Black Bird Press/Academy of Da Corner Benefit read in/teach in

Friday, April 23, 2010

BlackBird Press Benefit Read in/teach in

Black Bird Press/Academy of Da Corner

Benefit
Read in/teach in
Book Party

To celebrate the publication of The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/Fables,I am asking poets, writers and community people to join in readingfrom the parables/fables. The following are especially invited toread:

Ishmael Reed, Cecil Brown, devorah major, Ayodele Nzingha(confirmed), Linda Johnson, Phavia Khujichagulia, Tureada Mikel,Paradise (confirmed), Art Sheridan, Aubrey LaBrie, Duke Williams, Rev.George Murray, Charile Walker (confirmed), Will Ussery, Al Young,Geoffery Grier (confirmed), Ptah Allah El (confirmed), Ramal Lamar(confirmed), Suzzette Celeste(confirmed), James W. Sweeney(confirmed),Abdul Sabry, Nathan Hare, Marcel Diallo,

Dr. Julia Hare, DannyGlover, Paul Cobb, Jimmy Garrett, Rehemah Bah, HuniaBradley(confirmed), Michael Lange, Jerri Lange, Benny Stewart, OpalPalmer Adisa, Donald Lacy, Greg Bridges, Davey D, Chinaka Hodge, IseLyfe, Marc Barmuthi Josheph, Fritz Pointer, Avotcja, Naru Kwina, AmirSulaiman, Wanda Sabir, Lee Hubbard, Adam Turner, Roxanne, Dr. ObaT'shaka, Timothy Simon, Kweli Tutashinda, Latifa Simon, Lige Dailey,J. Vern Cromartie (confirmed).

For my reading/performance, Iwill be accompanied by singer Rashidah Sabreen. If you missed us onKPFA this past Monday, please go to the archiveswww.kpfa.org/transitionsontradition.

Sincerely,

Marvin X,Publisher, editor, author

Black Bird Press

1222 DwightWay, Berkeley CA 94702

Marvin X Book Signing at the African American Library/Museum, Sat. May 15, 2pm

Book Release Party for Marvin X

Saturday, May 15, 2pm
There will be a reading and book signing for Marvin X's

The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/Fables

African American Library/Museum,

14th and Martin Luther King, Jr.,

Downtown Oakland

For more information contact Veda Silva, Museum Project Coordinator, 510-637-0199.

Book price $100.00
309 pages

If you can't make the party, the book is available from:

Black Bird Press
1222 Dwight Way,
Berkeley CA 94702

Marvin X will be accompanied by Rashidah Sabreen on vocals and guitar. If youmissed them on KPFA, go to the archives at www.kpfa.org, transitions in
tradition, this past Monday. Refreshments by GET JERKED!

Pleasesupport one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement. Advance the
cultural revolution!

Quite extraordinary! Who else in America publishes two and three books a year? Who else within the Black Community engages our folks daily to
liberate themselves in real and cyberspace?
Congratulations! on your wondrous achievements.
--Rudolph Lewis, founding editor, Chickenbones, AJournal

Now Available from Black Bird Press

The Wisdom of Plato Negro
Parables/Fables
Marvin X

“Is Marvin X a parable or fable? We doubt a Marvin X exists! We double doubt there is a Plato Negro!”

—Amiri Baraka

"He's the USA's Rumi!"

--Bob Holman

"Jeremiah, I presume! I am sure these parables are a first in America exploiting this literary category. People
will wonder where to place these parables and fables. You have expanded
contemporary literature. I suspect there is nothing like them in
post-modern American literature."
--
Rudolph
Lewis,Founding Editor
ChickenBones: A Journal

"If you want to learn about motivation andinspiration, don't spend all that money going to workshops and
seminars, just go stand at 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland and
watch Marvin X at work. He's Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland."

--Ishmael Reed

The works of “Plato Negro” prove to be a major contribution to the field of African Philosophy. These works provide a model for a standard
approach toward reflective thinking and critical analysis for African
people, still trying to define their own philosophical worldview.

What Plato’s works did to inspire classical Greece and the European generations to follow, we hope this brilliant piece of literature from
“Plato Negro” will shed light on Africans today and future generations
to come. Write on “Plato Negro”.

--Ptahotep A. El (Trace 101)

Minister of Education, Academy of Da Corner

Mail order only
The truth is priceless, freedom is not free.

Suggested donation:$100.00 (one hundred dollars)
If you want to download it online, youare free to do so,
but send a generous donation if you appreciate thecontents
and if it was transformational in your life.

What isthe value of truth? The actual value of a hamburger
is $200.00 whenfactored in the slave labor of tomato, lettuce and cucumber field
workers, also the health problems of workers subjected to fields
sprayed with pesticides and fertilizers. Also hormone grown beef
affects the health of consumers.

Surely this book is of morevalue than a hamburger, especially after you factor in the labor of the
writer and the 40% commission of book stores, although Marvin X
doesn't do book stores, except by special request.

Black BirdPress
1222 Dwight Way, Berkeley CA 94702

www.blackbirdpressnews.blogspot.com
jmarvinx@yahoo.com

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