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The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext
By (Author) Felicia Chavez
Edited by Jose Olivarez
Edited by Willie Perdomo
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books
16th June 2020
United States
General
Non Fiction
811.6080868
Paperback
344
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like Hip-Hop, we honor what was, what is, and what's next.
Felicia Rose Chavez is a native New Mexican with an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa. An award-winning educator, Felicia is currently at work on The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize The Creative Classroom, forthcoming from Haymarket Books. Jos Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and won the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. Willie Perdomo is an Afro-Caribbean Nuyorican from East Harlem. He is the author of The Crazy Bunch, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Smoking Lovely, winner of the PEN Open Book Award; and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime, a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award.He teaches at Phillips Exeter Academy.