Samiya Bashir
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🍉 Neutron Muppet 🍉 poemmaker | fieldtheorist | professora | creative coach | stage queen | hypewoman | magicwand | humancat linktr.ee/scryptkeeper samiyabashir.com Literary Agents: aragi.net Booking Agents: @shipmanagency.bsky.social
I can’t be the only one who like never leaves this tab … I mean … I’m sure I luv the rest of yall but you gon have to find me here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
✨ COVER REVEAL ✨ Thrilled to share June Jordan’s *Poetry for the People: Expanded Edition*, coming this fall from @haymarketbooks.org with a new foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and new material by me. Pre-order this summer for 40% off! www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2952-j... #blacksky #booksky
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
This was literally a professional communication I just sent Nothing about the world makes sense anymore tbh
Me and my girls having an epic Bed Day of relaxation in celebration of my fave holiday! #HappyArborDay🌳
A poem I wrote before our exact version of now. Still lands tho. “Let us stay parched. G’head, I dare you:” Some folks’ll hear metaphor. Some will hear policy. Some threat. What I wrote, though, was a promise. #FieldTheories
I finally went to the Vatican. It was fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ poets.org/poem/i-trave...
Yall WHAT?! I just … how does this sentence make sense? We’ve jumped so many sharks the sharks are jumping us back atp
My final letter from my 2025-26 #ThePoetryClinic residency: “Friendship values presence over performance. Sometimes intensity reigns, but steadiness stays. What I’m saying is, friendship abides.” poetryclinic.org/write-to-me-...
Just a reminder: y’all for real elected this mofo AGAIN!! Now lookit us … sigh. #HOWSway!!?
Yall … this 6 years ago revisit is … a lot 😬 (Remember the toilet paper crisis? Jeeeeezus. And this mofo is in charge AGAIN lawd help us.)
Sometimes, in the midst of a whole other thing, I come across random shit I said to someone some time because everything lives forever on the innerwebs and tbh I’m mostly just glad that // most often // I agree with myself. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mean … in the year of our Armageddon 2026 labeling ketchup as “worst” is kinda Op but okay
🫶🏾 to get to complete the final edit here, #aroma2026, beneath #JuneJordan’s portrait (by #WhitfieldLovell) feels all the way right.
✍🏽 In edit. ☀️In sunshine. 📖 The 30th anniversary reprint of _June Jordan’s #POETRYFOETHEPEOPLE_ comes to *you* this summer! What a gift of a lift it’s been … 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Palermo! Also — this little spot on the Sicilian block playing Sitting on the Dock of the Bay as if to prove my argument that Black American music is the only music the whole world can’t quit ever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (Some whole other non-Sicilian buskers also been playing Black music all day…)
Back in Roma I *had* to make my signature Ragù with non-toxic local ingrediente 🤌🏾🤌🏾🤌🏾
Yeah I’m DAT cray muhfuh flyin international out of JFK IN A SNOWSTORM. My flight is leaving half an hour EARLY (never heard of such a thing) because we are LEAVING dammit. And I’m in this airport mumbling “Dis N-**a” at my overstuffed carryon and backpack cuz they keep falling over. But I’m going!