24PearlStreet Workshops and Events
ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE ELEMENTS
From invention to revision, this generative workshop will attend to the possibilities of creating new work that is in tune with a singular focus, obsession, or motif. We will explore exercises that allow the writer to hold on to a subject matter, allowing the writer to seek new possibilities, and perhaps provide outlets to future projects and poems. We’ll explore models of poems and hybrid works by authors that find themselves, suddenly humming a melody all day, eventually translating those ear worms into a sustained project or potential opera. And we’ll look to shortcuts and practices that will aid in the continued generation of other mixes and remixes.
Optional LIVE Elements: final Zoom Reading on the 16th with occasional 1-on-1 Zoom conferences.
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.
