SFCB's Big Shindig with special guest SF Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin

375 Rhode Island Street,San Francisco CA 94103

10 December, 2021

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SFCB celebrates 25 years in the books at our Big Shindig! San Francisco Center for the Book is celebrating in person and you're invited! Join us onsite at SFCB as we celebrate print culture and twenty five years of community building. As part of the evening's celebration, we are thrilled to host the 2021 San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin as our special guest. We'll be live printing one of Tongo's poems in our main print studio; Tongo will also be reading from his newly published volume "Blood on the Fog", published in September 2021 by City Lights Books. You can learn more about Tongo via PBS News Hour's "Brief But Spectacular". About 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 titled, “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His book, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes” was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series, was shortlisted for the Griffins Poetry Prize and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award. His latest book “Blood On The Fog” is also being released in the City Lights Pocket Poets. In 2020, he cofounded Black Freighter Press. He is San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate. San Francisco Center for the Book is a center of inspiration for the book arts world, featuring the art & craft of letterpress printing, bookbinding, and artists' bookmaking. We are dedicated to the art of the book! San Francisco Center for the Book offers more than 300 book arts workshops annual in our fully equipped print studio, arts and crafts room, and bindery. From introductory and project-based workshops to Core Certificate programs and master classes, San Francisco Center for the Book offers workshops that provide learning opportunities at all levels and span a wide range of book arts, including bookbinding and letterpress printing using traditional methods, as well as cutting-edge and experimental forms. San Francisco Center for the Book is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization. The generosity of individual contributors combined with grants from foundations and government agencies fund out educational initiatives, public programs and exhibitions.