Description
Award-winning poet Cortney Lamar Charleston interrogates the intersections of race, masculinity, and politics through the lens of hip-hop.
Author: Cortney Lamar Charleston
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 03/02/2021
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN13: 9781642594034
ISBN10: 1642594032
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | African American & Black
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
About the Author
Cortney Lamar Charleston is a Cave Canem fellow from the Chicago suburbs. His debut collection, Telepathologies, won the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by D.A. Powell. He began writing and performing poetry as a member of The Excelano Project when he was an undergraduate studying economics and urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His poetry is a marriage between art and activism, and a call for a more involved and empathetic understanding of the diversity of the human experience. In 2017, Charleston was a recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He currently serves as poetry editor at The Rumpus.