APR 13-16 | JAZZ & SOCIAL JUSTICE
Apr 16, 2023
Joe Henderson Lab
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Original show description below.
San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate, Tongo Eisen-Martin, presents an exclusive performance during Jazz and Equity week, with special guest poets and musicians.
A spoken-word powerhouse utterly at home in improvisational settings, Eisen-Martin is known to SFJAZZ audiences through his participation in several SFJAZZ Poetry Festivals and his Season 2021–22 collaboration with drummer Jaz Sawyer.
A San Francisco native, Eisen-Martin is a leading anti-incarceration activist and educator, creating the 2012 We Charge Genocide Again curriculum for the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University.
He’s released four books including 2021’s Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62, published by City Lights. He is co-founder of Black Freighter Press, and his 2017 book, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, won a California Book Award, an American Book Award, PEN Oakland Award, and Poetry Book of the Year from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance.
San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate, Eisen-Martin presents an exclusive performance during Jazz and Equity week, with special guest poets and musicians.
Tongo’s poems are places where discourses and vernaculars collide and recombine into new configurations capable of expressing outrage and sorrow and love.
Griffin International Poetry Prize Committee
Tongo’s poems are places where discourses and vernaculars collide and recombine into new configurations capable of expressing outrage and sorrow and love.
Griffin International Poetry Prize Committee
Watch & Listen
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Not a Poem
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Booster
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Not a Poem
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Booster
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