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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From invention to revision, this generative workshop will explore how writers create patterns in their language and their images to create sustained manuscript projects. We will be looking at how to write and sustain work within a singular focus, obsession, haunting, or motif by establishing poetic writing rituals to help us. The workshop will introduce poetic sequences written by other authors. By pairing these works with in-class exercises, the workshop is designed to invite writers to create motifs, seek new possibilities, and perhaps provide outlets to future projects and poems. Through rituals created in the workshop, we might make a few magical discoveries about our subjects along the way.
Please bring a laptop or tablet notebook.
Biography
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.
