The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic

A BreakBeat Poets anthology to celebrate and canonize the words of Black women across the diaspora.

ISBN-13: 9781608468577

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Publication Date: 04-17-2018

Pages: 264

Product Dimensions: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.90d

Series: Breakbeat Poets

Poet and vocalist Jamila Woods was raised in Chicago, IL and graduated from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Africana Studies and Theatre & Performance Studies. Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, much of her writing explores blackness, womanhood and the city of Chicago.

Mahogany L. Browne is a Cave Canem and Poets House alumnae and the author of several books including Smudge and Redbone. She directs the poetry program of the Nuyorican Poets Café.

Idrissa Simmonds is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, The Caribbean Writer, Fourteen Hills Press, and elsewhere. She is the 2014 winner of the Crab Creek Review poetry contest, and a NYFA and Commonwealth Short Story Award Finalist.