The BreakBeat Poets (eBook, ePUB)

New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
Redaktion: Coval, Kevin; Marshall, Nate; Lansana, Quraysh Ali

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation.

It has produced generations of artists who have revolutionized their genre(s) by applying the aesthetic innovations of the culture. The BreakBeat Poets features 78 poets, born somewhere between 1961-1999, All-City and Coast-to-Coast, who are creating the next and now movement(s) in American letters.

The BreakBeat Poets is for people who love Hip-Hop, for fans of the culture, for people who've never read a poem, for people who thought poems were only something done by dead white dudes who got lost in a forest, and for poetry heads. This anthology is meant to expand the idea of who a poet is and what a poem is for.

The BreakBeat Poets are the scribes recording and remixing a fuller spectrum of experience of what it means to be alive in this moment. The BreakBeat Poets are a break with the past and an honoring of the tradition(s), an undeniable body expanding the canon for the fresher.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608464500
• Artikelnr.: 42669716

Autorenporträt

Kevin Coval is the author of Schtick, L-vis Lives: Racemusic Poems, Everyday People and the American Library Association Book of the Year” Finalist Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica. He is the founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, Artistic Director at Young Chicago Authors, and teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Quraysh Ali Lansana is the author of eight poetry books, three textbooks, a children's book, editor of eight anthologies, and coauthor of a book of pedagogy. He is a faculty member of the Creative Writing Program of the School of the Art Institute and the Red Earth MFA Creative Writing Program at Oklahoma City University. He is also a former faculty member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. Lansana served as Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing at Chicago State University from 2002-2011, where he was also Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community (with Georgia A. Popoff) was published in March 2011 by Teachers & Writers Collaborative and was a 2012 NAACP Image Award nominee. His most recent books include The Walmart Republic w/ Christopher Stewart and reluctant minivan. Nate Marshall is the author of Wild Hundreds. He won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and served as a Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan. A Cave Canem Fellow, Nate won the 2014 Hurston/Wright Founding Members Award and the 2013 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award. He is a founding member of the poetry collective Dark Noise. He is also a rapper.

Inhaltsangabe

Joel Dias Porter aka DJ Renegade (1962) was born and raised in Pittsburgh
PA
and was a professional DJ in the DC area. From 1994- 1999 I competed in the National Poetry Slam
and was the 1998 and 99 Haiku Slam Champion. Places my poems have been published include Time Magazine
The Washington Post
Callaloo
Antioch Review
Red Brick Review
Beltway Quarterly and the anthologies Gathering Ground
Love Poetry Out Loud
Meow: Spoken Word from the Black Cat
Short Fuse
Role Call
Def Poetry Jam
360 Degrees of Black Poetry
Slam (The Book)
Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapallooza
Poetry Nation
Beyond the Frontier
Spoken Word Revolution
Catch a Fire
and The Black Rooster Social Inn
an anthology of poems and photos of visual art. In 1995
I received the Furious Flower "Emerging Poet Award" from James Madison University. Performances include the Today Show
the documentary SlamNation
on BET
and in the feature film Slam. A Cave Canem fellow and the father of a young son
I have a CD of jazz and poetry on Black Magi Music
entitled "LibationSong". Evie Shockley (1965) was born and raised in Nashville
Tennessee
poet Evie Shockley earned a BA at Northwestern University
a JD at the University of Michigan
and a PhD in English literature at Duke University. The author of several collections of poetry
including a half-red sea (2006) and the new black (2011)
Shockley is also the author of the critical volume Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (2011). Her poetry and essays have been featured in several anthologies
including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009)
Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook (2010)
A Broken Thing: Contemporary Poets on the Line (2011)
and Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon (2013). Shockley's honors include the Holmes National Poetry Prize and fellowships from Cave Canem
the Millay Colony for the Arts
the American Council of Learned Societies
and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. Coeditor of the journal jubilat from 2004 to 2007
Shockley is a professor at Rutgers University. She lives in Jersey City
New Jersey. Patrick Rosal (1969) is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Boneshepherds (Persea
2011)
recognized as a 2012 notable book both by the National Book Critics Circle and the Academy of American Poets; My American Kundiman (Persea
2006)
winner of the Global Filipino Literary Award and the 2006 Book Award in Poetry from the Association of Asian American Studies; and Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (Persea
2003)
winner of the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop. His poetry and prose have been published widely in journals and anthologies
including ESPN's Grantland
Tin House
American Poetry Review and Harvard Review. A former Fulbright Fellow
he is currently on the faculty of Rutgers University - Camden's MFA program and lives in Bed-Stuy. Latasha N. Nevada Diggs (1970) Writer
vocalist
and sound aritst
Latasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of three chapbooks which include Ichi-Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press)
and Manuel is destroying my bathroom (Belladonna Press)
as well as the album
Television. Her work has published in Rattapallax
Black Renaissance Noir
Nocturnes
Polvo
Spoken Word Revolution Redux
Drumvoices Review
Long Shot
The Black Scholar
P.M.S
Bum Rush the Page
Jubilat
Everything But the Burden
Black Belt
and Tea Party Magazine to name a few. LaTasha has received scholarships
residencies
and fellowships from Cave Canem
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center
Naropa Institute
Caldera Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts (2003/2009)
the Eben Demarest Trust
and the Barbara Deming Memorial Grant for Women. LaTasha was the poetry curator for the online arts journal
www.exittheapple.com. She is a Harlem Elohi Native. Jason Carney (1970) has been a mainstay on the national performance poetry scene for the past ten years. Hailing from Dallas
Texas this fiery performer brings unique insights on issues of race class and gender. Using the lessons of his past he weaves together images that transform the audience. Breaking down barriers and biases so that all can have an honest conversation involving some of our nation's critical issues. Mr. Carney has performed all across our country mesmerizing audiences with his wit and conviction. Whether telling an illuminating antidote about his children or stirring the ghost of our societies past present and future his effect is riveting. Mr. Carney has appeared on several seasons of the HBO television show RUSSELL SIMMONS DEF POETS. He is a four time national poetry slam finalist. honored as a legend of slam poetry in 2006 and 2007. Jason has done six NACA conferences including two national conventions. Been seen on national geographic channel as well as local television channels across the united states. He has spoken and done workshops at high schools juvenile detention centers corporate diversity engagements as well has colleges and universities extensively in the fifty states.In a rehabilitation center in his youth Jason's life was changed forever by a gay man who was dying from AIDS. Using poetry to redefine his world
he transformed the hate and racist ignorance of his southern upbringing. His life mission is to educate and participate in an honest conversation of race class and gender. Krista Franklin (1970) is a poet and visual artist from Dayton
OH who lives and works in Chicago. Her poetry and mixed medium collages have been published in lifestyle and literary journals such as Coon Bidness
Copper Nickel
RATTLE
Indiana Review
Ecotone
Clam and Callaloo
and in the anthologies Encyclopedia Vol. II
F-K and Gathering Ground. Her visual art has been featured on the covers of award-winning books
and exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions. Franklin is a Cave Canem Fellow
a co-founder of 2nd Sun Salon
a community meeting space for writers
visual and performance artists
musicians and scholars
and a teaching artist for Young Chicago Authors
Neighborhood Writing Alliance
and numerous organizations in the city of Chicago. Krista is currently pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in the Interdisciplinary Book + Paper Arts program at Columbia College Chicago. For more information
please visit her website
www.kristafranklin.com Jessica Care Moore (1971) is an internationally renowned poet/ publisher/ activist/ rock star/ playwright and actor. She is a five-time Showtime at the Apollo winner; has featured on hip-hop mega-star
Nas' "Nastradamus" album and was a returning star of Russell Simmon's HBO Series
Def Poetry Jam. After her legendary win on the Apollo stage
jessica Care moore was approached by several book publishing companies
but in 1997
she paved her own path and launched a publishing company of her own - Moore Black Press. Which has released her first book; "The Words Don't Fit In My Mouth
" and several thousand copies. A few years later
she followed up with her second collection of poetry and essays
"The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto." Moore Black Press proudly published famed poets
Saul Williams and Shariff Simmons; Def Poetry Jam's co-founder
Danny Simmons
NBA basket-ball player
Etan Thomas
activist and poet
Ras Baraka and former Essence Magazine editor and author
Asha Bandele. Adrian Matejka (1971) was born in Nuremberg
Germany
and grew up in California and Indiana. He earned his BA from Indiana University and his MFA from Southern Illinois