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Photo #39 in project 365
I cross out one of the todo shots I've planned before. The cutout upenn sign just facinates me every time. I'm a sucker for simple things like that. Sparrow made the situation perfect - provide a scale and accompanies the sign to finish the composition. Plus, it was pouring rain today after work, so that's basically the only shot I've got =)
Symposium on Indigenous Languages at the University of Pennsylvania's Quechua program. October 2019.
Oct. 22, Philadelphia
About 70 UPenn students and community activists organized by Fossil Free Penn ran onto the UPenn Yale football field at halftime and refused to leave as they held up three orange banners. On the banners in black lettering were their three demands to UPenn officials: Divest, Save UC Townhomes, and Pay PILOTS.
After 30 minutes under threat of arrests, 60 of the demonstrators walked off the field and were escorted out of the stadium. The rest of the protesters were handcuffed and led out to a police van, where their comrades who had earlier left the field chanted slogans until the police vehicle left.
The activists marched over to the Police Precinct at 40th & Chestnut where they blocked the street, rallied, chanted and sang until eventually all 19 people arrested were released. Each arrestee was charged with "Defiant Trespass."
Kelly Writers House Fellows Program
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Eileen Myles is a poet and writer who was born in Boston and later moved to New York City in 1975 to pursue her career as a poet. She was deeply involved with the St. Mark's Poetry Project, where she studied with poets Alice Notley and Ted Berrigan among others and later served as the Project's artistic director. She is a professor emeritus at UC San Diego where she founded and taught and directed the writing program, and founded an MFA degree program. In 2012 she was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship to complete experimental memoir 'Afterglow.' She has published many books of poetry and experimental fiction, most recently 'Snowflake/different streets' (2012) and 'Inferno' (a poet's novel) (2010). Myles's work is known for its deceptively direct and straightforward language that often contains biographical details, as notably in 'Inferno' and "An American Poem" from 'Not Me' (1991). But Myles's short lines and first person perspective lead her readers down complex, emotional paths that weave through different memories, time periods and city streets -- sometimes literally, as with her poems composed while sitting in LA traffic in 'Snowflake.'