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
09/24/2026 – Reagan Myers
10/01/2026 – Patrick Roche
10/08/2026 – Aly Acevedo – How to Edit Your Work – This workshop is built around the tools of revision: how to spot the line that’s doing no work, why the boldest cut is often the strongest edit, and how to land an ending instead of trailing off one stanza too late. Bring 1-2 pieces you’re stuck on. You’ll leave with actual edits, not just notes to yourself for later.
10/22/2026 – Sean Patrick Mulroy – Writing the Frightful: A Haunting How-To – It’s spooky season! In today’s class, we’re going to focus on poems of the mysterious, mythical, and macabre. We’ll start with a brief lecture and class discussion about the makings of a “haunting” poem, followed by a writing exercise to help you get started on your own surreal and suspenseful verses. Those attending will also receive a curated selection of poems relevant to the themes of our discussion–if we have time, we might even read a few!
10/29/2026 – MattCoonan
11/05/2026 – Kristina Percy
11/12/2026 – Usman Hameedi – Identity 101: Excavating the Self & Uncovering Honesty From Within – Identity 101: Excavating the Self & Uncovering Honesty From Within is a Button Up: Poetry 101 workshop designed to help participants dig beneath the surface of who they are. In this session, writers explore the identities they present, protect, inherit, and outgrow. Through guided prompts and reflective exercises, participants examine how home, memory, and lived experience shape their voice and what deeper honesty emerges when those layers are excavated. The workshop offers an accessible but intentionally deep foundation for anyone seeking to write from truth rather than perform a reality.
11/19/2026 – Topaz Winters
12/03/2026 – FreeQuency
12/10/2026 – Hailey Tran
12/17/2026 – Ollie Schminkey