UNRULY
A groundbreaking collection of poems exploring Black women's bodies, medical trauma, and healing.
Coming Spring 2025
Legacy Book Press, LLC
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UNRULY Installation at The Met Staff Art Show
11.18 - 12.1.2024 / Gallery 199
Experience UNRULY, a mixed-media altar installation exploring Black women's embodied experiences, by Antoinette Cooper, as part of the Metropolitan Museum Staff Art Show.
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Climate Consciousness Summit with The Pocket Project
11.15.2024 / 11:00AM ET
Opening this global gathering with sacred verse connecting land, ancestry, and healing—a convergence of climate action and collective transformation.
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The Mosaic Literary Conference JAMES BALDWIN AT 100
11.23.2024 / 12-12:50PM ET
The workshop “The Body Knows: Writing As Witness” explores writing as embodied witness, drawing from somatic storytelling and collective healing practices to access the wisdom our bodies hold across generations.
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"Speaking in Tongues" Writing Workshop Series
Starting 10.16.2024 / 6:30-8:30PM ET
A 6-session creative writing journey. Explore individual, ancestral, and collective stories in a space that centers Black and Brown voices.
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MoMA Writing Club at Home: On Embodied Narratives
12.10.2024 / 12-1:15PM ET
Antoinette Cooper facilitates this month’s Writing Club, “Embodied Narratives: Memory in Motion,” exploring the powerful artworks in Gallery 520: Jacob Lawrence and Christopher Cozier. (Zoom)
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MoMA Writing Club: On Embodied Narratives
12.19.2024 / 8:00-9:45 AM ET
Antoinette Cooper facilitates this month’s Writing Club, “Embodied Narratives: Memory in Motion,” exploring the powerful artworks in Gallery 520: Jacob Lawrence and Christopher Cozier. (In-person)
Antoinette Cooper is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and organizer with over 20 years of experience. Her work focuses on healing collective trauma through the arts, ancestral wisdom, and embodied practices. Antoinette is also the founder of Black Exhale, a nonprofit dedicated to creating sanctuary spaces for the liberated Black body. Her forthcoming documentary poetry collection, UNRULY, is set to be published in January 2025.
A sought-after speaker and facilitator, Antoinette has presented at numerous conferences and institutions, including TEDx, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and The Poetry Foundation. Her writing has been featured in The Amistad Literary Arts Journal, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, and Baobab: South African Journal of New Writing.
Antoinette holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a BA from Cornell University. She has completed extensive training in contemplative practices, trauma-informed leadership, and Narrative Medicine. Antoinette serves on the advisory board for the Narrative Medicine Track of Distinction at CUNY School of Medicine and has taught at various institutions, including Columbia University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Rikers Island Jail Facility.
Recognized for her contributions to the arts and social justice, Antoinette is a recipient of the Twenty Summers Residency, BLKSPACE Residency, a Literature Grant from the Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and funding and the 2024 Workspace Residency from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LMCC.