Description
Button Up: Poetry 101 is a recurring workshop series for writers of all levels, featuring 60-90 minute classes guest taught by a different Button author each week!
Sign up and write with us all year long!
You can sign up for a single session or you can subscribe monthly or annually.
Please Note: Any order placed 3pm CT or later on the day of the workshop, may not receive a link to the live event but will be sent the recording.
To ensure you are given the class information, please email support@buttonpoetry.com with any questions about how to access your workshop!
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All Writing Workshops Occur on Thursdays @ 7PM CT
10/16/2025 – Sabrina Benaim
10/23/2025 – Boomboxes in the Rain: Revivin the Love Poem Through R&B w/ Edythe Rodriguez
10/30/2025 – Mickie Kennedy
11/6/2025 – Topaz Winters
11/13/2025 – Not-So-Shakespearean Sonnet w/ Ollie Schminkey
11/20/2025 – Neil Hilborn
12/04/2025 – Actually, the Poems Keep the Score: Writing Memory, Family, and the Shifting Self w/ Edythe Rodriguez
12/11/2025 – Patrick Roche
12/18/2025 – Anthems Forever II w/ Neil Hilborn
– Past workshops:
12/5/2024 – Rachel Wiley
12/12/2024 – Rudy Francisco (Rescheduled to 1/2/2025)
12/19/2024 – More for Metaphors w/ Ollie Schminkey
1/2/2025 – Rudy Francisco
1/9/2025 – Let’s Get in FORMation! w/ Najya Williams
1/16/2025 – Narrative & Sound: Saying Without Saying w/ Jalen Eutsey
1/23/2025 – Amplifying the Music in Your Poetry w/ Phil SaintDenisSanchez
1/30/2025 – Persona Poems! w/ Eric Sirota
2/6/2025 – Retracing Our Steps w/ Chelsea Guevara
2/13/2025 – Neil Hilborn
2/20/2025 – you took the mouth right outta my words w/ Lara Coley
2/27/2025 – Rachel Wiley
3/6/2025 – Fighting Your Duende: Poetic Craft and the Subconscious Mind w/ Daniel Elias Galicia
3/13/2025 – Sensual Syntax w/ Josh Tvrdy
3/20/2025 – It’s Time for the Lightning Round! w/ Matt Mason
3/27/2025 – Sabrina Benaim
4/3/2025 – Meeting the Moment: Poetry in Times of Crisis w/ Kyle Tran Myhre
4/10/2025 – Doing the Most (With as Little as Possible): Expanding the Discipline of Haiku w/ Sean Patrick Mulroy
4/17/2025 – let’s beat the blank page together w/ Jared Singer
4/24/2025 – Siaara Freeman
5/1/2025 – Hidden Treasures: Crafting Found Poems w/ Ebony Stewart
5/8/2025 – Poetry as Protest w/ FreeQuency
5/15/2025 – Sabrina Benaim
5/22/2025 – Golden Shovels w /Neil Hilborn
5/29/2025 – Curating an Experience: How to Give a Poetry Reading w/ Jay Ward
6/05/2025 – Metaphorically Speaking w/ Najya Williams
6/12/2025 – let’s beat the blank page together w/ Jared Singer
6/19/2025 – Patrick Roche
6/26/2025 – Summer School: A Choose Your Own Adventure w /Siaara Freeman
7/03/2025 – Unorthodox Approaches to Figurative Language w/ Robert Wood Lynn
7/10/2025 – Sabrina Benaim
7/17/2025 – The Route of Grief w/ Natasha T. Miller
7/24/2025 –Â Rock Stars Mix Tape: turn the songs that shaped you into poems w/ Matt Mason
7/31/2025 – Agency in Poems: A Tool for Witness & Empowerment w/ Jay Ward
8/7/2025 – Doing the Most (With as Little as Possible): Expanding the Discipline of Haiku w/ Sean Patrick Mulroy
8/14/2025 – A Poetic Examination of Human Wickedness w/ Rachel McKibbens
8/21/2025 – Voice and Persona in Poetry w/ Zach Goldberg
8/28/2025 – Como La Flor: Cultivating Your Unique Voice w/ Gigi Bella
9/4/2025 – Neil Hilborn
9/11/2025 – A Light in the Dark: Writing Towards Resilience w/ Adrienne Novy
9/18/2025 -The Good, The Bad, and the Gnarly: The Power of a Memorable Hook w/ Kyle Tran Myhre
9/25/2025 – Patrick Roche
10/02/2025 – The Art of Detail w/ Stevie Edwards
10/09/2025 – The True Power of Form w/ Aly Acevedo