Journal of Pan African Studies Poetry Issue and Chauncey Bailey Book Fair

[Marvin X]

Academy of da Corner Reader's Theatre presents

Academy of da Corner
Reader's Theatre
presents

Journal of Pan African Studies Poetry Festival
Chauncey Bailey Book Fair
Saturday, February 19,
12 noon til 6pm
Joyce Gordon Gallery
14th and Franklin, Oakland

Academy of da Corner, 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland. Left to right: Human Rights attorney Walter Riley, a supporter of the Academy; Academy student/teacher, historian, videographer Gregory Fields, Blues living legend Sugar Pie de Santo and Chancellor Marvin X ("Plato Negro") According to Ishmael Reed, "Marvin X is Plato teaching on the streets of Oakland...His play One Day in the Life is the most powerful drama I've seen."

Youth reading at the Academy of da Corner
"Crack a book before you're booked for Crack!"
--Paul Cobb, Publisher, Post Newspaper Group








In celebration of Black History Month, the Oakland Post Newspaper is
co-sponsoring the Journal of Pan African Studies Poetry Festival and Chauncey Bailey Book Fair, Saturday, February 19, 12 noon until 6pm, at the Joyce Gordon Gallery, 14th and Franklin Streets, downtown Oakland.

The JPAS is an online journal of Pan African literature. Marvin X is Guest Editor of the recent poetry issue and Bay Area poets will read their selection at the Joyce Gordon Gallery.

The Chauncey Bailey Book Fair is in honor of slain Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey who loved literature and tried to educate youth. Paul Cobb, Post Newspaper Group Publisher, is asking persons to buy a collection of books by the authors for donation to juvenile hall, Santa Rita County Jail and San Quentin Prison.

Bay Area writers/artists/activists salute slain journalist Chauncey Bailey at

Joyce Gordon Gallery

photo Adam Turner and Gene Hazzard

Journal of Pan African Studies Poetry Festival
and
Chauncey Bailey Book Fair

12 Noon until 6pm

JPAS Poetry Reading 3pm-6pm
Saturday, February 19th

Joyce Gordon Gallery
14th and Franklin
Oakland

Authors/Vendors contact Marvin X: [e-mail]



Marvin X, Guest Editor
Journal of Pan African Studies

Marvin X has always been in the forefront of Pan African writing. Indeed, he is one of the innovators and founders of the new revolutionary school of African writing.
--Amiri Baraka

An excellent collection of poetry from some of the best poets in America. The best selection of poems that any Guest Editor has ever put together!--Rudolph Lewis, Editor, Chickenbones.com

Pull Yo Pants Up fada Black Prez and Yosef
essays on Obama Drama
Marvin X

Journal of
Pan African Studies
Poetry Reading

Al Young, California Poet Laureate Emeritus

devorah major, San Francisco Poet Laureate Emeritus








Alona Clifton, Reader's Theatre

 

 

Eugene Allen, Reader's Theatre

 

 

 

 

 

Paradise Jah Love, poet, Reader's Theatre





TuReadah Mikell

Phavia Kujichagulia, a Griot / Djialli (Oral Historian), musician, writer, poet, dancer who utilizes music, poetry and dance to heal and reveal history

Author, Recognizing and Resolving Racism

Hunia, Reader's Theatre

Ptah Allah El, poet, author Tainted Soul, Professor, Academy of da Corner

 

Marvin X and Dr. Dorothy Tsuruta, Professor of Ethnic Studies at
San Francisco State University, a co-sponsor of this event. Black Studies
went to college and came home to community! (See Ptah's poem in JPAS.
She was one of his professors at SFSU who gave him a grounding in Black literature.)


























Ayodele Nzingha, Professor of Arts, Academy of da Corner
PhD. candidate

 

Itibari M. Zulu,

Senior Editor, JPAS,
author Exploring the African Centered Paradigm

Fritz Pointer, author, A Passion to Liberate

J. Vern Cromartie

Ramal Lamar, Associate Guest Editor,
Professor, Academy of da Corner

Avotcja

Ishmael Reed, author, poet, playwright, essayist, publisher, genius award winner, MacArthur Foundaion

Timonthy Reed, author

Anthony Spires

Renaldo Manuel Ricketts

Not pictured: Kwan Booth, Charles Blackwell, Niyah X, Maisha, Nykimbe,

Aries Jordan

Joyce Gordon Gallery
406 14th and Franklin, downtown Oakland

Sponsored by:
Oakland Post Newspaper Group
Academy of da Corner Reader's Theatre
San Francisco State University Ethnic Studies Department

The JPAS is an online journal that can be downloaded for free. Black Bird Press has a print edition available for $49.95, 475 pages. This is a Classic of Pan African literature in the 21st Century. It is a decolonized world view, so necessary for sanity in a turbulent Age. It is a poetic manual of recovery and healing from the ravages of White Supremacy, the greatest illusion of the modern world. To grapple with this illusion language is the best tool to deprogram, detox and inspire people with the word, yes, in the beginning was the word.

Sponsors

Post Newspaper Group
An Academy of da Corner Reader's Theatre
Black Bird Press
Ed Howard, Kakakiki, Inc., Slave System
Journal of Pan African Studies
Joyce Gordon Gallery
Refa One
Ethnic Studies Department, San Francisco State University
Oakland Local
It's About Time/Black Panther Archives
Eastside Arts/Black Arts Movement literary exhibit
Reginald James, The Black Hour
Media documentation: Gregory Fields, Adam Turner, Ken Johnson, Khalid Wajjib, Kamau Amen Ra, Gene Hazzard, Lee Hubbard, Wanda Sabir, Susan Merit, Davey D, KPOO Radio, San Francisco

Notes on the Journal of Pan African Studies
Poetry Issue

If one is serious about getting a precise understanding of the 1960s Black Arts Movement, the most radical artrs and literary movement in American history, that forced the inclusion of ethnic literature into academia, one must grab the recent Journal of Pan African Studies, Poetry Issue.

The issue has poems by some of the BAM major players (Baraka, Bullins, Madhubuti, Ya Salaam, Toure, and X, as well as essays and dialogue on the literary productions of BAM, the proposition that the genre called Muslim American literature is based on the BAM Islamic influence, with roots in Moorish Science, Nation of Islam, Sufic, Sunni and Yoruba influences, although the Yoruba is not explained yet self evident in the poetry.

There is discussion on the poetic mission, and in the BAM tradition it is argued that poetry is not an end within itself but a vehicle, a tool, a weapon in the arsenal of liberation, and most importantly, a tool of communication.

The poems are drums of Pan Africa, message to and from the God and gods, ancestors, the living and yet unborn. Entries are from Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, United Kingdom, South Korea, New Zealand and throughout the United States.

We tried to give a regional sample from the west coast, east coast, mid west and south. You will find a commonality of themes and concerns, freedom most of all, but listen carefully to the regional rhythms on the poetic drums.

Overall, it represents an alternative world view, the Pan African world view as opposed to the Eurocentric world view. It is the world view of the oppressed, yet the spiritually liberated for the poets are, if nothing else, free spirits that cannot be caged, whipped or defeated, for they say you can kill the revolutionary but can't kill the revolution, thus the word causes forward motion in the ocean of humanity, and such are the contents herein. Magic words, magic truths, wisdom and and prophesy.

It is obvious from the bios that most of the poets are trained in academia, whatever their other origins. For sure the nuances of language transcends traditional English, for it is a language rooted in decolonizaton and liberation. Thus, many of the poets are bilingual, making use of the master's tongue and the tongue of the masses.

The BAM theme of revolutionary consciousness is pervasive. Associate Guest Editor Ptah Allah El says this is the Bible for the 21 Century. So it is! Like Black Fire of the 60s, let it fire up a static situation with the word. Let the Pan African mind move a little closer to home.
--Marvin X
1/15/11

Authors/vendors contact Marvin X @ [e-mail]

Journal of Pan African Studies is Online

The Journal of Pan African Studies works to become a beacon of light in the sphere of African world community studies and research, grounded in an interdisciplinary open access scholarly peer-reviewed construct, simultaneously cognizant of the multilingualism of our audience, and the importance of universal access in cyberspace; regardless of geography, economic, social or cultural diversity. ::More Information ::Editorial Board ::Contact The JPAS ::Instructions for submitting a manuscript Gadgets powered by Google CURRENT ISSUE   Volume 4 • Number 2 • 2010   This special issue of The Journal of Pan African Studies is edited by guest editor Marvin X and dedicated to Dingane aka Jose Goncalves, the publisher and editor of the Journal of Black Poetry, which has published some 500 poets. Groundation ● JPAS: Dedicated to Dingane, Jose Goncalves by Marvin X [ view PDF ] ● The Poets by Marvin X [ view PDF ] ● Letters to the Editor [ view PDF ] ● Dingane Joe Goncalves, The Journal of Black Poetry & Small Non-Commercial Black Journals by Rudolph Lewis [ view PDF ] [ view PDF ]   In My Negritude ● Shaggy Flores, Ras Griot, Phavia Kujichagulia, Chinwe Enemchukwu, L. E. Scott, Rodney D. Coates, J. Vern Cromartie, Dike Okoro, Neal E. Hall, Marvin X, Mohja Kahf, Ayodele Nzingha, Askia M. Toure, Michael Simanga, Amiri Baraka, Kalamu ya Salaam, Kola Boof, Louis Reyes, Rivera, Aries Jordan, Ptah Allah El, and Hettie V. Williams [ view PDF ] ● Teaching Diaspora Literature: Muslim American Literature as an Emerging Field by Mohja Kahf [ view PDF ] ● Mother Earth Responds by Askia Toure reviewed by Kamaria Muntu [ view PDF ] ●Tainted Soul by T. Ptah Mitchell reviewed by Zulu King [ view PDF ]   The Whirlwind ● Tracey Owens Patton, devorah major, Anthony Mays, Bruce George, Jeanette Drake, Itibari M. Zulu, Renaldo Manuel Ricketts, Nandi Comer, Al Young, Ghasem Batamuntu, Mona Lisa Saloy, Eugene B. Redmond, Fritz Pointer, Gwendolyn Mitchell, Felix Orisewike Sylvanus, Rudolph Lewis, Kamaria Muntu, Ed Bullins, Mabel Mnensa, Kwan Booth, and Tureeda Mikell [ view PDF ] ● Poetic Mission: A Dialogue on the Role of the Poet and Poetry by Rudolph Lewis (dialogue team: Marvin X, Jerry Ward, Mary Weems, and C. Leigh McInnis) [ view PDF ] ● The Poetic Mission: Art II: Reviewing a Life, A Calling by Haki R. Madhubuti [ view PDF ]   Amour of Ancestors ● Everett Hoagland, Charles Blackwell, Jacqueline Kibacha, John Reynolds III, Darlene Scott, Jimmy Smith Jr., Sam Hamud, Opal Palmer Adisa, Amy ‘Aimstar’ Andrieux, Lamont b. Steptoe, Avotcja Jiltonilro, Anthony Spires, Benecia Blue, Neil Callender, Tanure Ojaide, Pious Okoro, Tony Medina, Dr. Ja A. Jahannes, Brother Yao, Zayad Muhammad, Nykimbe Broussard, Kilola Maishya, Niyah X, Adrienne N. Wartts, Greg Carr, Darlene Roy, Tantra Zawadi, Ishmael Reed, Quincy Scott Jones, Bob McNeil, Ariel Pierson, Marie Rice, Yvonne Hilton, Bolade Akintolayo, Latasha Diggs, Felton Eaddy, and B. Sharise Moore  [ view PDF ]   Baraka, Politics and News ● Medical Mythology by Ramal Lamar [ view PDF ] ● Qaddafy’s Apology for Arab Slavery: A Dialogue Between Poets by Rudolph Lewis, Sam Hamud, and Kola Boof [ view PDF ] ● Prize and Award: Chinua Achebe and Haki R. Madhubuti [ view PDF ] ● Two Poets in Oakland: Ishmael Reed and Marvin X by Ishmael Reed and Marvin X [ view PDF ] ● A Pan African Dialogue on Cuba: From Black Bird Press by Dead Prez, Carlos Moore, Pedro de la Hoz, and North American African Activist, Intellectuals and Artist [ view PDF ] ● Black Arts West Celebrates Amiri Baraka at 75 a photos essay by Kamau Amen-Ra [ view PDF ] ● Amiri Baraka Entertains SF: ‘Lowku’ versus Haiku Revives Fillmore Spirit by Lee Hubbard and Marvin X [ view PDF ]