Shannan Mann, award winning poet & editor of Only Poems is taking over The Forever Workshop this month.  Here’s a breakdown of what she’ll cover based around the various stages of love, because why the hell not?

Crushing Hard -  We’ll build our own personal canons of poets to read and reference 

First Love - Go back to the beginning and learn in a non-boring way about the history of love & sex in poetry and publishing

Blind Date - Learn to identify the elements that create a powerful love poem

Going Steady - Learn and practice exercises in focalization to develop drafts for 6 different types/forms of love poems

An Affair to Remember - How to shadow-write based on our favorite poet’s work in order to maximize creativity and inspiration

Honeymoon Phase - Learn the “Machine” concept to build a personal poetic glossary and write a “perfect” poem every time

The Fun Divorce - We’ll learn how to let go and prepare a piece for publication

After the Happily Ever After - Recap + Next steps of developing a full length project

 Free subscribers will receive 4 classes and paid subscribers will receive 8 throughout the month of July