Hakim Bellamy's latest collection rings with the same power and grace as the people he lauds within its pages, including Nikki Giovanni and Martin Luther King Jr. He celebrates Albuquerque and New Mexico, taking the good with the bad, and reminds Burqueños that any day when you wake up along the Río Grande is a good day. As Bellamy celebrates the power of creativity and community within the city and the nation, he also demands that we face our society's faults, especially those of racism, racial profiling, and law-enforcement violence. The poems collected here insist that with the power to do right, people also have a responsibility to themselves, their loved ones, and complete strangers to be better and strive harder. Undoubtedly Bellamy is leading this charge, lighting the way for anyone ready to listen.

Commissions y Corridos: Poems (The Albuquerque Poet Laureate Series)

Literature & Fiction

Bellamy, Hakim

Poetry

University of New Mexico Press

In his debut collection of hard-hitting poems, Albuquerque Poet Laureate Hakim Bellamy addresses the issues important to our day--politics, work, and art. Bellamy moves from a freethinking attitude of deliverance to a provocative new space where the reader can reflect on the poet's inquisition of the one percent, working-class life in urban and rural America, and the transcendent value of hip hop as one of our top exports and global contributions. Swear politicizes the human condition in a manner that balances the abstract with the concrete.

Swear

West End Press

Samuel’s Story is a Multimedia Book written by Albuquerque’s Inaugural Poet Laureate Hakim Bellamy. It is illustrated by Artist Melvin Mayes and features the music of internationally known DJ, DJ Flo Fader. It is a coming of age story where a young child takes a “day off” from formal instruction to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up! The book will be available in both print and digital versions.

Samuel's Story: A Multimedia Children's Story

Floyd, Roscoe DJ Flo Fader

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

It is with this offering to the communities we come from and have come to represent that Hakim Bellamy and I, Carlos Contreras, pledge to continue to write, speak, and act. As poets, fathers, activists, and artists, these words hold truth, growth, and pain. From these places we develop our respective crafts, like so many practitioners who came before us - without space carved out - it has been created, and so from this place, we create. Listen, hear us, see us, and render yourself audible, visible, and important, along with us. In the beginning was the word - word.

Onna Tuesday: A Collection of Poems from Carlos Contreras and Hakim Bellamy

Contreras, Carlos

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Commissions y Corridos: Poems (The Albuquerque Poet Laureate Series)

Swear

Samuel's Story: A Multimedia Children's Story

Onna Tuesday: A Collection of Poems from Carlos Contreras and Hakim Bellamy