Kyle Dacuyan
Brooklyn, NY
Artist-in-Residence
Kyle Dacuyan is a poet and performer writing about work, the ways that work bears upon writing, where writing begins (in voice), where voice begins (in body), and how the body can be something more than a working body. His poems draw from a breadth of working word circumstances and matter: the sedimentary effects of labor and value on idiom, syntax, etymology, advertisement, law, embodiment, and ecology.
Dacuyan is the author of Incitements (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023). The book draws unruly attention to pleasure and embodiment as modes of counter-possibility, testing what speech can do and be when we leave function behind. Incitements asks: How do forces of profit limit our sense of the civic and the self? How do borders maintain hierarchies of leisure and production? In what way do the channels of information we receive and circulate uphold fictions of value?
Dacuyan’s poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, Lambda Literary, The Offing, Social Text, and elsewhere. His performance works include Legal Tender, devised and presented with Andalyn Young and Antigravity Performance Project at Ars Nova, New York, NY (2019) and FringeArts, Philadelphia, PA (2020). As a 2023–2024 Open Call artist, he will present Dad Rock at The Shed, New York, NY (2024).
Dacuyan has received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry (2023), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing (2021), a Jerome Foundation Artist Fellowship Finalist Award (2021), and a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship (2017). He holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.F.A. from Emerson College.