Mr. Ed Howard, Business Agent, Marvin X Booking Agency. Mr. Howard is an engineer, businessman. He grew up in West Oakland.
To book Marvin X or any Bay Area Black Authors, contact Mr. Howard at kakakiki@pacbell.net.
Marvin X
"The USA's Rumi!"
--Bob Holman,
Bowery Poetry Club,
New York City
"He has always been in the forefront
of Pan African writing. Indeed, he is
one of the innovators and founders
of the revolutionary school of African
writing."--Amiri Baraka
"He's Plato teaching on the streets
of Oakland. If you want to learn about
inspiration and motivation, don't spend
all that money going to workshops and
seminars, just go stand at 14th and Broadway
and watch Marvin at work."--Ishmael Reed
Requested fee: $7,000.00, plus travel, lodging and transportation. Fee is negotiable.
Contact his agent, Mr. Ed Howard, www.marvinxbookingagency.blogspot.com or email him : kakakiki@pacbell.net
Marvin X received his A.A. from Merritt College, Oakland, 1964.
Received his BA and MA in English from San Francisco State University, 1974-75.
He is one of the founders of the Black Arts Movement, having founded Black Arts West Theatre, San Francisco, 1966, and the Black House, 1967, with playwright Ed Bullins and essayist Eldridge Cleaver. He also worked at the New Lafayette Theatre, Harlem, New York, 1968. His plays have been produced coast to coast and worldwide. Most recently, his play Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam was performed in New York, 2009, at Woody King's New Federal Theatre. His play One Day in the Life, a docudrama of his addiction and recovery, is the longest running African American drama in Northern California history, 1996-2002.
As producer, he organized the Oakland Black Men's Conference, Oakland Auditorium, 1980; the Kings and Queens of Black Consciousness, San Francisco State University, 2001; San Francisco Black Radical Book Fair, 2004. Presently he is organizing the Bay Area Black Authors who celebrated the 75th birthday of Amiri Baraka at the San Francisco Jazz Heritage Center in the Fillmore, 2009.
He has received awards from the National Endowment of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Los Angeles Black Book Expo gave him a lifetime achievement award.
Marvin X has served as lecturer and visiting professor at the following universities and colleges:
Fresno State University, 1969
University of California, Berkeley, 1972
Mills College, 1972
San Francisco State University, 1974
University of California, San Diego, 1975
University of Nevada, Reno, 1979
Laney College, 1981
Merritt College, 1981
Kings River College, 1982
Marvin X has given lecture/readings at the following colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
University of Mass.
Yale University
Medgar Evers College
Morehouse College
Spelman College
University of Arkansas
University of Virginia
University of Houston
Howard University
Temple University
University of Penn
New York University
UCLA
Compton College
Southwest College
L.A. City College
Sacramento City College
Sacramento State College
Fresno City College
San Francisco City College
Berkeley City College
Alameda City College
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