FRESH and BEST Poetry ft. Eisen-Martin + Trevino

DIESEL, A Bookstore welcomes Tongo Eisen-Martin and Wendy Trevino to the store on Friday, January 13st at 7pm as part of the FRESH AND BEST poetry reading series.

Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. 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 also a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems is titled, “Someone’s Dead Already,” and was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson, MS.

Wendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook “128-131” was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook “Brazilian Is Not a Race” was published by Commune Editions in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Abraham Lincoln, Armed Cell, the Capilano Review, LIES, Macaroni Necklace, Mondo Bummer, ELDERLY, and Open House. Wendy is not an experimental writer.