The BreakBeat Poets
- | 12:00 AM - 5:00 AM
Poetry Foundation
61 West Superior Street
Free Admission
61 West Superior Street
Free Admission
Join editors Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall, and Quraysh Ali Lansana to celebrate the release of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, the first anthology of its kind.
Spanning four decades and representing diverse scenes from across the country, the BreakBeat poets are the real-life documentarians of the late 20th and early 21st century, employing traditional and wild-style poetics to narrate a new country and city landscape.
Co-sponsored with Young Chicago Authors and Haymarket Books