“This collection of raps which go right back to the old skool is the best poetry collection you’ll buy this year…” DJ MAG
“…the philosophical, sophisticated, and deeply-affecting rhymes found in Malik Ameer Crumpler’s Beneath The Underground [is a] reflection on the meaning of the contents of this captivating release…” –Across The Margin
“Highly recommended for fans of the literary works of Saul Williams, Ursula Rucker, Amiri Baraka, Gil Scott-Heron.” Black Nerd Problems
“This year, the Bay Area-born Crumpler released his first book of raps, Beneath The Underground: Collected Raps 2000 – 2018, and I interviewed him about the influence of San Francisco on his work”- [PANK] magazine
“HIS new BOOK walks the line of poetry and rap..” Cold Lips Online
“Beneath the Underground is an over the top, high spin of cosmic stars, the deepest blue soundwave of subterranean see and sky that resonates in the soul and dares to lift the spirit beyond the Beyond. This is the ultimate dope, the opium of The People’s Church, the call and response of its many tribes–Oakland Tribe, Harlem Tribe, Paris Tribe– and all the new ancients whose holy echoes may be heard in the rhythm and drumroll of his every syllable. Not just another cellophane rapper, Crumpler seeks transparency in his fervent sincerity and healing heart. His ‘I’’ is not that of Ego, but there but for the Grace of you go Eye. His every word spoken and un celebrating the fragile strength and fullness of Life. Tops ! ” –Antonia Alexandra Klimenko (Spoken Word Paris Co-Curator )
((((Inevitable Mutations)))) Act II (B’AM, Paris 2015)
((((Inevitable Mutations))) Act I (On point, Brussels 2015)
§§§§LOCKED LANGUAGE§§§§§ (B’AM, Paris 2014)
LITTLE EVERYWHERE (ANAÏS EDITION) – (Satori Ideas N.Y. 2014)
LITTLE EVERYWHERE (An Improvised Opera 2014)
Amber Hymns (Satori Ideas, N.Y. 2011)
“Malik Crumpler’s Amber Hymns is a difficult collection to describe: sprawling through an urban chaos in which music and language combine, it is a bold attempt to codify a human experience where reality and spirituality exist both within and outside the mind. The work flows through many states, with Crumpler informing us that ‘Fire informs the chaos | that will permit | your new form to form’. The self is purged and a renewal is enacted: the motif of the phoenix and the owl – symbolic of resurrection and of death – abound the text.” –EGOIST REVIEW, Cambridge England
Poems, Fiction, Prose, Word Experiments
Thee Others The Sunday Tribune 2019, 8 Pages By 8 Authors Wifty Press Paris France 2019, Or Have They Been? Cold Lips Prague n Berlin Exhibition 2019, Burnout Medicine Lyrics.com 2019, MAINTENANT 13: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art 2019, The Bioptic Review: 2019 (Rage & Peace Book 2) 2019, Verse of April Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary 2019, Paris Lit Up Tour Dairy 2019, Paris Lit Up UK TOUR chapbook 2019, Divine Frankensteins The Sunday Tribune: Seeking Truth 2019, A Feel of the In-Between: An Interview With Juice Aleem The Opiate 2019, Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words 2018, About That Vibe (Leon Bridges Interview) At Large Magazine 2018, JONATHAN FINLAYSON’S SONIC GALLERIES Itchy Silk (part 1), JONATHAN FINLAYSON’S SONIC GALLERIES (part 2), Cold Lips Online 2018, Beyond Being Woke part one Itchy Silk 2018, Beyond Being Woke part two Itchy Silk 2018, Uncloakin’ Beneath The Underground Across The Margin 2018, Tin Lunchbox Review Vol. 2 No. 1 2018, PARIS IS A SHIP: Wifty Fun Press 2018, Maintenant 12 2018, COLD LIPS 04 2018, Fjords Review 4.3 2018 (Pushcart Prize Nomination), The Bioptic Review 2018, GANGSTER RAP-HEGEMONY CIRCA 1980 2018, GANGSTER RAP-HEGEMONY CIRCA 1980 (part 2) 2018, GANGSTER RAP-HEGEMONY CIRCA 1980 (part 3) 2018, Quiet Lunch No. 5 (2017 Pushcart Prize Nomination), The Remembered Arts Journal (2017 Pushcart Prize Nomination), The Mild Party 2017, Not My President 2017, States Of The Union 2017, POSTVOTE (an addendum to POSTmortem) 2017, Emergency Index vol. 6 2017, PLURAL:Online Prose Journal 2017 , Cabaret Voltaire Episode I: Official Handbook (2017), Cabaret Voltaire Episode II: Official Handbook (2017), BLYNKT ISSUE 2 2017, Verse Of April 2017, Bottlecap Press 2017, Rise Up Review 2017, maintenant 11 2017, Quail Bell Magazine 2017, FIVE: 2: ONE 2017, [ PANK ] 12 2017, The Elephant Magazine 2017, MULTIRACIAL MEDIA 2017, POSTmortem 2017, THE RUMPUS 2017, REJECTED POETRY JOURNAL 2017,DATABLEEDZINE 2016, TSUNAMI GANG 2016, “Intercapillary Space” 2016, The Opiate Online 2016, The Bastille 2016, to kingdom come voices against political violence 2016, The Gambler Mag 2016, Midhell NYC -2016, Paris Lit Up Magazine n°3 2015, GAMBAZine 2 2015, VisceralBrooklyn 2015, Brooklyn Paramount 2015, B’AM 2014, Apogee Journal 2014, The Opiate Summer Vol. 1 & Vol. 6 2014-2016, Art Fuse 2013, thosethatthis 2013, NYC MIND 2012, PROSPEKT PHOTO 2012, THOSETHATTHIS 2011, NYC Columbia University Rwanda Relief 2006, Madmens Calling 2005-2012, Cipactli S.F.C.- 2004, Cuba Libre -2001, S.F. Punk Hop 2001, The Unseen Magazine -2000, Aware Magazine 1999 .
Quail Bell Magazine 2017
Twelve Years A Clerk, Consolation Prize, P.T.A.S.D., O, United Goldfish Of America, Cores, Interview with a Goddess, Inevitable Mutations Act 1 & 2
Rappers Anonymous 2014-2017
Doing The Flamel PLURAL p 74 Issue 06 2017, He Ain’t Got Eyes For All That The Remembered Arts Journal (2017 Pushcart Prize Nomination), Twelve Years A Clerk Quail Bell Magazine 2017, Waiting For Rahim Post mortem Vol II 2017, ((((( 9 ))))) 2016, …Yep 2016, Enheduanna: Rapping With Grandma’s Ghost 2016
JOURNALISM 2017-2019
A Feel of the In-Between: An Interview With Juice Aleem The Opiate 2019, About That Vibe (Leon Bridges Interview) At Large Magazine, Neutron Star Cold Lips Online, Uncloakin’ Beneath The Underground Across The Margin, JONATHAN FINLAYSON’S SONIC GALLERIES, JONATHAN FINLAYSON’S SONIC GALLERIES (2), Beyond Being Woke (Lauryn Hill) , Beyond Being Woke (Lauryn Hill 2), GANGSTER RAP-HEGEMONY CIRCA 1980, GANGSTER RAP-HEGEMONY CIRCA 1980 (2), GANGSTER RAP-HEGEMONY CIRCA 1980 (3), The Mild Party 2017, GHOSTFACE KILLAH-THE RAP BLACKSMITH, TRANSATLANTIC POETRY
COMMISSIONS & WORKSHOPS
Malik Crumpler also wrote & performed several musicals, monologues, ballets/ arias, writing workshops, music workshops & discussions commissioned by:
L’Air Arts Paris Residency, Melodic Distraction Radio Liverpool U.K., Black Beacon Sound Sheffield U.K., Blues sur Seine Aubergenville, France, “Which Richard Wright Are You?” Paris, France, Lycée Collège Montaigne, Oxford Brookes University: TORCH Cultural Diversity in Literature: A Discussion, Oxford Writers House Paris Lit Up Showcase Oxford University, New Writing South: Writers Day Workshops & Q&A “Strong Words”, Brighton, England Shakespeare & Company Writing Workshop featured writer, Paris, France Shakespeare & Company Paris Lit Up Writing Workshop Host, Paris France, Paris Lit Up Richard Wrighting: A Haiku Dialogue, Catullus & Zukofsky: Performing translation for Berkeley Books Of Paris Fundraiser, Harvest Works NYC, Gilles Peterson BBC 6 London, UK World Wide Radio London, UK, Inter-Zones, Paris, France, Arat Kilo Festival ENRACINEMENT / DÉRACINEMENT – DÉPLACEMENT (3e édition) Orléans, France, Arat Kilo Festival Jazz sous les pommiers Normandie, France, Spoken Word Paris “A 21st Century Underground Railroad Meeting Analyzing The Paradox Of Violence “ Paris, France, L’Openbach Ecocentric Festival Paris, FranceComposers Now NYC, Firehouse SpaceBrooklyn NY,Dixon PlaceNYC, Liberation Dance Theater NYC, Association of Performing Arts Professionals NYC, Native Tongue Brooklyn Actors Fund Theater, Rush Arts Galleries NYC, Love Yourself Project NYC, Panoply Lab Brooklyn NY, B’AM Paris, France B’AM Vancouver, Canada On-PointBrussels, Belgium MayWay Records Kortrijk, Belgium Black Beacon SoundSheffield, UK & Double Wei Factory, Hong Kong, China.
EDITOR/ Co-editor/CURATOR/Co-Host
Unseen Magazine 1999-2001
Transfer Magazine S.F.S.U. Creative Writing Journal 2002
Madmenscalling.com 2004-2012
Those That This.com 2012-present
Visceral Brooklyn (L.I.U. Brooklyn MFA Literary Journal) 2014-2016
Paris Lit Up 2016-present
The Opiate Magazine 2017-present
Transatlantic Poetry Videocast 2017-2019
ItchySilk 2017-2019
RESEARCH ASSISTANT @ Long Island University Brooklyn
Dr. Louis J. Parascandola: Amy Jacques Garvey: Selected Writings from the Negro World 1923-1928
Dr. Louis J. Parascandola: Heroine Of The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings
Dr. Louis Parascandola: Harlem Renaissance Writers Abroad
Website Content Organizer & Editor
Dewey Crumpler
Mike Ladd
Def Pressé
Those That This
Poets Live