Award-winning poet and playwright Idris Goodwin interrogates and remixes our cultural past in order to make sense of our present and potential futures.
“Can I kick it ”
“Yes you can!”
—A Tribe Called Quest
Situated squarely in the oral traditions of hip-hop and BreakBeat Poetry, Idris Goodwin’s work bridges the divide between the reader and the poet. Combining the tongue-in-cheek and the irreverent with the melancholy and incisive, Goodwin’s poetry samples and re-purposes pop-culture—from Back to the Future to Prince, Missy Elliot to Dominique Wilkins—in order to reflect and remix the stories we tell ourselves and each other in order to live.
"Can I kick it?"
"Yes you can!'
'A Tribe Called Quest
Situated squarely in the oral traditions of hip-hop and BreakBeat Poetry, Idris Goodwin's work bridges the divide between the reader and the poet. Combining the tongue-in-cheek and the irreverent with the melancholy and incisive, Goodwin's poetry samples and re-purposes pop-culture'from Back to the Future to Prince, Missy Elliot to Dominique Wilkins'in order to reflect and remix the stories we tell ourselves and each other in order to live.
Recenzijos
Praise for Idris Goodwins plays:
Goodwin makes a strong case for hip hop culture as a crucible where issues of racial identity, gender inequity, career ambition, and friendship converge and collide in illuminating ways. The Boston Globe on Hype Man: A Break Beat Play
A grimmer-than-Grimm fairy tale for adults, set up like a rap energized topical cross between Waiting for Godot and No Exit. San Francisco Chronicle on Blackademics
Daugiau informacijos
Galleys available
National TV, radio, and print campaign, including interviews, features, and reviews
Review copies sent to major dailies like New York Times, Chicago Tribune, etc. as well as online, Latinx interest, and poetry outlets like Poetry Magazine, Poets & Writers, Buzzfeed, and others.
Launch events in Chicago, Boston, and New York City
Features in Chicago Magazine, Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, South Side Weekly
Feature interview on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and performance on PBS affiliate WTTW's "Chicago Tonight"
Advertising in Poets and Writers, Wax Poetics, Poetry, Kenyon Review
Submission to poetry awards
Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's frequent speaking engagements, including national fall tour
Promotion through social media: Haymarket Books has 50k Twitter followers and 50k Facebook fans
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How to Rhyme in the Cipher |
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Wu-Tang Is for the Children: An Ode to the Clean Version |
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Harriet Tubman to Kanye West |
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More Statues Need High Heels |
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Give the People What They Want: A Second Ode to Isiah Thomas |
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Ashy to Classy: An Ode to Lotion |
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Ferris Bueller's Black Friend |
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How to Listen to Gospel: An Ode to Naomi Shelton |
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The Wiz Live from the Brown Theatre, Louisville, KY, December 2018 |
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Lil Nas X Brings the Country Together |
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An Invitation from a Tribe Called Tomorrow to Those Broken by Today (2019 Remix) |
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Idris Goodwin uses the written and spoken word to incite and inspire. An award-winning writer/performer who coined the term break beat poet, Goodwin is the author of the Pushcartnominated essay and poetry collection These Are The Breaks (Write Bloody). Hes had several publications with Haymarket Books including Inauguration (cowritten with Nico Wilkinson),winner of the 2017 Literary Arts Award from the Pikes Peak Arts Council, Human Highlight: Ode to Dominique Wilkins,and the controversial play This Is Modern Artboth cowritten with Kevin Coval. His poetry was featured on HBO Def Poetry, Sesame Street, NPR, BBC radio, and the Discovery Channel. Hes received support from the NEA, the Ford, Mellon, and Edgerton Foundations, and the Playwrights Centers McKnight Fellowship. An accomplished playwright, his widely produced stage plays includeAnd In This Corner: Cassius Clay, How We Got On, and Hype Man: a break beat play. A frequent public speaker at conferences and educational spaces, Idris is one of the leading voices in his field, committed to more diverse and equitable spaces for all. Idris and his family live in Louisville, KY where he is the producing artistic director of Stage One, a professional theater company for young audiences.
