A Poem by Jai Hamid Bashir

Congratulations to Jai Hamid Bashir, whose poem “The Apiarists,” which appears in Tampa Review 61/62, has been selected in the 2022 Orison Anthology, which focuses on spiritual writing. Bashir is an autistic poet and creative from the American West. Born to Pakistani-American artists, she is a recent graduate of Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Guernica Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, Wildness, The Cortland Review, Palette Poetry, and others.