Malik Ameer Crumpler

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer, Spoken Word Artist

Paris
France
FR

Author's Bio

Malik Ameer Crumpler is a poet, composer, curator, editor & professor involved in over 60 albums, several GlitchArt films, Artbooks, literature anthologies & 9 books of Poetry.  Originally from Oakland, California Malik has lived in Paris since 2016 after 12 years in NYC where he gained an MFA in Creative Writing from L.I.U. Brooklyn after co-founding, hosting & editing the online journals Madmenscalling, Those That This & Visceral Brooklyn. Currently, Malik is an Editor-at-Large for The Opiate while teaching Creative Writing & Advanced English at several Universities in Paris, France. Crumpler's new book, "...&?" is an Artbook of new & previously published poems & nonpoems, exclusively available at The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore 9 & 11 rue de Médicis, Paris, France.

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RECENT & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS/ SONIC PROJECTS/ ARTICLES: 

Lumpen Station (Switzerland)13.06.24, 18:00-19:30= Fork Burke with Solid Betschart, Jason Stoneking and Malik Crumpler (premiers the music-audiobook for ...&?)  in the Studiolo, Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne  https://lumpenstation.art/

Le nom du son Une Anthologie Jazz et Poésie edited by Franck Médioni & Tom Buron (Le Castor Astral 2024)

Jazz and Literature An Introduction Edited By Maria Antónia Lima, Mia Funk  (Routledge 2024)

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L'Air Arts Atellier 11 Book Talk: Changing My Mind by Debra Spark in conversation with Malik Crumpler 06/01/2024  https://www.lairarts.com/book-talk-chang...

MAINTENANT 18: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (Three Rooms Press 2024)

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The Opiate : In Conversation with Bonafide Rojas... https://theopiatemagazine.com/2024/05/19... 

Launch party & reading for ARCHIVE 501 @ Paris College of Arts May 2, 2024  https://archive501.cargo.site/information

Please Pick Up Anthology (Interview with Samiera Abou-Nasr) May 2, 2024

“Virtual Reverence. Lala Drona Solo exhibition" from April 27, 2024 poems inspired by the visual works of Lala Drona@ Elios Gallery:   https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6RkMJ1t2ZO/

"Transformation" Spoken Word Paris feature April 22 2024 Cave Café Lamarck 134 rue Marcadet, 75018 

Luminous Loops: A Review of Chloe Briggs’ and Lillian Davies’ Playgrounds  THE OPIATE

 

Published Poetry Books & Chapbooks:

...&? Volume One (Another Satori Ideas Paperbook Paris, France 2024)/ The Rest Is Now (Isolation Collection Prague, Czech Republic 2020)/ Beneath The Underground: Collected Raps 2000 - 2018 (Satori Ideas Paris, France 2018)/  Inevitable Mutations Act II (B'AM Paris, France 2015)/ (((((((Inevitable Mutations)))))) Act I (On Point Bruxelles, ​Belgium 2015)/ §§§§LOCKED LANGUAGE§§§§§ (B'AM Paris, France 2014)/ LITTLE EVERYWHERE (ANAÏS EDITION) –(Satori Ideas, New York 2014)/ Amber Hymns: poems, prayers, raps (Satori Ideas, New York 2011)/ Drapetomania by The Unseen (Hip Hop Infinity 2001)

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Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthologies:
Emergency Index vol. 6 (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017)
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STATE OF THE UNION (Mascot Books, 2017)
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to kingdom come voices against political violence (Onslaught Press, 2016)
Books:
MAINTENANT 16: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (Three Rooms Press, 2022)
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Not My President- THE ANTHOLOGY OF DISSENT | 2017 (Thoughtcrime Press, 2017)
Journals:
Across the Margin
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Ambit
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at large
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Plural
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Performance:
The Cloak of Karasu: The Ant King (2016)

Poetry

Anthologies:
Jazz and Literature An Introduction Edited By Maria Antónia Lima, Mia Funk (Routledge, 2024)
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Maintenant 18: A Journal Of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art (Three Rooms Press, 2024)
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MAINTENANT 17: A Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art (Three Rooms Press, 2023)
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2021 Featured Poets Anthology (Moonstone Press, 2022)
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Maintenant 14: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (Three Rooms Press, 2020)
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Maintenant 13: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art (Three Rooms Press, 2019)
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VERSO / volume 5 "Mass" (Versal Editorial Group, 2019)
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Maintenant 12: Dada Journal (Three Rooms Press, 2018)
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Maintenant 11: Dada Journal (Three Rooms Press, 2017)
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BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT (Long Island University Press, 2015)
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Cipactli 2004 (San Francisco State University Press, 2004)
Journals: , , ,
Pank
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Paris Lit Up
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Postscripts
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Performance:
21st Century Underground Railroad Meeting in Paris, France (2018)

Spoken Word

Performances:
Three Room Press and NYPL Tompkins Square Library present: International  ¡DADA! Virtual Salon 2022  (2022)
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"Richard Wrighting cuz The Rest Is Now" with The Reach @ The John F. Kennedy Center (2020)
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Busboys & Poets features "The Rest Is Now a 2020 Black History D.C. Tour" (2020)
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Paris Lit Up "A Dialogue In Haikus Avec Richard Wright" (2019)
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"JACOBZ LADDR" Composers Now Festival @ Firehouse (2015)
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(((((((Inevitable Mutations)))))))) Bonnefooi Brussels exhibition avec Alex Deforce (2015)
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B'AM Paris avec Alex Deforce "Inevitable Mutations​​ Act II" (2015)
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HarvestWorks Jakob's Laddr & Cloak of Karesu (2015)
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Panoply Performance Lab, Brooklyn NY Cloak Of Karesu (2015)
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Poets Live, Paris (2015)
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Firehouse Space "Little Everywhere Improvised Opera" (2014)
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Spoken Word Paris (2014)
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Amber Hymns Book Launch @ Happy Time East Village NY, NY (2012)
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Amber Hymns Bushwick Brooklyn Reading Ordervision (2012)
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Rush Arts Gallery, NYC "POST CODE CRIMINALS Closing Performance" (2012)
Prizes won: 

Prix André Manoukian 2022 for Monk Mystére (Editions Seghers ) / Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities Grant 2020 / Best Of Across The Margin 2018 ARTS, MUSIC, FILM & CULTURE for "Uncloaking Beneath The Underground" / "Excellence In English Award" Long Island University, Brooklyn 2016 / "In Real Life Cinema Awards NYC for "((1I)) Amber Hymns video poem" 2012 

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) by SLY STONE, Easily Slip Into Another World by HENRY THREADGILL, Finnegans Wake by JAMES JOYCE

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Oakland, CA
California
Raised in: 
New York, NY
New York
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Last update: Aug 21, 2024