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Welcome to Button University!
Sign up today for Topaz Winters’ 2026 Multi-Week Workshop!
Author of SO, STRANGER and PORTRAIT OF MY BODY AS A CRIME I’M STILL COMMITTING
The Fool, the Magician, the Poet: Tarot as Poetic Practice
This generative workshop invites poets to treat the tarot as mischief-maker rather than map: a series of images, archetypes, & narrative weather designed to knock us out of our own grooves. Over four weeks, we’ll trace the artistic & spiritual history of the deck & rake through the traditional meanings of the Major & Minor Arcanas as poetic compost. Then we’ll draw our own cards to introduce lush instability into the drafting process, sparking images, fracturing habit, & following lyric energy down the path to wonder. Tarot will be treated not as prophecy but as permission, play, pleasure, possibility. The cards will facilitate a gentle undoing of our inner editors. We will write badly & gladly, willingly & wrongly, in the pursuit of not knowing what comes next. No prior knowledge of tarot or poetry is required.
Pick your class time:
Saturdays in September
2:00pm CT | September 5 – September 26, 2026
Class Length: 4 weekly sessions
Class Duration: 2 hours via Zoom
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Previous courses by Topaz Winters:
What does it mean to write a love poem that feels urgent, embodied, & tangible? In this four-week workshop, we’ll explore the emotional, spiritual, & physical landscapes of love & lust. From the thrill of first infatuation to the quiet ritual-making of long-term devotion, from the electricity of erotic longing to the unwound pulse of heartbreak, participants will draft work that examines & dwells in the bewilderments of desire. Supported by readings from contemporary poets including Leila Chatti, Chen Chen, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, & Nicole Sealey, we’ll nurture the spark of love for the self, the other, & the collective. By engaging with a timeless & ever-evolving poetic tradition, we’ll consider how love in its many shades informs poetry, not just as a static emotion but as a transformative force—for tenderness, violence, resistance, & hope.
About Topaz Winters
Topaz Winters is the Singaporean-American author of So, Stranger (Button Poetry 2022) & Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing (Button Poetry 2019 & 2024). She serves as editor-in-chief of Half Mystic Press, an independent, international, & interdisciplinary publishing… MORE
