Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $25 USD).

Step 2: Register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza II” here.

Join Workshops4Gaza for our second online poetry reading featuring Indigenous poetic geniuses Natalie Diaz, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. The reading will be followed by a short moderated discussion.

Natalie Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She is the author of the poetry collections Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf, 2020), which won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award, and When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). She teaches at Arizona State University.

Jamaica Heolimeleikalani is a Kanaka Maoli poet and the author of Remembering our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). She is an associate professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, musician, intellectual and member of Alderville First Nation. She is the author of eight previous books including the novel Noopiming: A Cure for White Ladies (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), and Rehearsals for Living, co-authored with Robyn Maynard (Haymarket Books, 2022).