Amiri Baraka: We are Already in the Future

In a rare West Coast appearance, poet, playwright, essayist and political activist Amiri Baraka delivers a historic speech on President Barack Obama.

One of the true giants of international poetry, Amiri Baraka is a towering presence in the history of the United States and throughout the Americas. A transitional figure in both the Beat Generation and Civil Rights Era, Amiri Baraka is also known as the father of the Black Arts Movement. In 2008, during the primary and general election cycles, Amiri Baraka continued to surprise, delight and provoke his friends and enemies with a series of rigorous, inventive, and powerfully deciphering essays on then candidate Barack Obama. With this unique, once in a lifetime, event Amiri Baraka will revisit those essays, and bring his keen, always original, interpretation of the Obama Presidency in it's first year. The talk will be immediately followed by a discussion with Justin Desmangles, and continue with a question and answer period with the audience.

Date: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009. 1PM

KORET AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY, MAIN BRANCH
100 LARKIN STREET