TONY MEDINA

POET. WRITER. EDITOR. AUTHOR. LECTURER. SCHOLAR.

Committing to breathing.

No Noose is good Noose.

ANTHOLOGIES

“Last Tango with Django”. Is Black Hollywood Chained? Ed. Ishmael Reed. Chicago: Third World Press, 2015. Essay.

“Everything You Wanted to Know about Hip Hop” and “The Keepin’ It Real Awards”. The Break Beat Poets: Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop. Eds. Quraysh Ali Lansana, Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015.

Introduction: “Black Gold in the Hour of Chaos,” “My Old Man Was Always on the Lamb,” “The Old Folks in Front of My Father’s Building” and “Rumsfeld Confesses in a Mosque in Harlem”. Black Gold: An Anthology of Black Poetry. Ed. Ja A. Jahannes. Turner Mayfield Publishing, 2014.

“Francine Francis,” “Bloodsong,” “Zama on MaMa,” “Baba,” “Thandi Remembers Some Things,” “Chucha’s Last Christmas,” “When Our Baba Was Alive,” “Thandi’s Song” and “Tezi’s Fear”. Cornbread, Fish and Collard Greens: Prayers, Poems and Afffirmations for People Living with HIV/AIDS. Editor Khafre Kujichagulia Abif. Author House, 2013.

“Broke Baroque”. What Matters. Eds. Kaufman, Krawiec and Levin. North Carolina: Jacar Press, 2013. 15-16.

“Senryu for Trayvon Martin. Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin & Marissa Alexander. Editor Ewuare X. Osayande. New Jersey: FreedomSeed Press/Talking Drum Comunications, 2013. 156-157.

“Deep Sea Blues”. Ocean Voices: An Anthology of Ocean Poems. Ed. Everett Hoagland. Massachusetts: Spinner Publications, Inc., 2013. 92.

“Broke Sum Dum Luck”. Poetry Ink. Pennsylvania: Moonstone Art Center, 2011.

“JB’s Great Escape” and “Brown Sonnet”. Say It Loud!: Poems about James Brown. Eds. Mary Weems And Michael Oatman. Camden, NJ: Whirlwind Press, 2011. 35 and 82-85.

“Basketball Jones: Bofwana’s Revenge”. 44 on 44: 44 African American Writers on the Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the US. Eds. Lita Hooper, Sonia Sanchez and Michael Simanga. Chicago: Third World Press, 2010. 125-131. Fiction.

“Sometime in the Summer There’s October”. 100 Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated). Ed. Nikki Giovanni.  Illinois: Sourcebooks Media Fusion, 2010. 174-178.

“Lazy Russ”. Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams. Ed. M.L. Liebler  Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2010. 156.

“Cannibals on U Street”. Full Moon on K Street: Poems about Washington, DC. Ed. Kim Roberts. Pennsylvania: Plan B Press, 2010. 107.

“Francine Francis (age 13) and “Chucha’s Last Christmas”. Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS. Eds. Kelly Norman Ellis and M.L. Hunter. Chicago: Third World Press, 2010. 56-57; 95-97.

“Serious Trouble Will Bypass You”. Let Loose on the World: Celebrating Amiri Baraka at 75. Ed. Ted Wilson, et al. New York: The Amiri Baraka Commemoration Committee, 2009. 412-416.
Book Introductions

“Black Gold in the Hour of Chaos”. Black Gold.

“What Profits a People whose Poet Prophsizes?”. Last of the Po’Ricans y Otros Afro-Arifacts. Author. Not4Prophet. New York: 2Leaf Press, 2013. 1-4.

“Shaggy’s Bugalú: An Introduction”. Obatala’s Bugalú: A Nuyorican Book of Sights and Sounds Author. Shaggy Flores. Virginia: South of Harlem, 2013. 1-5.

JOURNALS

“The Autobiography of Michael Jackson’s Skin” and “Brown Sonnet”. Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Volume 16: 1, The Sonnet Issue, January 2015). Eds. Kim Roberts and Michael Gushue. www.beltwaypoetry.com.

“Dame un Tragito”. North American Review. University of North Iowa.

“Dame un Tragito”. African Voices (Spring/Fall 2014). 30.

“Featured Article: ‘Prolific Writer Tony Medina Passes the Torch’ by Maitefa Angaza’,” “Reasons to Riot” and “Poem for Hugo Chavez”. African Voices (Summer/Spring 2013). 16-19.

“On the Passing of a Major Revolutionary Poet, Louis Reyes Rivera”. Killens Review of Arts & Letters: “Impact Beyond Boundaries” (Fall/Winter 2013). 9-10. Essay.

“Oscar Peterson,” “Serious Trouble Will Bypass You,” “Bipolar Blues,” Watermelon” and “Welcome”. Beltway Poetry Quarterly (Volume 14:2, Spring 2013). www.beltwaypoetry.com.

“High Blood Pressure,” “Uncle Pepe” and “A Mother’s Prayer”) in the Saranac Review (Issue 8), State University of New York College at Plattsburgh, Fall 2012. 18-22.

“Bopping with the Boombox”. Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature (Vol. 17, No. 1, Winter 2012). 49-51. Essay.

“Growing Up without Books: Discovering DeShawn”. The Open Book (Blog.LeeandLow.Com), April 2013. Essay.

“Peace Haiku” published and featured on public mass transit buses, trains and billboards in the City of Philadelphia for Sonia Sanchez’s peace and literacy campaign, Peace Is a Haiku Song, Winter-Spring 2013.

“Broke Bop Boogie”. Reverie: Midwest African American Literature (Volume 5), 2011. 78-79.

“Broke Gone with the Wind” and “Broke Art History”. phati’tude Literary Magazine (Volume 3, Number 1); Spring Has Returned: A Season of Renewal.

“An Interview with Tony Medina,” “Broke Ode,” “Broke ‘It Is What It Is’,” “Pink Slip Blues,” “Indignant Blues” and “Broke on Death Row”. Little Patuxten Review (Issue 11, Social Justice Issue, 2012). 45-60

“Kwansaba”. Drumvoices Revue (20th Anniversary Issue, 2012).

“Things to Blame Hip Hop For”. Bureau 39 (Bandit Queen Press, 2011). Ed. Lesley-Ann Brown.

“Hip Hop Hurts Sometimes” and “Things to Blame Hip Hop For”. Words, Beat & Life: The Journal of Hip-Hop Culture. Volume 5, Issue 1. Fall/Winter 2012. 128-131.

“Hip Hop Hurts Sometimes” and “An Interview with Tony Medina”. phati’tude Literary Magazine (Volume 2, Number 4); Celebrating Black History Through Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to Today. Winter 2011. 93 and 98-99; 193-195.

Justin Torres’ novel, We The Animals, Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. Washington Independent Review of Books (August-September, 2011). Book Review.

“On the Passing of a Major Revolutionary Poet: Louis Reyes Rivera) in phati’tude Literary Magazine (Volume 3, Number 4); What’s in a Nombre?: Writing Latin@ Identity in America, (April 2012). Essay.

Toni Morrison’s novel, Home, Knopf, 2012. Washington Independent Review of Books (May, 2012). Book Review.

“Slam-A-Lot,” “Everything You Wanted to Know about Hip Hop,” and “On Laura Schlessinger and Her N-Word Rant”. Journal of African Studies, Poetry Issue, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 2011. Ed. Marvin X. 349-354.

“Red” and “Blue Scowl Aubade”. Reverie: Midwest African American Literature (Fall 2010): 30-33.

“Lydia Munoz (Age 13),” “Samantha Negron (Age 13),” and “How to Become a United States Citizen”. Tidal Basin Review (Summer 2010): 88-92.

“The Old Testament”. phati’tude Literary Magazine(Volume 2, Number 1), Multiculturalism: In Search of a New Perspective. The International Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc., Spring 2010. 57.

“When I Think of You, Love”; “First Suit”; and “Star” Tidal Basin Review, Inaugural Issue (Spring 2010). 113-117.

“Rumsfeld Confesses in a Mosque in Harlem”. Amistad (Fall/Winter 2010).

“Holy Communion”; “I Mainline Heroin”; “Simpson Street”; “Lebanon”; “Feeding My Mother at Seventy-two”: “September”; “Broke Barbie”; and “An Onion of Wars”. Paterson Literary Review (PLR) # 37 (2009): 41-47.