Tag: The Breakbeat Poets

• new publication: The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext!

  Just a quick post to share the release of the latest BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext edited by Felicia Chavez, José Olivarez, and Willie Perdomo and published by Haymarket Books. Super-excited to share news of this release – in part because my own poem “La Llorona Watches the Movie Troy” is featured in its pages […]

  José Angel Araguz

  April 10, 2020

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• * twinklings & twinges: gwendolyn brooks

  This week, I had the opportunity to share and discuss excerpts from The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop with my intermediate composition class. Along with the poems, we also read some of the Ars Poeticas & Essays included in the anthology. Going between poems and prose allowed me to supplement the […]

  José Angel Araguz

  June 10, 2016

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