On Thursday, October 25, starting at 5 PM at Kelly Writers House, I will have the honor of hosting Mehrsa Baradaran, this year’s featured guest at our annual Weber Symposium. RSVP by writing to mingo@writing.upenn.edu. Free & open to all but seating is limited, so RSVP soon! I am nearly finished reading Mehrsa’s “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap” & find it powerful and illuminating. Our event starts with a big reception, followed by an informal interview/Q&A moderated by me. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970953
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PROJECTS:

Convener/teacher, “ModPo.” an open online course on modern & contemporary U.S. poetry—overview of the course ][ intro video
Publisher of Jacket2 magazine—my Jacket2 commentary series ][ "First Readings"
Producer/host, PoemTalk podcast series—co-sponsored by Kelly Writers House & the Poetry Foundation
Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing—Creative Writing ][ RealArts internships ]
Co-founder & co-director of PennSound—50,000 files ][ 15 million downloads annually
Teacher & host, "Kelly Writers House Fellows"—since 1999 ][ Susan Sontag, John Ashbery, Jamaica Kincaid, Laurie Anderson, Adrienne Rich, Joan Didion, John Edgar Wideman & more
Teacher, "Representations of the Holocaust"—a course on survivor testimony ][ my holocaust site