SLACKERS: 3 GenX Poets on Place & Power, A Rail Reading
Samiya Bashir curates Brooklyn Rail’s 116th Radical Poetry Reading bringing together Graywolf Press Publisher Carmen Giménez and Poetry Magazine Editor Adrian Matejka to talk with her about intersectional power, presence, and taking their place at the helm of institutions which once stood as gatekeepers to their exclusion.
Videopoem/Remix:
“Another Thin Filament Pyrometry”
by Samiya Bashir
"Clairvoyance"
Libretto by Samiya Bashir | Composed by Joel Thompson | Video design by Camilla Tassi
DIGITAL WORLD PREMIERE :: MODULATION :: Prototype Festival 2021
As our society continues in a form of suspended animation, we look to art to open new avenues of thought, imagination, wonder, and reckoning.
MODULATION is a digital, self-guided exploration of the times created by thirteen of the most provocative and diverse voices in the contemporary music idiom. Traveling through themes of ISOLATION, IDENTITY, and FEAR, with the connection of BREATH, an electrifying auditory and visual journey of new creations awaits.
:: SAMIYA BASHIR + SOLMAZ SHARIF ::
Learning from June Jordan: A Poetry for the People Conversation
:: UC Berkeley, February 28, 2022
samiya bashir :: sometimes in a body (Field Theories, Nightboat Books, 2017)
Poet and professor Erica Hunt (Instagram: @ericahuntpoet) returns to the New Social Environment as guest curator of our 6th week of radical poetry, featuring readings from Samiya Bashir (Instagram: @scryptkeeper), Mihee Kim, Jena Osman (Instagram: @jenaos), Dior Stephens, and Yanyi (Instagram: @yanyi.docx).
Dao Strom curates the 74th Radical Poetry Reading featuring poetry read by Stephanie Adams-Santos, Samiya Bashir, Shayla Lawson, and Coleman Stevenson
:: THE BROOKLYN RAIL :: February 23, 2022
Icons in Conversation: Alison Saar, joined by Samiya Bashir :: Crocker Art Museum, June 2021
Icons in Conversation returns in a riveting way with world-renowned artist Alison Saar who will take us on a journey through her past and current work, including her seminal 2016 piece, "Hades D.W.P.," featured in "Legends from Los Angeles." Joining her for a special discussion is the dynamic poet Samiya Bashir, who collaborated with Saar on "Hades D.W.P."
Image: "Hades D.W.P. II.," 2016. Etched glass jars, water, dye, wood, cloth and ink transfer, electronics, found ladles and cups, with poetry by Samiya Bashir 30 x 50 x 16 in.
"We are everybody we love. We are inside them."
|| filmed with Roland Dahwen Wu & Patua Films ||
**Language made image, image made reflection, poetry made field notes for post-colonial survival mapped onto diaspora through image and breath.**
|| movement by keyon gaskin + filmed with Roland Dahwen Wu & Patua Films ||
"how lightspeed equals need equals constancy" || movement by keyon gaskin + filmed with Roland Dahwen Wu & Patua Films ||
"This is the world spinning in the vast dark." || movement by keyon gaskin + filmed with Roland Dahwen Wu & Patua Films ||
"Thing is / we're still here." || movement by keyon gaskin + filmed with Roland Dahwen Wu & Patua Films ||
Because Blackness, Like Poetry, Means Many Things
Center for African American Poetry and Poetics,
University of Pittsburgh, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Pittsburgh, with Samiya Bashir, Eisa Davis, Ruth Ellen Kocher, and Avery Young, June 2018
"This is the world spinning in the vast dark." || movement by keyon gaskin + filmed with Roland Dahwen Wu & Patua Films ||
Portland, Ore. 16.9.16 :: Beneath the fractured light of a harvest moon eclipse, black|bodies descend into PICA's Time Based Art Festival and radiate poetry/light. #FieldTheories
SOMETIMES KATE GORMAN EMAILS ME, a video poem, was originally published at HOAX: creative work incorporating text, London, UK, 2015.
"I am black and poet and will not remain silent while this nation murders black people." || November 28, 2014
"Catch" was originally published in Gospel: poems (RedBone Press, 2009).
Read it online @ The Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/239726
**every printer needs a poet.**
Museum of Contemporary Craft
Portland, OR, January 8, 2015.
Samiya Bashir and Cumbersome Multiples share a mutual admiration for folk hero John Henry. In a sense, he introduced them. Bashir's Pushcart Prize nominated poem, "Coronagraphy," delivers on its promise to illuminate the interior voices of Polly Ann and her husband John Henry. Poetry by Samiya Bashir. Letterpress Live Tweeting by Tracy Schlapp.
"Coronagraphy," a sequence of 15 linked sonnets, was originally published in Poet Lore. Of the work, editor Judy Bolz wrote:
| a poem | forthcoming in ink-on-tree | FIELD THEORIES | by Samiya Bashir | Nightboat Books | Spring 2016
Casa Libre en la Solana, Tucson, Arizona, December 19, 2015.
In town to read from her forthcoming book, Field Theories, Samiya invited Aishah Sabatini Sloan to join her in conversation with her beautiful essay "One American Goes to See '30 Americans,'" published at Autostraddle, based on her experience at the "30 Americans" exhibit at the Detroit Institute of the Arts.
A great night making magic next to the mimosa tree, by the pool and under the stars. Afterward: the group hot tub was pure poetry.
The World's Oldest Ship Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY, August 24, 2015.
Film by: Charlotte Lagarde, Music by: Fumio Tashiro, Poem: by Samiya Bashir, Series Organized by: Susan Brennan, Recorded @ J+B Design Cafe by Charlotte Lagarde.
M. Nourbese Philip quote heard during: &Now 2015 -- Blast Radius: Writing & The Other Arts, CalArts, March 2015
Neil deGrasse Tyson quote pulled from: MOYERS & COMPANY: Neil deGrasse Tyson on the New Cosmos. http://billmoyers.com/episode/neil-degrasse-tyson-on-the-new-cosmos/
"A small matter of engineering" was originally published in Ecotone: No. 19, Spring 2015, the 10th Anniversary Issue.https://ecotonemagazine.org/poetry/a-small-matter-of-engineering/
M A P S :: a cartography in progress performed at Naropa University, Summer Writing Program of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. June 18, 2016.
The World's Oldest Ship Reading Series Brooklyn, NY August 24, 2015.
Film by: Charlotte Lagarde, Music by: Fumio Tashiro, Poem: by Samiya Bashir, Series Organized by: Susan Brennan, Recorded @ J+B Design Cafe by Charlotte Lagarde.
Don Mee Choi quotation was selected from "A Conversation with Don Mee Choi" on The Lantern Review Blog: http://www.lanternreview.com/blog/2012/12/05/
Explore #BlackPoetsSpeakOut http://blackpoetsspeakout.tumblr.com
"Right + Title" was originally published as a part of I CAN'T BREATHE, a special forum in Transitions: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora: http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/samiya-bashir-cant-breathe
The World's Oldest Ship Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY, August 24, 2015.
Film by: Charlotte Lagarde, Music by: Fumio Tashiro, Poem: by Samiya Bashir, Series Organized by: Susan Brennan, Recorded @ J+B Design Cafe by Charlotte Lagarde.
June Jordan quote was from her poem: "1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer," published in Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press, 2005).
"Paleontology" was originally published by The Offing Magazine / A Channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books
http://theoffingmag.com/micro/two-micros-by-samiya-bashir/
"if you're not / Stunned, / Light-headed this day // If you do not love the world / If you do not love him // Will not turn up for him ... What then?"
Margin Shift Reading Series, Seattle, WA.
October 29, 2015
Reading with Raul Sanchez, Deborah Woodard, Rebecca Zweig, introduced by Jane Wong and Josh Fomon.
We the People or Whatever: a collaborative composition with Samiya Bashir, Julie Perini, and Rosana Ybarra @ Pure Surface Portland, Oregon August 7, 2016.
{Recorded via Periscope (follow me @scryptkeeper for more as they come) on an apparently poor connection so please forgive the poor video quality.}
The World's Oldest Ship Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY, August 24, 2015.
Film by: Charlotte Lagarde, Music by: Fumio Tashiro, Poem: by Samiya Bashir, Series Organized by: Susan Brennan, Recorded @ J+B Design Cafe by Charlotte Lagarde.
Amiri Baraka quote was selected from "Political Poem (for Basil)," by Amiri Baraka, can be found in "The New Anthology of American Poetry: Vol. III: Postmodernisms 1950-Present," edited by Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Trevisano (Rutgers University Press, 2012).
"Ha ha ha n*gg*rs are the worst" was originally published in Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Issue #2.
http://www.lambdaliterary.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/issue2.pdf
World Oldest Ship Poetry Reading Series #5 Samiya Bashir ::website:: http://samiyabashir.com/ J+B Design & Cafe http://jplusb.sagacreativecorp.com/?page_id=8
Crow meditation Dip fevered neck. Plant split-lipped calm. Spit wonder. Smile. Starve dark fright. Be light. Gospel: poems, RedBone Press, March 2009, www.redbonepress.com
Dowsing crow "Open sunflower! Pry these lusty eyes from sleep. Steep redolent blue." from Gospel: poems, by Samiya Bashir, March 2009, www.RedBonePress.com