No, Dear 2026 Workshop Series - March Edition: Misspelling & Misread, facilitated by Samira Asma-Sadeque . . . Monday, March 9, 7-9pm on Zoom . . . This is a workshop that looks at how changing a letter in a word can entirely change the meaning of a word -- and therefore the sentence, and therefore the story. It comes from my own struggle with often misreading or mis-hearing words which I've realized can bear profound meanings when given the right chance --- e.g. reading "there were stars in the sky that night" as "there were scars in the sky that night"; or hearing the sentence "We’re born with a lot of weaknesses" as "We’re born with a lot of weaknesses witnesses." A change in the spelling of just one word can catapult the sentence into a poetic inspiration, and that is what this workshop will explore. I also believe this may be a useful activity for poets with dyslexia or those hard of hearing. 

For this, we will refer to poems such as Blades of Grace by Carline Duan to see the poet's use of similar techniques. We will do a quick glance through of Found poetry, cento and erasure poetry so as to establish with the readers how to work with outsourced texts. We will use anything from books, magazines, your breakup texts, scam email, voice notes to at first workshop a poem together as a class, and then break into writing our own individual writings.