Friday, Oct. 11
5:00pm-6:00pm PST
Join Workshops for Gaza for our first poetry reading featuring a small fraction of the many U.S.-based poets in solidarity with the people of Gaza: Fady Joudah, Solmaz Sharif, Wendy Trevino, Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover. All proceeds will go to Hamza, a Palestinian writer and student of the late and beloved poet Refaat Alareer. Hamza is currently raising funds to help his family of 40 survive the ongoing genocide.
To register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza,” donate to Hamza (suggested donation $25 USD, please donate more if you can!) then fill out the registration form.
Fady Joudah is the author of […]. He has published six collections of poems: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and Tethered to Stars. He has also translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic. He is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He lives in Houston, with his wife and kids, where he practices internal medicine.
Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Poetry, and more. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lannan Foundation, and Stanford University. She is currently the Shirley Shenker Assistant Professor of English at U.C. Berkeley.
Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives and works in San Francisco and has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. Brazilian no es una raza - a bilingual edition of the chapbook she published with Commune Editions in 2016 - was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in 2018. Her first book-length collection of poems, Cruel Fiction, was also published by Commune Editions in 2018.
Juliana Spahr is the author of That Winter the Wolf Came (2015); Well Then There Now (2011); The Transformation (2007); This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (2005); Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against One Another (2003). Her poems focus on reading as a “communal, democratic, and open process.”
Joshua Clover is the author of seven books. A former journalist with the Village Voice, The Nation, and others, he is currently a professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Davis. He is also an Affiliated Professor of Literature and Modern Culture at University of Copenhagen. He is a communist.