Samiya Bashir
Biographic Data
| ID | 3992076 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samiya Bashir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samiya |
| FAMILY NAME | Bashir |
| SIGNATURE | BASHIR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | American College of Financial Services |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Two Poems
September–October 2013 • 49 cover feature White Body Radiation Every day adjustments before give up before make do start where a clothespin clips a nose and breath is held until – What is a thing of beauty if it isn't us? And if a body is hell what then? And if one can't bear to look back at the sight of what one has come for then the other, the retrieved, just keeps waltzing toward light. Right? Is six paces back far enough to dance? Is it enoug…
Two Poems
September–October 2013 • 49 cover feature White Body Radiation Every day adjustments before give up before make do start where a clothespin clips a nose and breath is held until – What is a thing of beauty if it isn’t us? And if a body is hell what then? And if one can’t bear to look back at the sight of what one has come for then the other, the retrieved, just keeps waltzing toward light. Right? Is six paces back far enough to dance? Is it enoug…
Making Black Eyed Peas
Making Black Eyed Peas Samiya Bashir —For Rita Dove Never mind the way the earth turned flat at the edge of where we lived;* this ritual remains. A midnight kiss, an overstocked pantry, a jovial welcome at the front door for Mr. Jones, his arms laden with corn bread. This far north the quaking aspens shimmy their leaves to the ground by October. But winds these days stagger in low, west to east, anxious, drunk and stubborn, snatching stray hard h…
The Road to Advocacy—Searching for the Rainbow
The essence of public health advocacy is spreading the word—spreading the word to members of one’s community about ways to protect and promote health, and spreading the word to decisionmakers about health policies that need to be enacted. The authors profile 2 women who spread the word—one who focuses on breast cancer in the Asian American community and one who works in cooperation with churches in the fight against HIV/AIDS in African and Africa…
Home Is Where the Harm Is
Overcrowding and poor-quality housing have a direct relationship to poor mental health, developmental delay, heart disease, and even short stature
Principled Professionalism
MOHAMMAD AKHTER, MD, MPH, has been leading the movement for the health empowerment of the American public. As executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA), he has been instrumental in informing the nation about the need for cohesion and cooperation between public and private agencies, medical and public health communities, professional institutions and the public they exist to serve. Akhter’s journey appears to be the epito…
Home Is Where the Harm Is
Overcrowding and poor-quality housing have a direct relationship to poor mental health, developmental delay, heart disease, and even short stature
The Road to Advocacy—Searching for the Rainbow
The essence of public health advocacy is spreading the word—spreading the word to members of one’s community about ways to protect and promote health, and spreading the word to decisionmakers about health policies that need to be enacted. The authors profile 2 women who spread the word—one who focuses on breast cancer in the Asian American community and one who works in cooperation with churches in the fight against HIV/AIDS in African and Africa…
Home Is Where the Harm Is
Overcrowding and poor-quality housing have a direct relationship to poor mental health, developmental delay, heart disease, and even short stature
Principled Professionalism
MOHAMMAD AKHTER, MD, MPH, has been leading the movement for the health empowerment of the American public. As executive director of the American Public Health Association (APHA), he has been instrumental in informing the nation about the need for cohesion and cooperation between public and private agencies, medical and public health communities, professional institutions and the public they exist to serve. Akhter’s journey appears to be the epito…
The Road to Advocacy—Searching for the Rainbow
The essence of public health advocacy is spreading the word—spreading the word to members of one’s community about ways to protect and promote health, and spreading the word to decisionmakers about health policies that need to be enacted. The authors profile 2 women who spread the word—one who focuses on breast cancer in the Asian American community and one who works in cooperation with churches in the fight against HIV/AIDS in African and Africa…
Making Black Eyed Peas
Making Black Eyed Peas Samiya Bashir —For Rita Dove Never mind the way the earth turned flat at the edge of where we lived;* this ritual remains. A midnight kiss, an overstocked pantry, a jovial welcome at the front door for Mr. Jones, his arms laden with corn bread. This far north the quaking aspens shimmy their leaves to the ground by October. But winds these days stagger in low, west to east, anxious, drunk and stubborn, snatching stray hard h…
Two Poems
September–October 2013 • 49 cover feature White Body Radiation Every day adjustments before give up before make do start where a clothespin clips a nose and breath is held until – What is a thing of beauty if it isn't us? And if a body is hell what then? And if one can't bear to look back at the sight of what one has come for then the other, the retrieved, just keeps waltzing toward light. Right? Is six paces back far enough to dance? Is it enoug…
Two Poems
September–October 2013 • 49 cover feature White Body Radiation Every day adjustments before give up before make do start where a clothespin clips a nose and breath is held until – What is a thing of beauty if it isn’t us? And if a body is hell what then? And if one can’t bear to look back at the sight of what one has come for then the other, the retrieved, just keeps waltzing toward light. Right? Is six paces back far enough to dance? Is it enoug…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)