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This workshop will explore the relationship between ecological landscapes, cultural memory, and decolonial resistance in Arab poetry. We will read poems by Etel Adnan, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Mahmoud Darwish, Maged Zaher, and Kamelya Youssef to examine how environmental themes of land, water, and displacement intersect with political and personal histories. From odes to the sea to songs of the meadow, this workshop invites participants to reflect on nature's role in Arab identity and resistance. Writing prompts and discussion will center the ongoing ecocide in Palestine and the broader Levant. Bring your grief, curiosity, and some notebook paper.

Maya Salameh is the author of HOW TO MAKE AN ALGORITHM IN THE MICROWAVE (University of Arkansas Press, 2022), winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, and the chapbook rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, The Offing, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, AGNI, ANMLY, and the LA Times, among others.