Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $40).

Step 2: Register for “On the Memory of Water” here.

This workshop explores the profound connections between water, memory, and resistance from the perspectives of poets of color. Water serves not only as sustenance but as a repository of our collective memory and cultural survival, witnessing and recording histories of colonization, resistance, and renewal across generations.

We will analyze the craft of those the water remembers, including poets such as Ariana Benson, Banah el Ghadbanah, Camonghne Felix, and Nizar Qabbani. From the protection of Indigenous Filipino reservoirs to the militarized borders of the Mediterranean, this workshop invites you to listen to the stories that water has to tell.

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 in The Offing, Poetry, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, AGNI, Mizna, and the LA Times, among others. She can be found at @mayaslmh or mayasalameh.com.