View the archive of my two-hour class and discover the literature that has shaped me and that informs the poems in my new collection, If You Love That Lady, available everywhere July 14th.

Hello again! I hope you’ll join me for a special Five Things I’ve Learned class: Five Things I’ve Learned about Manuscript Mixtapes.

This new class is especially timely. My third poetry collection, If You Love That Lady, has just been released, and I’m hoping to share with you something very much at the heart of this new book. Together, we’ll explore how poems can blend personal experiences with something equally essential: an ongoing engagement with the literature that shapes us.

As I’ll explain more fully when we meet, poets often create mixtapes that serve as acoustic moodboards for their collections. My own recent mixtape, the one that set the tone for If You Love That Lady, is a setlist of poems with which my work is in conversation—poems by writers including Milton, Wordsworth, Lowell, Eliot, and Yeats. It is these poems, the way they’ve influenced my recent writing, and how they’ve profoundly shaped my sense of what poetry can be, that I hope to share with you.

Together, we’ll re-familiarize ourselves with these poetic touchstones—think Yeats’s sublime “The Second Coming,” Eliot’s “Preludes,” and excerpts from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Wordsworth’s The Prelude, and Lowell’s The Dolphin. In each instance, I’ll share how I drew from these source texts while writing my own poems. Doing so will give us a chance to discuss how all poets converse, directly or indirectly, with the poets who preceded them. Of course, this does not mean we always agree with them, write like them, or even consider them outright influences.

Along the way, we will also discuss the magical and idiosyncratic process of putting together a book of poems. Books are spiritual and spirited things, as any writer will tell you. Arranging a manuscript requires intention and discernment, as well as a willingness to give oneself over to intuition. Keeping close company with past writers—poets who reassure us that we are up to this numinous task and that the road ahead is not quite as lonely as it seems—has been essential to my own work.

We’ll also explore what your own poetry mixtape can do for you. I believe that returning to the poems that speak loudest to you will deepen your connection to your own poetic touchstones and help you discover how to write through and from them. I look forward to sharing a writing exercise and engaging in a lively conversation.

Please join me for some delightful close reading. I’m grateful that you will be among the first to discover poems from my new book!

– Maya

About Maya C. Popa

Maya C. Popa is the author of If You Love That Lady, forthcoming from W.W. Norton and Picador in 2026. Her previous collections include Wound is the Origin of Wonder (W.W. Norton 2022; Picador 2023), named one of the Guardian’s Best Books of Poetry. American Faith (Sarabande 2019) was runner-up in the Kathryn A. Morton Prize judged by Ocean Vuong and was awarded the North American Book Prize in 2020. She has received awards from the Poetry Foundation and the Oxford Poetry Society among others. She holds a PhD on the role of wonder in poetry from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she was a recipient of a department bursary for exceptional merit, and previous degrees from Oxford University, NYU, and Barnard College. Maya is the Poetry Reviews Editor at Publishers Weekly and is the founder of Conscious Writers Collective, where she teaches and oversees all literary programming for poets and prose writers.

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