Cheryl Boyce-Taylor's guest appearances

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys

In the Telling

Poem-a-Day

Umi Says

Rita Dove

Nikki Grimes

Yolanda Wisher

Jericho Brown

Desiree C. Bailey

Scott Smith

Tracy K. Smith

Ryan Leslie

Arlan Hamilton

Bryan Stevenson

Yara Shahidi

Clint Smith

Jake Skeets

Jacqueline Woodson

Musa Okwonga

OwlTail

On the season finale of In the Telling, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor shares poems and memories from her recent book of poetry, Mama Phife Represents, honoring her son, Hip-Hop Legend, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest aka Malik Taylor. Mama Phife Represents is a verse memoir of a poet, mother and teaching artist who suddenly loses her son to type 1 diabetes. It is a story of loss, love, and courage. Boyce-Taylor’s work has appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and The Chicago Review of Books. She holds an MFA in creative writing/poetry from Stonecoast/The University of Southern Maine. Cheryl is the author of several books including Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, Convincing the Body, and Arrival: Poems, and the forthcoming, We Are Not Wearing Helmets: Poems (February 2022). For more information about Cheryl and her work, check out her website. Purchase Mama Phife Represents here.  Music by Sean Bempong.

On the season finale of In the Telling, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor shares poems and memories from her recent book of poetry, Mama Phife Represents, honoring her son, Hip-Hop Legend, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest aka Malik Taylor. Mama Phife Represents is a verse memoir of a poet, mother and teaching artist who suddenly loses her son to type 1 diabetes. It is a story of loss, love, and courage. Boyce-Taylor’s work has appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and The Chicago Review of Books. She holds an MFA in creative writing/poetry from Stonecoast/The University of Southern Maine. Cheryl is the author of several books including Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, Convincing the Body, and Arrival: Poems, and the forthcoming, We Are Not Wearing Helmets: Poems (February 2022). For more information about Cheryl and her work, check out <a href="https://cherylboycetaylor.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">her website</a>. Purchase <a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1551-mama-phife-represents" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mama Phife Represents here</a>.  Music by Sean Bempong.

Episode 20: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor on Loss, Love, and Courage

Robert Fuller

Recorded by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 27, 2020. www.poets.org

Recorded by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 27, 2020. <a href="https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.poets.org&amp;token=9d5a84-1-1583345147049" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.poets.org</a>

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor: "After Robert Fuller" 