[ poetry ]

Deep Revision, with Julián Delacruz

  • $80 total / person (one-time workshop)

  • 8—9:30 pm Eastern time

  • virtual (Zoom + Google Docs)

“Too often, we write a poem, and that’s all. We don’t write all the poems of a poem.” - Alberto Rios 

In this 90-minute generative workshop, we will learn to “prism” our poems through an array of revision techniques, adding layers of beautiful complexity that will help us stand to the left or right of our original work. Thinking through titles, color, line arrangement, and mixing and matching various poems, this one-time workshop is designed to expand our range of options for revision, and will prove that writer’s block just doesn’t exist. Deep Revision will be devoted to getting messy and molding something previously unseen from your work. This is a generative workshop, open to writers of any level.  

Please bring three poems to work with. 

  • Julián Delacruz is a third year M.F.A Candidate at Arizona State University. He is a June Jordan Teaching Fellow under ASU’s new poetry program, Poetry for the People, a workshop focused on poetry as a medium for telling the truth and building beloved community. While deeply attentive to craft, he loves mentoring writers who want to embrace more reckless and frayed modes of questioning.

    As a teacher, Julián seeks to balance his own sensibilities with attention to the problem areas his students have identified in their work. He is a firm believer in compassionate editing that amplifies a writer's strengths. Julian's specialties include Queer issues, issues of race and social justice, myth writing, and academic writing.

    Having taught creative writing for multiple years, and also having worked a series of editing internships at Roof Books (’11), The Paris Review (’12), PEN American Center (’14), The Iowa Review (’15-’17) and Catapult (’16), he is poised to give insightful editorial feedback to writers of many different persuasions.

    Julián is also the co-host of Equality Arizona’s Queer Poetry Salon, the largest queer reading series in the southwest. He has had the pleasure to feature such esteemed poets as CA Conrad, Ariana Reines, Richard Siken, Eduardo Corral, and Tommy Pico, alongside queer indie poets across many identities. Delacruz was awarded the 2020 Mabelle A. Lyon award in poetry, and a Glendon & Kathryn Swarthout Award in writing at Arizona State. He lives and writes in Tempe, AZ.

  • “Julián Delacruz was a wonderful teacher for the Deep Revision course. He was super clear and supportive/encouraging and the course materials will be helpful beyond our session together too. He kept us on track for the many interesting exercises during the session that helped us to add greater dimensions and sparkle to our poems, and allowed us some freedom to share work and support each other's pieces as part of our time together too. Julián is a terrific workshop leader and this class is highly recommended. The concrete suggestions for sure made our poems better, and Julián created a great space to learn together. “

    —Sunu Chandy, Author, winner of the Terry J. Cox Poetry Prize

    “Julián's Deep Revision class is a great way to jump start stalled work on your poems. It's a rapid and intense exercise to build skills and learn handy techniques for adding depth and color and considering alternatives for directions in which you want your poems to go. I highly recommend the class for boosting skills and enthusiasm for your writing.”

    —Rekha Mehra