<div><p>Just as blues influenced the Harlem Renaissance and jazz influenced the Black Arts Movement, hip-hop's musical and cultural force has shaped the aesthetics of and given rise to a new generation of American poets.</P><p>Edited by poets Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall, and Quraysh Ali Lansana, <I>The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop</I> is the first anthology of poetry from the hip-hop generation. The BreakBeat Poets are multigenerational and multiracial. They are the real-life documentarians of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, employing traditional and wildstyle poetics to narrate a new country and city landscape.</P><p><B>Kevin Coval</B> is the author of <I>Schtick</I>, <I>L-vis Lives!: Racemusic Poems</I>, <I>Everyday People</I>, and the American Library Association "Book of the Year" finalist <I>Slingshots: A Hip-Hop Poetica</I>. He is the founder of Louder Than a Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival, artistic director at Young Chicago Authors, and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<BR></P><p><B>Quraysh Ali Lansana</B> is author of eight poetry books, three textbooks, and a children's book; editor of eight anthologies; and co-author of a book of pedagogy. He is associate professor of English and creative writing at Chicago State University. Two collections of his poetry will be released in 2014.<BR></P><p><B>Nate Marshall</B> is from the south side of Chicago. He is an MFA candidate in creative writing at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in <I>Poetry</I> magazine, <I>Indiana Review</I>, the <I>New Republic</I>, <I>[PANK] Online</I>, and in many other publications.<BR></div>