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Writing the Prose Poem
What comes first? The structure or the content? It depends. At times, I’ve taken up a prompt with the structure as a jumping-off point and started with a 100-word essay, a memoir piece written in one sentence, or a flash nonfiction piece. And while the structure may differ, it’s important to make each piece sing, and once that happens, these pieces begin to come alive as prose poems. Through strong examples and our own generative prompts, attendees will end the workshop with an understanding of when prose poetry is an apt vessel, at least three new prose poem pieces, and how to strengthen initial drafts during the editing process.
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Meet the Instructor
Victoria Buitron
Victoria Buitron is a writer, creative writing instructor, and translator who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut. She received an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University. Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres (Woodhall Press), was the 2021 Fairfield Book Prize winner. In 2023, she received the Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts, which also receives federal funding. She has been the series editor for the Connecticut Literary Anthology since 2023. Craigardan, Tin House, GrubStreet, Sundress Publications, VONA and more organizations have championed her work through grants or writing residencies. Her debut poetry collection, Unburying the Bones, is 2025's VersoFrontera inaugural prize winner and was published by Texas Review Press.
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