Saturnalia
Books Poetry Reading.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 6:00 PM
This annual event will feature Lynn Emanuel, Hadara Bar-Nadav,
Natalie Shapero, and William Kulik.
Lynn Emanuel books of poetry include: Noose and Hook
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010); Then, Suddenly—
(1999), which was awarded the Eric Matthieu King Award from the
Academy of American Poets; The Dig (1992), which was
selected by Gerald Stern for the National Poetry Series; and
Hotel Fiesta (1984). She is currently a Professor of
English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of three books of poetry, most
recently Lullaby (With Exit Sign), winner of the
Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize selected by Lynn Emanuel. Hadara
is currently Assistant Professor of English at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City.
Natalie Shapero, poet and civil rights lawyer, is the author of
No Object. Her poems have appeared in magazines and
literary journals including The Kenyon Review, The
New Republic, Poetry, and The Progressive.
She is currently the Kenyon Review fellow at Kenyon
College in Ohio.
William Kulik’s translations of French Surrealist poetry are
well-known, especially his versions of Robert Desnos, Tristan
Tzara and Max Jacob. His most recent book of translation is
The Voice of Robert Desnos: Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow
Press, 2005). Nowhere Fast is the first collection of
his own poems which have appeared in American Poetry Review,
Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, and
Best American Poetry 1999.
Free. RSVP to Susan Gallo at 215-925-2688
or
sgallo@philaathenaeum.org
Edward
G Pettit, "Edgar Allan Poe, His Legacy, His Body."
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 5:30 PM
Edward G Pettit is the Philly Poe Guy, as well as a freelance
writer, book reviewer, film presenter, professor and literary
provocateur. He teaches at La Salle University and is a member
of the Philly Liars Club. In 2012, Pettit was the Charles
Dickens Ambassador for the Free Library of Philadelphia’s
Bicentennial celebration of the birth of Dickens. Currently,
Pettit is finishing a book about Edgar Allan Poe’s life in
Philadelphia, to be published later this year by The History
Press, as well as a Dickens Murder Mystery to be performed at
the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion in October 2013.
In a 2007 article in Philadelphia City Paper, Edward G
Pettit sparked the Poe Wars. Inflaming the passion of particular
literary fans, Pettit controversially proposed exhuming Edgar
Allan Poe from his grave in Baltimore to be re-interred in
Philadelphia. In advance of his forthcoming Poe book, Pettit
will speak about this and other aspects of Poe’s legacy in
Philadelphia, using sources including those gathered from the
Athenaeum’s collection.
This talk is presented in conjunction with Hidden City
Philadelphia 2013 Festival.
hiddencityphila.org
Reception to follow.
Free for Athenaeum and Hidden City Members. RSVP to Susan Gallo at 215-925-2688
or
sgallo@philaathenaeum.org
Photo Credit: Kyle Cassidy
Gregory
L. Heller, Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of
Modern Philadelphia.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 5:30 PM
In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city
centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia,
architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on
shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City
Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to neighborhood
development and elevated Philadelphia’s image to the level of
great world cities. Urban development came with costs, however,
and projects that displaced residents and replaced homes with
highways did not go uncriticized, nor was every development that
Bacon envisioned brought to fruition. Despite these challenges,
Bacon oversaw the planning and implementation of dozens of
redesigned urban spaces: the restored colonial neighborhood of
Society Hill, the new office development of Penn Center, and the
transit-oriented shopping center of Market East.
Gregory L. Heller is a practitioner in the fields of economic
development and urban planning. His writings on city planning
have appeared in Next American City, The
Philadelphia Inquirer, and Imagining Philadelphia:
Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City, also available
from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Free for Athenaeum Members. RSVP to Susan Gallo at 215-925-2688
or
sgallo@philaathenaeum.org
Susan
Rimby, Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation
Movement.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 5:30 PM
For her time, Mira Lloyd Dock was an exceptional woman: a
university-trained botanist, lecturer, women’s club leader,
activist in the City Beautiful movement, and public official—the
first woman to be appointed to Pennsylvania’s state government.
In her twelve years on the Pennsylvania Forest Commission, she
allied with the likes of J. T. Rothrock, Gifford Pinchot, and
Dietrich Brandis to help bring about a new era in American
forestry. She was also an integral force in founding and
fostering the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy in Mont Alto,
which produced generations of Pennsylvania foresters before
becoming Penn State’s Mont Alto campus. Dr. Susan Rimby is
Professor of History at Shippensburg University. In 2005 her
article “'Better Housekeeping Out of Doors’: Mira Lloyd Dock,
the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women, and Progressive Era
Conservation” appeared in the Journal of Women’s History.
Susan Rimby earned her Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh.
Reception and book signing to follow.
Free for Athenaeum Members. RSVP to Susan Gallo at 215-925-2688
or
sgallo@philaathenaeum.org
