Tyehimba Jess and Tongo Eisen-Martin Reading at Minnesota Street Project Atrium, Wednesday, April 8, 2026

On Wednesday, April 8, 6:00pm to 8:00pm, in a collaboration with the Poetry Center and the Undisciplining the Fields series at the San Francisco State University Department of Creative Writing; Small Press Traffic; and Black [Space] Residency @ 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