Step 1: Donate to Khalil’s family here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Poetry for the People” here.

This writer's workshop series offers a respite for reengagement and rediscovery of our internal monologues; a space to unplug from the noise to (re)learn how to listen deeply to ourselves and the world through poetry and prose. Participants will read the works of Leanne Simpson, Fady Joudah, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Mohammad El-Kurd, and many others across across themes of identity, homeland, decolonialism, reclamation, indigeneity, and transformation.

Across six 2-hour sessions, participants can expect a no-frills, rigorous environment where we will read, discuss, and critically engage with powerful texts meant to break us open. Expect plenty of individual and group writing using different styles and structures of creative writing, including responsive poetry, ekphrastic poetry, concrete poetry, elegies, odes, song lyrics, and improv.

​​Shaira Chaer is a multi-hyphenate creative born and raised on unceded Lenape land in the Bronx, New York. Their visual art, research and writing practices are informed by blending the living archive, autoethnography, queer radical futurity and the wisdom of their ancestors across Kiskeya-Ayiti and the Levant.