Marsha de la O’s latest book, Antidote for Night, won the 2015 Isabella Gardner Award and was published by BOA Editions. Her first book, Black Hope, was awarded the New Issues Press Poetry Prize and a Small Press Editors’ Choice Award. Her work is anthologized in Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Pacific Coast Poetry Series), as well as Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (Ballantine), Saying What Needs to Be Said (Solo Press), Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California (Greenhouse Review Press), and the poetry workshop handbook One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form (Lynx House Press). She was the recipient of the 2014 Morton Marcus Poetry Prize. De La O lives in Ventura, California, with her husband, poet and editor Phil Taggart. Together, they produce poetry readings and events in Ventura County and are also the editors and publishers of the literary journal Askew.
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
Poetry Workshop…
Our annual Lummis Day Poetry Event will be on Saturday, May 13th at 3:00. This year we will be featuring a Poetry Workshop led by published poet Marsha de la O. The workshop, titled The Sense of Ending in Poetry, will engage with the challenge of ending a poem: how to provide closure with a turn, a contraction, or an expansion. Any of these should open large imaginative spaces.
Marsha de la O’s latest book, Antidote for Night, won the 2015 Isabella Gardner Award and was published by BOA Editions. Her first book, Black Hope, was awarded the New Issues Press Poetry Prize and a Small Press Editors’ Choice Award. Her work is anthologized in Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Pacific Coast Poetry Series), as well as Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (Ballantine), Saying What Needs to Be Said (Solo Press), Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California (Greenhouse Review Press), and the poetry workshop handbook One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form (Lynx House Press). She was the recipient of the 2014 Morton Marcus Poetry Prize. De La O lives in Ventura, California, with her husband, poet and editor Phil Taggart. Together, they produce poetry readings and events in Ventura County and are also the editors and publishers of the literary journal Askew.
Marsha de la O’s latest book, Antidote for Night, won the 2015 Isabella Gardner Award and was published by BOA Editions. Her first book, Black Hope, was awarded the New Issues Press Poetry Prize and a Small Press Editors’ Choice Award. Her work is anthologized in Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Pacific Coast Poetry Series), as well as Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (Ballantine), Saying What Needs to Be Said (Solo Press), Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California (Greenhouse Review Press), and the poetry workshop handbook One for the Money: The Sentence as Poetic Form (Lynx House Press). She was the recipient of the 2014 Morton Marcus Poetry Prize. De La O lives in Ventura, California, with her husband, poet and editor Phil Taggart. Together, they produce poetry readings and events in Ventura County and are also the editors and publishers of the literary journal Askew.
