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

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

Join Workshops4Gaza for our third online poetry reading featuring Sarah Ghazal Ali, George Abraham, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Cindy Juyoung Ok. The reading will be followed by a short moderated discussion and Q and A.

Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Sarah is the poetry editor for West Branch and an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College.

George Abraham (they/هو) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the executive editor of Mizna, and co-editor of HEAVEN LOOKS LIKE US: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025). They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program, and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.

Naomi Shihab Nye is a Palestinian-American poet and author of Sitti’s Secrets, Habibi, 19 Varieties of Gazelle, The Turtle of Oman, Grace Notes, The Tiny Journalist, and many other books.

Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Ward Toward (Yale UP, 2024), the translator of Kim Hyesoon’s The Hell of That Star, and an assistant English professor at UC Davis.