The Limitless Heart: New and Selected Poems (1997-2022)
Nominated for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award in Poetry, awarded to published book authors in recognition of literary excellence.
We Are Not Wearing Helmets
Flowers For Linda podcast with Caits Meissner
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Winner of the 2022 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
by The Publishing Triangle
Mama Phife Represents
a verse memoir for her son,
Hip Hop icon Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor
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“MOTHER OF THE QUEST“
by Sheila Maldonado, from A Gathering of the TRIBES Magazine
…“How can he possibly be an ancestor already, gone almost five years? How can you possibly deal with that loss. Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, his mother, a poet in her own right, a mother of poetry, does what that job entails, she shares how. She offers us her dizzying lyrical grief in Mama Phife Represents. She is kind enough, generous enough to take us through her intimate memories. Malik was diagnosed with diabetes just as ATCQ’s first album was released in 1990 and he fought it throughout his life and career, receiving a…“ Read More
Mama Phife Represents Launches!
Interviews & Reviews
Joy Keys chats with Poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor about Mama Phife Represents
James Navé / Twice 5 Miles Radio Mama Phife Represents with poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Mom Egg Review by Nadia Wynter
A Gathering of the Tribes Review by Sheila Maldonado “Mother of the Quest”
Rolling Stone Article “Phife Dawg: Read the Poignant Poems Rapper’s Mother Wrote About Tribe Called Quest MC”
BreakBeat Poets Live…
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor in conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib to celebrate the release of her intimate collection Mama Phife Represents.
Interviews & Reviews
Joy Keys chats with Poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor about Mama Phife Represents
James Navé / Twice 5 Miles Radio Mama Phife Represents with poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Mom Egg Review by Nadia Wynter
A Gathering of the Tribes Review by Sheila Maldonado “Mother of the Quest”
Rolling Stone Article “Phife Dawg: Read the Poignant Poems Rapper’s Mother Wrote About Tribe Called Quest MC”
Black Mothering as Poetic Archive
Cheryl joins Alexis Pauline Gumbs as they discuss mothering, parenting, loss, and Cheryl’s new book,
Mama Phife Represents.
On PBS
Finalist for the 2018 Peterson Poetry Prize…
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