MARY: A Journal of New Writing
2018-02-05 08:00 - 2018-03-07 00:00 UTC | CA
MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Spring 2018 issue. If you have poetry, nonfiction, or fiction you would like to share, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Spring 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until March 7th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/nod e/15842

Word Week "Obi Kaufmann: California Field Atlas Book Signing"
2018-03-05 19:00 - 20:00 | Folio Books, 3957 24th St, San Francisco , CA, 94114, United States
Artist, poet, and naturalist Obi Kaufmann will present his number one best-selling CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS at the 12th annual Noe Valley Word Week festival at Folio Books (3957 24th St. San Francisco) on Monday, March 5, 2018, from 7pm to 8pm. Obi will present a short lecture and then offer signed copies for sale. Free admission. A Word Week 2018 event.
Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of hand-painted maps and wildlife renderings and based on his decades of walking the backcountry of California, Obi’s CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS is a phenomenal testimony to the natural world of the Golden State and unlike anything that has come before. Full of character and color, the CALIFORNIA FIELD ATLAS is quickly becoming a new classic, being hailed as a “gorgeously illustrated compendium” (Sunset Magazine) and that “…it will provide you with a greater appreciation for the state’s ecological jewels and landmarks. Kaufmann’s writing offers us hope during this trying time for conservationism and climactic pushback.” (San Francisco Chronicle). Follow Obi on Instagram @coyotethunder and on Twitter @obikaufmann

Writers on Writing: Tongo Eisen-Martin
2018-03-05 19:00 - 21:45 | San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94132, United States
Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from and discusses his poetry. His latest book is Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Publishers, 2017). “I don’t know that there is a living writer whose work loves black people as much as Tongo Eisen-Martin’s work loves us.” — Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division. Free.

Tongo Eisen-Martin

Eisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length book of poems, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press), was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
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 U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. In October he served as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Eisen-Martin’s latest curriculum, “We Charge Genocide Again,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country.

Writers on Writing
Eisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length book of poems, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press), was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson, Mississippi.
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 U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. In October he served as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. Eisen-Martin’s latest curriculum, “We Charge Genocide Again,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country.

Quiet Lightning at Dogeared Books
2018-03-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Dog Eared Books Castro, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, 94114, United States
Our 116th show will be at Dogeared Books Castro on March 5, 2018.
Submissions of all kinds of writing are open through end of day Feb 14. All selected authors will be paid and published in the 92nd issue of sPARKLE & bLINK, which will feature cover art by Thomas Gardea and be handed out free to the first 100 people at the show! CLICK HERE to submit!

curators: Sandra Wassilie + Charles Kruger
