books
MANDIBLE WISHBONE SOLVENT. University of Chicago Press. 2024 (order)
No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. Nightboat Books. 2021 (order)
SYNCOPE. Ugly Duckling Presse. 2019 (order)
day pulls down the sky/ a filament in gold leaf. Okwui Okpokwasili (songs) and Asiya Wadud (poems). Danspace Project & Belladonna. 2019 (order)
Crosslight for Youngbird. Nightboat Books. 2018 (order)
chapbooks
we, too, are but the fold. Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. 2017 (order)
A Well-Built Lean-To | Un appentis bien construit. Organism for Poetic Research. October 2018 (order)
A Depiction of the Latin Alphabet. Johan Johan Studios. November 2018 (out of print)
selected recent events
Guggenheim Museum, An Evening of Poetry for Etel Adnan to mark the closing of Adnan’s show Light’s New Measure. New York City. Presented in collaboration with the Academy of American Poets. Other readers include Ammiel Alcalay, Omar Berrada, Stephen Motika and Anne Waldman. January 2022.
Exercises in Togetherness, the Month of Books. In partnership with the Finnish Cultural Institute of New York and Publics. “ MANDIBLE, WISHBONE, SOLVENT,” a work for Howard Smith. Helsinki, Finland. October 2021
Light Shows with Benjamin Krusling and friends. Triple Canopy & Wendy’s Subway. May 2021
Jordan Casteel & Ashley James with a reading by Asiya Wadud. Brooklyn Rail. November 30, 2020
Brandon Shimoda & Asiya Wadud. Yale University (presented in Ethnic Studies and Social Imagination). November 2020
Migrating the Loop, Center for Imagination at the Borderlands. Arizona State University (with Natalie Diaz). November 2020.
Danspace Project’s PLATFORM 2020: Utterances from the Chorus. Saturday Afternoon Conversation #1: Platform as Practice – Collaborative Organizing. A response to a conversation between Saidiya Hartman, Simone Leigh, & Okwui Okpokwasili. Co-curated by Okwui Okpokwasili & Judy Hussie-Taylor. February 22, 2020. Danspace Project. New York, New York.
Voice & Body research group at Danspace Project’s PLATFORM 2020, Utterances from the Chorus. Response to conversation between Saidiya Hartman, Simone Leigh, and Okwui Okpokwasili. March 7, 2020. New York, New York.
Sitting On A Man’s Head. Danspace Project’s PLATFORM 2020: Utterances from the Chorus. Co-curated by Okwui Okpokwasili & Judy Hussie-Taylor. Feb. 28; March 6; March 13; March 20: 6-9:45 pm each evening. Danspace Project. New York, New York.
Montez Press Radio. An evening for Syncope & new work. March 25, 2020.
Crossed Lines. Literature & Telephony. “Our distress calls like urgent plovers. On Syncope.” Science Museum. London, England. May 27- June 5, 2020.
CARRIER WAVES | Naropa Summer Writing Program (online) 2020. “Drift, Signals, Ocular, Or. “ June 15, 2020.
ECHO EXHIBIT (premier). River To River: Four Voices. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. 2020. June 22-July 10, 2020. Participating writers include Lara Atallah, Sevinç Çalhanoğlu, Chia-Lun Chang, Alisha Mascarenhas, Madison McCartha, Rebekah Smith. Vinyl posters created by Shannon Finngan.
selected poems
“cobalt mirror image 3”. Yale Review. Spring 2023
“through their mouths came their lasting virtue.” Beirut Arts Center. September 2022
“SHORN, TREADED RED” (excerpt). Poem-a-Day. Academy of American Poets. Selected by Donika Kelly. August 2022.
“my mind makes for me a window then a door,” Iowa Review. Summer 2022
“Mandible Wishbone Solvent”. POETRY. March 2022.
“L” & “the back door or the lone coast” Columbia Journal. June 2020.
“attention as a form of ethics” (excerpt). Poem-a-Day. Academy of American Poets. May 26, 2020. Selected by Monica Youn.
e-flux journal. Issue #105. The Loophole of Retreat. An Invitation. “the order was in the hour of worship”. edited by Simone Leigh, Saidiya Hartman and Tina Campt. December 2019
choral or and CIRCULATION, CONTINUUM, ROOM. JOURNAL: ISSUE 10 | PLATFORM 2020: UTTERANCES FROM THE CHORUS. Co-curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Okwui Okpokwasili. With Lydia Bell and Seta Morton. Danspace Project. May 2020
FENCE. I am an island and I take comfort: Asiya Wadud Collaborates with the From Text to Speech Robot. April 2020
“the honeybees invade the nunnery” & “objects cultivated in the garden”. A Perfect Vacuum. February 2020
Social Text Journal. “house series 5.” October 2019
“I reckon, a latitude”. Bodies Built for Game. Edited by Natalie Diaz and Hannah Ensor. University of Nebraska Press. October 2019
essays & exhibition texts
Philospophia. Emiliana Henriquez. Fortnight Institute. New York, New York. Exhibition text by Asiya Wadud. 2023
The Village. Shanique Emelife. Fortnight Institute. New York, New York. Exhibition text by Asiya Wadud. 2021
Straight Lines, Knots, Quarter Turns— Repeat. (an essay). JOURNAL: ISSUE 10 | PLATFORM 2020: UTTERANCES FROM THE CHORUS. Co-curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor and Okwui Okpokwasili. Danspace Project. March 2020
Saw My Shadow. Danielle Mckinney. Fortnight Institute. New York, New York. Exhibition text by Asiya Wadud. April 2021
Now I only believe in...love. Chioma Ebinama. Fortnight Institute. New York, New York. Exhibition text by Asiya Wadud. March 2020
Nearly Any Two Things Can Cohere. (an essay) BOMB Magazine. Summer 2019 (Issue 148)
Anything Is Light When It Bears It Heavy | Etching a Name Onto A Malleable Surface, Literary Hub. (an essay) December 2018
interviews
Burnished, Etched, Emblazoned: Asiya Wadud Interviewed by Emily Skillings. BOMB Magazine. March 2020
Some Are Capitalized and Some Are Not. Makhzin, Issue 3: Dictationship. Interview with Mirene Arsanios. June 2019
curations
one looped year but the lake. Danspace Project. New York, New York. proposed conversations with Jesse Darling & devynn emory, Anais Maviel & Angie Pittman, and Tarik Kiswanson and myself. Fall 2021.
Center for Book Arts Spring 2020 Broadside Reading Series. Center for Book Arts. New York, New York. With Benjamin Krusling & mayfield brooks; Anna Gurton-Wachter & Celina Su; and Anaïs Duplan & Zahra Patterson.
Cape Cod Modern House Trust, October 2020 (with mayfield brooks, Marcus Leslie Singleton, and Brittany Engel-Adams.
recent residencies
Fiskars Village Artist in Residence. Fiskars, Finland. 2022
Foundation Jan Michalski. Montricher, Switzerland. 2021
Danspace PLATFORM 2020: Utterances from the Chorus. Writer-in-Residence. New York, New York. 2020
Danspace, Voice & Body research group, Writer-in-Residence. New York, New York. 2019-2020
Art Center Residency. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Governors Island, New York, New York. 2019-2020