into a lake enchanted mesmerized drawn closer and closer
until the tip of the nose touches water & then
swiftly one senses danger danger a warning a voice saying No,
no wrong way not the lake not the lake over here
& yes she's over there now &
the magnetic pull begins again."--Maureen Owen
Susan Howe will be our second of three spring 2010 Kelly Writers House Fellows. She will be visiting much of the week of March 22. These are the two public Fellows events:
* Monday, March 22, 6:30 PM - a reading
* Tuesday, March 23, 10 AM - brunch followed by interview/conversation moderated by me
Seats are strictly limited. The two sessions are free and open to the public - but, again, seats are limited and attendees must RSVP in advance. To reserve seats, write to whfellow [at] writing [dot] upenn [dot] edu or call (215) 573-9749. For more information, see: http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/people/fellows/KELLY WRITERS HOUSE FELLOWS, 1999-2010:
2010:
• Joyce Carol Oates
• Susan Howe
• David Milch
2009
• Robert Coover
• Joan Didion
• Mary Gordon
2008
• Art Spiegelman
• Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• Jerome Rothenberg
2007
• John McPhee
• Jamaica Kincaid
• Donald Hall
2006
• Richard Ford
• Cynthia Ozick
• Ian Frazier
2005
• Roger Angell
• E.L. Doctorow
• Adrienne Rich
2004
• Lyn Hejinian
• Russell Banks
• James Alan McPherson
2003
• Walter Bernstein
• Laurie Anderson
• Susan Sontag
2002
• Michael Cunningham
• John Ashbery
• Charles Fuller
2001
• Tony Kushner
• David Sedaris
• June Jordan
2000
• Grace Paley
• Robert Creeley
• John Edgar Wideman
1999
• Gay Talese
"I teach horizontally, meaning that while I might begin with a fixed idea of what I'm going to teach that day, I let it drift rhizomatically way off topic, often pulling it back when it gets too far. I rely on non-fixed materials to teach this way; the whole world is at my fingertips. Should I go off on a tangent about John and Rauschenberg and their love relationship as expressed in Rauschenberg's bed, an image of that bed is always a click away. From there, we can head anywhere into the non-fixed universe, be it film, text or sound. And of course, that always takes us elsewhere. As Cage says, 'We are getting nowhere fast.'" 
that anyone has yet got the imaginative measure of that terrifying day six years ago. Certainly our Tolstoy has not crawled out of the rubble. The closest we have, Don DeLillo, succeeded as an essayist-journalist ("In the Ruins of the Future: Reflections on Terror and Loss in the Shadow of September,” Harper’s, December 2001) but, to my mind, failed as a novelist ("Falling Man"). One reason, perhaps, is that the remembered emotion was instantly buried under a pile of cultural junk.' - Tod Gitlin in his review of Susan Faludi's The Terror Dream (written for 
