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The Breakbeat poets. Volume 2, Black girl magic / edited by Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, Jamila Woods.

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Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2018.

Hip-hop -- Influence -- Poetry.

American poetry -- 21st century.

American poetry -- African American authors.

American poetry -- Women authors.

9781608468577 (paperback) :

1608468577 (paperback)

xxviii, 233 pages : portraits ; 23 cm

My beauty / Justice Ameer -- Self portrait in a tanning bed / Rio Cortez -- Texture / Maya Washington -- Homage to my breasts (after Lucille Clifton) / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie -- This body keeps the keys / Nikki Wallschlaeger -- You mean you don't weep at the nail salon? / Elizabeth Acevedo -- White Godiva melts in a mouthful of blood: prayer for my unborn daughter / Alysia Nicole Harris -- Ode to the hymen / Syreeta McFadden -- my afropuffs / Jamila Woods -- Magical Negro #217: Diana Ross finishing a rib in Alabama, 1990s / Morgan Parker -- why you cannot touch my hair / Eve L. Ewing -- I'm Black / Pat Parker -- Big Black bitch / Bianca Lynne Spriggs -- Exile / Diamond Sharp -- Ode to Fetty Wap (written after strip club) / Roya Marsh -- At H&M, when another black girl asks if I work here / Kemi Alabi -- Cardi B tells me about myself / Eboni Hogan -- Question and answer. or: Pirate Jenny shit talks with her employer / Syreeta McFadden -- Meat / Camonghne Felix -- micro / Britteney Black Rose Kapri -- Sharpening my oyster kinfe / Zora Neale Hurston -- Kingston, Jamaica. 3am. Passa passa dance party / Idrissa Simmonds -- Outside my Harlem window / Lauren Whitehead -- A brief history of coconut oil / Crystal Valentine -- Supremacy / Ariana Brown -- The end of eating everything / Rio Cortez -- Sara Baartman and I negotiate visibility / Xandria Phillips -- Of thee, magical Negroes, I sing / Syreeta McFadden -- Magical Negro #607: Gladys Knight on the 200th episode of The Jeffersons / Morgan Parker -- for Colored boys who considered gangbanging when being Black was too much / Britteney Black Rose Kapri -- what I mean when I say I'm sharpening my oyster knife / Eve L. Ewing -- Duty to fight / Assata Shakur -- A brief life / Ariana Brown -- #SayHerName / Aja Monet -- Purgatory room / Diamond Sharp -- Patriarchy / Venessa Marco -- All the things that have not happened between us / Destiny O. Birdsong -- Mr. Hotep says #BlackLivesMatter and he'd killl a dyke / Kemi Alabi -- rememory / Ra Malika Imhotep -- If 2017 was a poem title / Mahogany L. Browne -- Magical Negro #80: Brooklyn / Morgan Parker -- All the events that happen to you / Maya Angelou -- What do I tell the white boy who asks me of my heritage / Natalie Rose Richardson -- Piece / Teri Ellen Cross Davis -- Sonnet (47) / Nikki Wallsschlaeger -- No / Hiwot Adilow -- alleged (erasure). / Candice Iloh -- shadowboxin, session one / Destiny Hemphill -- beautiful black queen / Simone Savannah -- Divination / Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton -- Bye bye baby / Noname -- offwhite / Venessa Marco -- The holy theatre / Alexis Smithers -- Pulling teeth and answers before dying / Ajanae Dawkins -- Dawn prayer call / Idrissa Simmonds -- Carnival fire of '63 / Whitney Greenaway -- Wrong is not my name / June Jordan -- N / Jamila Woods -- (After God herself) / Justice Ameer -- Cuero / Elizabeth Acevedo -- self-portrait with the question of race / Safia Elhillo -- La Negra takes Medua to the hair salon / Elizabeth Acevedo -- Confession #1 / Yesenia Montilla -- Love on Flatbush Avenue / Angel Nafis -- Love and water / Thiahera Nurse -- Look: / Simone Savannah -- destiny, chile / Thabisile Griffin -- My daughter prays for a brother, and gets one / Brittany Rogers -- A new person / Jamaica Kincaid -- sister was the wolf / Aracelis Girmay -- Mami came to this country as a nanny / Elizabeth Acevedo -- Birth, mark / Aja Monet -- Blue magic / Niki Herd -- Chick / Athena Dixon -- self-portrait with dirty hair / Safia Elhillo -- A sestina for a Black girl who does not know how to braid hair / Raych Jackson -- Wading (ode to an almost first kiss) / Alexa Patrick -- Poet imagines creating / Ciara Miller -- Boxes of Andromeda / Athena Dixon -- Amerikkana / Toluwanimi Obiwole -- Halcyon kitchen / Kiandra Jimenez -- Girdle / Naomi Extra -- My favorite things / Naomi Extra -- Roseart / Lin-Z -- I beat my sistas ass foreal this time / Kz -- This poem for Sugar Hill, Harlem / JP Howard -- Ode to Walt Whitman...The Housing Project / Rachelle M. Parker -- Forever trying / Toni Morrison -- Flight / Idrissa Simmonds -- What women are made of / Bianca Lynne Spriggs -- french guiana/engimatic womyn blues / Toluwanimi Obiwole -- old wives' tales / Safia Elhillo -- Vespers / Idrissa Simmonds -- poem that wrote me into beast in order to be read / Marwa Helal -- Abandon / Hiwot Adilow -- Parcel map for county assessor / Candace G. Wiley -- 400 heat / Destiny O. Birdsong -- BLACK PRODUCE / Fayise Abrahim -- Built to disaster / Mahogany L. Browne -- Root song for daughter / Nin Angela Mercer -- Something has tried to kill me and has failed / Lucille Clifton -- What begets what begets / Rio Cortez -- For songs and contests / Nabila Lovelace -- Serena / Porsha O. -- Ghazal for becoming your own country / Angel Nafis -- 79th be the catwalk / E/mon Lauren -- Some girls survive on their sorcery alone / Thiahera Nurse -- It's a miracle / Yesenia Montilla -- creation story after Safia Elhillo / nonae.

"Poetry from the canon of hip-hop by Black women of the diaspora"--Page [4] of cover.

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