When Everyone Else is Asleep: Writing the Nocturne and Aubade Led by Michael Torres

Saturday, January 8th | 12 PM ET - 3:00 PM ET

Tuition | $50.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

In When Everyone Else is Asleep: Writing the Nocturne and Aubade, we’ll be discussing these two time-based poem forms, and explore what a nocturne and an aubade can be with the help of several prompts and poems-as-prompts. There will be plenty of time to write, with some time to share. By the end of the session, you’ll have rough drafts of least two nocturnes and two aubades. Writers at every level are welcome.

About the Faculty: Michael Torres was born and brought up in Pomona, California where he spent his adolescence as a graffiti artist. His debut collection of poems, An Incomplete List of Names (Beacon Press, 2020) was selected by Raquel Salas Rivera for the National Poetry Series and named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020. His honors include awards and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, CantoMundo, VONA Voices, the Jerome Foundation, and the Camargo Foundation. Currently he’s an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and a teaching artist with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.