Hot and Heavy: Writing Love & Sex Poems That Will Actually Get Published
An eight-part master class in writing beautiful poetry about love and sex from award-winning poet and founding editor of ONLY POEMS Shannan Mann
No, editors aren’t all prudes or anti-romantics who don’t want your passionate poetry. And yes, readers are dirty as heck and would love to read more exciting and authentic love and sex poems.
This workshop will help you craft a set of love and sex poems that are true to who you are while also focusing on how to get them out into the world.
Lessons
About The Instructor
Shannan Mann has been awarded or placed for the Palette Love & Eros Prize, Rattle Poetry Prize, Auburn Witness Prize, Foster Poetry Prize, Peatsmoke Summer Contest and Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize among others. Her poems appear in Poetry Daily, Black Warrior Review, Poet Lore, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review of Canada, EPOCH, december, & elsewhere. She is the Poet Laureate’s pick for Exile. Her essays appear in Tolka Journal and Going Down Swinging; they have been awarded the Alta Lind Cook Prize and the Irene Adler Essay Prize. She also translates Sanskrit poetry. Having worked as an editor and educator for nearly a decade, she now raises her baby, studies, writes, and runs ONLY POEMS.
Can you tell us which will be free & which are beyond the wall?
I've lost the thread, but when you originally shared this workshop there was a long comment discussion of poems to include in a "bet of" list. I could not think of the title of one then, but I finally remembered it — ran across it again on Bob Chemick's "The Road Home Show" on CKUA, which is the best poetry radio show ever. "Last Gods" by Galway Kinnell (https://inwardboundpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/12/752-last-gods-galway-kinnell.html)