Douglas Kearney

American poet, librettist, performer, and educator known for experimental and performance-based poetry that explores language, sound, race, and form.

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  1. 1. I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always

    A formally daring collection of poems that reimagines Black life across time through speculative, Afrofuturist lenses, blending fragmented syntax, sonic performance, and visual play to collapse past, present, and future while interrogating language, identity, embodiment, and the social forces that shape how histories and possibilities are imagined.

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