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FINNA
Poems
FINNA features dynamic poems that celebrate the Black vernacular and engage with the world through the lens of Hip Hop as well as America's vast reserve of racial and gendered epithets--from an award-winning author and poet.
By definition, the word finna means (1) going to; intending to, rooted in African American Vernacular English. (2) eye dialect spelling of "fixing to." (3) Black possibility; Black futurity; Blackness as tomorrow. In FINNA, Nate Marshall creates a lyrical and sharp celebration through poems which address the brevity and disposability of Black lives and other oppressed people in our current era of emboldened white supremacy.
In three key parts, FINNA explores the mythos and erasure of names in the American narrative; asks how gendered language can provoke violence; and finally, through the celebration and examination of the Black vernacular, expands the notions of possibility, giving us a new language of hope. It is a fun and accessible examination of language that is intellectually challenging and concerned with expanding visions of justice, while also welcoming in those who are kept out of conversations that concern them.
Nate Marshall is an award-winning author, editor, poet, playwright, performer, educator, speaker, and rapper. He is the author of WILD HUNDREDS (University of Chicago Press), which was honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's award for Poetry Book of the Year and The Great Lakes College Association's New Writer Award, editor of THE BREAKBEAT POETS: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books), BLOOD PERCUSSION (Button Poetry), and 1989, THE NUMBER. He is an assistant professor of English at Colorado College, an and a member of The Dark Noise Collective (with Fatima Asghar, author of IF THEY COME FOR US) and co-directs (with Eve Ewing) Crescendo Literary. Marshall wrote "No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks" with Eve Ewing, produced by Manual Cinema and commissioned by the Poetry Foundation; and the audio drama "Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis, Esq.," which was produced by Make-Believe Association. As an educator, Marshall co-wrote Chicago Public School's first literary arts curriculum. A native of Chicago, he completed his MFA in creative writing at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program and holds a BA in English and African American diaspora studies from Vanderbilt University. Marshall has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, and the University of Michigan.
In three key parts, FINNA explores the mythos and erasure of names in the American narrative; asks how gendered language can provoke violence; and finally, through the celebration and examination of the Black vernacular, expands the notions of possibility, giving us a new language of hope. It is a fun and accessible examination of language that is intellectually challenging and concerned with expanding visions of justice, while also welcoming in those who are kept out of conversations that concern them.
Nate Marshall is an award-winning author, editor, poet, playwright, performer, educator, speaker, and rapper. He is the author of WILD HUNDREDS (University of Chicago Press), which was honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's award for Poetry Book of the Year and The Great Lakes College Association's New Writer Award, editor of THE BREAKBEAT POETS: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books), BLOOD PERCUSSION (Button Poetry), and 1989, THE NUMBER. He is an assistant professor of English at Colorado College, an and a member of The Dark Noise Collective (with Fatima Asghar, author of IF THEY COME FOR US) and co-directs (with Eve Ewing) Crescendo Literary. Marshall wrote "No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks" with Eve Ewing, produced by Manual Cinema and commissioned by the Poetry Foundation; and the audio drama "Bruh Rabbit & The Fantastic Telling of Remington Ellis, Esq.," which was produced by Make-Believe Association. As an educator, Marshall co-wrote Chicago Public School's first literary arts curriculum. A native of Chicago, he completed his MFA in creative writing at the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program and holds a BA in English and African American diaspora studies from Vanderbilt University. Marshall has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, and the University of Michigan.
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Published 2020-08-11 by One World |