An (i)witness say he still had the mike in his hand / Randall Horton (1961)
Turning the tables ; Wednesday poem / Joel Dias-Porter aka DJ Renegade (1962)
An excerpt from Crank shaped notes / Thoas Sayers Ellis (1963)
Mascot ; Crack house ; Seventy-first & King Drive / Quraysh Ali Lansana (1964)
Duck, duck, redux ; Post-white / Evie Shockley (1965)
Everything you wanted to know about hip hop but where afraid to be hipped for fear of being hopped ; The keepin' it real awards / Tony Medina (1966)
Shit to write about ; Word to everything I love ; Writing about what you know / Willie Perdomo (1967)
Honorific or black boy to black boy ; Fast - how I knew ; In defense of the code-switch or why you talk like that or why you gotta always be cussing / Roger Bonair-Agard (1968)
Shine (for Joe Bataan) ; All night / Lynne Procope (1969)
B-boy infinitives ; Kundiman ending on a theme from t la rock ; A note to Thomas Alva ; Ode to the cee-lo players / Patrick Rosal (1969)
America's pastime / Jason Carney (1970)
Who you callin' a jynx? (after mista popo) ; Damn right it's betta than yours ; Gamin' gabby
/ LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs (1970)
Manifesto, or ars poetica #2 ; Preface to a twenty volume homicide note / Mitchell L. H. Douglas (1970)
Beat boxing ; Robot music / Adrian Matejka (1971)
mic check, 1-2 / Jessica Care Moore (1971)
Ode to the crossfader ; 1989 ; Renegades of funk / John Murillo (1971)
Stitches ; Pull down the earth ; This is a test / Francine J. Harris (1972)
How to get over (senior to freshman) ; how to get over (for my niggas) ; how to get over (for Kanye) / T'ai Freedom Ford (1973)
Break (rebirth) ; Break (sister) ; Break (embargo) / Suheir Hammad (1973)
The world tells how the world ends ; Object / McConnell (1973)
Bronx bombers ; What I saw was not your funeral ; At my best / John Rodriguez (1973-2013)
Paper bag poems ; Global warming blues ; Sunday ; Possible (for Amiri Baraka) / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie (1973)
Hip hop analogies ; Switch / Tara Betts (1974)
From all convulsions / Paolo Javier (1974)
Quantum spit ; No homo ; Drop it like it's hottentot venus / Douglas Kearney (1974)
A prayer fo mama Brenda Matthews (warrior brew) ; After an artis(t) talk / Avery R. Young (1974)
The future / Lemon Andersen (1975)
The message ; Astronomy (8th light) / Michael Cirelli (1975)
The crossover ; Jewtown ; Molemen beat tapes ; White on the block / Kevin Coval (1975)
Motherland / Jericho Brown (1976)
When 12 play was on repeat ; Upon viewing the death of Basquiat ; nameless / Mahogany L Browne (1976)
Elegy in gold ; Break / Aracelis Girmay (1977)
Say my name ; Old ladies and dope boys ; These are the breaks / Idris Goodwin (1977)
Corners / Enzo Silon Surin (1977)
It's just begun / Mayda Del Valle (1978)
Ciphers pt. 1 ; Vigil pt. 1 / Denizen Kane (1978)
I have a drone / Paul Martinez Pompa
Crews ; Slang ; O.P.P. / Kyle Dargan (1980)
100 bells ; Nocturne in need of a bitch ; Blossoms in the dark ; Self-portrait as slinky / Tarfia Faizullah (1980)
Elegy for a trojan ; Ode to a star fig ; Ode to gentrification ; Ode to a killer whale / Samantha Thornhill (1980)
Harbor / Aleshea Harris (1981)
Evolution of my block ; Evolution of my profile ; GTA : Sandreas (or, 'Grove Street bitch!') / Jacob Saenz (1982)
Bint ibrahim / Nadia Sulayman (1982)
Ha ha hum ; Adventures / Sarah Blake (1984)
Small poems for big / Adam Falkner (1984)
Stakes is high ; When I'm alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call ; Ars poetica in the mode of j-live Bonita applebum / Marcus Wicker (1984)
Self portrait with gunshot vernacular ; Self portrait from the other side ; Thaumaturgy / Michael Mlekoday (1985)
To the notebook kid / Kristiana Colon (1986)
In search of black birds / Ciara Miller (1987)
Let me handle my business, damn / Morgan Parker (1987)
When asked about my hometown : an admission ; When asked about my hometown : an anecdote ; Love letter to Zack, the black power ranger / Joshua Bennett (1988)
When I put my hands in the air it's praise / Alysia Nicole Harris (1988)
Winthrop Ave. ; We house : after Krista Franklin's definition of funk / Britteney Black Rose Kapri (1988)
Legend ; Ghazal for my sister ; Conspiracy : A suite ; Gravity / Angel Nafis (1988)
Ode to the first white girl I ever loved ; Home court / Jose Olivarez (1988)
No country for black boys / Joy Priest (1988)
Always & forever ; Self-portrait as exit wounds ; Prayer for the newly damned ; Daily bread / Ocean Vuong (1988)
When tip drill comes on at the frat party or, when refusing to twerk is a radical form of self-love ; Unemployment ; Pluto shits on the universe / Fatimah Asghar (1989)
Pussy monster ; Impulse buy / Franny Choi (1989)
On caskets ; Prelude ; Picking flowers; juke / Nate Marshall (1989)
Broken ghazal in the voice of my brother jacob / Aaron Samuels (1989)
Cue the gangsta rap when my knees bend ; Twerk (v.) ; Dinosaurs in the hood ; Dear white America / Danez Smith (1989) werk (v.)
Defense ; Blk girl art ; Deep in the homeroom of doom ; Daddy dozens / Jamila Woods (1989)
What the eyes saw / Benjamin Alfara (1990)
A suite for ol' dirty Safia Elhillo (1990)
Juicy (an erasure / Aziza Barnes (1992)
Badu interviews Lamar (an erasure) ; Police / Camonghne Felix (1992)
Beat writers / Steven Willis (1992)
Four elements of ghostdance / Reed Bobroff (1993)
Grand slam / Malcolm London (1993)
This, here / Kush Thompson (1994)
My niece's hip-hop / E'mon McGee (1996)
Murder is my name / Angel Pantoja (1997)
Lesson one / Nile Lansana (1997) and Onam Lansana (1999)
Art. artifice, & artifact / Quraysh Ali Lansana
Artist statement / T'ai Freedom Ford
Artist statement / Michael Mlekoday
Artist statement / Douglas Kearney
Artist statement / Angel Nafis
A locus of control and the erasure / Aziza Barnes
Life is good : How hip-hop channels duende / Tara Betts
Journeying to the break : The cost of the pilgrimage / Roger Bonair-Agard
The art of the mistake: some notes on breaking as making / Patrick Rosal
Blueprint for breakbeat writing / Nate Marshall
