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

Step 2: Register for “Poetry Edits” here.

Stuck on a first draft and wondering where to take it? Wishing you had a second opinion on a piece you've had stewing for months? Marissa will provide detailed, personalized written feedback on your poetry.

After registering, you will be instructed to send up to four pages of poetry to Marissa, after which she will read you work and then send you detailed, written feedback on the material you have submitted.

Marissa Davis is a poet and translator from Paducah, Kentucky. Her chapbook, My Name & Other Languages I Am Learning How to Speak (Jai-­Alai Books, 2020), was selected for Cave Canem’s 2019 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize. Her full-length debut, End of Empire, is forthcoming from Penguin Books in 2025. She earned her MFA at New York University, and she is currently pursuing a master’s in Editorial, Economic, and Technical Translation at the Sorbonne Nouvelle.˜