Come celebrate the launch of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s collected poems The Limitless Heart.
Encompassing the breadth of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s astounding career, The Limitless Heart is a time capsule of the boundless love, care, grief, and fortitude that make her work so stirring.
With deep empathy, thoughtfulness, charisma, and lyricism, Boyce-Taylor’s work explores questions of immigration, motherhood, and queer sensuality, among other themes. Grief is both an anchor and a door throughout Boyce-Taylor’s poetry, as seen in Mama Phife Represents, a hybrid of memoir and verse on the death of her son, Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor of A Tribe Called Quest. Questions regarding Blackness and Black womanhood in the United States are stitched throughout her books, and Boyce-Taylor leans into a more overtly defiant political register in her latest work, We Are Not Wearing Helmets, while maintaining the connective spine of the Trinidadian dialect that appears throughout all her work. Selections from these books, as well as her other poetry collections, appear in this new volume.
Curated from Boyce-Taylor’s body of work, The Limitless Heart encapsulates her progression as a writer throughout the decades of her highly successful career.
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Speakers
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet and teaching artist. She earned an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine and an MSW from Fordham University. Her collections of poetry include Raw Air (2000), Night When Moon Follows (2000), Convincing the Body (2005), and Arrival (2017), which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. Mama Phife Represents (2021) won the 2022 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry by The Publishing Triangle. We Are Not Wearing Helmets (2022) was nominated for the 2023 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her life papers and portfolio are stored at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Glenis Redmond is the First Poet Laureate of Greenville, South Carolina. She is a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, and a Cave Canem alumni. She has authored six books of poetry: Backbone, Under the Sun, What My Hand Say, Listening Skin, Three Harriets & Others, and Praise Songs for Dave the Potter (artwork by Jonathan Green). Glenis received the Governor’s Award and was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. She was recently a recipient of the Peacemaker Award by the Upstate Mediation Center in 2022. Her poetry has been showcased on NPR and PBS and has been most recently published in Orion Magazine, storySouth and The New York Times, as well as numerous literary journals nationally and internationally.
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Mar 1, 2021
What Happened to the Great American Logistics Machine? (6-2-20)
Package King author Joe Allen discusses with Flynn Murray what's happening in the behemoth US logistics industry during a time of crisis .
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United Parcel Service (UPS) is playing a critical role in maintaining the supply chain for urgent PPE supplies and essential goods amidst the pandemic. The corporation and its' workers wield incredible amounts of power and influence, particularly now. Joe Allen will tear down the Brown Wall surrounding one of America's most admired companies.
How did UPS displace General Motors, the very symbol of American capitalism, to become the largest, private sector, unionized employer in the United States? And, at what cost to its workers and surrounding communities?
Joe Allen and Flynn Murray will discuss all this and the overarching logistics machine in the US as it attempts to keep the country afloat in these tumultuous times.
Joe Allen is the author of The Package King: A Rank and File History of UPS.
Flynn Murray recently authored "The Rebirth of a Logistic Workers’ Movement?" for Dissent Magazine.
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This event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and Dissent Magazine.
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Mar 1, 2021
Breakbeat Poets Live: Chapter 2 (6-3-20)
The BreakBeat Poets Live is a virtual, multi-generational showcase of some of the illest writers on the planet rock.
Hosted by Kevin Coval and Idris Goodwin, The BreakBeat Poets Live! is a virtual, multi-generational showcase of some of the illest writers on the planet rock. Each chapter features writers and performers who are part of the Haymarket Books family.
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Kevin Coval is a poet and author of A People’s History of Chicago and over ten other collections, anthologies, and chapbooks. He is the founder and editor of the BreakBeat Poets series for Haymarket Books, artistic director for Young Chicago Authors, and the founder of Louder than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival.
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Idris Goodwin is the playwright, producer, educator, who coined the term “breakbeat poet.” He is the author of Can I Kick It? and the Pushcart–nominated collection These Are the Breaks. His publications also include Inauguration, cowritten with Nico Wilkinson, and Human Highlight: An Ode to Dominique Wilkins and This Is Modern Art, both cowritten with Kevin Coval.
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Maya Marshall, a writer and editor, is co-founder of underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. Marshall has earned fellowships from MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Callaloo, The Watering Hole, and Cave Canem. She is the author of Secondhand (Dancing Girl Press, 2016) and a former senior editor for [PANK]. Her writing appears in Best New Poets 2019, Muzzle Magazine, RHINO, Blackbird, the Volta, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago where she works as a manuscript editor for Haymarket Books. Her debut poetry collection All the Blood Involved in Love is forthcoming from Haymarket Books.
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Mother Nature is the irresistible force of Klevah and TRUTH—emcees devoted to building a legacy founded on defiance and self-discovery. The Chicago-based duo is the answer for listeners seeking both substance and simplicity. As educators, they have mastered the ability to deliver weighty content through uplifting BARZ that pierce the conscience. With Peace and Love as their weapon and community at their foundation, these Gr8Thinkaz are on their way to provoking a pivotal shift in the next generation.
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José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His book, Citizen Illegal, won of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize and was named a top book of 2018 by NPR.
He holds fellowships from CantoMundo, Poets House, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. Olivarez was awarded the Author and Artist in Justice award from the Phillips Brooks House Association and named a Debut Poet of 2018 by Poets & Writers. He is a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.
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Mar 1, 2021
Indigenous Resistance Against Oil Pipelines During a Pandemic (6-3-20)
Join us for a conversation between Nick Estes and Kim Tallbear on indigenous resistance in the context of the global pandemic.
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Water Protectors at Standing Rock, drawing from long traditions of resistance, used Indigenous sovereignty and mutual aid networks based on kinship as bulwarks against oil pipelines, state violence, and environmental colonialism. These two elements have helped shield Indigenous nations from the COVID-19 pandemic, but as the fossil fuel industry exploits the crisis to expand pipeline projects renewed struggle is more vital than ever.
Join Nick Estes and Kim Tallbear for a virtual teach-in on what lessons today’s activists can learn from these traditions of resistance.
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Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. In 2014, he co-founded The Red Nation, an Indigenous resistance organization. For 2017-2018, Estes was the American Democracy Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University.
Estes is the author of the book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance and he co-edited Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, which draws together more than thirty contributors, including leaders, scholars, and activists of the Standing Rock movement.
Estes’ journalism and writing is also featured in the Intercept, Jacobin, Indian Country Today, The Funambulist Magazine, and High Country News.
Kim TallBear is Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment. She is building a research hub in Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society. Follow them at www.IndigenousSTS.com and @indigenous_sts. TallBear is author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Her Indigenous STS work recently turned to also address decolonial and Indigenous sexualities. She founded a University of Alberta arts-based research lab and co-produces the sexy storytelling show, Tipi Confessions, sparked by the popular Austin, Texas show, Bedpost Confessions. Building on lessons learned with geneticists about how race categories get settled, TallBear is working on a book that interrogates settler-colonial commitments to settlement in place, within disciplines, and within monogamous, state-sanctioned marriage. She is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in South Dakota. She tweets @KimTallBear and @CriticalPoly.
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Co-sponsored by Haymarket Books, The Red Nation, and Verso Books.
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Mar 1, 2021
The New Uprising Against Police Violence with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Marc Lamont Hill (6-8-20)
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Marc Lamont Hill on the history, present, and future of the fight for a world where Black Lives Matter.
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If you cannot attain justice by engaging the system, then you must seek other means of changing it.
We are in the early stages of an uprising against racism and police violence. The simultaneous collapse of politics and governance in the midst of a global pandemic has forced millions of people to take to the streets to demand the most basic necessities of life, including the right to be free of police harassment or murder.
Join Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Marc Lamont Hill for a conversation about the history, present, and future of the fight for a world where Black Lives Matter, hosted by E. Tammy Kim.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, which won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT nonfiction in 2018. Her third book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by University of North Carolina Press, was a finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Marc Lamont Hill is one of the leading intellectual voices in the country. He is currently the host of BET News and a political contributor for CNN. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Dr. Hill is the Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. Prior to that, he held positions at Columbia University and Morehouse College.
E. Tammy Kim is a magazine reporter, a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, and a retired lawyer. She co-edited the book Punk Ethnography. She cohosts the Time to Say Goodbye podcast.
To order copies of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's books
From #BlackLivesMatter To Black Liberation: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1368-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation
How We Get Free: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free
Race For Profit: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781469653662
For further reading on this topic check out Haymarket Books' Black Liberation Reading List: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-haymarket-books-on-the-struggle-for-black-liberation
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Mar 1, 2021
Craig Hodges Will Have This Dance with Dave Zirin (6-10-20)
Join Craig Hodges and Dave Zirin in a discussion about The Last Dance, Michael Jordan and how it feels to be blackballed by the NBA.
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Craig Hodges won two championships with Michael Jordan and the Bulls but was conspicuously erased from Jordan's docuseries "The Last Dance."
As Jemele Hill said in a recent tweet, " When they were addressing Jordan’s lack of involvement in social justice issues, that would have been a great time to discuss what happened to Craig Hodges. #TheLastDanceAs."
Join Craig Hodges and Dave Zirin in a discussion about The Last Dance, Michael Jordan and how it all relates to why Craig was blackballed in the prime of his career.
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More on Craig's recent memoir Long Shot:
Two-time NBA champion Craig Hodges has never been shy about speaking truth to power.
As a member of the 1992 world-champion Chicago Bulls, a dashiki-clad Hodges delivered a handwritten letter to President George H. W. Bush demanding that he do more to address racism and economic inequality. Hodges was also a vocal union activist, initiated a boycott against Nike, and spoke out forcefully against police brutality in the wake of the Rodney King beating.
But his outspokenness cost him dearly. In the prime of his career, after ten NBA seasons, Hodges was blackballed from the NBA for using his platform as a professional athlete to stand up for justice.
In this powerful, passionate, and captivating memoir, Hodges shares the stories including encounters with Nelson Mandela, Coretta Scott King, Jim Brown, R. Kelly, Michael Jordan, and others from his lifelong fight for equality for African Americans.
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Craig Hodges played in the NBA for ten seasons, in which he led the league in three-point shooting percentage three times. He won two NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls in 1991 and 1992, and is a three-time Three Point Contest champion at All-Star weekend.
Dave Zirin is the sports editor for the Nation and the author of several books, most recently Brazil's Dance with the Devil. Named one of UTNE Reader’s “Fifty Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin is a frequent guest on MSNBC, ESPN, and Democracy Now! He hosts WPFW's The Collision with Etan Thomas and has been called "the best sportswriter in the United States," by Robert Lipsyte.
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Mar 1, 2021
A Stronger Desire to Live. PEN Prison Writing Awards Listening Release (6-11-20)
Join together with virtual community in this time of distancing to experience an emotionally stirring 90 minute podcast performance. A STRONGER DESIRE TO LIVE draws together a roster of powerful artists standing in to voice a tremendous series of prose, poetry and drama works penned by award-winning incarcerated writers.
Tied together with original music by Kenyatta Emmanuel, an artist and activist who has shared his music from Sing Sing to Carnegie Hall, the program is a moving tribute to the immense, and often hidden talent behind the walls.
The live release event will feature an original slideshow with artwork sourced from the Artists at Risk Connection, Rehabilitation Through the Arts, and The Confined Arts, and invite listeners to join in a live chat. As prison restricts incarcerated people from being able to join the program, all captured reactions will be shared with our featured authors in the event's aftermath.
Featuring writing by Caroline Ashby, Paul J. Betts, Jr., Arthur Fitzgerald, Yvette M. Louisell, Robert McKown, Matthew Mendoza and Justin Rovillos Monson.
Performances by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Dr. Adam Falkner, Shanelle Gabriel, Casey Gerald, Milton Jones, Nicole Shawan Junior, Darrell Larson, Amanda Erin Miller and Josie Whittlesey.
Curated by PEN America Prison Writing Committee Members Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Carissa Chesanek, Michael Juliani, Grace Kearney, Katie Lasley, Ryan D. Matthews, Amanda Miller and Crystal Yeung in partnership with Program Director Caits Meissner and Manager Robert Pollock.
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Read the Bios of writers and performers here: https://pen.org/event/a-stronger-desire-to-live/
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