BreakBeat Poets Books in Order
BreakBeat Poets contains 8 books, published between 2016 and 2020. The first book is This Is Modern Art: A Play (2016) and the newest is Too Much Midnight (2020). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 2016–2020
- Pages on record
- 508 in 5 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 8.5–13 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 508 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
BreakBeat Poets is a poetry series of eight books published between 2016 and 2020, with credits across eight writers: Kevin Coval on two titles, and Idris Goodwin, Chancellor Bennett, Mahogany L. Browne, Idrissa Simmonds, Jamila Woods, Patricia Smith and Athena Dixon on one each. Subjects record American poetry, African American authors and women authors, African Americans in literature, Mexican Americans and immigration. This Is Modern Art: A Play (2016) stands first in the listing and Too Much Midnight (2020) last, with A People's History of Chicago, Black Girl Magic, Graphite, Citizen Illegal, On My Way to Liberation and Bloodstone Cowboy in between.
How many BreakBeat Poets books are there?
BreakBeat Poets has 8 books, released between 2016 and 2020.
BreakBeat Poets Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 BreakBeat Poets books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1This Is Modern Art: A Play2016 · confirmed 1/42016–1/4
- 2A People's History of Chicago2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 3Black Girl Magic2018 · 233 pages · confirmed 1/420182331/4
- 4Graphite2018 · 44 pages · confirmed 1/42018441/4
- 5Citizen Illegal2018 · 69 pages · confirmed 1/42018691/4
- 6On My Way to Liberation2018 · confirmed 1/42018–1/4
- 7Bloodstone Cowboy2019 · 42 pages · confirmed 1/42019421/4
- 8Too Much Midnight2020 · 120 pages · confirmed 1/420201201/4
Where to start with BreakBeat Poets
Start with This Is Modern Art: A Play (2016), the earliest published title.
What is the newest BreakBeat Poets book?
Too Much Midnight (2020) is the newest BreakBeat Poets book released so far.
Is there a new BreakBeat Poets book coming?
No next BreakBeat Poets book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
BreakBeat Poets at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest BreakBeat Poets title on record dates from 2020, 6 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- BreakBeat Poets books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 508 pages across the 5 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 69 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most BreakBeat Poets books, 7 of 8, were published in the 2010s.
- Attribution
- Of the 8 titles, 2 are credited to Kevin Coval, 1 to Idris Goodwin, 1 to Chancellor Bennett and 1 to Mahogany L. Browne. A further 10 writers are credited.
What the BreakBeat Poets books are about
4 of the 8 BreakBeat Poets books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: poetry is tagged on 3 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Poetry 3 of 4 books
- African American authors 1 of 4 books
- African American children 1 of 4 books
- African American women 1 of 4 books
- African Americans in literature 1 of 4 books
- Immigrants 1 of 4 books
- Mexican Americans 1 of 4 books
- Mexico, emigration and immigration 1 of 4 books
- POETRY / American / African American 1 of 4 books
- POETRY / Women Authors 1 of 4 books