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JAVON JOHNSON is an assistant professor of African American Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the director of African American and African diaspora studies. He is the author of Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities (2017) and is an award-winning spoken word poet who has appeared on HBO, BET, and TVOne.
KEVIN COVAL is the founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival and artistic director of Young Chicago Authors. He is the coeditor of The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (2015); author of A People’s History of Chicago, Schtick, L-vis Lives!,and Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica); and author (with Idris Goodwin) of This Is Modern Art.
"This is no ordinary anthology. It’s a multigenre compilation, curated by Johnson, a professor of African American studies, and poet Coval (A People’s History of Chicago, 2017), cofounder of Chicago’s Louder Than a Bomb youth poetry festival, and it reflects the editors’ kaleidoscopic approach to literary work in one of the most diverse—and one of the most segregated—cities in the U.S. By turns academic and artistic, the collection includes interviews with community activists (like Uptown’s Elephant Rebellion), essays on Black Lives Matter and against Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq, and an artists’ round-table discussion on Afrofuturism. But at its heart are poems, produced primarily through Young Chicago Authors, and they are some of the most fiery, fiercely intelligent, wickedly funny verses brought together in one place." —Booklist
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