Classroom essentials:
•Latinext by @breakbeatpoets
• The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
•Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
•Tell me how it Ends by Valeria Luiselli
Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
My poem, “¡Wepa!”, published in The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNEXT. Thank you endlessly to josé olivarez , Willie Perdomo and Felicia Rose Chavez for giving this poem a home! #LatiNext #BreakBeatPoets
The #BreakBeatPoets : #NewAmericanPoetry in the Age of #HipHop (2015) Edited by #KevinCoval , #QurayshAliLansana , #NateMarshall
Get the #book now here ow.ly/Vvi750xpwdN
The BreatBeat Poets Vol 4 LatiNext book of poems is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 shout out to Willie Perdomo josé olivarez and Felicia Chavez and ALL THE AMAZING WRITERS!!! Ya’ll need to go ahead and get your copy Haymarket Books 💯@breakbeatpoets
For the essential…
For the activists…
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This is for you.
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This is #ThePeoplesInauguration
Poem: josé olivarez
@breakbeatpoets
📹: Nix Guirre
#InaugurationDay
It’s National Poetry Month and #BNClybourn is kicking it off with some of our favorite Chicago poets! Save 10% with a #BNMembership on all of these titles and more.
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Please share widely, get the movement going. It’s long been time for change. Together, let’s expose art’s invisible politics of power and privilege.
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Shout out to Haymarket Books, @breakbeatpoets, and to my mighty editor @mayaAmarshall
25/31 @breakbeatpoets vol. 4 LatiNext | 2. El Bandolon
and vandal
bandwagons slandered
and branded
handwritten reprimands
–Nicole Sealey
what respect can we have for the word “legal” since
“illegal” can describe our skin
–Reyes Ramirez
#TheSealeyChallenge
#bookstoprisoners
Latest episode of “Can I Teach It?” is live! I discuss pairing the film adaptation of In The Heights from Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jon M. Chu with work from @breakbeatpoets and 😇 - check it out - be sure to like, RT, and subscribe!
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#TheSealeyChallenge 29/31 @breakbeatpoets vol 4 LatiNext: La Bandera
“Mozote does not mean massacre and flowers bloom
in every place shoes are
left behind.”—In Another World, Janel Pineda
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There was so much love in the room at Poetry Foundation for the Halal If You Hear Me release. It was great to hear editors Safia Elhillo and fatimah asghar. talk about bringing their vision into existence. @breakbeatpoets Haymarket Books bit.ly/2VgAivT