The Read You Need.
Poetry. Magic. Other Possible Worlds.
Here, poetry becomes portal. Tarot becomes storytelling. Myth gets rewritten. Black futures become infinite. And impossible questions become places to wander.
I make work somewhere between the world as it is and the worlds we haven't imagined yet.
Come read. Come write. Come wander.
Speculative Alchemy
Somewhere between what is and what could be.
Alchemy is the practice of gathering our pieces. An act of remembering our individual magic—and imagining what else those pieces might become.
My practice moves between poetry, speculative literature, Afrofuturism, installation, tarot, and community ritual.
I'm interested in transformation. In Black women becoming gods, ghosts, monsters, galaxies, ancestors, and futures. In poems that behave like portals. Tarot cards that become stories. Stories that bend reality. Rooms that invite us to imagine ourselves differently.
Sometimes the work begins with a poem.
Sometimes a card.
Sometimes an impossible question:
What else could we become?
Pick Your Path
READ
Tiny Intuitive Alchemy is Imani’s Speculative Rabbit Hole.
Poems, books, strange stories, works in progress, and the ideas I'm exploring across worlds real and imagined.
WANDER
For the curious, the strange, and anyone wondering what might happen if they followed an impossible idea.
Come write poetry and prose, trouble old myths, build impossible worlds, wander through horror, imagine new futures, and give your imagination permission to misbehave.
EXPERIENCE
Art, Tarot & Living Worlds
Some stories don't want to stay on the page.
Step inside installations, tarot, community ritual, participatory art, The Deck of N0NE, The Living Archive, and other experiments in making imagination tangible.
“All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.”
Currently In The Universe…
Oct. 15 | 6-8pm
Writing Horror at the Edge of the Known
90 Min Virtual Horror Writing Workshop
Nov. 5
4-Week Speculative Writing Workshop
Enter The Deck of N0NE
An Afrofuturist tarot deck for imagining what comes next.
The Deck of N0NE is a world of archetypes, questions, stories, and possibilities built from a Black Afrofuturist imagination.
Part tarot deck. Part storytelling device. Part portal.
The Deck is also home to The Living Archive, an evolving collection of stories and reflections created through encounters with the cards.
Pull a card.
Ask a question.
See what answers.
Bring Me to Your Community
Lectures. Readings. Workshops. Guest Artist Visits.
My work travels.
I join universities, museums, literary organizations, bookstores, and creative communities for conversations and experiences rooted in speculative literature, Afrofuturism, poetry, Black imagination, queer possibility, and the radical act of imagining otherwise.
Programs can include guest artist visits, public lectures, readings and conversations, writing workshops, and multi-class university visits.
Featured Lecture
Writing Ourselves Into the Future
Black Women, Speculative Literature & the Radical Imagination
An exploration of how Black women use speculative literature to imagine beyond the boundaries of the present—and what those imagined worlds make possible for Black queer communities.
Looking to Build Something Together?
Sometimes you're looking for an artist.
Sometimes you're looking for someone to help build the whole experience.
For organizations seeking custom participatory programming, creative curation, multi-artist experiences, or longer-term creative partnerships, visit Split Six Productions.