Jericho Jennifer Nelson is the author of four books of poetry, including most recently On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies, which won the Ottoline Prize (Fence, 2025). They have also published two art historical monographs, most recently Lucas Cranach: From German Myth to Reformation (Reaktion, 2024). Recent honors include the Hilles Bush Fellowship at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Tomás-Harris Visiting Professorship at University College London, and the Vilas Early Career Investigator Award at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A founding co-editor of the art historiography journal Selva, they teach early modern art history at the University of Delaware and live in Philadelphia.

The Poets & Writers Series is sponsored by the Temple University MFA Program in Creative Writing, with the assistance of the Department of English. Each year a number of poets and fiction writers are invited to read from and discuss their work to members of both the Temple community and the local Philadelphia arts scene. All events are free and open to the public.