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Author: Chaun Webster Chaun Webster

Chaun Webster is a poet and graphic designer living in Minneapolis whose work is attempting to put pressure on the spatial and
temporal limitations of writing, of the english language, as a way to demonstrate its incapacity for describing blackness outside of a regime of death and dying. Webster’s debut book, Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime, was published by Noemi Press in 2018, and received the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for poetry. Wail Song: wading in the water at the end of the world, is forthcoming from Black Ocean Press April 2023.

Dark gray screen print of crowd with black text overlaid, reading: Something in me wondered, "What will happen to all the beauty?"
1Glenn Ligon, Untitled (Crowd/The Fire Next Time), 2000. Collection Walker Art Center.
Literature
3-21-2023

on craft, or a disordered logic for resurrection

Chaun Webster
Long, rough paper with solid dark markings hung horizontally on white wall.
1Jason Moran, Run 6, 2016. Collection Walker Art Center.
Literature Performing Arts
2-21-2023

don’t say spirit, say ghost

Chaun Webster
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Literature
12-30-2022

Towards Opacity

Chaun Webster
1Kerry James Marshall, study for Gulf Stream, 2003-2004. Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Literature
6-12-2020

Wail Song: or how a presumed corpse practices breathing

Chaun Webster
1Photo courtesy of Chaun Webster.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
11-13-2018

Even “The Smallest Cell Remembers”: Notes on Research

Chaun Webster
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Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
9-6-2018

Blackness and the Not-Yet-Finished

Chaun Webster
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