Anaïs Duplan

Anaïs Duplan is a trans* writer, curator, and artist. He is the author of a forthcoming book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House, 2017). He was a 2017–2019 joint Public Programs Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is the founding curator for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies.

Photo by Walid Mohanna

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POETRY / Winter 2019

Leah Gilliam, Sapphire and the Slave Girl, 1995, 18 mins. 20 secs.

By Anaïs Duplan

tidal networks of black people cross
the road
a Walgreens and pizzeria we
follow as they walk

POETRY / Winter 2019

Ephraim Asili, American Hunger, 2013, 19 mins.

By Anaïs Duplan

outside the viewer,
black outside a mention of orishas and speech
about freeing

POETRY / Winter 2019

Tony Cokes, 3#, 2001, 4 mins. 38 secs.

By Anaïs Duplan

                                     leaves a race behind
                 takes on the music                                      pop
                 its relation                                                    to capital