Registration is rolling until March 2 at 11:59PM EST. No application is required (except for financial aid— Applications for financial aid are due February 26 at 5 PM EST).

$65 w/financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)

3 hour class: Saturday March 9, 1-4PM EST

Bring your ancestral and imagined homes to life through deep remembrance, listening, dreaming of worlds without exile, and recreating spaces that feel safe for your body and spirit in this one-day poetry workshop.

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, musician and recovering social justice lawyer with Hyderabadi Muslim roots. She is the author of the poetry collection, City of Pearls (Upset Press, 2019), and has released two musical albums; City of Pearls (2019) and Moti Ka Sheher (2023) featuring self composed musical interpretations from her book. Her work explores grief and loss, ancestral transmissions, international solidarities and space to imagine. Sham-e-Ali is the recipient of the 2022 Leeway Transformation Award, the 2016 Loft Literary Center Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship, and the 1997 echoing green fellowship.