Featured Work
Exploring identity, education, and social change through poetry, pedagogy, and prose.
Writing Ourselves Into Existence
Dissertation: "Writing Ourselves Into Existence: A Spoken Word Artist's autoethnography of liberatory Hip Hop pedagogy in public school classrooms.”
Growing Up Hip-Hop
Known as Hip-Hop’s Poet Laureate,“Almustafa is unafraid to tackle thorny issues of race, gender, class, love, hate, with a keen eye and a precision worthy of a doctor, a healer, a root worker,” says author Kevin Powell.
In this collection, award-winning spoken word artist, Kahlil Almustafa captures the evolutionary experiences, boldness, politics, dysfunction, contradictions and healing that have defined the hip-hop generation.
From Auction Block to Oval Office
Almustafa struggles with being a husband, a man and a responsible citizen of America and of the world. Written during Almustafa’s first year of marriage, these poems act as meditations and mantras, punch-lines and prayers. This collection poses the questions: What if all Americans wrote a letter to the president? What is we all stopped to reflect and write 100 poems?
