Faculty Presentation: Oliver de la Paz, Porsha Olayiwola,
and Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
5-7 PM
Join us for a summer faculty reading with poets Oliver de la Paz, and Porsha Olayiwola, and artist Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas .
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About Our Speakers
Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA. Additionally, he is the author and editor of several collections of poetry. His most recent book, The Diaspora Sonnets (Liveright Press 2023), was a winner of the New England Book Award and Long Listed for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2023. He teaches creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Pacific Lutheran University.
Porsha Olayiwola is an individual world poetry slam champion and the author of the collection i shimmer sometimes, too. Olayiwola is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Boston. She is a 2020 Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. Olayiwola is the Assistant Professor of Poetry at Emerson College. Her work can be found in or forthcoming with Triquarterly Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Boston Globe, Essence Magazine, Redivider, Split This Rock, The NBA, The Academy of American Poets, Netflix, The Rumpus, Wilderness Press, The Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere.
Paloma Barhaugh-Bordas is an artist, educator, and activist based in Austin, TX. Their art practice—which expands from print media into installation, as well as social and collaborative practices—works at the intersection of migration, queerness, and ecology. Barhaugh-Bordas has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at the Printshop LA, Handwerker Gallery, Buffalo Artists Studios, and Sediment Arts. Artist residencies include Casa Lu Mexico City, ACRE, Women’s Studio Workshop, the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University, MI-Lab in Japan, and Kala Art Institute.
Event Accessibility Information
The Fine Arts Work Center is committed to making its events and services inclusive and accessible for everyone. If you need any accommodations to fully participate, please contact our Accessibility Coordinator, Susan Blood, at 508-487-9960, extension 106.
Both the Stanley Kunitz Common Room and the Hudson D. Walker Gallery meet ADA accessibility standards. If you need help accessing these spaces, please call us at 508-487-9960 ext. 101 before your visit.
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Thank You to our Sponsors
This program is supported in part by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Mass Cultural Council, Mass Development, and the Provincetown Tourism Fund.
