Registration is rolling until November 21 at 11:59PM EST. No application is required (except for financial aid— Applications for financial aid are due November 17 at 5PM EST).

$250 w/financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)

4 week class: Tuesdays 6-9PM EST, 11/28, 12/5, 12/12, 12/19

We’ll be using this 4-week workshop to prove that love poetry isn’t dead. Not yet. We’re studying the work of Jill Scott, Afaa M. Weaver, Beyoncé, Lucille Clifton, Floetry, Gil-Scot Heron and more. We’re studying the poetry of lyrics and musicality in the written word. The love-driven politic and the politic of love. We’re reminding the pleasurable interior of our lives that it is worth writing about. The line between the genres and concepts are already paper thin; we’re blurring them even further.

Edythe Rodriguez is an Upper Darby poet and copywriter, hardcore Bustelo drinker and non-violent Beyhive member. She studied creative writing and Africology at Temple University and also graduated from ONE School, an advertising portfolio program for the new generation of Black creatives. Edythe is the winner of the 2022 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest, the 2022 Sandy Crimmins Poetry Prize from Philadelphia Stories and the 2021 Margaret Reid Prize from Winning Writers. Edythe has received fellowships from PEN America, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, The Watering Hole, Brooklyn Poets and elsewhere. Her work is published in Obsidian, The Offing, Torch Literary Arts and elsewhere. Edythe’s debut chapbook We, the Spirits is forthcoming from Button Poetry and you can follow her work at www.edytherodriguez.com.