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Award winning poet, Tongo Eisen-Martin, joined by Rachelle Escamilla for reading at Old Capitol Books

We are delighted to announce that we’ll have two amazing poets reading in store THIS TUESDAY January 8th at 7pm: Tongo Eisen-Martin – winner of the California Book Award, the American Book Award, and nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize – and Rachelle Escamilla, winner of the Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry and host of KKUP’s Out of Our Minds – the longest running poetry show in the US. Continue reading Award winning poet, Tongo Eisen-Martin, joined by Rachelle Escamilla for reading at Old Capitol Books →

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Events, Reading Groups

POSTPONED – Theory & Philosophy Reading Group: Sartre & Fanon

Did you know that Jean-Paul Sartre was interested in anti-colonial struggles and worked together with thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Albert Memmi?

 

POSTPONED until Friday 25 January, 7pm

We’re going to spend the next few months exploring this engagement, reading the works of Sartre in relationship to some of his greatest contemporaries in anti-colonial thinking.

To start, we’ll be reading Jean-Paul Sartre’s introduction to Frantz Fanon’s important work of black liberation theory: Wretched of the Earth!

Full text available for free here.

Events

Fishbowl poetry open mic

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Fishbowl Poetry Presents Featuring Gillian Wegener & Gordon Preston

Come hear the featured readers in Cynthia Lane Bryant’s monthly curated event: Fishbowl Poetry. After the featured readers there will be an open mic. Come hear new and old work, or even contribute with a reading of your own! Sign-ups are at 1:30pm, and readings begin at 2pm.

Sunday 20 January 2019, 1:30pm