The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3 - by Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A BreakBeat Poets anthology of writings by Muslims who are women, queer, genderqueer, nonbinary, or trans.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities.</p><p><em>Halal If You Hear Me </em>features poems by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar, Warsan Shire, Tarfia Faizullah, Angel Nafis, Beyza Ozer, and many others.</p><p><strong>Fatimah Asghar </strong>is the creator of the Emmy-Nominated web series <em>Brown Girls</em>, now in development for HBO. She is the author of <em>If They Come For Us </em>and a recipient of a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman fellow. In 2017, she was listed on <em>Forbes</em>'s 30 Under 30 list.</p><p><strong>Safia Elhillo </strong>is the author of <em>The January Children</em>. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC and a Cave Canem fellow, she holds an MFA from the New School. In 2018, she was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Safia Elhillo is the author of <em>The January Children </em>(University of Nebraska Press, 2017), recipient of the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, she is a 2016 Pushcart Prize nomine, co-winner of the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize, and listed in Forbes Africa's 2018 "30 Under 30." Her fellowships and residencies include Cave Canem, The Conversation, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Her work appears in POETRY Magazine, Callaloo, and The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-day series, among others, and in anthologies including <em>The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop</em> and <em>Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism.</em></p> <p>Poet, screenwriter, educator, and performer Fatimah Asghar is a Pakistani, Kashmiri, Muslim American writer. Fatimah Asghar is the author of the poetry collection <em>If They Should Come for Us </em>(One World/Random House, forthcoming 2018) and the chapbook <em>After </em>(Yes Yes Books, 2015). She is also the writer and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated <em>Brown Girls</em>, a web series that highlights friendships between women of color. Her work has been featured on news outlets such as PBS, NPR, <em>Time</em>, <em>Teen Vogue</em>, <em>Huffington Post</em>, and others.</p>
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