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The Real Deal with Courtney HardenEP 183 - Sports Narratives with Jamie-Lee JosselynFeaturing guest Jamie-Lee Josselyn, who is a Recruiter, Advisor and Teacher of Sports Narratives Class.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-deal-with-courtney-harden--3678816/support.2025-02-2058 min
Wow If True55: Rat VerifiedIn this episode, we talk to Alex Cohen AKA tiny snek comics AKA the mastermind behind being rat verified on twitter, which is superior to regular verified, because you don’t pay $8 and you also get a rat. But hey, if you’re really thirsting for that blue checkmark, tumblr’s got you covered—they’ll give you two, and it even comes with crabs. Also a guy in Philly ate 40 rotisserie chickens, and Jamie-Lee Josselyn explains why this is a sport. PETA’s going to have fun with this one.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy...2022-11-1657 min
DeviateBest places to live in the USA [encore]“We all have different priorities in life, and there is a place for each of us where we can live according to what those priorities are.” – Winona Dimeo
In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Winona discuss what people are looking for in a place to live (2:00) and Livability.com’s latest rankings for America’s most livable cities (23:00). Then, Rolf takes recommendations from listeners on their favorite places to live in America (53:00).
Winona Dimeo (@winona_rose) is the managing editor of Livability.com, a website that ranks America’s most livable small and mid-sized cities.
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Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 24: Stephen Fried on "Dead Fathers Society"Stephen Fried (@stephen_fried), a journalist, author of many books, and adjunct faculty member at Columbia and Penn joins Jamie-Lee to read and discuss his essay, "Dead Fathers Society," from his 2007 collection Husbandry. Stephen and Jamie-Lee discuss the nature of these respective societies and how not everyone who has lost a parent wants to tell the story of it. They also discuss teaching writing, Stephen's course Writing About Mental Health and Addiction, and how they approach student writers who are facing difficult material.2021-03-111h 14Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 23: Michelle Chikaonda on "Song for my Father"Michelle Chikaonda (@machikaonda), a nonfiction writer from Malawi currently living and working in Philadelphia, joins Jamie-Lee and brilliant pal Izzy Lopez to read and discuss her essay, "Song for My Father" from The Pennsylvania Gazette. Michelle elaborates on the role that faith and music played in her life with her father and following his death from cancer. Michelle also reflects on the essay and grief generally amidst Covid-19. You can read more of Michelle's writing at https://www.michellechikaonda.work/.2021-02-191h 26Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 22: Hope Edelman on The AfterGriefThis episode is the audio recording from a virtual event held at the Kelly Writers House on November 18, 2020, featuring Hope Edelman, author of the new book The AfterGrief, as well as the widely successful and impactful book Motherless Daughters, and seven other nonfiction books. Hope and Jamie-Lee discuss Hope's process in writing and structuring The AfterGrief, how the book encourages those who've experienced loss to think critically about their own stories over time, and the way the Covid-19 pandemic impacted Hope and the book as she completed it. This event was sponsored by Penn's Creative Writing Program.2020-12-181h 11Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 21: Taylor Hosking on Covid loss and support from women of colorTaylor Hosking (@Taylor__Hosking), a culture journalist and podcast producer, joins Jamie-Lee to discuss her recent piece from The Guardian about how she turned to fellow women of color after her mother's death from Covid-19. They discuss the recent, ongoing nature of this loss in combination with the collective grief that so many are feeling in the wake of the pandemic and how this affected Taylor's approach to writing her piece. Additionally, they discuss the approaches Taylor has adopted from the women she interviewed, and more. You can find more from Taylor at https://www.taylormhosking.com/.2020-12-0249 minDead Parents SocietyEpisode 20: Isabella Simonetti's reflection on writing about loss during a pandemicIsabella Simonetti, a current student at the University of Pennsylvania and the President of The Daily Pennsylvanian, joins Jamie-Lee for DPS's first Zoom episode. They discuss the writing Isabella has produced in an independent study at Penn about her mother's death from breast cancer, and how the scope of this work changed when the semester suddenly went remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic.2020-05-2947 minDead Parents SocietyEpisode 19: Gianna DeMedio on "Sixty-Three" and So Sorry For Your LossGianna DeMedio, host of the podcast and blog So Sorry for Your Loss, joins Jamie-Lee to read and discuss her essay "Sixty-Three," about her discovery that several members of her family died at the same age, as well as the ordinary rituals of grief like a visit to the cemetery. She and Jamie-Lee discuss the notion of legacy, the community that comes through writing and podcasting about grief, and more, including how both Gianna and Jamie-Lee reacted to the recent deaths of Kobe Bryant and his daughter.2020-03-091h 03
So Sorry For Your Loss: Not Your Average Grief GroupSuicide, Grieving in Youth & How Writing Can Help: Interview with Jamie-Lee JosselynCreative writing instructor from the University of Pennsylvania, Jamie-Lee Josselyn, shares with me how writing can help you process your grief. We covered a lot of other important topics, too, like the stigmas of suicide, how she strived to continue a normal life as a pre-teen after her loss and how she coped when she reached the age her mom died by suicide.2020-01-2038 minDead Parents SocietyEpisode 18: DPS featured on "Live at the Writers House" on WXPNThis special episode of Dead Parents Society was recorded before a live audience at the Kelly Writers House and aired on WXPN, the public radio station at the University of Pennsylvania, in November 2019. Hosted as always by Jamie-Lee Josselyn, this episode features work by Emily Harnett, Zoe Osbourne, Gianna DeMedio, and Rachel Levy Lesser. Special thanks to WXPN for this opportunity and for letting us share this recording as a podcast.2019-12-1056 minDead Parents SocietyEpisode 17: Rachel Levy Lesser on "Hair Pulled Back in a Twilly"Rachel Levy Lesser, author of Life's Accessories: A Memoir and Fashion Guide, joins Jamie-Lee and Darcy Walker Krause, Executive Director of the Uplift Center for Grieving Children. The three of them discuss an essay from Rachel's new collection called "Hair Pulled Back in a Twilly," which is about not just Rachel's loss of her mother and the immediate aftermath, but about how and what we remember, how we can give and get support in grief, and what purpose a simple object can serve as me move forward.2019-11-0556 minDead Parents SocietyEpisode 16: Molly O'Neill on "Parts of a Life""Molly O'Neill, a Los Angeles-based yoga instructor, writer, and longtime friend of the Kelly Writers House community reads from her essay "Parts of a Life" from YogaPoetica.com and discusses the piece with Jamie-Lee and DPS brilliant pal Anna Strong Safford. In their conversation, they discuss how teaching and practicing yoga integrated into Molly's grief of her father's death from Parkinson's Disease, and how writing factors in as well.2019-09-1341 minDead Parents SocietyEpisode 15: Solomon Mussing on "Letter to My Father"Solomon Mussing, who also goes by the name L'Hussen Toure, an alum of the Summer Workshop for Young Writers at the Kelly Writers House, talks with Jamie-Lee about his piece "Letter to My Father," a memoir in the style of direct-address that he wrote to his father, who died by suicide. They discuss the obvious, unflinching directness of the mode, the way a writer considers his reader in this style, the risks involved in such a piece, and more.2019-08-081h 01Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 14: Anna Strong Safford on "because my memories"In our Season 2 premiere, Anna Strong Safford, instructor and curriculum specialist at Penn, joins Jamie-Lee and DPS brilliant pal Molly O'Neill to read and discuss her poem "because my memories" from her manuscript bled. Anna's poem inspires a conversation about the use of earthly (and, indeed, worldly) imagery in writing about one's memories of grief, the way parental grief can transfer and shift from one parent to the other, and how found language can inspire our work as writers.2019-07-0244 minDead Parents SocietyEpisode 13: Rebecca Soffer of Modern LossRebecca Soffer, co-author of the book Modern Loss and co-founder of ModernLoss.com, joins Jamie-Lee and others in the Kelly Writers House garden for a live reading and conversation about writing about grief, the community that comes from it, and the various emotions and moods that this writing can evoke (spoiler alert: it doesn't always have to be sad!).2018-12-211h 02Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 12: John Culhane on "Little Mirrors of Mortality"Slate.com contributor and Widener Law professor John Culhane joins Jamie-Lee and Maya to read and discuss his piece "Little Mirrors of Mortality," which is from the perspective of a parent realizing his mortality in his children's eyes. Our usual perspective is flipped, in a sense, to great effect thanks to John's piece. We also discuss John's perspective as a gay dad who came out later in life, and relate the idea of "coming out" to how those who've lost parents young choose to identify themselves.2018-10-151h 04Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 11: Arielle Brousse on "Grief Beach"Arielle Brousse, author of the TinyLetter "Grief Beach" joins Jamie-Lee, Maya, and Sabrina to discuss how she came to write a weekly letter to friends and others about her difficult year of loss and how the form of a TinyLetter has impacted her writing, her grieving, and her relationships. They also discuss writing about not just grieving the death of two of her grandparents, but the end of a long-term relationship as well.2018-09-241h 01Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 10: Jamie-Lee Josselyn on "When News of a Suicide Comes During Memoir Class"Bassini Apprentices Maya Arthur and Sabrina Qiao interview Jamie-Lee Josselyn on her essay, "When News of a Suicide Comes During Memoir Class" from LitHub in September 2016. They discuss how personal history and the writing that comes from it converges with and remains separate from the work of a creative writing teacher.2018-09-0452 minDead Parents SocietyEpisode 9: Jess Bergman on "The Difficult Business of Dying"Jess Bergman (@jesslbergman), Features Editor at Literary Hub, joins Jamie-Lee, Maya, and Sabrina to discuss her essay "The Difficult Business of Dying" from The New Republic in December 2017. In the essay, Jess weaves together her own experience of mourning her father with Caitlin Doughty's book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death, which examines the funeral industry in the United States as well as mourning rituals across cultures.2018-08-161h 10Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 8: Catherine Ricketts on "Eloquent Limbs" and "Books to be Buried In"Essayist and songwriter Catherine Ricketts (http://catherinedanaricketts.com/) joins Jamie-Lee, Maya, and Sabrina to discuss her essay "Eloquent Limbs" and her song "Books to be Buried In," which she also performs. Cat, who joined us for our live event in April, discusses how she decides to approach particular experiences through songwriting versus through essay writing, her direct and vivid approach to writing about her father's illness and death, and how her conversations with him informed this.2018-07-261h 01
DeviateBest places to live in America“We all have different priorities in life, and there is a place for each of us where we can live according to what those priorities are.” – Winona Dimeo
Winona Dimeo (@winona_rose) is the managing editor of Livability.com, a website that ranks America’s most livable small and mid-sized cities.
In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Winona discuss what people are looking for in a place to live (2:00) and Livability.com’s latest rankings for America’s most livable cities (23:00). Then, Rolf takes recommendations from listeners on their favorite places to live in America (53...2018-07-171h 16Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 7: Victoria Ford on "Elegy for Clitoris"The poet and essayist Victoria Newton Ford joins Jamie-Lee, Maya, and Sabrina to discuss her poem "Elegy for Clitoris" from Connotation Press. Victoria has said that she writes "to tell the truth, and the truth is often hideous. And though it feels good to write, I don't write to make the reader feel good, particularly. I write to make you feel. To honor my own feeling, which is another way to honor the fact that I exist. And so, it is my duty to witness and speak while I'm here."2018-07-101h 21Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 6: Scott Gould and Jamie-Lee Josselyn on the pedagogy of writing about difficult experienceJamie-Lee talks with the writer Scott Gould, who is the director of creative writing at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, about how he approaches working with high school students who are facing difficult personal material, including, but not limited to loss and grief. They discuss general classroom pedagogy, specific essays to use in discussions, and more.2018-06-251h 10Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 5: Jamie-Lee Josselyn and Kristen Martin on Hope Edelman's "Motherless Daughters"Jamie-Lee Josselyn (@jljosselyn) and Kristen Martin (@kwistent) discuss Hope Edelman's 1994 book Motherless Daughters, which has remained successful in the more than 2 decades since its release. Jamie-Lee and Kristen, whose mothers died from suicide and cancer respectively, discuss the book's form, its longevity, how it enables readers to both connect through their own experience and learn about losses much different from their own, and other topics. For more on Hope Edelman, visit: http://hopeedelman.com/ or follow her on Twitter: @hope_edelman.2018-06-1249 min
DeviateLoss and grief “The greatest blessing for me, from having all these losses, has been the otherworldly, supreme clarity about what’s important to me—about how much I love and how much I am loved.” – Heather Dobbins
In this episode of Deviate, Rolf, Heather Dobbins, and Jamie-Lee Josselyn discuss personal loss, grief and mourning, including the importance of gestures over words (2:30); the rituals that surround loss and mourning (18:00); the task of facing holidays and difficult moments in the years following a personal loss (30:00); and funerals and bearing witness to the life and death of loved ones (44:00).
Heather Dobbins, i...2018-06-051h 04Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 4: Kristen Martin on "Don't Cover Your Eyes"Sabrina Qiao, Maya Arthur, and Jamie-Lee Josselyn gather with Kristen Martin (@kwistent) to discuss her essay "Don't Cover Your Eyes," from Catapult in 2016. Kristen's essay inspires conversation about how a television show -- in this case, HBO's Six Feet Under -- can help access grief, rather than numb it. The group also discusses how writing about loss is also just as much about living in the present as it is reflecting on the past.2018-05-3155 minDead Parents SocietyEpisode 3: Gabriel Ojeda-Sague on Where Everything Is In HalvesJamie-Lee Josselyn gathers with Emily Harnett (@therealeharnett) and Maya Arthur (@maya_s_arthur) to discuss Where Everything Is In Halves by Gabriel Ojeda-Sague (@hadeejasouffle) published by Be About It Press. Gabe reads a selection from the chapbook and then joins the conversation about choosing a particular form/approach/constraint to writing about grief and loss, how media and entertainment factor into our lives during difficult times, and more.2018-05-1455 minDead Parents SocietyEpisode 2: Recorded live from Kelly Writers HouseThis episode was recorded live at the Kelly Writers House on April 16, 2018 at Dead Parents Society's Beltran Family Teaching Award Program. Jamie-Lee hosts the writers Catherine Ricketts, Seth Laracy, Mingo Reynolds, Isabella Simonetti, and Anna Strong who each read a piece of writing about the loss of a parent. Conversation and questions from the audience follows and we end with a musical performance of "Downpour" by Catherine Ricketts (catrickettsmusic.com).2018-04-301h 25Dead Parents SocietyEpisode 1: Emily Harnett on "When Art Cannot Console Us in Death"Jamie-Lee Josselyn (@jljosselyn) gathers with Gabriel Ojeda-Sague (@hadeejasouffle) and Sabrina Qiao to discuss "When Art Cannot Console Us in Death" by Emily Harnett (@therealeharnett) from Literary Hub. Emily reads the piece and then joins in on the conversation too, which covers everything from grieving secularly to the reasons we write about death and loss to Emily's father's love of cheese sandwiches.2018-04-1654 min
Kelly Writers House PodcastEpisode 43 - Interview with Jennifer YuJamie-Lee Josselyn interviews recent Penn grad Jennifer Yu about her debut novel, "Four Weeks, Five People."2017-05-2500 min
PoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 57 - Cut from the same tongue: Gregory Djanikian, "Armenian Pastoral, 1915"Peter Balakian, John Timpane and Jamie-Lee Josselyn gather to discuss Gregory Djanikian's "Armenian Pastoral, 1915" with host, Al Filreis.2012-09-0432 minPoemTalk at the Writers HouseEpisode 40 - Dementia BlogLeonard Schwartz, Michelle Taransky, Jamie-Lee Josselyn, and Al Filreis discuss Dementia Blog by Susan Schultz2011-01-3128 minKelly Writers House PodcastEpisode 19 - Jamie-Lee Josselyn's memoir of her motherJamie-Lee Josselyn's memoir of her mother2008-01-0900 min