Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of a forthcoming book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster  House Press, 2017). He has taught poetry at the University of Iowa,  Columbia University, and will teach at Sarah Lawrence College and St.  Joseph’s College.

His video works have been exhibited by Flux Factory, Daata Editions,  the 13th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania, Mathew Gallery, NeueHouse, the  Paseo Project, and will be exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary  Art in L.A in 2021.

As an independent curator, he has facilitated curatorial projects in  Chicago, Boston, Santa Fe, and Reykjavík. He was a 2017-2019 joint  Public Programs fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum  in Harlem. In 2016, he founded the Center for Afrofuturist…