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Who, What, Why: Jamie-Lee Josselyn
Jamie-Lee Josselyn sitting in a room full of chairs

As associate director for recruitment for the Creative Writing Program, Jamie-Lee Josselyn visits high schools across the country to talk with student writers about opportunities at Penn. A Penn alum, she is also the founder and director of the Summer Workshop for Young Writers at the Kelly Writers House. 

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Jamie-Lee Josselyn

    As associate director for recruitment for the Creative Writing Program, Jamie-Lee Josselyn visits high schools across the country to talk with student writers about opportunities at Penn.
    Beyond America’s racial fault line
    Ben Jealous listens to Camille Charles talk at a Kelly Writers House event

    Ben Jealous listens to Camille Z. Charles at Kelly Writers House.

    (Image: Krista Patton)

    Beyond America’s racial fault line

    Professor of practice Ben Jealous discussed race, politics, America’s long history of interracial collaboration, and his new book with Camille Z. Charles during a co-sponsored event at Kelly Writers House.

    Kristina García

    Building a better world, one side gig at a time
    Young children practice ballet at a barre in a ballet studio.

    Building a better world, one side gig at a time

    The 10th piece for this series showcases a nurse who founded a low-cost dance studio, a staffer who fosters kittens, an HR specialist who teaches high schoolers life skills, and an English professor who volunteers for his old summer camp.

    Michele W. Berger , Katherine Unger Baillie

    Poet Wes Matthews combines writing, music, research, and service
    Wes Matthews leaning in a doorway at the Kelly Writers House

    Matthews says he plans to write poetry throughout his life, and hopes someday to collaborate on a poem or book with his mother. 

    Poet Wes Matthews combines writing, music, research, and service

    College fourth-year Wes Matthews is combining writing, music, research, and service during his Penn experience. A former Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, the anthropology major and religious studies minor works at the Kelly Writers House and is a Wolf Humanities Center fellow.
    ModPo celebrates its first decade
    Al Filreis holds up the Book "The Difference is Spreading" while seated at a long table with four other people to his left and a television screen with the faces of several other people to his right in front of an audience

    English Professor Al Filreis holds up a copy of the just-published book “The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems,” during the ModPo webcast to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the free massive online open course Modern and Contemporary Poetry. 

    ModPo celebrates its first decade

    Modern and Contemporary Poetry was founded by Al Filreis of the School of Arts & Sciences at Kelly Writers House in 2012, and now has 69,000 people enrolled globally. Poets and participants came to campus to celebrate the 10th anniversary.
    Cosmic Writers brings free creative writing education to school-aged children 
    Manoj Simha and Rowana Miller standing on stairway

    May graduates Rowana Miller (right) and Manoj Simha lead Cosmic Writers, a project supported by President’s Engagement Prize that provides free creative writing instruction to K-12 students virtually throughout the world, taught by college students. The new nonprofit is expanding to offer in-person workshops in Philadelphia and several other U.S. cities.

    Cosmic Writers brings free creative writing education to school-aged children 

    May graduates Rowana Miller and Manoj Simha lead Cosmic Writers, a project supported by President’s Engagement Prize that provides free creative writing instruction to K-12 students virtually throughout the world.
    Rounding the bases and finding home at the Kelly Writers House
    Doug Glanville sitting at table speaking at microphone gesturing with his hands

    Former Major League Baseball centerfielder Doug Glanville (right) spoke about his life and career with students as a Kelly Writers House Fellow, in a seminar created and taught by English Professor Al Filreis and during a public reading and discussion. A 1992 Penn graduate, Glanville is now an author, columnist, professor, and sports broadcaster. 

    Rounding the bases and finding home at the Kelly Writers House

    Former Major League Baseball centerfielder Doug Glanville spoke with students about his life and career in the seminar created and taught by English Professor Al Filreis and during a public reading and conversation.