What Could I Have Said with a Mouthful of Salt

What Could I Have Said with a Mouthful of Salt
Sean D. Henry-Smith & Imani Elizabeth Jackson

A digital project, part of Resentment

Sean D. Henry-Smith is an artist working primarily in poetry and photography. They are a recipient of the 2017 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship and their first chapbook, Body Text, was selected for the New Delta Review 2016 Chapbook Competition. Sean’s words and images have appeared in Apogee Journal, FACT, the Offing, the New York Times, and elsewhere.
Imani Elizabeth Jackson is a poet with extradisciplinary leanings. Jackson’s writings appear in Gramma Weekly, Flag + Void, HOLD, and the Poetry Project newsletter. She has read and shown work at Threewalls, the Sunview Luncheonette, and other spaces in Berlin, Chicago, and New York. Jackson received her BA in religious studies from Reed College in 2014 and is an incoming MFA candidate in literary arts at Brown. She is also a codirector for the Chicago Art Book Fair.

“What Could I Have Said with a Mouthful of Salt” was published as part of Triple Canopy’s Internet As Material project area, which receives support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Opaline Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Federation and Endowment Fund.

Tags: Artist Project, History, Identity, Poetry

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