Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA for 2023-2025. He is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. His newest work, The Diaspora Sonnets, is published by Liveright Press (2023). With Stacey Lynn Brown he co-edited A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. Oliver serves as the co-chair of the Kundiman advisory board. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He has received grants from the NEA, NYFA, the Artist’s Trust, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, and has been awarded multiple Pushcart Prizes. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at PLU.

Other poems by Oliver de la Paz in Verse Daily:
December 15, 2020:   "A Story Problem 3" "A cart carrying a metric ton of apples leaves the city at four meters per second...."
August 28, 2019:   "Diaspora Sonnet 34" "My father in his twenties wears his pressed suit..."
October 23, 2014:   "Dear Empire," "These are your jellyfish...."
August 2, 2010:   "Dear Empire," "These are your dead...."
June 24, 2010:   "How I Learned Quiet" "Begin with slowness—the drag of a candle's flame..."
February 24, 2009:   "Self-Portrait with Taxidermy" "In my anatomy studies, I expected..."
December 24, 2007:   "Prayer Essay" "I was unusually ahead of my time with my own..."

Books by Oliver de la Paz:

Other poems on the web by Oliver de la Paz:
"Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns"
"Diaspora Sonnet Traveling Between Apartment Rentals" br> "In Defense of Small Towns"
"Diaspora Sonnet 44"
Six poems
Two poems
Four poems
Four poems
Four poems
Three poems
Three poems

Oliver de la Paz's Website.

Oliver de la Paz on Twitter.

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