As a poet, Samira focuses on immigration, longing, motherhood, womanhood, and grief.
She is a Brooklyn Poets Fellow, and a Tin House and Cave Canem alum. Her poetry appears in the HBO series Take Out with Lisa Ling, All Arts TV series First Twenty, Gutter Magazine, No Dear Magazine, Button Poetry, and Black Horse Review among others.
She teaches elementary school poetry through City Lore and DreamYard residencies.
Upcoming Readings
September 9th - Conversation with filmmaker Kauvery Kaul. TICKETS HERE
‘TWENTY YEARS SINCE,’ A POEM ABOUT THE AFTERMATH OF 9/11
September 2021
Broadcast on All Arts TV as a part of the series “The First Twenty”
"How to mourn the dead, notes from a different land "
November 2019
Published in No, Dear Magazine Fall Issue
