2025 Summer Workshop Program
Our Tiered Tuition System asks you to choose one of the following tuition levels:
$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
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Are you nearing the completion of your poetry manuscript? This workshop is designed for writers who are nearing the completion of a poetry manuscript and who are ready to refine, order and submit their manuscript for publication. In a supportive and collaborative environment, we’ll explore the key aspects of manuscript development—from structural decisions to fine-tuning individual poems. Participants will explore sequence, gaps in the writing, editing, and workshop. We may also consider the boundaries of your manuscripts’ themes and emotional range. We’ll read craft essays and the work of poets such as Dean Young, Phillip B. Williams, Camille T. Dungy and Kimiko Hahn, among others, to inspire new approaches and deepen our understanding of the manuscript process.
This workshop is for poets who have at least 40 pages of poetry already written and are actively working on developing or finalizing a manuscript.
Please Note: This is a generative writing and editing worksop. Due to the time restraints of this week-long workshop, the workshop instructor will not read and provide line edits to entire manuscripts. Rather, the workshop instructor will provide participants with tools and advice on how to get their manuscripts nearer to or across the finish line.
Biography
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.
