Besides hosting a radio show and poetry jazz event every month, Blake offers workshops, poetry readings, and live show events, thus all events are classified as readings, shows and/or workshops. Please check back often for new events, and feel free to reach out to Blake to get more information or confirm an event.
On Thursday, March 19, at 7:30pm The Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Reading Series will feature SF poet Tongo Eisen-Martin. The reading will take place at the Arena Market cafe and will begin with live improv jazz and an open mic with jazz improv; the reading will conclude with more live improv jazz.
Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker, educator, and poet who has organized around issues of human rights and self-determination for oppressed people throughout the United States. His curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, titled We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as a teaching and organizing tool throughout the country. His book someone’s dead already was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book of poems Heaven Is All Goodbyes was published in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and won the California Book Award and the American Book Award.
Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz is supported by The Third Thursday Poetry Group, many anonymous donors, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.