Marvin X is one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement and Oakland's Black Arts Movement Business District. He is the Political Columnist for the Sun Reporter Newspaper, San Francisco, and Publisher of The Movement Newspaper, A Poet's Journal of the Black Arts Movement.
Contact him at 510-575-7148
Tentative Schedule
West Coast
Oakland
January 25, Saturday, 12 Noon
Marvin X Welcomes NCobra Reparations gathering in the BAMBD
Joyce Gordon Gallery
14th and Franklin Streets
Downtown Oakland
Host Jahahara
Dirty South
Durham, North Carolina
January 30-31
Reading at Duke University
Black Muslim Atlantic Symposium
Host Ellen McLarney, Professor
of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
East Coast, UpSouth
Philadelphia
Sunday, January 2
Moonstone Poetry
Fergie's Pub
1214 Sansom St
2PM
poets reading
Marvin X, accompanied by Elliott Bey on keyboards
Lamont Steptoe
Kirwyn Sutherland
Host Larry Robin
Newark NJ
Friday February 7
Amina Baraka's house
808 South 10th St
Marvin X will read his own works
and from the works of Amiri Baraka
Mrs Amina Baraka will read her poetry
Host Amina Baraka
invitation only
Philadelphia
Saturday February 8
Culture Works
1315 Walnut St
Reading, book signing
Food available
Hosts Sisters Zakiyyah, Nisa Ra
