No, Dear 2026 Workshop Series - February Edition: Kleptopoetics, facilitated by Quinn Franzen . . . Monday, February 9, 7-9pm on Zoom . . . In this workshop, we’ll investigate the well-worn line between inspiration and poetic theft, and explore how loving a poem deeply can fuel your own work. In considering “thieving forms” like the cento, the golden shovel, & iterative poetry (“Someday I’ll love Frank O’Hara/Roger Reeves/Ocean Vuong”), we’ll experiment using beloved poems as material for your own, yes, original work. We’ll read and discuss example works by Cameron Awkward-Rich, Terrance Hayes, Maggie Smith, Randall Mann, Simone Muench, and others. Participants will be asked to bring in a poem or two that inspires them. We’ll compile a google doc of favorite lines as well as a brief list of cool craft and formal choices these poems make. Participants will draw on this bank of material for generative exercises (eg assemble your own cento! write a poem with the same syllabic rules! write a poem titled Someday I’ll Love [YOUR NAME HERE]!) We’d also of course want to engage with the critical question of how you know you’ve gone far enough — how can we be sure we’ve reached the border where it crosses from “stealing” into something with its own integrity??