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Book release & reading
Friday, November 30
7:00 PM
The Beat Museum
540 Broadway
San Francisco, California
Opal
Palmer Adisa ... Robert Anbian ... Liliana Arena (Italy) ... Hanan
Awwad (Palestine) ... Ayo Ayoola-Amale (Nigeria) ... Idlir Azizaj
(Albania) ... Mahnaz Badihian (Iran) ... Lisbit Bailey ... Alessandra
Bava (Italy) ... Ataol Behramoglu (Turkey) ... Lincoln Bergman ...
Judith Ayn Bernhard ... Charles Curtis Blackwell ... John Brandi ...
Kristina Brown ... Ferruccio Brugnaro (Italy) ... Tom Buron (France) ...
Yolanda Catzalco ... Neeli Cherkovski ... Dominique Christina ... Marco
Cinque (Italy) ... Bobby Coleman ... Francis Combes (France) ...
Juanita Conejero (Cuba) ... Pauline Craig ... William Crossman ...
Thomas Rain Crowe ... Anita Odena Cruz ... Romeo Alcala Cruz ... John
Curl ... Najwan Darwish (Palestine) ... Diego De Leo ... Carol Denney
... Tongo Eisen-Martin ... Elias ... Agneta Falk ... Mauro Fortissimo
... Arnoldo Garcia ... Jusuf Gërvalla (Kosovo) ... Katerina Gogou
(Greece) ... Rafael Jesús González ... Adam Gottlieb ... Renée Gregorio
... Bruno Gullì ... Martin Hickel ... Gary Hicks ... Jack Hirschman ...
Antonella Iaschi (Italy) ... Bruce Isaacson ... Mamadou Kane (Guinea)
... Dan Katz ... Jazra Khaleed (Greece) ... Genny Lim ... Mark Lipman
... Angelina Llongueras (Catalunya) ... Emanuele Longhi (Italy) ...
Karen Melander Magoon ... Jidi Majia (China) ... Devorah Major ...
Rosemary Manno ... Elizabeth Marino ... Joseph Afroaboriginal Martinez
Ii ... Pippo Marzulli (Italy) ... Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russia/Ussr) ...
Sarah Menefee ... Janice Mirikitani ... Juan Lopez Morales (Mexico) ...
Nancy Morejón (Cuba) ... Alejandro Murguía ... Majid Naficy (Iran) ...
Bill Nevins ... Jim Normington ... Edoardo Olmi (Italy) ... Gregory Pond
... Jeanne Powell ... Jami Proctor-Xu ... Alberto Ramundo (Italy) ...
Fernando Rendon (Colombia) ... Lew Rosenbaum ... E.San Juan, Jr. (The
Philippines) ... Natacha Santiago (Cuba) ... Francisco Morales Santos
(Guate) ... Sandro Sardella (Italy) ... Rati Saxena (India) ... Jürgen
Schneider (Germany) ... Stephen Schur ... Nina Serrano ... Danny Shot
... Kim Shuck ... Julia Stein ... Tontongi (Haiti) ... Raymond Nat
Turner... David Volpendesta ... Toshi Washizu ... Nellie Wong ...
Marvin X ... Eric Allen Yankee ... Tim Young ... Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis
... Andrena Zawinski ... Diana Zwinak …
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the 5th anthology of Overthrowing Capitalism.
This
multilingual collection of poets from many countries reflects planetary
resistance to the misery that global capitalism is relentlessly
inflicting upon the peoples of the world. Anything less than an
international response would not reflect the enormity of our solidarity
as poets. These poems speak urgently of the international class struggle
for revolution and social justice as the very essence of truth and
beauty, the struggle to topple the open fascistic dimensions rising
today. So it’s only fitting that we dedicate this issue to Karl Marx on
his 200th birthday, as well as to Vladimir Mayakovsky on his 125th
birthday, whose poem About Trash we publish here.
We thank all the poets who have contributed to this anthology, a number of whom are members of Revolutionary Poets Brigades in other cities and countries. The first Brigade was founded here in San Francisco nine years ago, and there are now fourteen Revolutionary Poets Brigades.
The
poets in this anthology embody an historical memory as vast as our
solidarity, as deep as all the struggles of the past that sought to
liberate humanity from the scourges of war, racism, sexism, plunder of
the environment, of capitalism’s religion of money. Toward this same
goal of overthrowing capitalism we say, with the poets in this
anthology: Not one step back!
Rosemary Manno, John Curl, Jack Hirschman
Editors, Vol. 5, RPB of San Francisco
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