Jaia Hamid Bashir
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Jaia Hamid Bashir
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Poet & Artist | Columbia University ‘20 | POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Virginia Quarterly, etc. | 'Desire/Halves'

My little chapbook is going into a second print—I'm beyond grateful! Thank you to everyone who has embraced these poems about being brown, gorgeous, and alone, living in the American West, and the ache and joy of losing and reclaiming language.
November 20, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Any Jim Harrison fans here?
November 18, 2024 at 8:15 PM
It's time to disassociate/ spend the rest of the day reading Wikipedia.

Tabula Rogeriana, or Al-Idrisi’s world atlas, was created in the 12th century and is one of the world's earliest and most detailed maps.

The South is at the top, a standard convention in Islamic maps.
November 13, 2024 at 8:59 PM
Introduce yourself!

Would love to follow/celebrate all poets and writers.

From SLC, but I consider NYC my 'home.'

Frank Stanford, Paul Celan, Anne Carson, etc.

Poems are bewilderment prayers that explore brutality, loss, and the grotesque.

Searching for boring divinity in the undesirable.
November 13, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Me.
November 12, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Tattoo this across this nation.
November 8, 2024 at 9:15 PM