Saturday, Oct. 12
10:00am-12:30pm EST

In this generative poetry workshop led by Samah Fadil, participants will consider the relationship between memory and history through a series of writing exercises in which they are asked to write 15 lines of poetry based on particular memories. The goal will be for everyone to finish a draft of a poem by the end of the workshop. Prior experience with poetry is not required!

Samah Serour Fadil is an Afro-Palestinian writer, editor and translator who resides in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Her words can be read in FIYAH, Palestine Square, Skin Deep, Ebony Tomatoes Collective and more. She was a co-organizer and performer for Global Indigenous Solidarities: A Poetry Reading, and is on the selections panel for Mizna magazine and Center for Book Arts. Samah served as content editor for the Black SWANA issue of Mizna; winner of the 2023 Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. Her poem "prongs into the nation" was selected as the winner of the Petty Propolis Deconflating Surveillance with Safety poetry contest and is currently part of the exhibit Observed: Hypervisibility and Reclamation at Harverford College. Her debut book of micro-poems, light, dark, in-between is available for order.

Samah was also a contributor to Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction.

To register for “15 Memories: Poetry as History,” donate to Heba, Samah’s sister (suggested donation $70 USD / 95 CAD, please donate more if you can!) then fill out the registration form.