PSNY Virtual Workshop: Everyday Otherworld

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet Lucian Mattison!

Everyday Otherworld is a poetry workshop that focuses on our relationships to place, both in its physical space and its dreamscape. With so much movement, displacement, and transience in our contemporary conditions, connections to place can become tenuous, remote, and even dreamed. We will discuss how to approach writing toward these spaces in contemporary ways, and generate a draft of a poem that you will use to take your reader along with you on your walkabout. Using examples from writers like Juan Gelman, Natalie Diaz, and Luisa Igloria, we will look through lenses of romance, exile, and migration, with the goal of finding specific and surprising entryways into a poem.

About the Instructor: Lucian Mattison is a US-Argentinian poet and translator and the author of three books of poetry, Curare (C&R Press, 2022), 2023 International Latino Book Awards, Silver Medal; Reaper's Milonga (YesYes Books, 2018); and Peregrine Nation (Dynamo Verlag, 2017). His work appears in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Adroit Journal, The Cincinnati Review, CutBank, Fugue, Grist, Hayden's Ferry Review, LIT, The Nashville Review, Permanent Record (Nightboat Books, 2025) and The Nature of Our Times (Paloma Press, 2025). He is currently based out of Oakland, California, where he can now distinguish seismic activity from passing public transit.

**This workshop will take place on Zoom.**