Fred Moten teaches courses and conducts research in black studies, performance studies, poetics and critical theory at New York University. He is the author of Arkansas (Pressed Wafer, 2000), In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), I ran from it but was still in it. (Cusp Books, 2007), Hughson's Tavern(Leon Works, 2008), B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2009), The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions, 2014), which was a National Book Award finalist. He also is the co-author with Stefano Harney of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013).

the red sheaves

covering

corduroy, no strings attached

the interfacial layer is violence, not care

the intrafacial lair

afro-alienation lining out

tables and gems

the faerie ornithologie

sylphtet (a triologue of self and soul

are you one of these motherfuckers?

color field

tiling, lining notes

tilling, limning notes

surfacing

the abolition of art, the abolition of freedom, the abolition of you and me

approaching

asé

cowrecked and led to trespass

fingerprinting

taj subjduction

subductive lauren

with the band2

why you leave ‘em with me?

got ‘im!

merda nostra

knotting

epistrophe and epistrophy

or discovering

graves say, grave says