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OK.

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Next up, we have Michael Warr.

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And I'm going to start by
reading Michael's bio with two

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quotes about their work.

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"His poetry is
frank and full-body.

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Michael has a sharp
eye and a sanity that

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refuses to make compromises."

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Gwendolyn Brooks.

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"I don't think you
need to tell me

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that these poems are the real
thing, brilliant in language

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and imagination.

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Never a nerveless line.

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They move in both senses
of their own music

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and of the heart, but
I'm telling you anyway."

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Adrienne Rich.

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San Francisco poet Michael Warr
is the 2020 Berkeley Lifetime

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Achievement Awardee
and poetry editor

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of the anthology of
Poetry and Protest

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from Emmett Till to
Trayvon Martin published

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by W.W. Norton.

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His books of poetry
include The Armageddon

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of Funk, which the Black
Caucus of the American Library

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Association described
as a poetic soundtrack

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to Black life, Power
Lines: a Decade of Poetry

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from Chicago's Guild Complex as
a co-editor with Julie Parson

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Nesbitt and Luis Rodriguez, and
We Are All the Black Boy, all

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published by Tia Chucha Press.

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He co-edited the bilingual
chapbook Catching Memory

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with poet and
translator Chun Yu.

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Catching Memory features
poems and short stories

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in English and Chinese that
evolved out of Warr and Yu's

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"Two Languages / One
Community" workshop series.

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In 2017, he was named a San
Francisco Library Laureate.

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Other honors include
a Creative Work Fund

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award for his multimedia
project Tracing Poetic

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Memory in Bayview Hunters Point,
PEN Oakland Josephine Miles

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Award for Excellence
in Literature,

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Black Caucus of the American
Library Association Award,

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Gwendolyn Brooks Significant
Illinois Poets Award,

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National Endowment for
the Arts Fellowship,

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Ragsdale Foundation US Africa
Fellowship, the Beat Museum

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Poet of the Month,
and other honors.

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His poetry in collaboration
with musicians,

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visual and performing artists
has been dramatized on stage,

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depicted on canvas, and
set to original music.

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Michael is also the
former deputy director

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of the Museum of
the African Diaspora

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and has extensive experience
in community based arts.

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He is a board member of the
Friends of the San Francisco

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Public Library.

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Thank you, Michael, for
being here with us today.