Tongo Eisen-Martin

Tongo Eisen-Martin was born in San Francisco on May 20, 1980. He received a BA and MA in African-American studies from Columbia University.

He is the author of Blood on the Fog (City Lights Publishers, 2021), which was named one of the New York Times’ poetry books of the year; Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Publishers, 2017), which received the California Book Award and an American Book Award, and Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press, 2015).

A poet, movement worker, and educator, Eisen-Martin’s latest curriculum on the extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country.