The Breakbeat poets: new American poetry in the age of hip-hop

An (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand / Randall Horton (1961) --

Turning the tables ; Wednesday poem / Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade (1962) --

An excerpt from Crank shaped notes / Thomas Sayers Ellis (1963) --

Mascot ; Crack house ; Seventy-first & King Drive / Quraysh Ali Lansana (1964) --

Duck, duck, redux ; Post-white / Evie Shockley (1965) --

Everything you wanted to know about hip hop but were afraid to be hipped for fear of being hopped ; Keepin' it real awards / Tony Medina (1966) --

Shit to write about ; Word to everything I love ; Writing about what you know / Willie Perdomo (1967) --

Agate / Mario (1967) --

Honorific or black boy to black boy ; Fast - how I knew ; In defense of the code-switch or why you talk like that or why you gotta always be cussing / Roger Bonair-Agard (1968) --

Shine (for Joe Bataan) ; All night / Lynne Procope (1969) --

B-boy infinitives ; Kundiman ending on a theme from t la rock ; A note to Thomas Alva ; Ode to the cee-lo players / Patrick Rosal (1969) --

Untitled / Tracie Morris --

America's pastime / Jason Carney (1970) --

Who you callin' a jynx? (after mista popo) ; Damn right it's betta than yours ; Gamin' gabby

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LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (1970) --

Hood / Mitchell L. H. Douglas (1970) --

Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; Preface to a twenty volume homicide note / Krista Franklin (1970) --

Beat boxing ; Robot music / Adrian Matejka (1971) --

mic check, 1-2 / Jessica Care Moore (1971) --

Ode to the crossfader ; 1989 ; Renegades of funk / John Murillo (1971) --

Stitches ; Pull down the earth ; This is a test / Francine J. Harris (1972) --

How to get over (senior to freshman) ; how to get over (for my niggas) ; how to get over (for Kanye) / T'ai Freedom Ford (1973) --

Break (rebirth) ; Break (sister) ; Break (embargo) / Suheir Hammad (1973) --

World tells how the world ends ; Object / Marty McConnell (1973) --

Bronx bombers ; What I saw was not your funeral ; At my best / John Rodriguez (1973-2013) --

Paper bag poems ; Global warming blues ; Sunday ; Possible (for Amiri Baraka) / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie (1973) --

Hip hop analogies ; Switch / Tara Betts (1974) --

From all convulsions / Paolo Javier (1974) --

Quantum spit ; No homo ; Drop it like it's hottentot venus / Douglas Kearney (1974) --

A prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew) ; After an artis(t) talk / Avery R. Young (1974) --

Future / Lemon Andersen (1975) --

Message ; Astronomy (8th light) / Michael Cirelli (1975) --

Crossover ; Jewtown ; Molemen beat tapes ; White on the block / Kevin Coval (1975) --

Motherland / Jericho Brown (1976) --

When 12 play was on repeat ; Upon viewing the death of Basquiat ; nameless / Mahogany L Browne (1976) --

Elegy in gold ; Break / Aracelis Girmay (1977) --

Say my name ; Old ladies and dope boys ; These are the breaks / Idris Goodwin (1977) --

Corners / Enzo Silon Surin (1977) --

It's just begun / Mayda Del Valle (1978) --

Ciphers pt. 1 ; Vigil pt. 1 / Denizen Kane (1978) --

I have a drone / Paul Martinez Pompa --

Crews ; Slang ; O.P.P. / Kyle Dargan (1980) --

100 bells ; Nocturne in need of a bitch ; Blossoms in the dark ; Self-portrait as slinky / Tarfia Faizullah (1980) --

Elegy for a trojan ; Ode to a star fig ; Ode to gentrification ; Ode to a killer whale / Samantha Thornhill (1980) --

Harbor / Aleshea Harris (1981) --

Evolution of my block ; Evolution of my profile ; GTA : San Andreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!') / Jacob Saenz (1982) --

Bint ibrahim / Nadia Sulayman (1982) --

Ha ha hum ; Adventures / Sarah Blake (1984) --

If you don't know / Adam Falkner (1984) --

Small poems for big / Chinaka Hodge (1984) --

Stakes is high ; 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 ; Ars poetica in the mode of j-live Bonita applebum / Marcus Wicker (1984) --

Self portrait with gunshot vernacular ; Self portrait from the other side ; Thaumaturgy / Michael Mlekoday (1985) --

To the notebook kid / Eva Ewing --

A remix for remembrance, Stockholm syndrome / Kristiana Coloʹn (1986) --

In search of black birds / Ciara Miller (1987) --

Let me handle my business, damn / Morgan Parker (1987) --

When asked about my hometown : an admission ; When asked about my hometown : an anecdote ; Love letter to Zack, the black power ranger / Joshua Bennett (1988) --

When I put my hands in the air it's praise / Alysia Nicole Harris (1988) --

Winthrop Ave. ; We house : after Krista Franklin's definition of funk / Britteney Black Rose Kapri (1988) --

Legend ; Ghazal for my sister ; Conspiracy : A suite ; Gravity / Angel Nafis (1988) --

Ode to the first white girl I ever loved ; Home court / Jose Olivarez (1988) --

No country for black boys / Joy Priest (1988) --

Always & forever ; Self-portrait as exit wounds ; Prayer for the newly damned ; Daily bread / Ocean Vuong (1988) --

When tip drill comes on at the frat party or, when refusing to twerk is a radical form of self-love ; Unemployment ; Pluto shits on the universe / Fatimah Asghar (1989) --

Pussy monster ; Impulse buy / Franny Choi (1989) --

On caskets ; Prelude ; Picking flowers; juke / Nate Marshall (1989) --

Broken ghazal in the voice of my brother jacob / Aaron Samuels (1989) --

Cue the gangsta rap when my knees bend ; Twerk (v.) ; Dinosaurs in the hood ; Dear white America / Danez Smith (1989) werk (v.) --

Defense ; Blk girl art ; Deep in the homeroom of doom ; Daddy dozens / Jamila Woods (1989) --

What the eyes saw / Benjamin Alfaro (1990) --

A suite for ol' dirty Safia Elhillo (1990) --

Juicy (an erasure) / Aziza Barnes (1992) --

Badu interviews Lamar (an erasure) ; Police / Camonghne Felix (1992) --

Beat writers / Steven Willis (1992) --

Four elements of ghostdance / Reed Bobroff (1993) --

Grand slam / Malcolm London (1993) --

This, here / Kush Thompson (1994) --

My niece's hip-hop / E'mon McGee (1996) --

Murder is my name / Angel Pantoja (1997) --

Lesson one / Nile Lansana (1997) and Onam Lansana (1999) --

Art. artifice, & artifact / Quraysh Ali Lansana --

Artist statement / T'ai Freedom Ford --

Artist statement / Michael Mlekoday --

Artist statement / Douglas Kearney

Artist statement /

Angel Nafis --

A locus of control and the erasure / Aziza Barnes --

Life is good : How hip-hop channels duende / Tara Betts --

Journeying to the break : The cost of the pilgrimage / Roger Bonair-Agard --

Art of the mistake: some notes on breaking as making / Patrick Rosal --

Blueprint for breakBeat writing / Nate Marshall.