2026 Workshop Series: December
Tarot Poetics: Intuition as Guide, Spell and Medicine
facilitated by Leila Ortiz
Monday, December 14, 2026
7-9pm EST
Zoom
the workshop:
In this workshop, we will use tarot as a tool to generate poems. This process will allow us to tap into Spirit and other ways of knowing. Through the use of tarot as prompt, we will connect to our intuition and become open to the medicine of the card's message. This way of generating poems is more about experiencing magic than perfecting a text. Our poems will become spells, perhaps surprising us by telling a story counter to one we’ve believed our whole lives, or maybe they’ll reveal the challenge we are faced with in this moment, or become keys to our desire, portals to new understandings. We will start the workshop with a tuning in/meditation, then pull a card for the overall energy of the workshop, and generate discussion using the card as a prompt. What are symbols in the card and what do they mean to you? What emotions, energies does the card evoke? What came to mind when you first saw this card? A memory? A wish? What are we going to collectively manifest during our time together?
the facilitator:
Leila Quinn Ortiz is a social worker and poet from Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of two chapbooks, "Girl Life," (Recreation League 2016) and "A Mouth is Not a Place" (Dancing Girl Press 2017). Leila is a graduate of the Queens College MFA program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation. Her work can be found in Apogee, Rigorous, South Carolina Review, and The Recluse, among others. Leila is a co-curator of No, Dear Magazine's (Re) Present Reading series with Matthew Williams.
No, Dear 2026 Workshop Series - December Edition: Tarot Poetics: Intuition as Guide, Spell & Medicine, facilitated by Leila Quinn Ortiz . . Monday, December 14, 7-9pm on Zoom . . . In this workshop, we will use tarot as a tool to generate poems. This process will allow us to tap into Spirit and other ways of knowing. Through the use of tarot as prompt, we will connect to our intuition and become open to the medicine of the card's message. This way of generating poems is more about experiencing magic than perfecting a text. Our poems will become spells, perhaps surprising us by telling a story counter to one we’ve believed our whole lives, or maybe they’ll reveal the challenge we are faced with in this moment, or become keys to our desire, portals to new understandings. We will start the workshop with a tuning in/meditation, then pull a card for the overall energy of the workshop, and generate discussion using the card as a prompt. What are symbols in the card and what do they mean to you? What emotions, energies does the card evoke? What came to mind when you first saw this card? A memory? A wish? What are we going to collectively manifest during our time together?
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No, Dear 2026 Workshop Series - July through December subscription. Attend six workshops with six No, Dear poets, the second Monday of the month, from 7-9pm EST on Zoom. Your subscription also includes one guest pass for the workshop (and guest) of your choice!
July 13: Cynthia Chen - Poetry of Mundanity
August 10: Rishona Michael - The Power of Control
September 14: zakia henderson-brown - Mad As Hell: The Poetics of Rage
October 12: Joel Sedano - Against the Record: Generating Poems from the Legal Archive
November 9: danilo machado - Passenger Poems
December 14: Leila Ortiz - Tarot Poetics: Poem as Guide, Spell and Medicine