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The swamp as radical possibility - Poetry Clinic

The swamp as radical possibility - Poetry Clinic

Poetry Clinic Residency: Letter+Response #1: How does one embrace sober living?

Poetry Clinic Residency: Letter+Response #1: How does one embrace sober living?

Cover Feature: Blue Mountain Review (Sept 2025)

Cover Feature: Blue Mountain Review (Sept 2025)

New Podcast: HAD A GREAT TIME @ Dante's Old South Radio Show

New Podcast: HAD A GREAT TIME @ Dante's Old South Radio Show

:: SAMIYA BASHIR DOT COM ::

:: SAMIYA BASHIR DOT COM ::

BOMB Magazine | Samiya Bashir and Douglas Kearney

BOMB Magazine | Samiya Bashir and Douglas Kearney

Publisher's Weekly REVIEWS I Hope This Helps

Publisher's Weekly REVIEWS I Hope This Helps

An Interview with Samiya Bashir, Author of I Hope This Helps – Nightboat Books

An Interview with Samiya Bashir, Author of I Hope This Helps – Nightboat Books

|| HAPPENINGS ||

|| WORK / STUDY ||

Master Class: Multimedia Poetries & Poetics

Craft Seminar: Finding The Poem's Light

August 2025 :: Beyond the Page: Experimenting with Multimedia Poetries - FINE ARTS WORK CENTER in Provincetown

SERVICES :: editor, author/book coach

Poetry and Prose Manuscript Consultation with Samiya Bashir

|| LISTEN ||

NEW MUSIC: Dark Matters — by Samiya Bashir & Joel Thompson

LISTEN :: Interview :: Portland poet Samiya Bashir emerges from isolation :: Oregon Public Radio

|| WATCH ||

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VIDEOPOEM :: negro being :: freakish beauty @ Interim Poetics

WATCH :: PERFORMANCE :: a velveteen field (i am real)

SLACKERS: 3 GenX Poets on Place & Power, A Rail Reading Curated by Samiya Bashir

Dark Matters (World Premiere)

WATCH :: How To Build A Fire: James Baldwin 2-Day Convening (Day 1, Part 2)

|| PRESS / MEDIA ||

:: READ ABOUT IT :: "So much happening in...Samiya Bashir"

:: READ ABOUT IT :: Yale Review :: "Conspicuous Erudition: The new black poetry" by Jerome Ellison Murphy

:: READ ABOUT IT :: "Poetry And Science Collide In The Work Of Samiya Bashir"

:: READ ABOUT IT :: "Poetry And Science Collide In The Work Of Samiya Bashir"

The Africa Center Announces Samiya Bashir’s "I Hope This Helps" - Exhibition Opens 5/18!

The Africa Center Announces Samiya Bashir’s "I Hope This Helps" - Exhibition Opens 5/18!

PORTRAIT :: 20 Oregon Writers ::

PORTRAIT :: 20 Oregon Writers ::

Creating space for new voices at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis

Creating space for new voices at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis

:: READ ABOUT IT :: Chicago Review :: "Samiya Bashir, Field Theories" Reviewed by Kirsten Ihns

The New Works Collective program helps diverse stories find a place in the opera world

The New Works Collective program helps diverse stories find a place in the opera world

|| READ THE WORK ||

READ :: A Poem for Springtime Peace Between Variants :: "Waiting on the Reading"

READ :: POEM :: "i traveled the world. it was fine." @ Academy of American Poets

READ :: PO-ESSAY :: @ LitHub "Letter from Exile: Finding Home in a Pandemic :: Samiya Bashir Returns From Rome to an Uncertain America"

READ :: Winner :: *BEST OF THE NET 2022* :: "How Not to Stay Unshot in the U.S.A."

|| FIRE & INKWELL ||

UP WE STEP: The Poets of Fire & Ink

UP WE STEP: The Poets of Fire & Ink

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NEW POEM: "nail hard" in exhibition as a part of Sonya Clark's TWIST Project at the Pocantico Center!

3/16-18/2023 :: CookShack: An Opera! :: Opera Theatre St. Louis

3/16-18/2023 :: CookShack: An Opera! :: Opera Theatre St. Louis

New Publication :: PRE-ORDER :: *New Work* forthcoming in Freeman's Journal: Animals

New Publication :: PRE-ORDER :: *New Work* forthcoming in Freeman's Journal: Animals

New Publication :: ORDER :: Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology

New Publication :: ORDER :: Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology

ORDER :: who's osmosin' who in "BLACK REVELRY: In Honor of ‘The Sugar Shack’ "

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