Special Event
1275 Minnesota St / Atrium
Wed. Apr 8 6:00PM to 8:00PM
04/08/2026 6:00pm 04/08/2026 8:00pm Tyehimba Jess + Tongo Eisen-Martin

On Wednesday, April 8, 6 - 8pm, in a collaboration between the Poetry Center and the Undisciplining the Fields series in the San Francisco State University Department of Creative Writing; Small Press Traffic; and Black [Space] Residency at Minnesota Street Project present a special engagement with Tyehimba Jess, recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, and Tongo Eisen-Martin, the 2021-2024 San Francisco Poet Laureate.

Please join us for a necessary and restorative evening of poetry by poets whose works are vibrantly alive to the world as is and who invite us to imagine possible worlds that might could be–necessary worlds of otherwise and other ways. 

This event is free and open to the public.

 

Books by both authors will be sold on a sliding scale.

6-6:30pm - Reception

6:30-8pm - Readings and Q&A

1275 Minnesota St America/New_York public

Tyehimba Jess + Tongo Eisen-Martin

On Wednesday, April 8, 6 - 8pm, in a collaboration between the Poetry Center and the Undisciplining the Fields series in the San Francisco State University Department of Creative Writing; Small Press Traffic; and Black [Space] Residency at Minnesota Street Project present a special engagement with Tyehimba Jess, recipient of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, and Tongo Eisen-Martin, the 2021-2024 San Francisco Poet Laureate.

Please join us for a necessary and restorative evening of poetry by poets whose works are vibrantly alive to the world as is and who invite us to imagine possible worlds that might could be–necessary worlds of otherwise and other ways. 

This event is free and open to the public.

 

Books by both authors will be sold on a sliding scale.

6-6:30pm - Reception

6:30-8pm - Readings and Q&A