danilo machado is a poet, curator, and critic living on occupied land interested in language’s potential for revealing tenderness, erasure, and relationships to power. A 2020-2021 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow, their writing has been featured in Hyperallergic, Art in America, Poem-A-Day, Art Papers, ArtCritical, The Recluse, GenderFail, No, Dear, Long River Review, TAYO Literary Magazine, among others. They are the author of the collection This is your receipt and is not a ticket for travel (Faint Line Press, 2023) and the chaplets wavy in its heat and to be elsewhere (Ghost City Press Summer Series, 2022/2023). danilo is Producer of Public Programs at the Brooklyn Museum and curator of the exhibitions Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text (Franklin Street Works, 2019), support structures (Virtual/8th Floor Gallery, 2020), We turn (EFA Project Space, 2021), and Eligible/Illegible (co-curated with Francisco Donoso, PS122, 2023). With Em Marie Kohl, danilo co-hosts the monthly queer reading series exquisites, first Thursdays at Art Cafe + Bar. They are working to show up with care for their communities.
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Jasmine Gibson & danilo machado
The Poetry Project Newsletter > #273 – Summer 2023
On Images on which to build, 1970s–1990s
danilo machado
The Poetry Project Newsletter > #271 – Winter 2023
On quanundrum [I will be your many angled thing] by Edwin Torres
danilo machado
The Recluse > Issue 18