The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me

The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me

<p>The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities.</p><p><em>Halal If You Hear Me </em>features poems by Safia Elhillo, Fatimah Asghar, Warsan Shire, Tarfia Faizullah, Angel Nafis, Beyza Ozer, and many others.</p><p><strong>Fatimah Asghar </strong>is the creator of the Emmy-Nominated web series <em>Brown Girls</em>, now in development for HBO. She is the author of <em>If They Come For Us </em>and a recipient of a 2017 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is a member of the Dark Noise Collective and a Kundiman fellow. In 2017, she was listed on <em>Forbes</em>’s 30 Under 30 list.</p><p><strong>Safia Elhillo </strong>is the author of <em>The January Children</em>. Sudanese by way of Washington, DC and a Cave Canem fellow, she holds an MFA from the New School. In 2018, she was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.</p>