Oliver de la Paz

Born: 7 October 1972

Oliver de la Paz is the author and editor of several books. His most recent book, The Diaspora Sonnets (Liveright Press 2023) was the winner of the New England Book Award, the Julie Ward Howe Award, and was longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross where he is the James N. and Sally L. O'Reilly Barrett Professor in Creative Writing and he serves as the Worcester, Massachusetts Poet Laureate. (Source)

Poems by Oliver de la Paz

Instead, I'm Here to Tell You Very Softly by Oliver de la Paz

August 25, 2024

"the colors were everywhere, filling our sewers / and the sewers turned very beautiful" – Oliver de la Paz

Poems curated by Oliver de la Paz

Kansas by Gary Jackson

October 13, 2025

“You’ll bring me / back home, won’t you?” — Gary Jackson