No, Dear 2026 Workshop Series - July Edition: Poetry of Mundanity, facilitated by Cynthia Chen. . . Monday, July 13, 7-9pm on Zoom . . . Poetry cultivates a terrain where nothing is ordinary or unimportant—from a piece of trash on the street to a fly on the windowsill to a shopper selecting a can of beans, mundanity has been a major inspiration and subject matter of poets across the globe. In this class, we will experiment with language in ways that dissect, deviate, and reproduce “meaning”. We will embark on a generative journey into new modes of discovery and reception. Through writing exercises and class discussions, we'll try out new techniques, develop strange imagery and syntax, and build mysterious worlds in our poems. We will cultivate both the tools and intuition to carve magic from the mundane, to transform the trivial into the wondrous, while walking through Sawako Nakayasu’s fervent attention to ants and Renee Gladman’s candid meditations that all start from “I began the day…” For a brief in-class writing exercise, please bring a picture that you accidentally took from your album or a photo that you consider to be “random” on the first day of class.