Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib | |
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Hanif Abdurraqib at CityLit 2023 at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Maryland | |
| Born | Columbus, Ohio, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, music critic |
| Genre | Poetry, essays, non-fiction |
| Subject | Music, culture, identity |
| Notable works | A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Go Ahead in the Rain |
| Notable awards | MacArthur Fellow |
| Website | |
| www.abdurraqib.com/ | |
Hanif Abdurraqib (formerly Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib; born 1983) is an American poet, essayist, and cultural critic. His first essay collection, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was published in 2017. His 2021 essay collection A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance received the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Abdurraqib received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2021.
Abdurraqib's poetry works include the 2016 poetry collection The Crown Ain't Worth Much and the 2019 collection A Fortune for Your Disaster. Abdurraqib's 2019 non-fiction book on the American hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes on A Tribe Called Quest, was on the long list for the 2019 National Book Award.