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Arrival’s companion CD, Spell – cover photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
published by Northwestern University Press
photo by Marcia Wilson

Saturday, March 30th, 8 – 9:30pm

 

On the JPAC stage at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning

“represent, represent”

Women’s History Month

Get your FREE tickets now.    Register here: JPACrepresent

#ATCQ #RepresentRepresent #phifedawg #strengthcourageandwisdom #trinidadandtobago #arimatrinidad #mamaphife

 


 

The Limitless Heart: New and Selected Poems (1997-2022)

Order from Haymarket Books here.  

Also available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Released October 17, 2023 by Haymarket Books! Purchase here.

Also available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

 


 

Nominated for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Poetry, awarded to published book authors in recognition of literary excellence.

We Are Not Wearing Helmets

 

 

 


Flowers For Linda podcast with Caits Meissner

Read Cait Meissner’s full PEN America Interview with Cheryl

 


 

Winner of the 2022 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

by The Publishing Triangle

 

Mama Phife Represents

a verse memoir for her son,

Hip Hop icon Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor

 

 

Purchase at:

Haymarket Books   

Harriett’s Bookshop

 

 

“MOTHER OF THE QUEST

   by Sheila Maldonado, from A Gathering of the TRIBES Magazine

…“How can he possibly be an ancestor already, gone almost five years? How can you possibly deal with that loss. Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, his mother, a poet in her own right, a mother of poetry, does what that job entails, she shares how. She offers us her dizzying lyrical grief in Mama Phife Represents. She is kind enough, generous enough to take us through her intimate memories. Malik was diagnosed with diabetes just as ATCQ’s first album was released in 1990 and he fought it throughout his life and career, receiving a…“  Read More

 


 

Mama Phife Represents Launches!


Interviews & Reviews

Joy Keys chats with Poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor about Mama Phife Represents

James Navé / Twice 5 Miles Radio Mama Phife Represents with poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Mom Egg Review by Nadia Wynter

A Gathering of the Tribes Review by Sheila Maldonado “Mother of the Quest”

Rolling Stone Article “Phife Dawg: Read the Poignant Poems Rapper’s Mother Wrote About Tribe Called Quest MC”

 


BreakBeat Poets Live…

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib to celebrate the release of her intimate collection Mama Phife Represents.

 
 
 
 

 

Interviews & Reviews

Joy Keys chats with Poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor about Mama Phife Represents

James Navé / Twice 5 Miles Radio Mama Phife Represents with poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Mom Egg Review by Nadia Wynter

A Gathering of the Tribes Review by Sheila Maldonado “Mother of the Quest”

Rolling Stone Article “Phife Dawg: Read the Poignant Poems Rapper’s Mother Wrote About Tribe Called Quest MC”

 


 

Black Mothering as Poetic Archive

Cheryl joins Alexis Pauline Gumbs as they discuss mothering, parenting, loss, and Cheryl’s new book,
Mama Phife Represents.

 

 
 
 

 

On PBS   

 

 

 


 

 Finalist for the 2018 Peterson Poetry Prize…

~ ARRIVAL ~

Arrival by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

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