PSNY Virtual Workshop: House of Stanzas

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet Moriana Delgado!

This workshop explores the poem as a built space—an architecture of feeling, structure, and intention. We will consider how poets use shape to construct meaning, much like architects design burial pyramids, palace complexes, or house stairs. By examining how a poem creates movement and verticality, participants will develop a deeper understanding of form as both material and metaphor. Participants will also be provided prompts that invite them to design and “confect” their own poems—stanzas like rooms, arranging lines like beams, and experimenting with scaffolds of mood and syntax.

About the Instructor: Moriana Delgado is a writer from Mexico City. She is the author of the poetry collection Peces de pelea (Libros UNAM, 2022) and the chapbook all blue awnings (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2024). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Foundation, The Poetry Review, Nightboat, and elsewhere.

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