Malik Ameer Crumpler

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer, Spoken Word Artist

Paris
France
FR
Website: 
malikameercrumpler.my.canva.site…

Author's Bio

Malik Ameer Crumpler is a poet, composer, curator, editor, producer & professor involved in over 70 albums, several symphonic arias, GlitchArt films, Artbooks, literature anthologies, magazines, four collaborative creative books with A.I. poets as well as 10 books of Poetry. Currently, Malik is an Editor-at-Large for The Opiate while teaching Creative Writing, Artbook Making, Networking & Advanced English at SciencesPo, École de Guerre, Paris College Of Arts & Pôle Léonard de Vinci in Paris, France. Malik's newest works include the sonic experience "...&?" with Them Earth Moments avec Some A.I. Poets, available only on Bandcamp, as well as the new album, glitch video experience and Artbook ,"Ghouls" by Bastien Keb on First Word Records. https://bastienkeb.bandcamp.com/album/gh...

For Malik’s 4 newest books (written for A.I. not humans between 2023-2025) with his uniquely tuned A.I. Quartet, please follow the links below:

We Are the Song That Sings Itself 

https://medium.com/@malik.crumpler/we-ar...

From Critique to Ceremony: A.I., Mystics, and the Infinite Prompt 

https://www.lulu.com/shop/malik-crumpler...

The Dirge Instead Of Ecosystems Of The Unseen

https://www.lulu.com/shop/malik-ameer-cr...

noēmica: Signalpoetics Reassessed ⊚

https://www.lulu.com/shop/malik-ameer-cr...

Published Poetry Books & Chapbooks (Pre & Post A.I.)::

GHOULS (Satori Ideas & First Word Records 2025)/ ...&? 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)

For more information on Malik's work please read “On Trusting Improvisation More than Perfection” an interview by Mia Funk for The Creative Process https://www.creativeprocess.info/writers...

as well as Imran Khan’s PopMatters Interview & Critical Analysis of Crumpler’s work Big DADA Kane

https://www.popmatters.com/malik-ameer-c...

 

 

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthologies:
Emergency Index vol. 6 (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017)
,
STATE OF THE UNION (Mascot Books, 2017)
,
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
,
Ambit
,
at large
,
Fjords Review
,
Plural
,
Quail Bell
Performance:
The Cloak of Karasu: The Ant King (2016)

Poetry

Anthologies:
Maintenant 19 (Three Rooms Press, 2025)
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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)
,
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:
Apogee Journal
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Five 2 One Magazine
,
The Opiate
,
Pank
,
Paris Lit Up
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Postscripts
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Quail Bell
,
The Rumpus
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)
,
Busboys & Poets features "The Rest Is Now a 2020 Black History D.C. Tour" (2020)
,
Paris Lit Up "A Dialogue In Haikus Avec Richard Wright" (2019)
,
"JACOBZ LADDR" Composers Now Festival @ Firehouse (2015)
,
(((((((Inevitable Mutations)))))))) Bonnefooi Brussels exhibition avec Alex Deforce (2015)
,
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)
,
Amber Hymns Book Launch @ Happy Time East Village NY, NY (2012)
,
Amber Hymns Bushwick Brooklyn Reading Ordervision (2012)
,
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 

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Favorite authors: 
YOU & ALL THE INVISIBLE ONES.
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, tic tic tic by Heidi Seaborn

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: Nov 16, 2025