The POOR Press Book Release Party vol. #2

by Staff Writer

On Sunday, November 16th @2:00 pm very low income youth and adult publishers will read from their exciting new books and CD’s…Each publication is borne from these authors’ experiences with poverty, racism, survival and resistance.

The world of publishing is a very difficult world for poor people to penetrate. Through the Digital Resistance Program at POOR Magazine, these writers and artists have gained the skills to layout and compose their own publications. When the youth and adult artists graduate from the Program their work is published by POOR Press- a new publishing project of POOR Magazine

Some of the publications are:

∑ Spittin Flames –CD and book-let- Original Spoken Word, Rap and Art by Brandon Jones
Brandon is a 16 year old African-American poet and rap artist using the WORD to come up and out of poverty and in turn give his scholarship back to the community. He is a graduate of POOR Magazine’s Digital Resistance Program where he designed, edited, recorded all his own work and then published his first CD with POOR Press

∑ Oji Volume I – Words, Art and Music by Oji Elliot – Book and CD
Oji Elliot is a young African-American visual artist, poet and musician who paints pictures of words and creates words out of pictures. Oji designed this first book of his art in POOR’s Digital Resistance Program and published it with POOR Press.

∑ Wasted Waters –by POOR Press © 2003- A first person account of a woman’s struggle to be heard on racism and injustice in the workplace.
by Carmi Johnson
Carmi Johnsons is a graduate of POOR’s digital Resistance Program. She tells a compelling story of a whistle-blower who faced intimidation and racist scare tactics when she tried to tell the truth about what was happening at her job.

There will also be new works by The Po Poet Laureate, Byron Gafford and The Po Poets of POOR Magazine. The event will be held at the Latino Hispanic Room of the San Francisco Public Library – there will be a free lunch provided.

This is also a BENEFIT for a VERY poor POOR Magazine.
$3-10 donation requested at the door

POOR Press is a media access project of POOR Magazine. Our goals at POOR Press are to publish the words images and scholarship of very low and no-income youth and adults, and in so doing infuse the world of publishing with these new works of poverty scholarship

San Francisco Public Library
Latino/Hispanic Community Room
100 Larkin Street, SF CA 94102
Located on the Library’s lower level
Enter 30 Grove Street, proceed downstairs

All meetings in the library are free and open to the public
Call (415)557-4400