{"id":12284,"date":"2020-05-15T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/tongo-eisen-martin\/"},"modified":"2020-05-15T14:10:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T14:10:37","slug":"tongo-eisen-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/tongo-eisen-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Tongo Eisen-Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10344\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image0-1024x683-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image0-1024x683-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image0-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image0-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image0-696x464.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image0-1068x712.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image0-630x420.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image0.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin<\/p>\n<p>is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/someones-dead-already-Tongo-Eisen-Martin\/dp\/0988610833\">Someone&rsquo;s Dead Already<\/a>&rdquo; was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0872867455\/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_eDPVEbZTSBBQX\">Heaven Is All Goodbyes<\/a>&rdquo; was published by the City Lights Pocket Poets series, was shortlisted for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.griffinpoetryprize.com\/awards-and-poets\/shortlists\/2018-shortlist\/tongo-eisen-martin\/\">Griffin Poetry Prize<\/a> and won a California Book Award and an American Book Award.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/someones-dead-already-Tongo-Eisen-Martin\/dp\/0988610833\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10345 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image1-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image1-1.jpeg 371w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image1-223x300-1.jpeg 223w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image1-312x420.jpeg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0872867455\/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_eDPVEbZTSBBQX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10346 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image2-1024x538-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image2-1024x538-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image2-300x158.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image2-768x403.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image2-696x365.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image2-1068x561.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image2-800x420.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/image2.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally from San Francisco, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet, movement worker, and educator. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people, We Charge Genocide Again, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His book titled, &ldquo;Someone&rsquo;s Dead Already&rdquo; was nominated for a California Book Award. His latest book &ldquo;Heaven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12307,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284\/revisions\/12307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}