Poetry Reading and Open Mic

Mark your calendars for August 9th at 6pm to hear the work of Tongo Esien-Martin followed by our first community open mic. Check out Tongo’s poetry/spoken word in our stories and his bio below. Let this be a call to bring your bravest poems/stories/flash centering liberation and resiliency. Not reading? No problem, you know we just want to see your beautiful faces. See you there! Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is the author of “Someone’s Dead Already”, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes”, “Waiting Behind Tornados for Food”, and “Blood on the Fog”. In 2020, he co-founded Black Freighter Press to publish revolutionary works. He is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate.