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Pleasure Principle: Erotic Poetry Writing with Monica Prince 

Sunday, November 13, 2022

1:30-4:30PM ET

Online with White Whale Bookstore

In this generative workshop, students will start at least three erotic poems, develop a better understanding of how eroticism extends beyond sex, and cultivate confidence in sharing sexy poems with an audience.

Students will apply a craft-based approach to erotic poetry, focusing less on sex and graphic details and more on personal definitions of sensuality, pleasure, and self-love (innuendo unintended). They will also receive prompts, exercises, and techniques for future revisions.

Expertise Level: This workshop is designed for intermediate writers who have experience with poetry exercises and prompts but could be useful for beginning poets who work in non-poetic genres (like fiction writers who write the occasional poem, or essayists who subscribe to Poem-a-Day).

Class Structure: Part lecture—I’ll talk through the principles we’ll be using for the prompts—and part workshop. Students will receive prompts, go off to write, then return to share a line or full poem with the group. Rather than offering feedback in the moment, I want us to write as much as possible.

Reading List: Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” and adrienne maree brown’s Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good serve as the foundations of this course. (We won’t necessarily read them in class, but I will be using their frameworks to shape the prompts we use.)

All students who register and attend will receive 10% off a future workshop!

This workshop will take place on Zoom. The link will be provided via email the day of the event. Registration ends 24 hours before the workshop start time.