Tongo Eisen-Martin Explained

Tongo Eisen-Martin is an American poet and activist.[1] He is the current poet laureate of San Francisco, California.[2] [3]

Biography

Tongo Eisen-Martin was born in 1980 in San Francisco, California to a revolutionary mother[4] Arlene Eisen.[5] [6] His parents named him after Josiah Tongogara.[7] Muralist Miranda Bergman is his godmother. He has a younger brother named Biko, and they both attended Meadows-Livingstone school in San Francisco as children.[8] He earned a bachelor's and master's degree in African-American Studies,[9] all from Columbia University[10] [11] where he taught at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies,[12] creating the 2012 curriculum We Charge Genocide Again! He has also taught at detention centers, including San Quentin and Rikers Island. He is the co-founder of Black Freighter Press.

Honors and awards

Eisen-Martin's 2017 book Heaven Is All Goodbyes published by City Lights won a PEN Oakland Award, the 2018 American Book Award,[12] 2018 California Book Award,[13] and 2018 National California Booksellers Association Poetry Book of the Year. His 2020 title Blood on the Fog published by City Lights was named a Best Poetry Book of 2021 by Elisa Gabbert of the New York Times.[14] [15]

Works

References

  1. News: Wick . Julia . Essential California: Talking San Francisco with the city's new poet laureate . 12 June 2021 . Los Angeles Times . 12 February 2021.
  2. News: Getachew . Samuel . Tongo Eisen-Martin Selected as San Francisco's Poet Laureate . 12 June 2021 . KQED . 15 January 2021.
  3. News: Darden . Jenee . San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin Wants To Give People Power Through Publishing . 12 June 2021 . KALW . 27 April 2021.
  4. Web site: 2021-02-12 . Essential California: Talking San Francisco with the city's new poet laureate . 2022-05-19 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  5. News: Goldberg . Leslie . Meadows Out of the Woods . 30 May 2022 . The San Francisco Examiner . 5 Feb 1991.
  6. News: Feldberg . Sarah . Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin's view of San Francisco during pandemic and protests . 12 June 2021 . San Francisco Chronicle . 19 July 2020.
  7. Web site: 2018-03-18 . A Poet's Principles . 2022-05-19 . The San Francisco Examiner . en-US.
  8. News: Fancher . Lou . Blood on the Fog: Tongo Eisen-Martin's latest book of poems challenges whiteness and the status quo with a strong revolutionary practice . 30 May 2022 . East Bay Express . 13 October 2021.
  9. News: Li . Grace . Tongo Eisen-Martin is San Francisco's New Poet Laureate . 12 June 2021 . SF Weekly . 15 January 2021.
  10. Web site: About Tongo-Eisen Martin . Academy of American Poets . 12 June 2021.
  11. Web site: 2021-01-25. Alumni in the News: January 25. 2022-01-25. Columbia College Today. en.
  12. Web site: Tongo Eisen-Martin . Poetry Foundation . 12 June 2021.
  13. Web site: Tongo Eisen-Martin, Poet - Brief but Spectacular . PBS Newshour . 13 February 2020 . 12 June 2021.
  14. News: Gabbert . Elisa . The Best Poetry of 2021 . The New York Times . 30 May 2022 . The New York Times . 10 December 2021.
  15. News: Shein Win . Maw . Tongo Eisen-Martin has become San Francisco's premier revolutionary poet . 30 May 2022 . The San Francisco Examiner . 26 May 2022.
  16. Book: Eisen-Martin, Tongo. Waiting Behind Tornados For Food. 2020-11-30. Materials. en.

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