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Welcome to Button University!
6-week online writing course w/ Button author Sean Patrick Mulroy!
Author of HATED FOR THE GODS
Pick your class day and time:
Saturdays in July & August
2:00pm CT | Jul 05 – Aug 09, 2025
It’s been said that all poetry is about one of three things: love, death, and sex. While the poetries of attachment and grief are likely to grace the pages of any given literary journal, the poetry of the erotic–that is, the poetry of the body, the appetite, and, lest we forget, the origin of life itself–is often relegated to the marginal spaces of themed issues, if it’s published at all.
In this course, we’ll explore the history of sexual content in poetry, examine the origins of censorship and “decency,” and discuss the relationship between love, death, and desire. Close reading poetry from all over the world and throughout history, together we will learn to craft a poetry against shame while observing the differences between the erotic and the pornographic, discuss the purpose of sexual literature in the present day, and develop our own politic surrounding what Ginsberg once called, “an unpublishable private literature.”
Class Duration: 2 hours via Zoom
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Praise for Sean Patrick Mulroy
I loved this class and I learned so much! Sean is a really good teacher who truly cares about his students–he made me want to succeed and produce better material, and I’m excited to say I’ve become a much better writer. I looked forward to class all week, I’m sad it’s over!
I thought Sean was awesome. He gave us lots of feedback on our pieces and always appreciated our creativity. He never once told me an idea was bad, he always told me how to make it stronger. He helped me significantly with my writing, more than any teacher ever has.
I really enjoyed having Mulroy as an instructor because of his passion for the subject. I learned something totally new each class.
He made class fun and interesting, and I learned a LOT. He was really encouraging. You could tell he cared a lot about us as students, and about writing in general.
About Sean Patrick Mulroy
Sean Patrick Mulroy is a writer, actor, visual artist, and musician from the American South, who now lives all over the world. A nationally recognized writer in the US, Sean is a performer, an award winning professor, and… MORE
