Monday, August 6, 2012

Press Release

Black Bird Press

1222 Dwight Way
Berkeley CA 94702

510-200-4164

Press Release

Bay Area people of radical consciousness will be able to attend
a reading/book signing by revolutionary poet, playwright, essayist,
educator, social activist, Marvin X, one of the founders of the Black
Arts Movement, the most radical literary movement in American history.
Along with playwright Ed Bullins, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni,
Marvin X was/is a key mover and shaker. He co-founded San Francisco's
Black Arts West Theatre with Ed Bullins, 1966, where his first play
Flowers for the Trashman was produced. In 1965 the San Francisco State
Drama Dept. premiered Flowers while Marvin was an undergraduate in the English
/Creative writing, dept. He was a student of novelist John Gardner who took
Flowers to the drama department. Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth called Marvin
the best playwright to hit SF State!

More recently, Marvin X's drama of addiction and recovery, One Day in the Life,
 became the longest running African American drama in northern California.
Mythology of Love was produced at the Joyce Gordon gallery earlier this year. 

His latest book is The Wisdom of Plato Negro, parables/fables, Black Bird
Press, 2012, $19.95. Chickenbones.com's Editor, Rudolph Lewis, notes,
"I am deep into your Wisdom, in your thought, thinking and construction 
of a literary work that is quite post-modern, an interactive text that would 
not have been possible before the invention of the web, as indicated by your dialogues."

At the Joyce Gordon, Marvin will read and sign books, accompanied by poet Aries Jordan, 
trumpet master Earl Davis (associated with MX at Black Arts West Theatre, 1966, San Francisco), 
percussion master Tacuma King. 

Donation $19.95, includes signed copy of The Wisdom of Plato Negro. 

For more information, 510-200-4164.



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