Black girl magic : BreakBeat poets ; volume 2 /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
Haymarket Books,
[2018]
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| Series: | BreakBeat poets series ;
v. 2. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Collector of me. My beauty / Justice Ameer
- Self portrait in a tanning bed / Rio Cortez
- Texture / Maya Washington
- Homage to my breasts (after Lucille Clifton) / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
- This body keeps the keys / Nikki Wallschlaeger
- You mean you don't sleep at the nail salon? / Elizabeth Acevedo
- White Godiva melts in a mouthful of blood: prayer for my unborn daughter / Alysia Nicole Harris
- Ode to the hymen / Syreeta McFadden
- My afropuffs / Jamila Woods
- Magical negro #217: Diana Ross finishing a rib in Alabama, 1990s / Morgan Parker
- Why you cannot touch my hair / Eve L. Ewing.
- I'm Black. Big Black bitch / Bianca Lynne Spriggs
- Exile / Diamond Sharp
- Ode to Fetty Wap (written after strip club) / Roya Marsh
- At H & M, when another black girls asks if I work here / Kemi Alabi
- Card B tells me about myself / Eboni Hogan
- Question and answer, or Pirate Jenny shit talks with her employer / Syreeta McFadden
- Meat / Comonghne Felix
- Micro / Britteney Black Rose Kapri.
- Sharpening my oyster knife. Kingston, Jamaica, 3am, passa passa dance party / Idrissa Simmonds
- Outside my Harlem window / Lauren Whitehead
- A brief history of coconut oil / Crystal Valentine
- Supremacy / Adriana Brown
- The end of eating everything / Rio Cortez
- Sara Baartman and I negotiate visibility / Xandra Phillips
- Of thee, magical negroes, I sing / Syreeta McFadden
- Magical negro #607: Gladys Knight on the 200th epidsode of The Jeffersons / Morgan Parker
- For colored boys who considered gangbanging when being Black was too much / Britteney Black Rose Kapri
- What I mean when I say I'm sharpening my oyster knife / Eve L. Ewing.
- Duty to fight. A brief life / Ariana Brown
- #Sayhername / Aja Monet
- Purgatory room / Diamond Sharp
- Patriarchy / Venessa Marco
- All the things that have not happened between us / Destiny O. Birdsong
- Mr. Hotep says #Black Lives Matter and he'd kill a dyke / Kemi Alabi
- Rememory / Ra Malika Imhotep
- If 2017 was a poem title / Mahogany L. Browne
- Magical negro #80: Brooklyn / Morgan Parker.
- All the events that happen to you. What do it tell the white boy who asks me of my heritage / Natalie Rose Richardson
- Piece / Teri Ellen Cross Davis
- Sonnet (47) / Nikki Wallschlaeger
- No / Hiwot Adilow
- Alleged (erasure) / Candice Iloh
- Shadowboxin, session one / Destiny Hemphill
- Beautiful Black queen / Simone Savannah
- Divination / Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
- Bye bye baby / Noname
- Offwhite / Venessa Marco
- The holy theatre / Alexis Smithers
- Pulling teeth and answers before dying / Ajanae Dawkins
- Dawn prayer call / Idrissa Simmonds
- Carnival Fire of '63 / Whitney Greenaway.
- Wrong is not my name. N / Jamila Woods
- After God herself / Justice Ameer
- Cuero / Elizabeth Acevedo
- Self-portrait with the question of race / Safia Elhillo
- La negra takes Medusa to the hair salon / Elizabeth Acevedo
- Confession #1 / Yesenia Montilla
- Love on Flatbush Avenue / Angel Nafis
- Love and water / Thiahera Nurse
- Look / Simone Savannah
- Destiny, Chile / Thabisile Griffin
- My daughter prays for a brother, and gets one / Brittany Rogers.
- A new person. Sister was the wolf / Aracelis Girmay
- Mami came to this country as a nanny / Elizabeth Acevedo
- Birth, mark / Aja Monet
- Blue magic / Niki Herd
- Chick / Athena Dixon
- Self-portrait with dirty hair / Safia Elhillo
- A sestina for a black girl who does not know how to braid hair / Raych Jacksion
- Wading (ode to an almost first kiss) / Alexa Patrick
- Poet imagines creating Full House in Rockwell Gardens / Ciara Miller
- Boxes of Andromeda / Athena Dixon
- Amerikkkana / Toluwanimi Obiwole
- Halcyon kitchen / Kiandra Jimenez
- Girdle / Naomi Extra
- My favorite things / Naomi Extra
- Roseart / Lin-Z
- I beat my sistas ass foreal this time / Kz
- This poem for Sugar Hill, Harlem / JP Howard
- Ode to Walt Whitman ... the housing project / Rachelle M. Parker.
- Forever trying. Flight / Idrissa Simmonds
- What women are made of / Bianca Lynne Spriggs
- French Guiana/enigmatic womyn blues / Toluwanimi Obiwole
- Old wives' tales / Safia Elhillo
- Vespers / Idrissa Simmonds
- Poem that wrote me into beast in order to be read / Marwa Helal
- Abandon / Hiwot Adilow
- Parcel map for the county assessor / Candace G. Wiley
- 400 heat / Destiny O. Birdsong
- Black produce / Fayise Abrahim
- Built for disaster / Mahogany L. Browne
- Root song for daughter / Nina Angela Mercer.
- Something has tried to kill me and has failed. What begets what begets / Rio Cortez
- For songs and contests / Nabila Lovelace
- Serena / Porsha O.
- Ghazal for becoming your own country / Angel Nafis
- 79th be the catwalk / E'mon Lauren
- Some girls survive on their sorcery alone / Thiahera Nurse
- It's a miracle / Yesenia Montilla
- Creation story after Safia Elhillo / Nonae.
- Jubilee. We are all God's / Mahogany L. Browne
- Waves / Jamila Woods
- Invocation / Ariana Brown
- The etymology of "CHUUCH!" / E'mon Lauren
- The cut up / Candace G. Wiley.