BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
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BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
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"The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop." Ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall. Chicago: Haymarket Books. 2015.
Table of contents
● Kevin Coval / Introduction
● Randall Horton / an (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand
● Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade / Turning the Tables
● Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade / Wednesday Poems
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / An Excerpt from Crank Shaped Notes
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / mascot
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / crack house
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / seventy-first & king drive
● Evie Shockley / duck, duck, redux
● Tony Medina /Everything You Wanted to Know about Hip Hop But Were Afraid to Be Hipped for Fear of Being Hopped
● Tony Medina / The Keepin’ It Real Awards
● Willie Perdomo / Shit to Write About
● Willie Perdomo / Word to Everything I love
● Willie Perdomo / Writing about What You Know
● Mario [full name listed] / Agate
● Roger Bonair-Agard / Honorific or black to black boy
● Roger Bonair-Agard / Fast—how I knew
● Roger Bonair-Agard / In defense of the code-switch or why you talk like that or why you gotta always be cussing
● Lynne Procope / Shine (for Joe Bataan)
● Patrick Rosal / B-Boy Infinitives
● Patrick Rosal / Kundiman Ending on a Theme from T La Rock
● Patrick Rosal / A Note to Thomas Alva
● Patrick Rosal / Ode to the Cee-Lo Players
● Tracie Morris / Untitled
● Jason Carney / America’s Pastime
● LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs / who you callin’ a jynx? (after mista popo)
● LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs / damn right it’s betta than yours
● LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs / gamin’ gabby
● Mitchell L. H. Douglas / Hood
● Krista Franklin / Manifesto, or Ars Poetica #2
● Krista Franklin / Preface to a Twenty Volume Homicide Note
● Adrian Matejka / Beat Boxing
● Adrian Matejka / Robot Music
● Jessica Care Moore / mic check, 1-2
● John Murillo / Ode to the Crossfader
● John Murillo / 1989
● John Murillo / Renegades of Funk
● Francine J. Harris / Stitches
● Francine J. Harris / Pull down the earth
● Francine J. Harris / This is a test
● T’ai Freedom Ford / how to get over (senior to freshman)
● T’ai Freedom Ford / how to get over (for my niggas)
● T’ai Freedom Ford / how to get over (for kanye)
● Suheir Hammad / break (rebirth)
● Suheir Hammad / break (sister)
● Suheir Hammad / break (embargo)
● Marty McConnell / The World tells how the world ends
● Marty McConnell / object
● John Rodriguez / Bronx Bombers
● John Rodriguez / What I Saw Was Not Your Funeral
● John Rodriguez / At My Best
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / Paper Bag Poems
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / Global Warming Blues
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / Sunday
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / Possible (for Amiri Baraka)
● Tara Betts / Hip Hop Analogies
● Tara Betts / Switch
● Paolo Javier / from “All Convulsions”
● Douglas Kearney / Quantum Spit
● Douglas Kearney / No Homo
● Douglas Kearney / Drop It Like It’s Hottentot Venus.
● Avery R. Young / a prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew)
● Avery R. Young / after an artis(t) talk
● Lemon Anderson / The future
● Michael Cirelli / The Message
● Michael Cirelli / Astronomy (8th Light)
● Kevin Coval / the crossover
● Kevin Coval / jewtown
● Kevin Coval / molemen beat tapes
● Kevin Coval / white on the block
● Jericho Brown / Motherland
● Mahogany L. Browne / When 12 Play Was on Repeat
● Mahogany L. Browne / upon viewing the death of basquiat
● Mahogany L. Browne / nameless
● Aracelis Girmay / ELEGY IN GOLD
● Aracelis Girmay /BREAK
● Idris Goodwin / Say my name
● Idris Goodwin / Old ladies and dope boys
● Idris Goodwin / These are the breaks
● Enzo Silon Surin / Corners
● Mayda Del Valle / It’s Just Begun
● Denizen Kane / Ciphers Pt 1
● Denizen Kane / Vigil Pt 1
● Paul Martinez Pompa / I Have a Drone
● Kyle Dargan / CREWS
● Kyle Dargan / SLANG
● Kyle Dargan / O.P.P.
● Tarfia Faizullah / 100 BELLS
● Tarfia Faizullah / NOCTURNE IN NEED OF A BITCH
● Tarfia Faizullah / BLOSSOMS IN THE DARK
● Tarfia Faizullah / SELF-PORTRAIT AS SLINKY
● Samantha Thornhill / Elegy for a Trojan
● Samantha Thornhill / Ode to a Star Fig
● Samantha Thornhill / Ode to Gentrification
● Samantha Thornhill / Ode to a Killer Whale
● Aleshea Harris / Harbor
● Jacob Saenz / Evolution of My Block
● Jacob Saenz / Evolution of My Profile
● Jacob Saenz / GTA: San Andreas (or, ‘Grove Street, bitch!”)
● Nadia Sulayman / bint ibrahim
● Sarah Blake / Ha Ha Hum
● Sarah Blake / Adventures
● Adam Falkner / If You Don’t Know
● Chinaka Hodge / Small Poems for Big
● Marcus Wicker / Stakes is High
● Marcus Wicker / When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call
● Marcus Wicker / Ars Poetica in the Mode of J-Live
● Marcus Wicker / Bonita Applebum
● Michael Mlekoday / Self Portrait with Gunshot Vernacular
● Michael Mlekoday / Self Portrait from the Other Side
● Michael Mlekoday / Thaumaturgy
● Kristiana Colón / a remix for remembrance
● Kristiana Colón / stockholm syndrome
● Eve Ewing / to the notebook kid
● Ciara Miller / In Search of Black Birds
● Morgan Parker / Let Me Handle My Business, Damn
● Joshua Bennett / When asked about my hometown: an admission
● Joshua Bennett / When asked about my hometown: an anecdote
● Joshua Bennett / Love Letter to Zack, The Black Power Ranger
● Alysia Nicole Harris / When I Put My Hands in the Air It’s Praise
● Britteney Black Rose Kapri / Winthrop Ave.
● Britteney Black Rose Kapri / We House: after Krista Franklin’s Definition of Funk
● Angel Nafis / Legend
● Angel Nafis / Ghazal for My Sister
● Angel Nafis / Conspiracy: A Suite
● Angel Nafis / Gravity
● José Olivarez / Ode to the First White Girl I Ever Loved
● José Olivarez / Home Court
● Joy Priest / No Country for Black Boys
● Ocean Vuong / Always & Forever
● Ocean Vuong / Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds
● Ocean Vuong / Prayer for the Newly Damned
● Ocean Vuong / Daily Bread
● Fatimah Asghar / When Tip Drill Comes on at the Frat Party Or, When Refusing to Twerk Is a Radical Form of Self-Love
● Fatimah Asghar / UNEMPLOYMENT
● Fatimah Asghar / PLUTO SHITS ON THE UNIVERSE
● Franny Choi / PUSSY MONSTER
● Franny Choi / IMPULSE BUY
● Nate Marshall / on caskets
● Nate Marshall / prelude
● Nate Marshall / picking flowers
● Nate Marshall / juke
● Aaron Samuels / Broken Ghazal in the Voice of My Brother Jacob
● Danez Smith / cue the gangsta rap when my knees bend
● Danez Smith / twerk (v.)
● Danez Smith / Dinosaurs in the Hood
● Danez Smith / Dear White America
● Jamila Woods / Defense
● Jamila Woods / Blk Girl Art
● Jamila Woods / Deep in the Homeroom of Doom
● Jamila Woods / Daddy Dozens
● Benjamin Alfaro / What the Eyes Saw
● Safia Elhillo / a suite for ol’ dirty
● Aziza Barnes / Juicy (an erasure)
● Camonghne Felix / Badu Interviews Lamar (an erasure)
● Camonghne Felix / Police
● Steven Willis / Beat Writers
● Reed Bobroff / Four Elements of Ghostdance
● Malcolm London / Grand Slam
● Kush Thompson / this, here
● E’mon McGee / My niece’s hip-hop
● Angel Pantoja / Murder Is My Name
● Nile Lansana and Onam Lansana / Lesson one
Ars Poeticas & Essays
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / Art, Artifice, & Artifact
● T’ai Freedom Ford / Artist Statement
● Michael Mlekoday / Artist Statement
● Douglas Kearney / Artist Statement
● Angel Nafis / Artist Statement
● Aziza Barnes / A Locus of Control and the Erasure
● Tara Betts / Life Is Good: How Hip-Hop Channels Duende
● Roger Bonair-Agard / Journeying to the break: The cost of the pilgrimage
● Patrick Rosal / The Art of the Mistake: Some Notes on Breaking as Making
● Nate Marshall / Blueprint for BreakBeat Writing
● Reprinted Poems
● Acknowledgements
● Biographies
● Randall Horton / an (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand
● Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade / Turning the Tables
● Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade / Wednesday Poems
● Thomas Sayers Ellis / An Excerpt from Crank Shaped Notes
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / mascot
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / crack house
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / seventy-first & king drive
● Evie Shockley / duck, duck, redux
● Tony Medina /Everything You Wanted to Know about Hip Hop But Were Afraid to Be Hipped for Fear of Being Hopped
● Tony Medina / The Keepin’ It Real Awards
● Willie Perdomo / Shit to Write About
● Willie Perdomo / Word to Everything I love
● Willie Perdomo / Writing about What You Know
● Mario [full name listed] / Agate
● Roger Bonair-Agard / Honorific or black to black boy
● Roger Bonair-Agard / Fast—how I knew
● Roger Bonair-Agard / In defense of the code-switch or why you talk like that or why you gotta always be cussing
● Lynne Procope / Shine (for Joe Bataan)
● Patrick Rosal / B-Boy Infinitives
● Patrick Rosal / Kundiman Ending on a Theme from T La Rock
● Patrick Rosal / A Note to Thomas Alva
● Patrick Rosal / Ode to the Cee-Lo Players
● Tracie Morris / Untitled
● Jason Carney / America’s Pastime
● LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs / who you callin’ a jynx? (after mista popo)
● LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs / damn right it’s betta than yours
● LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs / gamin’ gabby
● Mitchell L. H. Douglas / Hood
● Krista Franklin / Manifesto, or Ars Poetica #2
● Krista Franklin / Preface to a Twenty Volume Homicide Note
● Adrian Matejka / Beat Boxing
● Adrian Matejka / Robot Music
● Jessica Care Moore / mic check, 1-2
● John Murillo / Ode to the Crossfader
● John Murillo / 1989
● John Murillo / Renegades of Funk
● Francine J. Harris / Stitches
● Francine J. Harris / Pull down the earth
● Francine J. Harris / This is a test
● T’ai Freedom Ford / how to get over (senior to freshman)
● T’ai Freedom Ford / how to get over (for my niggas)
● T’ai Freedom Ford / how to get over (for kanye)
● Suheir Hammad / break (rebirth)
● Suheir Hammad / break (sister)
● Suheir Hammad / break (embargo)
● Marty McConnell / The World tells how the world ends
● Marty McConnell / object
● John Rodriguez / Bronx Bombers
● John Rodriguez / What I Saw Was Not Your Funeral
● John Rodriguez / At My Best
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / Paper Bag Poems
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / Global Warming Blues
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / Sunday
● Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie / Possible (for Amiri Baraka)
● Tara Betts / Hip Hop Analogies
● Tara Betts / Switch
● Paolo Javier / from “All Convulsions”
● Douglas Kearney / Quantum Spit
● Douglas Kearney / No Homo
● Douglas Kearney / Drop It Like It’s Hottentot Venus.
● Avery R. Young / a prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew)
● Avery R. Young / after an artis(t) talk
● Lemon Anderson / The future
● Michael Cirelli / The Message
● Michael Cirelli / Astronomy (8th Light)
● Kevin Coval / the crossover
● Kevin Coval / jewtown
● Kevin Coval / molemen beat tapes
● Kevin Coval / white on the block
● Jericho Brown / Motherland
● Mahogany L. Browne / When 12 Play Was on Repeat
● Mahogany L. Browne / upon viewing the death of basquiat
● Mahogany L. Browne / nameless
● Aracelis Girmay / ELEGY IN GOLD
● Aracelis Girmay /BREAK
● Idris Goodwin / Say my name
● Idris Goodwin / Old ladies and dope boys
● Idris Goodwin / These are the breaks
● Enzo Silon Surin / Corners
● Mayda Del Valle / It’s Just Begun
● Denizen Kane / Ciphers Pt 1
● Denizen Kane / Vigil Pt 1
● Paul Martinez Pompa / I Have a Drone
● Kyle Dargan / CREWS
● Kyle Dargan / SLANG
● Kyle Dargan / O.P.P.
● Tarfia Faizullah / 100 BELLS
● Tarfia Faizullah / NOCTURNE IN NEED OF A BITCH
● Tarfia Faizullah / BLOSSOMS IN THE DARK
● Tarfia Faizullah / SELF-PORTRAIT AS SLINKY
● Samantha Thornhill / Elegy for a Trojan
● Samantha Thornhill / Ode to a Star Fig
● Samantha Thornhill / Ode to Gentrification
● Samantha Thornhill / Ode to a Killer Whale
● Aleshea Harris / Harbor
● Jacob Saenz / Evolution of My Block
● Jacob Saenz / Evolution of My Profile
● Jacob Saenz / GTA: San Andreas (or, ‘Grove Street, bitch!”)
● Nadia Sulayman / bint ibrahim
● Sarah Blake / Ha Ha Hum
● Sarah Blake / Adventures
● Adam Falkner / If You Don’t Know
● Chinaka Hodge / Small Poems for Big
● Marcus Wicker / Stakes is High
● Marcus Wicker / When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call
● Marcus Wicker / Ars Poetica in the Mode of J-Live
● Marcus Wicker / Bonita Applebum
● Michael Mlekoday / Self Portrait with Gunshot Vernacular
● Michael Mlekoday / Self Portrait from the Other Side
● Michael Mlekoday / Thaumaturgy
● Kristiana Colón / a remix for remembrance
● Kristiana Colón / stockholm syndrome
● Eve Ewing / to the notebook kid
● Ciara Miller / In Search of Black Birds
● Morgan Parker / Let Me Handle My Business, Damn
● Joshua Bennett / When asked about my hometown: an admission
● Joshua Bennett / When asked about my hometown: an anecdote
● Joshua Bennett / Love Letter to Zack, The Black Power Ranger
● Alysia Nicole Harris / When I Put My Hands in the Air It’s Praise
● Britteney Black Rose Kapri / Winthrop Ave.
● Britteney Black Rose Kapri / We House: after Krista Franklin’s Definition of Funk
● Angel Nafis / Legend
● Angel Nafis / Ghazal for My Sister
● Angel Nafis / Conspiracy: A Suite
● Angel Nafis / Gravity
● José Olivarez / Ode to the First White Girl I Ever Loved
● José Olivarez / Home Court
● Joy Priest / No Country for Black Boys
● Ocean Vuong / Always & Forever
● Ocean Vuong / Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds
● Ocean Vuong / Prayer for the Newly Damned
● Ocean Vuong / Daily Bread
● Fatimah Asghar / When Tip Drill Comes on at the Frat Party Or, When Refusing to Twerk Is a Radical Form of Self-Love
● Fatimah Asghar / UNEMPLOYMENT
● Fatimah Asghar / PLUTO SHITS ON THE UNIVERSE
● Franny Choi / PUSSY MONSTER
● Franny Choi / IMPULSE BUY
● Nate Marshall / on caskets
● Nate Marshall / prelude
● Nate Marshall / picking flowers
● Nate Marshall / juke
● Aaron Samuels / Broken Ghazal in the Voice of My Brother Jacob
● Danez Smith / cue the gangsta rap when my knees bend
● Danez Smith / twerk (v.)
● Danez Smith / Dinosaurs in the Hood
● Danez Smith / Dear White America
● Jamila Woods / Defense
● Jamila Woods / Blk Girl Art
● Jamila Woods / Deep in the Homeroom of Doom
● Jamila Woods / Daddy Dozens
● Benjamin Alfaro / What the Eyes Saw
● Safia Elhillo / a suite for ol’ dirty
● Aziza Barnes / Juicy (an erasure)
● Camonghne Felix / Badu Interviews Lamar (an erasure)
● Camonghne Felix / Police
● Steven Willis / Beat Writers
● Reed Bobroff / Four Elements of Ghostdance
● Malcolm London / Grand Slam
● Kush Thompson / this, here
● E’mon McGee / My niece’s hip-hop
● Angel Pantoja / Murder Is My Name
● Nile Lansana and Onam Lansana / Lesson one
Ars Poeticas & Essays
● Quraysh Ali Lansana / Art, Artifice, & Artifact
● T’ai Freedom Ford / Artist Statement
● Michael Mlekoday / Artist Statement
● Douglas Kearney / Artist Statement
● Angel Nafis / Artist Statement
● Aziza Barnes / A Locus of Control and the Erasure
● Tara Betts / Life Is Good: How Hip-Hop Channels Duende
● Roger Bonair-Agard / Journeying to the break: The cost of the pilgrimage
● Patrick Rosal / The Art of the Mistake: Some Notes on Breaking as Making
● Nate Marshall / Blueprint for BreakBeat Writing
● Reprinted Poems
● Acknowledgements
● Biographies
Item Number
A0444