes for its many subjects romantic love and its difficulties, the horrors of the […]