Writers have their obsessions. Moments and images return to us, swirling in the laundry machine and record-skip of memory. In this generative workshop, we’ll celebrate the impulse to repeat ourselves and practice using form, perspective, the fallibility or fictive opportunities of memory, and more to bring new light and shape to a narrative repeated across poems or lyric fragments or short stories–inspired and guided by the writing of Victoria Chang, Bhanu Kapil, Paul Tran, Ross Gay, T Kira Madden, Melissa Febos, and more. Students will enter this class with one set “story” they intend on writing multiple times, and will filter the same basic material to create entirely independent, uniquely living pieces of writing. This workshop is intended for writers of all genres!
Ty Raso is a trans character, poet, and teacher. Her work has shared space with POETRY, Electric Literature, The Adroit Journal, Foglifter Journal, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, Split Lip Magazine, Salt Hill Journal, The Journal, and elsewhere. They're currently a reader for Muzzle Magazine, and have worked on the teams of the Kenyon Review, pidgeonholes, and the Indiana Review, where they were the 2021-2022 Nonfiction Editor. They earned their MFA from Indiana University, where they were awarded a 2022-2023 Kraft-Kinsey Award/Residency, and the 2023 Earle J. S. Ho Award for the Teaching of Creative Writing. Her work has been supported by the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. She feels most at home near rivers, and they were a 2023-2024 and 2025-2026 Poetry Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and a 2025 Djanikian Scholar with the Adroit Journal. Her debut full-length collection, MIRROR WOULD BE A BEAUTIFUL NAME FOR A CHILD is forthcoming with Noemi Press in October 2027. You can find her on Instagram @spaghetti_utopia.
Ty is new to The Porch. Welcome!
