Step 1: Donate to Wesam’s family here (sugg. donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “Animal Poetics” here.

What happens when an animal enters a poem? This one-session generative workshop features close reading exercises and prompts that encourage poems to transform into habitats where animals can roam. We will read poems by Natalie Diaz, Alycia Pirmohamed, and Gregory Orr among others and pay particular attention to enlivening animals beyond iconography in writing towards faith.

Amogha is a poet and lyric essayist. Her work has recently appeared in Poetry Northwest, Split Lip Magazine, Stanchion Zine and Fahmidan Journal. She was a finalist for the 2024 Sewanee Review poetry contest. She lives and writes on the unceded land of the Lək̓wəŋən peoples in Victoria, BC. Find her on Twitter @amocalypse and on Bluesky at @oracleatdelphi.bsky.social.