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STRAIGHT LINES, KNOTS, QUARTER TURNS – REPEAT, Asiya Wadud

April 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.

Note From Asiya Wadud:
This essay is written in conversation with the many voices from The Loophole of Retreat, which Tina M. Campt, Saidiya Hartman, and Simone Leigh convened at the Guggenheim Museum on April 27, 2019. Many threads of conversations from the Danspace Project Voice & Body Research Group are also resonant in this piece, and ever-always, the work of Okwui Okpokwasili.

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.

Tags: Asiya Wadud, Platform 2020, Research Groups, Utterances from the Chorus, Voice & Body