The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me

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The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities. Halal If You Hear Me features poems by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar, Warsan Shire, Tarfia Faizullah, Angel Nafis, Beyza Ozer, and many others. Fatimah Asghar is the creator of the Emmy-Nominated web series Brown Girls, now in development for HBO. She is the author of If They Come For Us and a recipient of a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman fellow. In 2017, she was listed on Forbes's 30 Under 30 list. Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC and a Cave Canem fellow, she holds an MFA from the New School. In 2018, she was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

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Safia Elhillo is the author ofThe January Children(University of Nebraska Press, 2017), recipient of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets.Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, sheis a 2016 Pushcart Prize nomine,co-winner of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and listed in Forbes Africas 2018 30 Under 30. Her fellowships and residencies include Cave Canem, The Conversation, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Herwork appears in POETRY Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-day series, among others, and in anthologies includingThe BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-HopandWomen of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar is a Pakistani, Kashmiri, Muslim American writer. Fatimah Asghar is the author of the poetry collectionIf They Should Come for Us(One World/Random House, forthcoming 2018) and the chapbookAfter(Yes Yes Books, 2015). She is also the writer and co-creator of the Emmy-nominatedBrown Girls, a web series that highlights friendships between women of color.Her work has been featured on news outlets such as PBS, NPR,Time,Teen Vogue,Huffington Post, and others.