Faculty Presentation: Nicole Georges and Samiya Bashir

Samiya Bashir, called a “dynamic, shape-shifting machine of perpetual motion,” by  Diego Báez, is a poet, writer, librettist, performer, and multi-media poet whose solo and  collaborative work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened,  experienced, and Oxford comma’d from Berlin to Düsseldorf, Amsterdam to Accra,  Florence to Rome, and across the United States. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously  rendered text. Sometimes light. Bashir is the author of three poetry collections, most  recently Field Theories, winner of the Oregon Book Award. Bashir’s honors include the Rome Prize in Literature, the Pushcart Prize, New York Council for the Arts and Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council fellowships, among  numerous other awards, grants, and residencies. A sought-after editor, Bashir most  recently served as Associate Professor at Reed College, and executive director of  Lambda Literary. Currently a Columbia University Visiting Professor, Bashir lives in  Harlem, NYC.