Tongo Eisen-Martin
American poet
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- Masters Creative Writing San Francisco State University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Tongo Eisen-Martin is an American poet and activist. He is the current poet laureate of San Francisco, California. Biography Tongo Eisen-Martin was born in 1980 in San Francisco, California to a revolutionary mother Arlene Eisen. His parents named him after Josiah Tongogara. Muralist Miranda Bergman is his godmother. He has a younger brother named Biko, and they both attended Meadows-Livingstone school in San Francisco as children. He earned a bachelor's and master's degree in African-American Studies, all from Columbia University where he taught at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, creating the 2012 curriculum We Charge Genocide Again! He has also taught at detention centers, including San Quentin and Rikers Island. He is the co-founder of Black Freighter Press.
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