The Surreal prose Poem
with Jose Hernandez Diaz
$90 — Saturday, November 30 @ 12 PM EST / 9 AM PST / 11 AM CST / 5 PM BST
2 Hours via Zoom + one-on-one feedback via email from instructor
Overview of the Workshop
This workshop will consist of close readings in surreal prose poetry, group discussion, class time responding to generative prompts and one-on-one feedback from the instructor via email. Participants can expect to gain understanding on what makes surreal prose poetry stand out in contemporary literature as well as discovering how it is different from poetry or general prose poetry. We will read surreal prose poets like Shivani Mehta, James Tate, Ray Gonzalez, Marosa di Giorgio, to name a few. The instructor will also respond to questions in this workshop on literary magazines, submissions, rejections, inspiration, craft, etc.
Instructor Bio
Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is the author of The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020) Bad Mexican, Bad American (Acre Books, 2024) The Parachutist (Sundress Publications, 2025) and Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man (Red Hen Press, 2025). He has been published in The Yale Review, The London Magazine, Poetry Wales, The Iowa Review, Huizache, Poets.org, The Southern Review, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has taught creative writing at the University of California at Riverside and online for Hugo House, Lighthouse Writers Workshops, and The Writer's Center. He has been Poet in Residence at the Carolyn Moore Writers House with Portland Community College. Currently, he is the Visiting Writer in Residence at the University of Tennessee.