Step 1: Donate to Gaza Poets Society here (suggested donation $30).
Step 2: Register for “A Poetry Reading for Gaza IV” here.
Join Workshops4Gaza for our fourth online poetry reading featuring
Summer Farah, Ignacio Carvajal, Ayling Zulema Dominguez, Destiny Hemphill, Maryam Ivette Parhizkar, Mallika Singh, Jesús Valles and hosted by mónica teresa ortiz. The reading will be followed by a short moderated discussion and Q and A.
Summer Farah is a Palestinian American writer, editor, and zine-maker from California. She is the author of I could die today and live again (Game Over Books, 2024) and The Hungering Years (Host Publications, 2026). A member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and the National Book Critics Circle, she is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.
ignacio carvajal is a poet, scholar, and translator. ignacio is the author of the chapbooks allow – a litany – (La Resistencia Press 2021) and Plegarias (el suriporfiado/University of Houston 2019) and his poems appear in places like the Acentos Review and the anthology The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, among others. ignacio was born in costa rica; they teach Central & Latin American Literature, Latin American Studies and creative writing at the University of California San Diego.
Ayling Zulema Dominguez is a poet, mixed media artist, and youth arts educator with roots in Puebla, México (Nahua) and the island of Kiskeya. Grounded in a poetics of anticolonialism, their art and writing ask who we are at our most free, and explore the subversions needed in order to arrive there. What can language do for our resistance efforts? How can we use it to birth new worlds and weave our ancestors into the fabric of them?
Destiny Hemphill is a chronically ill ritual worker and poet, living on the unceded territory of the Eno-Occaneechi band of the Saponi Nation (Durham, NC). She is co-editor of Poetry as Spellcasting (North Atlantic Books 2023) and the author of the poetry collection motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life (Action Books, 2023).
Maryam Ivette Parhizkar is a poet, educator, and scholar. She is a member of the U.S. Central American collective Tierra Narrative, and the author of three chapbooks, including Somewhere Else the Sun is Falling into Someone’s Eyes (Belladonna*, 2019).
mallika singh is a poet, farmer, and cook living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. their debut chapbook, Retrieval, was published in 2020 by Wendy's Subway. this season they are growing okra, marigolds, hibiscus, and more with their coworkers at Ashokra Farm. find them out in the field or by the river.
Jesús I. Valles (they/them) is a queer Mexican immigrant writer-performer from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua/El Paso, Texas. Their poems have been featured in the anthologies Here to Stay, Somewhere We Are Human, and The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, as well as The New Republic, Tin House, [PANK], The Adroit Journal, The Slowdown, and Code Switch. Here, Valles wishes to echo Rasha Abdulhadi's call to “you, dear reader, to refuse and resist the genocide of Palestinian people. Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. The elimination of the Palestinian people is not inevitable. We can refuse with our every breath and action. We must." In solidarity with the people of Palestine, of Congo, of Sudan, of Cuba, with every political prisoner here and everywhere empire threatens life, with every student movement rebelling against the state everywhere.
mónica teresa ortiz is a poet, critic, and memory worker born, raised, and based in Texas. They are the author of Book of Provocations (Host Publications, 2024) and invite you to commit to the liberation of Palestine.