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The community celebrates Terry Collins, long time warrior for the people
The community celebrates Terry Collins, long time warrior for the people
July 29, 2021
Terry Collins, 1936-2021, was a Black Panther, a 1968 SF State Student Striker and BSU organizer, a founding member of San Francisco’s Black radio station KPOO 89.5 and mentor and professor to countless young activists in California and around the country right up until his last days. We at the Bay View remember him with deep love. His work here continues. – Photo: Johnnie Burrell
by Arlene Eisen
On July 24, 2021, a sunny Saturday, surrounded by flowers and balloons, good food, music, loving family and comrades, we transformed the parking lot of the African American Art & Culture Complex into a joyful place to celebrate the life of Terry Collins.
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July 29, 2021 Shared by Arlene Eisen is a wedding of love loving love in the memorial celebration of the powerful and expansive life of Terry Collins, a true human being who stood and lived for the people, now joining the Ancestors.
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Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, 2019. Still from YouTube, Wikimedia Commons
By Jonah Raskin |
SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. English Department purists might complain that Tongo Eisen-Martin doesn’t write “real” poems, that is poems about birds and flowers, and thus shouldn’t be featured this year during National Poetry Month, which as always falls in April.
Eisen-Martin’s first book,
someone’s dead already, was published by Bootstrap Press. His second,
Heaven Is All Goodbyes ($11.17) was published by City Lights in its venerable Pocket Poets Series. Tongo’s brother Biko, an artist and an actor, designed the cover.
The first poem in the volume is titled, “Faceless.” The last is titled “The Oldest Then the Youngest,” and begins, “Grandmother, why don’t you ever talk about your children who the first world murdered?” The grandmother replies, “Because, son, I haven’t run out of knife handles.”