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 / Thoas 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 where afraid to be hipped for fear of being hopped ; The 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)

Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; Preface to a twenty volume homicide note / Mitchell L. H. Douglas (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)

The world tells how the world ends ; Object / 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)

The future / Lemon Andersen (1975)

The message ; Astronomy (8th light) / Michael Cirelli (1975)

The 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 : Sandreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!') / Jacob Saenz (1982)

Bint ibrahim / Nadia Sulayman (1982)

Ha ha hum ; Adventures / Sarah Blake (1984)

Small poems for big / Adam Falkner (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 M