Michael Warr
Michael Warr
Background
Michael Warr is the author of several books of poetry including Of Poetry & Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, The Armageddon of Funk, and We Are All The Black Boy. In 2017 he was named a San Francisco Library Laureate. He received a Creative Work Fund award for his digital poetry project "Tracing Poetic Memory in Bayview-Hunters Point," where he spent his early childhood. Other awards include a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and more. His poems are translated into Chinese as part of "Two Languages / One Community" a collaboration with poet and translator Chun Yu. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora.
CLP
In 1980 Jack Hirschman joined the Communist Labor Party. He worked, among other activities, as a cultural activist with poets Luis Rodriguez, Michael Warr, Kimiko Hahn, Sarah Menefee, Bruno Gulli, Carol Tarlen, David Josef, among others.[1]
Malcolm X conference
A conference, Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle was held in New York City, November 14 1990.
Progressive Publishers and Media Wars
Chairperson:
- Michael Warr, Journalist and progressive poet
Panel:
- Utrice Leid, City Sun Newspaper
- Aki Lumumba (Breeze), Black Panther Party Newspaper Committee[2].