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.
A first-of-its-kind anthology of hip-hop poetica written for and by the people.
Daugiau informacijos
prior to the book's release we will offer free audio downloads of poems
100 galleys for pitches to music (Wax Poetics, URB), literary (Poets and Writers), race-oriented (ColorLines) and political outlets
As Coval has previously had cover features on two major local publications, Chicago Tribune Magazine and New City Chicago, we aim to pitch major features to Chicago magazine (6th largest monthly magazine in the country), and The Chicago Reader
Feature interview on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and performance on PBS affiliate WTTW's "Chicago Tonight", pitches to local afternoon news outlets which Coval has been on in the past
Advertising in Poets and Writers
Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements
Presence at the Association of Writing Professionals conference
Submission to all applicable poetry awards
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). Shockleys 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 ESPNs
Grantland, Tin House, American Poetry Review and Harvard Review. A former
Fulbright Fellow, he is currently on the faculty of Rutgers University
Camdens 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
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.
