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"Can I kick it?""Yes you can!" - A Tribe Called QuestSituated squarely in the oral traditions of hip-hop and BreakBeat Poetry, Idris Goodwins work bridges the divide between the reader and the poet. Combining the tongue-in-cheek and the irreverent with the melancholy and incisive, Goodwins poetry samples and re-purposes pop-culture - from Back to the Future to Prince, Missy Elliot to Dominique Wilkins - in order to reflect and remix the stories we tell ourselves and each other in order to live.
About the Author
IDRIS GOODWIN is an award-winning break beat poet and playwright. A 2021 United States Artist Fellow, Goodwin is the author of the pushcart nominated essay and poetry collection These Are The Breaks (Write Bloody) . In addition to the forthcoming poetry collection Can I Kick It? , he's had several publications with Haymarket Books including Inauguration, winner of the 2017 Literary Arts Award from The Pikes Peak Arts Council, Human Highlight: Ode To Dominique Wilkins and the controversial play This Is Modern Art co-written with Kevin Coval. His words have appeared on HBO, Sesame Street, NPR and BBC radio and Discovery Channel. He's received support from the NEA, The Ford, Mellon and Edgerton Foundation, and The Playwrights' Center's Mcknight Fellowship. Idris and his family live in Louisville, KY where he is the Producing Artistic Director of Stage One, a professional theatre company focused on youth. His widely produced stage plays include And In This Corner : Cassius Clay , How We Got On, and Hype Man: a break beat play.
