Jaia Hamid Bashir
@jaiofearth.bsky.social
~Poems & Visions ~ 🤍 an anthropologist. Work in POETRY, APR, VQR, Narrative, etc. Afterlife of Sweetness (2026) @ohiostatepress
So, Substack is the future? Are literary journals and magazines moving over to Substack? Tell me your thoughts.
My book is available for pre-order! ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... Here is one of my blurbs: “The Afterlife of Sweetness is exactly what a first book should be: It is a next step, for the poet and also for poetry.” —Shane McCrae #poetry #poetryreleases #debutauthor #debutpoet
This place feels boring. Threads has more drama. Additionally, the expected "great exodus" from the other site did not fully occur.
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.
Greetings poets who are here! Let's all find each other. Please respond to this tweet with three of the poets you are most influenced by. #poetry #poetrycommunity
Today, my partner read my short story collection about messy, gross, cool, vibrant, challenging, non-conforming, and rebellious Pakistani young people, and got teary-eyed. “These are the people you wish you knew. The family you wish you had.”
Hello! I'm looking for Autistic and/or neurodivergent individuals or caregivers who would like to review a short story I've completed. I, too, am neurodivergent. Just want to get some eyes on this before I try to place it in journals/magazines. :)
Does anyone have recommendations for writing by and/or about individuals on the Autistic spectrum who are also Muslim? ???
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.
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.
My latest short story ends with a hot Silverlake Pakistani girl with vitiligo and a bunch of stick-and-poke tattoos taking her broken Roomba to a strip club to deal with the loss of both her parents. I think I'm done writing poetry. I love fiction.
Is anyone writing a novel this November? I am just trying to keep myself together by wearing thrifted cashmere, drinking cozy drinks, petting my dog, and thinking non-stop about Anora.
