Literary Expertise

María Fernanda produces programs for all ages. Her expertise includes producing events, artist residencies, multi-day conferences, and other forms of literary engagement.

Participants have joined from across the world. For businesses, María Fernanda tailors her experiences for building community and developing efficiency practices. See her Offerings below.

María Fernanda led the commission POWERPLAY and featured New York City youth poets

Offerings

María Fernanda specializes as a creative producer partnering with national literary initiatives, performing arts centers, museums, public libraries, and more. Her work is inspired by the people she serves.

Jacqueline and Jason’s Block Party! with Jacqueline Woodson, Jason Moran

Readings

Award-winning poet María Fernanda performs across the United States. Her practice experiments with genealogy charts (inspired by poet Sarah Ghazal Ali) and etymology charts based on her independent research at Planet Word. Each chart placeholder for a name or word is replaced by lyric. In person, she presents her pieces on broadsides.

A New Language: Broadside Workshop at DC Public Library at Mount Pleasant Library location

Literary Experiences

Award-winning poet María Fernanda leads literary workshops in the form of collective literary experiences. She conceives and develops each with the intention of supporting writers in their literary career. Participants create new work within her personalized framework, as well as ignite unique ways to begin writing. Historically grounding her experiences is another key component.

Park Avenue Armory’s Making Space season

Programming & Collaboration

Award-winning poet María Fernanda specializes as a creative producer. As part of Best of D.C.™ 2024’s Best Library Branch of 2024, The Washington City Paper recognized the DC Public Library at Mount Pleasant as the Runner Up, where award-winning poet María Fernanda conceived and developed seven programmatic events, resulting in nearly 60% of their overall poetry programming.

How Does It Work?

Toni Morrison [author, at her upstate New York home]. Source: Library of Congress.

FREE

Informational Call

We will discuss your project and learn how a programmer or artist may complement.

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Vision & Strategy

We can determine a general, initial proposal for your initiative as we speak during the informational call.

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Confirmation

After our informational call, we will follow up via email to confirm our best arrangement moving forward.

Experiences with María Fernanda

Three Main Components

Participants will leave with additional techniques to support their writing practice, as individuals, and when part of a collective. See calendar here. Book María Fernanda here.

Creativity

Each experience is crafted to encourage your intuitive choices. Historical contextualization will ground the direction of the lesson in an effort to inspire imagination.

Generation

Creating new work is a core component. The structure ignites unique ways to begin writing both in and out of the collective literary experience.

Revision

Finding the best editing process for your current project is crucial. Several serial studio sessions include one-on-one sessions with María Fernanda to focus on your work.

Explore the following four (4) experiences. Each can be tailored to you or your platform’s needs. Questions? Inquire here. Scheduling? See calendar here.

Focused on building relationships amongst participants, this studio session looks at how fragmentation connects us to our community.

Make your writing into artwork. In this studio session, participants will create a broadside, elevating the dimensionality of their voice.

Think like a museum curator. Participants will explore the written word as sculpture and delve into the sonic aspects of poetry.

Let’s discuss your work. Tailoring a literary plan to your lifestyle is crucial.