San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin ponders term

Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate, looks back on his term with immense appreciation for his predecessors and a call for successors to ground themselves outside of institutions of power.

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