Tagged: Penn

Poems of Jawdat Fakhreddine

I’m grateful to Huda Fakhreddine the gift she made of “Lighthouse for the Drowning,” poems by Jawdat Fakhreddine (her father) as translated by herself and Jayson Iwen. “Now when I meet [this poem] in a book / from time to time, / it beckons to me like a prisoner, /...

“Full House”: new article about Kelly Writers House

Today in the student-written, student-edited weekly magazine, 34th Street, there appeared a nice article about the Kelly Writers House that captures the spirit (and food-centricity) of our writerly haven. It can be found HERE. It begins: “It’s another cold, violently windy day in Philadelphia, but in the kitchen, sun streams through...

Young Penn journalists in DC

Penn alumni journalists gather with their former teacher/mentor Paul Hendrickson in Washington DC last night: Jessica Lussenhop, BBC America (’05); Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times (’14); Joe Pinsker, the Atlantic (’13); Jessica Sidman, Washingtonian Magazine (’08); Ashley Parker, Washington Post (’05); Paul Hendrickson; Sam Brodey, Minnesota Post (’14); Jessica Goldstein,...