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Critical Writing

The Critical Writing program commissions emerging writers to pursue the underlying themes and ideas that inform individual Session projects, initiating meaningful exchanges between artists and writers and facilitating the mutual production of new work.

Writers are given editorial support and a $1000 honorarium. Editorial support for Critical Writing provided primarily by Kemi Adeyemi, with additional guest editors.

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February 2026

Take Me Where I Need To Go: On Portals, Ancestral Intelligence, and Black Continuums...

Daria Harper

Writer and cultural producer Daria Simone Harper reflects on Portals: Traversing Black Continuums

January 2026

Freedom Time Meditation: Cartographies of Release

Neta Bomani

Artist and educator Neta Bomani offers a guided meditation on FREEDOM TIME: Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls

October 2025

streamlined reflections, courtesy of noise canceling headphones

Gabrielle Rucker

Gabrielle Rucker reflects on the radical intimacy and auditory life at the heart of Deli Radio