Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $60USD).

Step 2: Register for “Directed by Desire” here.

In this multi-genre online workshop, Melissa Febos and Donika Kelly will lead participants in a series of generative writing exercises inspired by the poems of June Jordan, along themes of justice, embodiment, and the erotic. There will be opportunities to share, though no feedback will be given. The session will conclude with a Q&A.

Melissa Febos is the bestselling author of five books of nonfiction, including Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the forthcoming memoir, The Dry Season. She teaches at the University of Iowa.

Donika Kelly is the author of three poetry collections, including Bestiary, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; as well as the forthcoming The Natural Order of Things. She also teaches at the University of Iowa.