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Chinaka Hodge writes poetry, plays, and essays, as well as works for TV and film, and teaches in public classrooms. Poems by Chinaka Hodge. Small Poems for Big.
Small Poems for Big. By Chinaka Hodge. Twenty-four haiku, for each year he lived. when you die, i’m told. they only use given names. christopher wallace. no notorious. neither b.i.g. nor smalls. just voletta’s son.
Her poems, editorials, interviews and prose have been featured in Newsweek, San Francisco Magazine, Believer Magazine, PBS, NPR, CNN, C-Span, and in two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry. In 2013 and 2014, she was featured in two of Watsky's music videos as a guest rapper and writer.
May 30, 2017 · Chinaka Hodge reads new and commissioned work, forefronting politics, home and cultural remembrance.This performance is from the 2017 Othering&Belonging Conf...
- 16 min
- 1871
- Othering & Belonging Institute
Get Lit Anthology. Chinaka Hodge (?-present) was born in Oakland, California. She graduated from the Gallatin School at New York University and received USC’s Annenberg fellowship for the school of cinematic arts where she received her MFA in writing for film and TV.
Drawing on their shared passion for inspiring young activists, Chinaka and Kara will explore Hodge’s experience with IRONHEART, the importance of diverse representation in media, and her journey with storytelling as a tool for inspiring social change.
May 8, 2016 · In this new collection of 25 poems, she examines her own life through the lens of hip-hop, modeling the book’s length on a classic double album. The collection’s title poem is a scathing critique of “washed-up” rappers “otherwise known as old dudes rocking old fits” and hitting on teenage girls.
