Tongo Eisen-Martin at The Brickhouse Gallery

Join The Brickhouse Gallery and Art Complex for its very special poetry event with Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco’s 8th Poet Laureate.  This will be an electrifying night of poetry, hosted by The Brickhouse Poets, Poetic Butterfly, and Anna Marie. Tongo’s latest book is Blood On The Fog, which you can purchase from City Lights Book Store in  San Francisco or the night of his poetry event at The Brickhouse.

Tongo Eisen-Martin was born in San Francisco and earned his MA at Columbia University. He is the author of Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press, 2015), nominated for a California Book Award; and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights, 2017), which received a 2018 American Book Award, a 2018 California Book Award, was named a 2018 National California Booksellers Association Poetry Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize. In their citation, the judges for the Griffin Prize wrote that Eisen-Martin’s work “moves between trenchant political critique and dreamlike association, demonstrating how, in the right hands, one mode might energize the other—keeping alternative orders of meaning alive in the face of radical injustice…His poems are places where discourses and vernaculars collide and recombine into new configurations capable of expressing outrage and sorrow and love.”