Updated: 1/2/2025
Alice James Books
Let the Moon Wobble by Ally Ang
November 11, 2025 | $24.95
In poems born of intense loneliness, grief, anger, and uncertainty at the convergence of apocalypses: a raging pandemic, a worsening climate crisis, and numerous global uprisings, Ally Ang’s Let the Moon Wobble asks and seeks to answer the question: what makes the end of the world worth surviving? Let the Moon Wobble considers multiple speakers’ journeys through the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and the rise of fascism. With humor, lyricism, and endearing absurdity, Ang uses varied forms and poetic traditions to process their feelings of helplessness and uncertainty. These poems ache for connection and lineage in a time of unrelenting isolation, plumbing the depths of grief and rage against the systems and institutions that aim to repress and kill queer people of color. Coursing through Let the Moon Wobble is the deep desire for wildness, freedom from convention and constraint, and to be seen. The speaker refuses erasure, often taking up so much space that they're impossible to ignore. Ultimately, we arrive at a place of hope and possibility where what's "freshly broken" can give way to blooming. Ang's debut is a testament to the ways queer joy and community can fuel resistance and allow us to imagine radical new ways of being.
Airlie Press
All Empires Must by Mia Kang
2025
Mia Kang is the author of City Poems (ignitionpress, 2020), Apparent Signs (Ghost City Press, 2024) and the winner of the 2023 Airlie Prize for All Empires Must (Airlie Press, 2025). The self-appointed Poet Laureate of the Process, she lives in Philadelphia with two cats. Mia is also the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project. She holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University, and she has taught at Hunter College, the Cooper Union, University of the Arts, and Yale College. Her academic publications include contributions to Roxy Paine: The Dioramas (Skira, 2021), The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop (Skira, 2019), Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch (Yale University Press, 2020), Published by Lugemik: Printed Matter from 2010-2019 (Lugemik, 2019), and Plot magazine.
Autumn House Press
Interlocutor Goddess by Jasmine Reid
September 30, 2025 | $17.95
Jasmine Reid is a twice trans poet of flowers. She is the author of Interlocutor Goddess (Autumn House Press, forthcoming), winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize, and Deus Ex Nigrum (Honeysuckle Press, 2020). An MFA graduate of Cornell University and recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and Poets House, her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, Southern Indiana Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Triquarterly, among others. Jasmine was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, where she is an assistant professor at NYU.
Button Poetry
(On | Un-)Becoming: Poems by FreeQuency
Fall 2025 | $19
(On |Un-)Becoming: Poems is a collection of stories, reflections, forgivenesses and offerings
rooted in conversations and conflicts with FreeQuency’s mother, chosen family & other
selves. The anti disciplinary project liberates the concept of “transitioning” from the realm of
Westernized notions of gender and expands|explores|explodes the concept of (un)becoming
in relationship to international Blackness, migration|movement, geographic and corporeal
displacement, spiritual|mental health and the ties between personal and communal
transformation.
without the frills by gigi bella
Fall 2025 | $18
Dive into Hollywood "without the frills" with Gigi Bella’s exploration of the rising TV and film
industry in her home state of New Mexico. Bella invites the reader into her world as a chicana
woman and emerging actress. With an earnest and urgent voice, Bella dissects the
experiences and treatment of Hispanic people societally and in TV and film–juxtaposed with
the eagerness with which the industry moves in on Hispanic communities in New Mexico.
without the frills is a beautiful and poignant look at the real people who make entertainment
possible–the sorrows, joys, and messy complexities of real lives. So grab your popcorn and
prepare to laugh, cry, and rage with Gigi Bella’s dynamic, moving collection.
WASH by Ebony Stewart
February 18, 2025 | $18
Ebony Stewart’s third collection is uncompromising and emotionally raw. Through trauma and recovery, black girlhood comes of age in WASH, journeying through moments of self-discovery, mental illness, love and heartbreak. Stewart reckons traditional definitions of womxnhood, exploring its complications, its communities, and its queerness. WASH brutally dissects black womxnhood for all its blood, beauty, sacrifice and strength. With Stewart’s distinct, lyrical voice, WASH is sure to be a collection that will bring you to tears and brighten your day in the same breath.
an everyday occurrence by Hailey M. Tran
Fall 2025 | $16
When does violence get stitched in the skin? What forces make prey of femme bodies? Hailey M. Tran dissects patriarchal culture inside and out, digging their hands into the messy insides of gendered violences. Tran’s chapbook, an everyday occurrence, is raw and biting. Layered with conversations on gender, disability, and race, Tran reflects on existing in a femme body with wit and sharp honesty. These poems break the body down from varying voices—the media, the corporate environment, social scenes, and cultural spaces. an everyday occurrence is an autopsy of the systems that perpetuate violence against women and femmes, from objectification to the continued harassment and assault of femme bodies.
on a date with disappointment by Najya Williams
April 1, 2025 | $16
A communion of spirit and self, on a date with disappointment invites you to dine with your
heart and soul. Roxbury Poetry Festival’s 2023 Winner Najya Williams’s latest chapbook works to
understand the hardships and joys of family, love, and heartbreak. Entrancing in form and
style, these poems trace relationships to the self and others through different moments in
life—speaking to the complexities of black womanhood and seeking definition to oneself,
loved ones, and the world. on a date with disappointment is intimately breathtaking. A conversation, a journey, a holy incantation that belongs on every shelf.
Deep Vellum
Best Literary Translations 2025 ed. by Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Öykü Tekten, and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún
April 29, 2025 | $23.95
Guest edited by Pulitzer Prize winner Cristina Rivera Garza, Best Literary Translations 2025 features poetry and prose originally written in nineteen languages, brought into English by some of the most talented translators working today. Contemporary and historical works stand side by side in the second edition of the annual anthology, including poems, short stories, essays, and hybrid works drawn from submissions spanning dozens of countries and languages. Featuring work from the top literary journals with U.S.-based editors, ranging from ANMLY to World Literature Today, BLT 2025 honors excellent literature from a diverse range of authors and translators.
TERROR COUNTER by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
June 2025 | $17.95
TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages—interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians. It moves through sections of varying experimentalism, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic, attempting to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood. The voices in this collection are driven by despair, futility, utopia, vulnerability and the spirit of a collective liberation; they move in search of a lyrical voice which can inhabit both the paranoid preservationist mode that facilitates Palestinian survival, and the imaginative possibilities that might make possible Palestinian life. TERROR COUNTER asks: where and how might a Palestinian subject escape the public consumption of American letters? And, ultimately, how can we continue to love each other amidst the endless terror of the colonial world?
Diode Editions
Towards a Retreat by Samaa Abdurraqib
Summer/Fall 2025
Samaa Abdurraqib’s Towards a Retreat is a poignant exploration of identity, place, and memory, offering a powerful blend of introspection and vivid storytelling. These poems navigate the complexities of Blackness, belonging, and loss, moving through external and internal landscapes. Through striking imagery and lyrical precision, the collection captures moments of solitude in nature, the echoes of personal and familial histories, and the search for meaning in simultaneously intimate and estranged spaces.
Hindsight by Mack Rogers
Spring 2025
Hindsight is a deeply personal collection of poems that explores the intersections of identity, memory, and perception. Written after Rogers was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder called Visual Snow Syndrome, these poems vividly explore his journey as a gay Black man. Through powerful reflections on the past, each piece offers a look through a lens clouded by literal and metaphorical visual distortions. Hindsight invites readers to reflect on their own experiences while immersing them in a world shaped by selfhood, sight, and hindsight.
We Had Mansions by Mandy Shunnarah
April 2025
In the tradition of documentary poetry pioneered by Naomi Shihab Nye and Philip Metres, queer Palestinian and Appalachian American poet and journalist Mandy Shunnarah delves into the intricate and interwoven issues of Palestinians’ connection to the land, the religious trauma of growing up Orthodox Christian in the evangelical-dominated Bible Belt of Alabama, the complexities of their family’s immigration story, the portrayal of Palestinians in Western media, and, at its heart, the ongoing genocide. Drawing on archival research and historical insight, We Had Mansions marries truth with artful, evocative poetry that captures the oscillating currents of hope and frustration experienced by Palestinians in diaspora.
Ethel
Night of the Fire by Ali C. May 2025
Night of the Fire is crafted as a self-mythology, stitching together ruminations on mortality and intimacy as well as raw, unflinching depictions of sexual violence that dissect both our brutal rape culture and cultural desensitisation of violence. His gentle heart—long the speaker's virtue and root of suffering—wanes of its warmth, burns cold. Here, Ali acknowledges the consternation of being haunted for a longing of hope and love: "I write of lovers and homes as if they are strangers, as if I’ve never explored them. I think I’m so afraid of being haunted, I do not wish to be possessed by ghosts again." These tender poems occupy a confessional space, weaving intimacy together with grief and an inherent pain. Ali interrogates the performance of self, in a personal and collective sense, questioning how much control we have over our bodies and the public narrative, and demonstrates a resistance in being reduced into a nameless bystander in other people's stories. Poetry in this electrifying debut chapbook winnows its way through the heart to find light, and in the odyssey of its sweet carnage, makes you cry and ache with hope.
Foglifter
Sand Bodied Florida Boy Grayson Liam Thompson
June 2025
Grayson Liam Thompson's Sand Bodied Florida Boy is a collection that explores the reimagination of his boyhood, something he did not socially or biologically receive as a Black trans person, and how he grew to make sense of who he would become. It speaks to being an immigrant possibility dream for his Jamaican mother, who has never run from a hurricane but wonders every year about the sandbags, and how he began creating grace out of his name. Accepting that, sometimes, grace rhymes with grief and grief is a doorway word to the flood. Sand Bodied is a love song to the first moment you felt believed in, when hope wasn’t a question, but an answer in every breath you chose to take. It is a collection of poems about the flood breaking through the sandbags, and the person waving a flag on the other side, a lighthouse beacon of becoming, screaming your name. Hollering you home. That person is you. It’s me. It’s any awful thing we never meant to say, or wanted to take back, or meant. It is the hot air of an “i love you” ballooning the sky pink.
Four Way Books
Seabeast by Rajiv Mohabir September 15, 2025 | $17.95
Bestiae Maris / Seabeast is a collection of poems that draws together the natural history of marine mammals the world over. Organized as an alphabetical bestiary by common name and behaviors, these poems wind together the threads of cetacean evolution, natural history, migration, human “discovery,” human culture, human migration, and the concern for the endurance of all species. From the Boto to the newly “discovered” Rice’s Whale, it picks up on the idea of Herman Melville’s “Cetology” from Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale in which particulars of species—prehistoric, mythological, and contemporary—are examined. What is the seabeast? The namer or the named?
Building the Perfect Animal: New and Selected Poems by C. Dale Young March 15, 2025 | $17.95
C. Dale Young, Winner of the 2017 Hanes Award in Poetry from The Fellowship of Southern Writers, brings together decades of work in Building the Perfect Animal: New and Selected Poems. These lyrics cut cleanly and exquisitely, performing a sacrifice at the altar of language. Remedying the inaccurate reports missionaries left in their “filthy journals,” “Memento” imagines instead the surgical precision Aztec priests must have used to “slice from the umbilicus up and through the diaphragm,” keeping the heart “while discarding the body, the feeble thing / tumbling down the steps of the pyramid.” As a tenured artist and veteran doctor, Young writes with a dual awareness of life’s fragility and the lyric’s endurance, presenting readers with new work that is entirely fresh even as it speaks to his broader legacy and dialogues with his preceding oeuvre. This book unfolds like the poet’s experience of time: “‘All my life.’ It sounds so odd to say that out loud. / But strange thing after strange thing transpired.” Representing the still-warm heart, what will one day be the only surviving memento of the outlasted body that bore them, these poems explore the author’s simultaneous embrace of mortality’s richness and resignation to death’s inevitable decay. Young surveys the perpetual ultimatum of his roles: as an oncologist, the patients (including his parents) he couldn’t save; as an artist, the self he intends to confront honestly as his body ages; and, as a mortal raised with stories of the Taino gods, the impossibility of building the perfect animal. When teaching bedside manner, how to break the news to a patient that their cancer will kill them, Young’s student “wants a guide, a checklist,” he says, “but nothing like that exists. It has never existed.” Building the Perfect Animal is a monument to that inconceivable instruction manual, honoring the ceaselessly unprecedented work and gift of being now alive.
Game Over Books
THE MOST HOLY DAY OF THE TRANSEXUAL CALENDAR by Nora Hikari 2025
Nora Hikari (she/her) is a Chinese and Japanese transgender poet and artist based in Philadelphia. She was a 2022 Lambda Literary fellow, and her work has been published in Poem-a-Day, Ploughshares, Palette Poetry, Foglifter, and others. Her hybrid fiction, KISS ME FAST, was featured in the Wigleaf Top 50 for 2023. Her first full-length collection, Still My Father's Son, is forthcoming at Sundress Publications in 2025. Her second full-length collection, THE MOST HOLY DAY OF THE TRANSSEXUAL CALENDAR, is forthcoming at Game Over Books, also in 2025.
HarperCollins
Phases by Tramaine Suubi
January 28, 2025 | $19.99
In this electrifying debut poetry collection—written with the ferocity of Rita Dove’s groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah—a critically acclaimed award-winning talent explores a wide range of emotions, from anxiety to ecstasy reflecting the moon's phases, from Waning Gibbous to Full. Both intimate and intricately structured Tramaine Suubi’s remarkable work is inspired by the moon—its phases’ effects on water, the Earth, and our bodies. Phases relishes in the beauty of change, even that caused by heartbreak. Suubi’s refreshing, vulnerable verse begs to be underlined, memorized, and shared; each of her poems operate as love letters to the cyclical healing that occurs in nature, in our bodies, and in the bodies that have come before us.
Hub City Press
the past is a jean jacket by Cloud Delfina Cardona
October 14, 2025 | $16
Reminiscent of being in a heavily postered room with rock music blasting, Cloud Delfina Cardona’s debut collection the past is a jean jacket is a time capsule of a 90s queer, Latinx teenhood. Cardona’s speaker explores their gender through sex and relationships, searches for belonging in their family lineage, and copes with depression using movies, indie bands, cigarettes, and tumblr. Evocative and blunt, the past is a jean jacket asks the essential existential questions: “where did all the wishes of my ancestors go? / what memory of me will play in someone’s head before i die for the final time?”
MCD
savings time by Roya Marsh
February 4, 2025 | $17
The poems in Roya Marsh’s second collection, savings time, wear their raw feeling and revolutionary forcefulness on their sleeves. Alternating between confrontation and celebration, Marsh trains her unsparing eye on the twinned subjects of Black rage and Black healing with practiced, musical intention. In poems flitting between breathless prose and measured lyricism, Marsh contemplates the contradictions and challenges of Black life in America, tackling everything from police brutality and urban gentrification to queer identity, presidential elections, and pop culture, all while calling for a world where self-care, especially for Black women, is not just encouraged but mandated. “no one told the Black girl,” she writes, “‘see you later’ was a prayer / begging us survive our own erasure.” As unforgettable on the page as when recited in Marsh’s legendary spoken-word performances, the poems in savings time are focused on both revolution and self-love, at once holding society accountable for its exploitation of Black life and honoring the joy of persisting nonetheless.
New Directions
Love is a Dangerous Word: the Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill by Essex Hemphill, ed. by John Keene and Robert F. Reid-Pharr
March 4, 2025 | $18.95
For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent now as they were in the 1980s. With tenderness and rage, Hemphill's poems unflinchingly explore the complex, overlapping identities of sexuality, gender, and race, the American political landscape, and his own experiences as a black gay man during the HIV/AIDS crisis. Edited by John Keene and Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Love is a Dangerous Word contains selections from Hemphill's only published full-length collection, Ceremonies―named one of the 25 most influential works of postwar queer literature by the New York Times―alongside rarely seen poems from magazines and chapbooks. It serves as both an introduction to Hemphill’s poetic prowess and a treasure trove for those who have long awaited his return to the literary spotlight.
rock flight by Hasib Hourani
April 8, 2025 | $16.95
Hasib Hourani’s rock flight is a book-length poem that, over seven chapters, follows a single personal and historical narrative centered on the violent occupation of Palestine. The poem uses refrains of suffocation, rubble, and migratory bird patterns to address the realities of forced displacement, economic restrictions, and surveillance technology that Palestinians face both within Palestine and across the diaspora. Searing and fierce, tender and pleading, rock flight invites the reader to embark on an exploration of space while limited by the box-like confines of the page. Through the whole, Hourani moves between poetry and prose, historical events and meditations on language, Fluxus-like instructions and interactions with friends, strangers, and family. As incantatory and stirring as Inger Christensen’s alphabet or Raúl Zurita’s Inri, rock flight adapts themes of displacement and refusal into an interactive reading experience where the book becomes an object in flux.
Nightboat
I Hope This Helps by Samiya Bashir
April 15, 2025 | $18.95
I Hope This Helps reflects on the excruciating metamorphosis of an artist, “a twinkle-textured disco-ball Jenga set” constrained and shaped by the limits of our reality: time, money, work, not to mention compounding global crises. Think of a river constrained by levees, a bonsai clipped and bent, a human body bursting through shapewear. Begging the question, what can it mean to thrive in the world as it is, Bashir says, “Rats thrive in sewers so / maybe I’m thriving.” In these moving, sometimes harrowing meditations, Bashir reveals her vulnerable inner life, how she has built herself brick by brick into an artist.
Local Woman by jzl jmz
April 29, 2025 | $17.95
Enter: Local Woman, an archetypal figure, fresh from the forest into the streets of Portland, Oregon. She is a Black trans woman, seeking survival and satisfaction, giving seduction, disenfranchisement, and the contradictions of femme womanhood a face, body, and soul. In sensual, evocative lyrics, jzl jmz documents Local Woman’s movement through natural disaster, anti-fascist protest, romantic engagements, and an expanding sense of personal autonomy.
Permanent Record: Poetic Towards the Archive ed. by Naima Yael Tokunow
February 11, 2025 | $19.95
Inspired by Naima Yael Tokunow’s research into the Black American record (and its purposeful scarceness), Permanent Record asks, what do we gain when we engage with our flawed cultural systems of remembrance? How does questioning and creating a deep relationship to the archive, and in some cases, spinning thread from air where there is none, allow us to prefigure the world that we want? Including reflections on identity and language, diasporic and first generation lived experiences, and responses to the ways the record upholds harm and provides incomplete understandings, Permanent Record hopes to reframe what gets to be a part of collective remembrance, exploring “possibilities for speculating beyond recorded multiplicity.”
One World
Dead Girl Cameo by m. mick powell
August 5, 2025 | $18
In Dead Girl Cameo, m. mick powell closely examines the experiences of Aaliyah Haughton, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, Whitney Houston, and other notable superstars who died tragically too soon. How were the artistries and addictions of these women of color impacted from surviving in the limelight and, often, in the very same industry as their abusers? How did the literal and metaphorical deaths of these Black women superstars establish legacies of Black queer femme existence and afterlife? In stunning imagery and sensual wordplay using ekphrasis, erasure, digital collage, archival research, and speculative nonfiction in verse, Dead Girl Cameo traverses the intimate realms of superstars to reconfigure Black girlhood, survivorhood, femme friendship, and queer fandom as lush, living landscapes worth excavating
Penguin Poets
Shade is a place by MaKshya Tolbert
October 7, 2025 | $20
From National Poetry Series winner MaKshya Tolbert, comes a lyrical debut that explores the social and ecological relief trees can provide within the entanglements of place, property, urban planning, and racial terror in Charlottesville, Virginia. Shade is a place meanders east–west along Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall, seeking “a Black sense of place” at the pace of stressed shade and street trees, the mall’s architectural history, and the speaker’s inner life and ongoing questions. The collection of poems is a moving invitation to open one’s attention by looking up, down, and always within. Through lyric walking poems (“tree walks” and “shade walks”) and Bashō-style travelogue, Shade is a place unfolds as much through arboreal life as through one’s inner life—sometimes alone, sometimes with others, and always among turning trees.
the space between men by Mia S. Willis
January 14, 2025 | $20
A poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker. These piercing, surprising poems look to familial history, rituals of faith, and the natural world to explore how the intersecting cultures of Blackness and queerness relate to each other. As the collection evolves, the reader is challenged and empowered to seek expansiveness in spaces that have not previously been excavated, reckon with the complexities of interpersonal relationships, and explore memory as a catalyst for self-determination. Mia S. Willis weaves together intergenerational knowledge and personal discovery—not only to define themselves but to articulate a communal identity that transcends language.
Sampaguita Press
The Language of Unbreaking by Keana Aguila Labra
February 26, 2025
Keana Aguila Labra's debut full-length, The Language of Unbreaking, is an offering of deeply personal reflection on memory, identity, and connection. Through a fluid blend of Cebuano and Tagalog, Labra intertwines vivid, intimate recollections that are an anchoring in the material and spiritual. The poems evoke both profound loss and catharsis, inviting readers into a journey that feels like a balm for the spirit. Themes of family, home, and community resonate throughout, while the raw exploration of pain and joy reveals Labra’s deep engagement with the human experience. The Language of Unbreaking is both a prayer for healing and a testament to resilience, offering a poignant litany of hope, renewal, and redemption.
Sundress Publications
Still My Father's Son by Nora Hikari
March 2025 | $16
Still My Father’s Son by Nora Hikari weaves a complex & delicate tale of love, religious trauma, queerness, and self/selves. As we are systematically walked upstream through a shimmering river in which shrewd emotion and aching observations cascade, we bear witness to God & the lessons of his son, Uriel; to the speaker declaring that “Every person you have been deserves a burial and a headstone;” to the Vicious Self pleading to the Small Self, repeatedly through burning tears, that she is loved. A devastating intimacy surrounds this collection, omnipresent in moments where language is sharp enough to cut. Hikari’s work is an exploration into self-love at its most fractured and literal, and a beautiful homage to what it means to heal from/with/by deep-rooted pain. For, despite all the hurt in the world, “you can live. You can. You can live for all of the people we could be tomorrow, if you try.”
University of Chicago Press
Moon Mirrored Indivisible by Farid Matuk
March 17, 2025 | $18 / £15
Multilayered lyric poems that resist systems of power and foster intimacy. A previously undocumented child of Syrian and Peruvian parents, an inheritor of lineages marked by colonial and gendered violence, and a survivor of childhood sexual assault, Farid Matuk approaches the musical capacities of verse not as mere excitation or decoration, but as forms that reclaim pleasure and presence. Entering the sonic constellations of Moon Mirrored Indivisible, the reader finds relief from nesting layers of containment that systems of power impose on our bodies and imaginations. In this hall of historical mirrors, fictions of identity are refracted, reflected, and multiplied into a vast field of possibilities. Matuk’s meditations on place and power offer experiments in self-understanding, moving through expansive conversations between a lyric “I” and others, including poets, the speaker’s partner, ancestors, and the reader, and creating spaces for strange intimacy. Each of the book’s four sections of poems builds on the other to ask how we might form a collective—a people—not founded in orthodoxies of originality but in the mutual work of mirroring one another.
Wave Books
Siren of Atlantis by Cedar Sigo
April 2025 | $17
Cedar Sigo's latest poetry collection, Siren of Atlantis, is an introspective odyssey of remarkable poetic and personal resonance. Here are poems that speak to Sigo's profound experience of learning to write again after suffering a stroke in 2022. In creating this work, the author retraces poetic sources and reexamines style and tone, using a variety of compositional techniques to renegotiate what is at stake in the work. There is a joy in this collection, as Sigo allows us to bear witness to the rediscovery of language, imparting the work with a new and dramatic clarity, for the poet and ultimately for the reader as well.
Wesleyan University Press
Trans Trappist the Extraterrestrial: Dark Matter in Black Divinities by Sage Ni'Ja Whitson
2025
Sage Ni’Ja Whitson (NY/LA) is an award-winning Queer Trans/mogrifying multidisciplinary artist and futurist. They ignore disciplinarity through a critical intersection of the sacred and conceptual across a multitude of practices and forms, celebrating Black, Queer, and Transembodiedness. Whitson is a United States Artist Fellow, Creative Capital Awardee, two-time “Bessie” Awardee, Hermitage Fellow, an artist in residence at 18th Street (Los Angeles) and New York Live Feed Artist in Residence. Whitson was the featured choreographer of the 2018 CCA Biennial, 2018-2020 Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Fellow, and invited presenter at the 2019 Tanzkongress international festival. The Unarrival Experiments constellation centers Whitson’s expansive studio practices.