Samiya Bashir @scryptkeeper

WTF is Samiya even DOING?

| poemmaker | firestarter | shapeshifter | hypewoman | magicwand | humancat |

Come see an abbreviated exhibition of Standards from i Hope This Helps and enjoy an evening of poetry and storytelling at Radiance Art Gallery!
Come see an abbreviated exhibition of Standards from i Hope This Helps and enjoy an evening of poetry and storytelling at Radiance Art Gallery!

:: I Hope This Helps ::

Publisher's Weekly REVIEWS I Hope This Helps
New Review! Matt Betts Reads Samiya Bashir’s Collection I Hope This Helps – Heavy Feather Review

Poetry Clinic Residency: 2026!

Poetry Clinic Residency: Letter #4 -- Hot cocoa and snow angels - Poetry Clinic
The swamp as radical possibility - Poetry Clinic
My friend is constantly in pain - Poetry Clinic
Poetry Clinic Residency: Letter+Response #1: How does one embrace sober living?

The Slowdown: Guest Host 2/2-13/26!

1452: A Backstory Beyond My Recounting by Paulann Petersen | The Slowdown
1448: Orchestra by Russell Brakefield | The Slowdown
1447: Gratitude by Cornelius Eady | The Slowdown

:: INTERVIEWS ::

BOMB Magazine | Samiya Bashir and Douglas Kearney
An Interview with Samiya Bashir, Author of I Hope This Helps – Nightboat Books
Cover Feature: Blue Mountain Review (Sept 2025)
LISTEN :: Interview :: Portland poet Samiya Bashir emerges from isolation :: Oregon Public Radio
:: SAMIYA BASHIR DOT COM ::
|| BOOKINGS ||
Poets as Deep Thinkers: A group reading with Samiya Bashir

|| WORK / STUDY ||

SERVICES :: editor, author/book coach
Poetry and Prose Manuscript Consultation with Samiya Bashir
Poetry and Prose Manuscript Consultation with Samiya Bashir

|| LISTEN ||

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

|| WATCH ||

** vimeo page **
** youtube channel **
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)
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"
The Africa Center Announces Samiya Bashir’s "I Hope This Helps" - Exhibition Opens 5/18!
PORTRAIT :: 20 Oregon Writers ::
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

|| 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
Fire & Inkwell

|| SOCIALS ||

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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
New Publication :: PRE-ORDER :: *New Work* forthcoming in Freeman's Journal: Animals
New Publication :: ORDER :: Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology
ORDER :: who's osmosin' who in "BLACK REVELRY: In Honor of ‘The Sugar Shack’ "