Online Writing Workshop
Unity And Trane
facilitated by Tongo Eisen-Martin
Sundays 1PM–3PM (4/4, 4/11, 4/18 and 4/25)
About The Workshop
As of March 31, this workshop is full. Thank you for your interest!
Synthesized by the music and theory of John Coltrane, the objective of this workshop is to share strategies for writing, editing, and reciting poems generated by the idea that your poetry is a part of your wanted Human Experience taking place in and revealed by an interconnected reality. The view of craft as a component can wall away potential insight and inhibit writing. Writing strategies that flow from the reality that craft does not have to be a metaphysical, separate entity from you strengthens all internal processes of liberation. From political to unpopulated realities of the world, all continuums of existence can emerge together in a line of poetry within a cooperation to produce Insight. You can let the infinite, naturally occurring unities of reality do the work for you on the page.
Please email icezanne@sfjazz.org for more information.
Date/Times: Sundays 1PM-3PM (4/4, 4/11, 4/18 and 4/25)
About The Facilitator
Tongo Eisen-Martin
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. His book, Someone's Dead Already, was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book, Heaven Is All Goodbyes (published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. His forthcoming book, Blood On The Fog, is being released this fall in the City Lights Pocket Poets series. He was recently named San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate.
Tongo Eisen-Martin
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. His book, Someone's Dead Already, was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book, Heaven Is All Goodbyes (published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series), was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. His forthcoming book, Blood On The Fog, is being released this fall in the City Lights Pocket Poets series. He was recently named San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate.
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