What Could I Have Said with a Mouthful of Salt

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

A digital project, part of Resentment

S*an D. Henry-Smith is an artist and writer working primarily in poetry, photography, and performance, engaging Black experimentalisms and collaborative practices. They have received awards and fellowships from the Fulbright Program, The Poetry Project, Poets House, Antenna/Paper Machine, and have read, performed, and exhibited at Basilica Soundscape, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and elsewhere. S*an’s words and photographs have appeared in Aperture PhotoBook Review, Apogee Journal, FACT, FLASH ART, Canadian Art, the New York Times, them, Triple Canopy, and across several book projects. They are the author of two chapbooks, Body Text and Flotsam Suite: A Strange & Precarious Life, or How We Chronicled the Little Disasters & I Won’t Leave the Dance Floor Til It’s Out of My System; as mouthfeel, they coauthored Consider the Tongue alongside Imani Elizabeth Jackson, which explores histories of aquatic labor and Black food through cooking, poetry, and ephemeral practices. Wild Peach is S*an’s first full-length collection.
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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