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choral or, Asiya Wadud

May 1, 2020

Asiya Wadud. Photo: Ian Douglas.

Poet Asiya Wadud was part of the Danspace Project Voice & Body research group in 2019-2020 and a Platform 2020 Writer in Residence.

Asiya Wadud is the author of Crosslight for Youngbird, day pulls down the sky… a filament in gold leaf (written collaboratively with Okwui Okpokwasili), Syncope, and the forthcoming No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. Asiya teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School and is a member of the Belladonna Collaborative. Her work has been supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Foundation Jan Michalski, Brooklyn Poets, Dickinson House, Mount Tremper Arts, and the New York Public Library, among others. Asiya is a 2019-2020 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist-in-Residence. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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