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Whether he’s writing about musicians or anime characters, there is a tenderness with the way Sean Avery Medlin approaches the subjects of his writing. I had the opportunity to speak with Medlin about their new book of poetry and prose, 808s & Otherworlds: Memories, Remixes, & Mythologies available now from Two Dollar Radio, as well topics such as fandom, writing through
Husnaa Haajarah Hashim sees poetry as transformative A former Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate, Penn junior Hashim reflects on her writing and scholarship during this moment when Amanda Gorman, the youngest presidential inaugural poet, is bringing national attention to poetry. Husnaa Haajarah Hashim, a Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate, is a junior at Penn, an Africana studies major, and creative writing minor. Watching Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, perform her poem at the presidential inauguration, Penn j...
Categories: Academic Calendar, Arts, Lectures & Seminars Please join the English and Creative Writing Department for a conversation between Christina Sharpe and Simone White on Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 7 PM ET. Christina Sharpe is a professor at Tufts University in the department of English and the programs in Africana and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, her second book, was named in the Guardian as one of the best books of 2016. Her first book, Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, was published in 2010, and she has con...
Poet Simone White is an assistant professor of English in Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences. Two faculty in Penn’sSchool of Arts & Sciences have been chosen for a 2021 Creative Capital Award and will each receive as much as $50,000 in funding for their creative writing projects. Simone White, an assistant professor of English, and Marc Anthony Richardson, a lecturer in creative writing, are among 42 artists working on 35 projects to receive the award, “each of which exemplifies the risk-taking, adventurous art-making” Creative Capital says it seek...