James Baldwin's Lungs in the 80s

Mohammed Zenia is a Sudanese/Eritrean poet, working through the mediums of text, visual symbols and sound to explore issues of language and the ever-changing meaning of words, identity and place, gender, sexuality and love, through a black diasporic lens. Mohammed is the author of the chapbook Barroom Seance published by Rockwell Press in 2013, An Astrex is a Mixtape published by Rly Srs Lit in 2018, and along with video artist Jonathan Rafael, co-founded Nada: the Dadaist Magazine About Nothing. Mohammed was born in Sofia Bulgaria in 1988, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. His first book Tel Aviv was released by Porosity Press in 2020.