About

Ica Sadagat’s work attends to text as material and material as collective practice. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at California Institute of the Arts as the Truman Capote Literary fellow. A trained organizer and advocate, Ica currently teaches at New Jersey City University in the English department. Beneath all this, Ica spars, surfs, and believes in the liberation of all oppressed peoples, lands, and waters.

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Select Work

“guerrilla nature : tactics of the ethereal” with Saretta Morgan for Etel Adnan: In the Rhythms of the World, A Symposium

“Saturation is another word for concentration and I am very focused” — Underblong Issue 7

“garden states” — Fence Issue 40

vivarium, suspended — collaboration with jah elyse sayers at Vox Populi

“etymologies of water” — Apogee Journal

You Can Touch But Don’t Look: The Films of Maryam Tafakory and Edward Owens — conversation with Yasmina Price for Triple Canopy at BAM

“litanies for our future/now divine” — Nightboat Books (online roundtable)

of language desirous: an exercise in approximations and unravelings — Swiss Institute

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SSMT

In 2022, Ica founded Sadagat School of Motion and Text to create greater space for close reading, deeper listening, and rigorous play beyond formal institutions. Writing labs and classes are conducted online and/or in-person.

Past course titles include:

• Fugitive Studies

• GUERRILLA POETICS

• Language Aquatics II: Breath Work

• The Dash: Recess Hour

• Lover’s Battle/Fight Night

• Shaping Text/Texting Shape

Through SSMT, Ica also provides 1:1 and small group independent studies, visiting workshop and lectures, manuscript editing (nonfiction, criticism, hybrid, and poetry), creative consulting, research development, dramaturgy, writing coaching, and more.

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NOW READING + LISTENING

Kaho`olawe Aloha `Aina: George Helm

“Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation” by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

“To the Bone: Some Speculations on Touch” by Hortense Spillers

“Philippine Society and Revolution” by Amado Guerrero

“Portrait of Tracy” by Jaco Pastorius

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