CKCU Literary News
Wednesday April 15th, 2015 with Hans G. Ruprecht & POETRY Magazine Editors Don Share and Lindsay Garbutt.
American BreakBeat Poetry, now and then.

American BreakBeat Poetry — now and then. With a feature sound track by QURASHI ALI LANSANA about the hip hop culture of his youth to which he contributed as a poet, writer and editor. He has published eight books of poetry and numerous anthologies. As an Associate Professor of English / Creative Writing with various academic institutions Qurashi Ali Lansana has published 'Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy & Social Justice in Classroom & Community'. To gain further insight into his current thinking and creative work Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Contributing Editor of the 'Poets' Quaterly' (September 2014), recommends his collection of recent poetry, entitled 'The Walmart Republic' co-authored with Christopher Stewart (Mongrel Empire Press, 2014). • Produced in media partnership with poetryfoundation.org (POETRY Magazine April 2015, podcast), this broadcast of CKCU Literary News http://www.carleton.ca/litnews/stream/ is entirely devoted to "break beat poetry". It includes readings by KRISTINA RAE COLÓN, JAMILA WOODS, and TARA BETTS. • For further information go to www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/The-BreakBeat-Poets regarding the anthology 'New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop' / Culture & Media - Poetry - Racism & Civil Rights, edited by Kevin Coval, Qurashi Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall. Haymarket Books, Chicago (2009).