Happy Birthday, Malik!
aka “Phife Dawg”
In celebration of Malik’s birthday, Cheryl & Calypso Muse present a very special evening
TONIGHT!
Thursday, Nov 20th @ 7 pm in Bed Stuy at Gladys Books & Wine, located at 306 Malcolm X Blvd, join Cheryl, poets JP Howard and Mercy Tullis-Bukhari in tribute!
From Mother’s Day, 2003:
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
Read Cait Meissner’s full PEN America Interview with Cheryl
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
Purchase at:
“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!
