SWIM Gallery | 509 Ellis St. (@Leaventworth) SF, CA 94109
Saturday, March 23 | 7:30 – 9:00pm
Artist Mark Sabb speaks with award-winning poet, editor, and arts consultant Michael Warr about the subjects and inspirations behind his latest exhibition at SWIM Gallery titled “The Cave”.
Michael Warr™s books of poetry include Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton & Company, 2016), and from Tia Chucha Press The Armageddon of Funk, We Are All The Black Boy, and others. In 2017 the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library named him a Library Laureate. In 2015 he received a Creative Work Fund award for his digital poetry project œTracing Poetic Memory in Bayview-Hunters Point, where he spent his early childhood.