Today we will be listening to San Francisco's 8th poet laureate and people's revolutionary Tongo Eisen-Martin.
'The Cycle of Black Mercy' by San Francisco's current Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin
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Today we will be listening to San Francisco's 8th poet laureate and people's revolutionary Tongo Eisen-Martin.