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DESCRIPTION:Wednesday April 21, 6pm to 7:30pm Pacific time\n\nPlease join Tongo 
 Eisen-Martin, San Francisco's 8th Poet Laureate, and family for an evening 
 of poetry and exposition on the revolutionary potentials of art; as 
 beautifully no incarnation of craft exists outside of the movements, 
 renaissances; the people who pass us through.\n\nFeaturing:\n\nMarc Bamuthi 
 Joseph\nBiko Eisen-Martin\nMahogany Browne\nJive Poetic\nJoyce Lee\n 
 \n\nEisen-Martin was appointed as San Francisco's 8th Poet Laureate in 
 January 2021 by Mayor London N. Breed.\n\nEisen-Martin is a poet and the 
 founder of Black Freighter Press. His book Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City 
 Lights, Pocket Poet series), received a 2018 American Book Award, the 2018 
 California Book Award for Poetry and was short-listed for the Griffin 
 Poetry Prize. His previous book, someone's dead already (Bootstrap Press, 
 2015), was nominated for a California Book Award. His forthcoming book, A 
 Good Earth: City Lights Pocket Poets Series No 62, will be published in 
 September 2021.\n\nEisen-Martin is also an educator and organizer whose 
 work centers on issues of mass incarceration, extrajudicial killings of 
 Black people and human rights. He has taught at detention centers around 
 the country and at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies 
 at Columbia University. He is a graduate of Columbia University.\n\nBorn 
 and raised in San Francisco, Eisen-Martin spent time as a child hanging out 
 at the Western Addition Cultural Center, now the African American Art and 
 Culture Complex, where he later taught writing workshops. In his vision for 
 Poet Laureate, he aims to organize poetry circles in underserved 
 neighborhoods throughout the City and recruit and nurture artists from San 
 Francisco's marginalized communities.\n\nThis program is sponsored by 
 Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.\n\nFor accommodations (such as 
 ASL interpretation or captioning), call (415) 557-4557 or contact 
 accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 72 hours in advance will help 
 ensure availability.\n\nFree\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/20/18840931.php
SUMMARY:Unity and Struggle: A Collective Inaugural Address
LOCATION:Zoom Live
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/20/18840931.php
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