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OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Anaïs Duplan '14 is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of newly released book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), a 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 is a professor of postcolonial literature at ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø College, and has taught poetry at The New School, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College, amongst others. Duplan received his BA from ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø College and was a visiting faculty member at ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø for Fall 2021 and a Ben Belitt Visiting Faculty Fellow for Spring 2022. He joined the ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø faculty in Fall 2022.

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, and in 2021 received a Marian Goodman fellowship from Independent Curators International for his research on Black experimental documentary. He is the recipient of the 2021 QUEER|ART|PRIZE for Recent Work, and a 2022 Whiting Award in Nonfiction.

In 2016, Duplan founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One.

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