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!
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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
05/21/2026 – Inviting Us Into Your Home w/ Hailey Tran. For poets, abstractions like love, grief, and joy can serve as powerful conduits for conveying nearly universal feelings. Yet they can also feel vague and overly open to interpretation. It’s important to interrogate what we truly mean when we use abstract language. How can we move from naming our feelings to helping readers feel them with us?
Think of what you see, hear, and feel when someone says the word “home.” You may picture a specific place, person, symbol, or moment in time. Chances are that no two people’s reactions will be exactly the same, as a word like “home” can yield an abundance of associations. Through concrete, sensory imagery, we invite readers to be present in our poems. In this workshop, we will visit each other’s homes through the poems we write and share.
06/25/2026 – POEMS AS NARRATIVE INTERVENTIONS w/ Kyle Tran Myhre. Poetry-centered workshops, events, and programs often talk about “the power of our stories.” In this workshop, we’ll dig into what that can mean, especially in the context of narrative organizing: shaping the *stories* that animate our values, politics, and actions. We will explore poems as “narrative interventions,” and how poets can use the platforms we have access to to (1) disrupt harmful narratives about issues, places, and people, and (2) cultivate counter-narratives centering agency, solidarity, and resistance.