Né in the way out West, Kaie Kellough has been based in Montréal since 1998. He is a bilingual author, editor, educator, and general word-sound systemizer. His bop-inflected vox and text syncopate Canada’s solitudes. Kaie has performed and published across Canada and in the United States. His poetry has recently appeared in Shelf magazine (Houston, TX, 2010), and 580 Split, a journal of arts and letters (Oakland, CA, 2010). Kaie is the author of Lettricity (Cumulus Press, 2004) and his latest book is Maple Leaf Rag (Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2010). Kaie’s work has been featured on CBC radio, Zed TV, and Bravo. He recently completed a sound-recording, Vox Versus, which will be released on the Wired on Words imprint in 2011. Since 2005, Kaie has conducted language workshops as part of Blue Metropolis. Since 2007, he has received annual invitations to discuss language and poetry with undergraduate students in McGill University's faculty of education. He has given educational, language-centered presentations throughout Montréal at the high-school, CÉGEP and university levels, and he has twice been commissioned to create themed performance poems by the Québec Ministry of Education. His commissioned works have been taught throughout the province of Québec.

goodbye hip hop

goodbye nigger & all that rhymes with you, middle fingers & triggers, biggers & figures, gold diggers. goodbye end rhyme. goodbye gangster minstrels, b.e.t. shuck & jive, cornrows pinching teen minds

goodbye slang memes: willy, front, bling, kicks, floss. goodbye arch type, lip synch stereo trope, whole ghetto hefted on shoulder hype

goodbye hip hope, club shot up, hole in heart, diamond copped, spade dropped by a hot steel tip, afterlife shades who flip rocks into royce rolls & stack stocks cold & spit golden stools, who hire white chauffeurs to spirit fools across the cross, fader, over the main seam

goodbye detritus of american dramas, one hit wanderers turned cab drivers, rap raconteurs in obscure hoods, lyrics falling on deaf heards, cipher at your ear’s epic enter

goodbye representation & your insane demeans, have not rental dreams, benz lexus & fabulous beams, goodbye 5% notion, afro asiatic slack men, jingling booty vixens, supermasculine menial gender prescriptions

goodbye head nod, blunt thought, ebonic champ rhyme chops, subwoofer hard knocks & b movie barber shops.
your moment is moot. if you be table turning revelation, looping reincarnation, if movement you be, mutate