diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-docs.yml b/.github/workflows/build-docs.yml
@@ -37,14 +37,9 @@ jobs:
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-python-${{ env.pythonLocation }}-${{ hashFiles('pyproject.toml') }}-root-docs
       - name: Install poetry
         if: steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
-        # TODO: remove python -m pip install --force git+https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core.git@ad33bc2
-        # once there's a release of Poetry 1.2.x including poetry-core > 1.1.0a6
-        # Ref: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/pull/188
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          python -m pip install --force git+https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core.git@ad33bc2
-          python -m pip install "poetry==1.2.0a2"
-          python -m poetry plugin add poetry-version-plugin
+          python -m pip install "poetry==1.5.1"
       - name: Configure poetry
         run: python -m poetry config virtualenvs.create false
       - name: Install Dependencies

diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -38,9 +38,7 @@ jobs:
         # Ref: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/pull/188
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          python -m pip install --force git+https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core.git@ad33bc2
-          python -m pip install "poetry==1.2.0a2"
-          python -m poetry plugin add poetry-version-plugin
+          python -m pip install "poetry==1.5.1"
       - name: Configure poetry
         run: python -m poetry config virtualenvs.create false
       - name: Install Dependencies

diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.6.15", "3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+        python-version: ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
       fail-fast: false
 
     steps:
@@ -45,16 +45,13 @@ jobs:
         # Ref: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/pull/188
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          python -m pip install --force git+https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core.git@ad33bc2
-          python -m pip install "poetry==1.2.0a2"
-          python -m poetry plugin add poetry-version-plugin
+          python -m pip install "poetry==1.5.1"
       - name: Configure poetry
         run: python -m poetry config virtualenvs.create false
       - name: Install Dependencies
         if: steps.cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
         run: python -m poetry install
       - name: Lint
-        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != '3.6.15' }}
         run: python -m poetry run bash scripts/lint.sh
       - run: mkdir coverage
       - name: Test

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ It combines SQLAlchemy and Pydantic and tries to simplify the code you write as
 
 ## Requirements
 
-A recent and currently supported version of Python (right now, <a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Python supports versions 3.6 and above</a>).
+A recent and currently supported version of Python (right now, <a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Python supports versions 3.7 and above</a>).
 
 As **SQLModel** is based on **Pydantic** and **SQLAlchemy**, it requires them. They will be automatically installed when you install SQLModel.
 

diff --git a/docs/contributing.md b/docs/contributing.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ If you already cloned the repository and you know that you need to deep dive in
 
 ### Python
 
-SQLModel supports Python 3.6 and above, but for development you should have at least **Python 3.7**.
+SQLModel supports Python 3.7 and above, but for development you should have at least **Python 3.7**.
 
 ### Poetry
 

diff --git a/docs/features.md b/docs/features.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Nevertheless, SQLModel is completely **independent** of FastAPI and can be used
 
 ## Just Modern Python
 
-It's all based on standard <abbr title="Python currently supported versions, 3.6 and above.">modern **Python**</abbr> type annotations. No new syntax to learn. Just standard modern Python.
+It's all based on standard <abbr title="Python currently supported versions, 3.7 and above.">modern **Python**</abbr> type annotations. No new syntax to learn. Just standard modern Python.
 
 If you need a 2 minute refresher of how to use Python types (even if you don't use SQLModel or FastAPI), check the FastAPI tutorial section: <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/python-types/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Python types intro</a>.
 

diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ It combines SQLAlchemy and Pydantic and tries to simplify the code you write as
 
 ## Requirements
 
-A recent and currently supported version of Python (right now, <a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Python supports versions 3.6 and above</a>).
+A recent and currently supported version of Python (right now, <a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Python supports versions 3.7 and above</a>).
 
 As **SQLModel** is based on **Pydantic** and **SQLAlchemy**, it requires them. They will be automatically installed when you install SQLModel.
 

diff --git a/docs/tutorial/index.md b/docs/tutorial/index.md
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ $ cd sqlmodel-tutorial
 
 Make sure you have an officially supported version of Python.
 
-Currently it is **Python 3.6** and above (Python 3.5 was already deprecated).
+Currently it is **Python 3.7** and above.
 
 You can check which version you have with:
 
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ You might want to try with the specific versions, for example with:
 * `python3.9`
 * `python3.8`
 * `python3.7`
-* `python3.6`
 
 The code would look like this:
 

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "sqlmodel"
-version = "0"
+version = "0.0.8"
 description = "SQLModel, SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness."
 authors = ["Sebastián Ramírez <tiangolo@gmail.com>"]
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ classifiers = [
     "Intended Audience :: System Administrators",
     "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
@@ -30,7 +29,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.6.1"
+python = "^3.7.0"
 SQLAlchemy = ">=1.4.17,<=1.4.41"
 pydantic = "^1.8.2"
 sqlalchemy2-stubs = {version = "*", allow-prereleases = true}
@@ -50,23 +49,14 @@ fastapi = "^0.68.1"
 requests = "^2.26.0"
 autoflake = "^1.4"
 isort = "^5.9.3"
-async_generator = {version = "*", python = "~3.6"}
-async-exit-stack = {version = "*", python = "~3.6"}
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry-core"]
 build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"
 
-[tool.poetry-version-plugin]
-source = "init"
-
 [tool.coverage.run]
 parallel = true
-source = [
-    "docs_src",
-    "tests",
-    "sqlmodel"
-]
+source = ["docs_src", "tests", "sqlmodel"]
 context = '${CONTEXT}'
 
 [tool.coverage.report]
@@ -80,9 +70,7 @@ exclude_lines = [
 [tool.isort]
 profile = "black"
 known_third_party = ["sqlmodel"]
-skip_glob = [
-    "sqlmodel/__init__.py",
-    ]
+skip_glob = ["sqlmodel/__init__.py"]
 
 
 [tool.mypy]

diff --git a/scripts/lint.sh b/scripts/lint.sh
@@ -7,5 +7,3 @@ mypy sqlmodel
 flake8 sqlmodel tests docs_src
 black sqlmodel tests docs_src --check
 isort sqlmodel tests docs_src scripts --check-only
-# TODO: move this to test.sh after deprecating Python 3.6
-CHECK_JINJA=1 python scripts/generate_select.py
diff --git a/scripts/test.sh b/scripts/test.sh
@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ coverage run -m pytest tests
 coverage combine
 coverage report --show-missing
 coverage html
+
+CHECK_JINJA=1 python scripts/generate_select.py
diff --git a/sqlmodel/main.py b/sqlmodel/main.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     Callable,
     ClassVar,
     Dict,
+    ForwardRef,
     List,
     Mapping,
     Optional,
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@
 from pydantic.fields import FieldInfo as PydanticFieldInfo
 from pydantic.fields import ModelField, Undefined, UndefinedType
 from pydantic.main import ModelMetaclass, validate_model
-from pydantic.typing import ForwardRef, NoArgAnyCallable, resolve_annotations
+from pydantic.typing import NoArgAnyCallable, resolve_annotations
 from pydantic.utils import ROOT_KEY, Representation
 from sqlalchemy import Boolean, Column, Date, DateTime
 from sqlalchemy import Enum as sa_Enum

diff --git a/sqlmodel/sql/expression.py b/sqlmodel/sql/expression.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # WARNING: do not modify this code, it is generated by expression.py.jinja2
 
-import sys
 from datetime import datetime
 from typing import (
     TYPE_CHECKING,
@@ -12,7 +11,6 @@
     Type,
     TypeVar,
     Union,
-    cast,
     overload,
 )
 from uuid import UUID
@@ -24,36 +22,17 @@
 
 _TSelect = TypeVar("_TSelect")
 
-# Workaround Generics incompatibility in Python 3.6
-# Ref: https://github.com/python/typing/issues/449#issuecomment-316061322
-if sys.version_info.minor >= 7:
 
-    class Select(_Select, Generic[_TSelect]):
-        inherit_cache = True
+class Select(_Select, Generic[_TSelect]):
+    inherit_cache = True
 
-    # This is not comparable to sqlalchemy.sql.selectable.ScalarSelect, that has a different
-    # purpose. This is the same as a normal SQLAlchemy Select class where there's only one
-    # entity, so the result will be converted to a scalar by default. This way writing
-    # for loops on the results will feel natural.
-    class SelectOfScalar(_Select, Generic[_TSelect]):
-        inherit_cache = True
 
-else:
-    from typing import GenericMeta  # type: ignore
-
-    class GenericSelectMeta(GenericMeta, _Select.__class__):  # type: ignore
-        pass
-
-    class _Py36Select(_Select, Generic[_TSelect], metaclass=GenericSelectMeta):
-        inherit_cache = True
-
-    class _Py36SelectOfScalar(_Select, Generic[_TSelect], metaclass=GenericSelectMeta):
-        inherit_cache = True
-
-    # Cast them for editors to work correctly, from several tricks tried, this works
-    # for both VS Code and PyCharm
-    Select = cast("Select", _Py36Select)  # type: ignore
-    SelectOfScalar = cast("SelectOfScalar", _Py36SelectOfScalar)  # type: ignore
+# This is not comparable to sqlalchemy.sql.selectable.ScalarSelect, that has a different
+# purpose. This is the same as a normal SQLAlchemy Select class where there's only one
+# entity, so the result will be converted to a scalar by default. This way writing
+# for loops on the results will feel natural.
+class SelectOfScalar(_Select, Generic[_TSelect]):
+    inherit_cache = True
 
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:  # pragma: no cover

diff --git a/sqlmodel/sql/expression.py.jinja2 b/sqlmodel/sql/expression.py.jinja2
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import sys
 from datetime import datetime
 from typing import (
     TYPE_CHECKING,
@@ -10,7 +9,6 @@ from typing import (
     Type,
     TypeVar,
     Union,
-    cast,
     overload,
 )
 from uuid import UUID
@@ -22,37 +20,15 @@ from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import Select as _Select
 
 _TSelect = TypeVar("_TSelect")
 
-# Workaround Generics incompatibility in Python 3.6
-# Ref: https://github.com/python/typing/issues/449#issuecomment-316061322
-if sys.version_info.minor >= 7:
-
-    class Select(_Select, Generic[_TSelect]):
-        inherit_cache = True
-
-    # This is not comparable to sqlalchemy.sql.selectable.ScalarSelect, that has a different
-    # purpose. This is the same as a normal SQLAlchemy Select class where there's only one
-    # entity, so the result will be converted to a scalar by default. This way writing
-    # for loops on the results will feel natural.
-    class SelectOfScalar(_Select, Generic[_TSelect]):
-        inherit_cache = True
-
-else:
-    from typing import GenericMeta  # type: ignore
-
-    class GenericSelectMeta(GenericMeta, _Select.__class__):  # type: ignore
-        pass
-
-    class _Py36Select(_Select, Generic[_TSelect], metaclass=GenericSelectMeta):
-        inherit_cache = True
-
-    class _Py36SelectOfScalar(_Select, Generic[_TSelect], metaclass=GenericSelectMeta):
-        inherit_cache = True
-
-    # Cast them for editors to work correctly, from several tricks tried, this works
-    # for both VS Code and PyCharm
-    Select = cast("Select", _Py36Select)  # type: ignore
-    SelectOfScalar = cast("SelectOfScalar", _Py36SelectOfScalar)  # type: ignore
+class Select(_Select, Generic[_TSelect]):
+    inherit_cache = True
 
+# This is not comparable to sqlalchemy.sql.selectable.ScalarSelect, that has a different
+# purpose. This is the same as a normal SQLAlchemy Select class where there's only one
+# entity, so the result will be converted to a scalar by default. This way writing
+# for loops on the results will feel natural.
+class SelectOfScalar(_Select, Generic[_TSelect]):
+    inherit_cache = True
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:  # pragma: no cover
     from ..main import SQLModel