Poetry by Tongo Eisen-Martin

This video features readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin, an American poet, organizer, and former Poet Laureate of San Francisco. His work bridges revolutionary critique, memory, and community — tackling issues like incarceration, Black liberation, state violence, and love in movements. Eisen-Martin holds both BA and MA in African American Studies from Columbia University. His poetry collections include Blood on the Fog (2021), Heaven Is All Goodbyes (2017), Someone’s Dead Already (2015), among others. Through his reading, this session shows how poetry can carry rage, grief, and vision — living histories refusing to be erased. The NYC Anarchist Book Fair has gathered thousands of anarchists, supporters, and curious folks since 2007 on Lenape land, creating space to learn about anarchist traditions, philosophy, praxis, and anti-capitalist struggle. This series is brought to you in collaboration with Floresta TV and A Radical Guide: Floresta TV emerged from a call by Indigenous Peoples to