S*AN D. HENRY-SMITH

Photo by Patrice Aphrodite Helmar

S*an D. Henry-Smith is an artist and writer working primarily in poetry, photography, performance, and publishing, engaging Black experimentalisms and collaborative practices across (and against) discipline. These selections from Henry-Smith's chapbook Flotsam Suite: a strange and precarious life, or how we chronicled the little disasters & I won’t leave the dance floor til it’s out of my system are available as an audiobook for purchase and as a free digital chapbook here.

As mouthfeel, Henry-Smith collaborates with Imani Elizabeth Jackson, meditating on Black food, ecology, and ephemeral practices. Henry-Smith’s debut collection of poems and photographs, Wild Peach (2020), was published by Futurepoem and shortlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. “in awe of geometry & mornings” (2021), exhibited at White Columns this winter, brought to scale photographs from the book alongside a series of readings and conversations programmed with their collaborators. Lunar New Year (2021) is their first film.