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Tongo Eisen-Martin on Ayi Kwei Armah's THE HEALERS
To kick off the new season of The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast, host and prize director Michael Kelleher is joined by Tongo Eisen-Martin, recipient of a 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, to discuss Ayi Kwei Armah's 1979 novel The Healers.
Tongo Eisen-Martin was San Francisco’s eighth Poet Laureate (2021-2024). He is the author of three collections of poetry: Blood on the Fog (2021), selected by the New York Times as among the Best Poetry of 2021; Heaven is All Goodbyes (2017); and Someone’s Dead Already (2015). He has taught creative writing in prisons and is the author of We Charge Genocide Again,
a series of lessons plans to support students and teachers in grappling
with the state-sanctioned killing of Black people. A recipient of
several awards including the American Book Award (2018), a California
Book Award (2018), and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
(2018), Eisen-Martin earned both his BA and MA from Columbia University.
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To kick off the new season of The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast, host and prize director Michael Kelleher is joined by Tongo Eisen-Martin, recipient of a 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, to discuss Ayi Kwei Armah's 1979 novel The Healers.
Tongo Eisen-Martin was San Francisco’s eighth Poet Laureate (2021-2024). He is the author of three collections of poetry: Blood on the Fog (2021), selected by the New York Times as among the Best Poetry of 2021; Heaven is All Goodbyes (2017); and Someone’s Dead Already (2015). He has taught creative writing in prisons and is the author of We Charge Genocide Again,
a series of lessons plans to support students and teachers in grappling
with the state-sanctioned killing of Black people. A recipient of
several awards including the American Book Award (2018), a California
Book Award (2018), and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
(2018), Eisen-Martin earned both his BA and MA from Columbia University.
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See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.