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Audio Poem of the DayNoticeBy Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
2025-03-1801 min
Haymarket Books LiveThe Limitless Heart: A Conversation with Cheryl Boyce-Taylor & Glenis RedmondCome celebrate the launch of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s collected poems The Limitless Heart.
Encompassing the breadth of Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s astounding career, The Limitless Heart is a time capsule of the boundless love, care, grief, and fortitude that make her work so stirring.
With deep empathy, thoughtfulness, charisma, and lyricism, Boyce-Taylor’s work explores questions of immigration, motherhood, and queer sensuality, among other themes. Grief is both an anchor and a door throughout Boyce-Taylor’s poetry, as seen in Mama Phife Represents, a hybrid of memoir and verse on the death of her son, Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor of A Tribe Called...2024-01-091h 17
Articulate ExperienceLanguage ArtistsOn this episode of Articulate Experience—three writers whose love of language propelled their work. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon hasn’t lived in Ireland since he was a teenager. But everywhere he’s gone, his native culture’s obsession with language and storytelling has travelled with him. A childhood love of words led Kory Stamper to spend nearly twenty years writing and editing dictionary definitions. Cheryl Boyce-Taylor has found purpose in preserving and promoting her native Trinidadian creole through her dialectic poetry,[01:01] Paul Muldoon [12:18] Kory Stamper [34:58] Cheryl Boyce-Taylor Articulate Experience exam...2023-01-2754 min
Nerdacity Podcast with DuEwa FrazierEp. 30 Cheryl Boyce - Taylor Talks Mama Phife RepresentsProduced by DuEwa World - Consulting + Bookings http://www.duewaworld.com Ep. 30 DuEwa interviewed poet, curator, and author Cheryl Boyce - Taylor. Her latest book is Mama Phife Represents (Haymarket Books). Cheryl discussed her life in poetry, her late son, Malik "Phife Dawg" Taylor, a member of the legendary hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest. Visit her website at www.CherylBoyceTaylor.net.
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In the TellingEpisode 20: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor on Loss, Love, and CourageOn the season finale of In the Telling, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor shares poems and memories from her recent book of poetry, Mama Phife Represents, honoring her son, Hip-Hop Legend, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest aka Malik Taylor.
Mama Phife Represents is a verse memoir of a poet, mother and teaching artist who suddenly loses her son to type 1 diabetes. It is a story of loss, love, and courage.
Boyce-Taylor’s work has appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and The Chicago Review of Books. She holds an MFA in creative writing/poetry fr...2021-05-0533 min
The 92nd Street Y, New YorkRead By: Yesenia MontillaYesenia Montilla on her selections:
It seems truly unbelievable that we are coming on a year of this pandemic and I have been like so many: just trying my hardest to survive. How I have survived is by slipping into poetry; my own and others. What deeply moves me about the four poems I chose are their honesty and their surprise, their tenacity and how they unravel a kind of ethos for us all within every line. The words have carried me through even though to me all four seem to work as elegies in a lot of ways; the...2021-03-1408 min
Haymarket Books LiveBlack Mothering as Poetic Archive (1-12-21)Join Cheryl Boyce-Taylor and Alexis Pauline Gumbs as they discuss mothering, parenting, loss, and Cheryl's new book Mama Phife Represents.
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Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet and teaching artist. She earned an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine and an MSW from Fordham University. Her collections of poetry include Raw Air (2000), Night When Moon Follows (2000), Convincing the Body (2005), and Arrival (2017), which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize.
The founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series, Boyce-Taylor is also a poetry judge for the New York Foundation for the Arts...2021-03-051h 27
Haymarket Books LiveMama Phife Represents presented by BreakBeat Poets Live! (1-7-21)Cheryl Boyce-Taylor in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib to celebrate the release of Boyce-Taylor’s intimate collection Mama Phife Represents, a tribute to her departed son Malik ‘Phife Dawg’ Taylor of the legendary hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest.
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Speakers:
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet and teaching artist. She earned an MFA from Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine and an MSW from Fordham University. Her collections of poetry include Raw Air (2000), Night When Moon Follows (2000), Convincing the Body (2005), and Arrival(2017), which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize.
The founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitte...2021-03-0550 min
Joy Keys chats with Poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor about Mama Phife RepresentsCheryl Boyce-Taylor is a poet and workshop facilitator. The recipient of the 2015 Barnes and Noble Writers For Writers Award, she is the founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series.
Cheryl earned an MFA in Poetry from Stonecoast: The University of Southern Maine, and an MSW from Fordham University.
She is the author of four collections of poetry: Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, Convincing the Body, and Arrival. A poetry judge for The New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, she has facilitated poetry workshops for Cave Canem, Poets & Write...2020-12-2642 min
Ampersand: The Poets & Writers PodcastMama Phife Represents by Cheryl Boyce TaylorMama Phife Represents by Cheryl Boyce Taylor by Poets & Writers2020-12-1602 min
Wilde OnEpisode 12: “The Men behind Great Women” -The Toronto Guys.Episode 12: This episode commences my series focusing on the men behind great women. If it wasn’t for these men, I would not have flourished into the wrestler and person I am today. These are the men that stepped outside the norm, and helped propel Women’s wrestling into the dynamic sport it is today. These are the men who pushed us to be more. Drove us to be great, and not just great for Women.
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Poem-a-DayCheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller"Recorded by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 27, 2020. www.poets.org2020-07-2702 min
Walter Edgar's JournalPeace Voices(Peace Center)Peace Voices is a spoken word outreach program of Greenville's Peace Center that uses poetry as a vehicle to tell unique, personal stories. Participants engage in master classes with Peace Center Poet-in-Residence Glenis Redmond, both at the Peace Center and in the community.On April 26, 2018, Peace Voices will present a Poetic Conversation at the Peace Center, For Poetry's Sake: Celebrating National Poetry Month. Guest poets will include Cheryl Boyce Taylor and Charleston's Marcus Amaker. Joining Dr. Edgar to talk about Peace Voices and the upcoming Conversation are Glenis Redmond; Charleston Poet Laureate, Marcus...2018-04-1651 min
LeftPOCLeft POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-StellyLeft POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-Stelly
Suggested Reading
Mary Anderson,“The Plight of Negro Domestic Labor,”The Journal of Negro Education 5 (1936),66-72
Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke,“The Bronx Slave Market,”The Crisis 42,(November 1935)
Frances Beal,“Double Jeopardy:To be Black & Female,”in Black Women’s Manifesto,edited by the Third World Women’s Alliance,(New York: Third World Women’s Alliance, 1970)
Keisha N. Blain,“‘[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World’:Pearl Sherrod,Black Internationalist Feminism,& Afro-Asian Politics during the 1930s,”Souls 17 (2015),90-112.
Rose Brewer,“Black radical theory & pract...2018-01-011h 23
Left POCket Project PodcastLeft POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-StellyLeft POCket Project Podcast - Episode 5 - Left, Black, & Badass - Interview w/Charisse Burden-StellySuggested ReadingMary Anderson,“The Plight of Negro Domestic Labor,”The Journal of Negro Education 5 (1936),66-72Ella Baker & Marvel Cooke,“The Bronx Slave Market,”The Crisis 42,(November 1935)Frances Beal,“Double Jeopardy:To be Black & Female,”in Black Women’s Manifesto,edited by the Third World Women’s Alliance,(New York: Third World Women’s Alliance, 1970)Keisha N. Blain,“‘[F]or the Rights of Dark People in Every Part of the World’:Pearl Sherrod,Black Internationalist Feminism,& Afro-Asian Politics duri...2018-01-011h 23