PSNY Virtual Workshop: Gateways & Exits

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet Mihaela Moscaliuc!

“The Title of a painting is another color on the artist’s palette,” suggested Marcel Duchamp. Have you given your titles short shrift or treated them like an afterthought? Would you like to be more intentional about your titles? Do you find yourself stuck on endings or writing for or toward them in somewhat predictable ways? Are you a bit too pleased or comfortable with your endings? Do you get that gut feeling that the poem hasn’t quite found its ending yet? Join me for an exploration of how titles and endings can serve our work. We will look a range of examples to examine how they function in relation to the rest of the poem and how we might want to experiment in ways that feel right to the poem and to our individual aesthetics. Bring two drafts of poems.

About the Instructor: Born and raised in Romania, Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Heartmoor (Alice James Books, 2026), Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010) and of a collection in Spanish titled Algunos poemas fugitivos (El Ángel Editor, Ecuador, 2023), translated by Frances Simán. Moscaliuc translated Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014) and Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, 2019), edited Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016), and co-edited Fruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems (Knopf, 2025) and Border Lines (Knopf, 2020). She is the recipient of two Pushcart prizes, two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright to Romania. She received residency fellowships from Hawthornden Foundation (Italy), The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, and Château de Lavigny (Switzerland). She is the translation editor for the journal Plume, and a professor of English at Monmouth University (New Jersey), where she also directs the M.A. graduate program.

**This workshop will take place on Zoom.**