Kelly finds her university through a MOOC
When the ModPo team visited the San Francisco area last fall, Kelly Liu, a local high-school senior, joined us for the webcast in Mountain View and the meet-up/collaborative close reading in San Francisco. Kelly was an avid, active participant/learner/“student” in ModPo.
Well, Kelly became very interested in the arts & humanities at Penn, applied for admission (and was supported as a candidate by us through the process), and was admitted—and, as of today, I am her Faculty Advisor for the College. And will have the honor of welcoming her to the Kelly Writers House community and to the writing scene here, and teaching her in my face-to-face classes. Could teaching get any better?
In the photo below, taken at the Center for the Book in SF, you see Kelly (at right) talking excitedly about our poem with two other ModPo regulars, Yadda and Edith.
Al Filreis is Kelly Professor, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, Director of the Center
for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Co-Director of PennSound, and Publisher of Jacket2—all at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Secretaries of the Moon,
Wallace Stevens & the Actual World, Modernism from Left to Right, and Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-60. His new book is 
Founder/Faculty Director, 