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Hanif Abdurraqib

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Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poetry has been published in Muzzle, Vinyl, PEN American, and various other journals. His essays and music criticism have been published in The FADER, Pitchfork, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain't Worth Much, was released in June 2016 from Button Poetry. It was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. With Big Lucks, he released a limited edition chapbook, Vintage Sadness, in summer 2017 His first collection of essays, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was released in winter 2017 by Two Dollar Radio and was named a book of the year by Buzzfeed, Esquire, NPR, Oprah Magazine, Paste, CBC, The Los Angeles Review, Pitchfork, and The Chicago Tribune, among others. He released Go Ahead In The Rain: Notes To A Tribe Called Quest with University of Texas press in February 2019. The book became a New York Times Bestseller, and was met with critical acclaim. His second collection of poems, A Fortune For Your Disaster, was released in 2019 by Tin House. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.

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Hanif Abdurraqib

Hanif Abdurraqib

Books from Hanif Abdurraqib

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

The Crown Ain't Worth Much

Vintage Sadness

Sing, Aretha, Sing!: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Civil Rights Movement

Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School

Again I Wait For This To Pull Apart: A Poetry Mixtape

A Fortune for Your Disaster