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Books by Marvin X
Love and War: Poems /
In the Crazy House Called America /
Woman: Man's Best Friend /
Beyond Religion Toward Spirituality
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Marvin
X—born Marvin Ellis Jackmon on May 29, 1944 in Fowler,
California—attended Fresno at Edison High, Oakland City
College (now Merritt College) receiving an associate degree in
1964. Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the founders of the
Black Panther Party, were fellow students at Oakland City
College. Marvin also received a BA and MA in English at San
Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University). More
Chronology of Marvin X (El
Muhajir ) Marvin
X Bio Bibliography of Marvin X
marvinxspeaks.blogspot.com/
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Am
I Black, Am I White?
Baghdad by the Bay
Belafonte Whited
Out In Oakland
Beloved
Black Poet Determined to Fight New Jersey
Beyond Religion, Toward Spirituality
(review)
Black
Bourgeoisie Defend
Black Reconstruction Week Two
Black Reconstruction #7
Black
Scholars in Crisis?
Bridging the
Racial Gap in Education
Colin
Powell
The
Complexity of Iraq
The Devil and the Deep Blue
Sea
Dr.
Yusef Bey Transcends
Farrakhan's
Final Call
Farrakhan's Last
Hurrah Come Out
Foreword to
How
to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy (Nathan Hare)
The Green Revolution
How
to Stop Killing
Islam
Needs a Martin Luther
Land of My Daughters
London Bridges Falling Down (Responses)
Manifesto
of The University of Poetry
Marvin
X: A Critical Look at the Father of
Muslim American Literature (planned book)
Introduction
Dedication
Contents The
Contributors
Bibliography of Marvin X
Marvin X Gives
Barefoot Lecture on Radical Spirituality
The
Meaning of Black Reconstruction
No Woman No
Cry . . . For
Phyllis Lee Moore
Negro
Psychosexuality in the Post Crack Society
Nigguh Please
Of
Men Beast, Ancestors and Nature
Of Monks and Ministers
On Dr M’s Movement to
Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy
Open
Letter to Dr. Hussein Shahristani
The Pain of Violence and
Death In the Hood
Plato on Obama Drama
The
Politics of Life and Death (on Shani Baraka's death)
Preface to Letter
from Curtis Muhammad
The Reactionary Negro
Report:
BAM Conference
The
San Francisco Anti-War March
Thoughts on Jena & the Dirty South
Toward
A Radical Spirituality
Understanding
London A Review of My Son The Fanatic
VIP Nigguhs and Rape
Welcome
to Mexi-Cali Poem & Creative Essay
When Jazz Ain't Jazz
(performance review)
Why
I Talk with Cows
Why
We Hate Marvin X by Anonymous X
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Poetry Book 2005
Land
of My Daughters
Poems 1995-2005
by
Marvin X
Reviewed by
Rudolph Lewis
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Interview
Interview with Ed Bullins
Poems
A
Drunkard in Denial
At Fitnah
How To Love A Thinking Man
(poem)
How
to Love a Thinking Woman
(poem)
I
Thought
(poem)
The News Ain't News
PALESTINE
Remembering Shani
Baraka
When
Parents Bury Children
The Surge Is Working
Tom Feelings
We're in Love, But
You Don't Know Me
What if
there was no God but God
When
I Think About the Women in My Life
Where's Fats Domino
White Power
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Promotions
Barefoot Lecture on Radical Spirituality
History and Spirituality
Book
& Screening Tour
Boy
Steals Show At Marvin X Concert
Book Tour 2002
Book
Tour Report 2005
FIVE BOOKS BY MARVIN X
Holiday Discount:
FOUR BOOKS BY MARVIN X
Marvin X Reports on East Coast Tour, 2007
Marvin X
Returns to the Fillmore
Marvin
X Rocks Crowd At Oakland's Malcolm X Jazz Festival
Marvin X Show Coming
Home
Notes on the
Journal of Black Poetry Festival
Reports on East Coast Tour
The
Tenderloin Book Fair
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Reviews
Africa or America On
Cecil Brown's
Hey, Dude,
Where's My Black Studies Department
Akeelah and the Bee
(film)
America Is Still the Place (Charlie Walker)
Ayodele Nzina Reviews Essays on
Consciousness by Marvin X
Barefoot Lecture
Beyond Religion
toward Spirituality ( (Ayodele Nzinga review)
Crazy House Called America
Crazy
House Contents Crazy
House Introduction (Suzzette Celeste Johnson)
Gospel of the Game
(Film directed
by Rosebud Bitterdose)
How to Find and Keep A BMW
(Book by Julia Hare)
Land
of My Daughters (Review by Rudolph Lewis)
Maangamizi
(the Ancient One) (film review)
Marvin X as
Plato
Marvin
X Offers a Healing Peek into His Psyche
(Junious
Ricardo Stanton)
My Son The Fanatic
(film)
Nothing
But the Truth, as Told by Marvin X (By
Nathan Hare)
Protest of Artist as
Revolutionary (film)
The Pursuit of Happyness
(film review)
Somebody Blew Up America
(By Amiri Baraka)
The Sisyphus
Syndrome: A Jazz Opera
(By Amiri Baraka)
Toward
A Radical Spirituality
Marvin X
Unplugged -- An Interview (Lee Hubbard)
Wish I Could Tell You the Truth
(Review by Rudolph Lewis)
Wounded inn the House of A Friend
(Poems by Sonia Sanchez)
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Amistad 2
Askia Muhammad Touré
BAM Conference
at Howard Boycotted A BAM Roll
Call (Baraka)
Black Art
Black Arts
Movement
(Kalamu) The Black
Arts Movement (Larry Neal)
Black Immigrants Deported
Black Poetry 1965-2000
The Black Poets (Dudley
Randall) Blessings Are
Due (Ayodele Nzinga)
The
Claude McKay--Romare Bearden
Diary of Zena al Khalil
Don’t Say Goodbye to the Pork Pie Hat
Duet for The
Godfather (Wordslanger)
Fifty Influential Figures
Glide Memorial
United Methodist Church
The
Ground on Which I Stand
Haki Madhubuti
The Image of the Black Criminal
Larry Neal
Bio Larry Neal
Chronology
Larry Neal
Interview in
Omowe
Larry Neal Speaks
Message
from Amiri Baraka
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
New Negro Poets
U.S.A. (Hughes)
The Poetry of Don L. Lee
The Problem of "Settling"
Report:
HU BAM Conference (Marvin X)
Response to Shaquille O’Neal
The
Revolutionary Theatre
Somebody
Blew Up America (poem)
Status and Standard Language
Tenderloin Report
Toward a Feminist Theology
To White Women Who Think
White Anti-Racist is an Oxymoron
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Marvin X has given permission
to Harvard University to publish his poem "For El
Haji Rasul Taifa" from Love and War: Poems by
Marvin X (1995). The poem will appear in The
Encyclopedia of Islam in America Volume II,
Greenwood Press, edited by Dr. Jocelyne Cesari of
Harvard's Islam in the West Program. Mr. X is
co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Muslim
American Literature, University of Arkansas
Press, edited by Dr. Mojah Khaf. He is also in the
forthcoming Muslim American Drama, Temple
University. The Works
of Marvin X
Other Works By Marvin X
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Books available from
Black Bird Press, POB1317, Paradise CA 95967 or
De Lauer’s News, 1310 Broadway at 14th, Oakland
To book Dr. M for speaking and readings, call 510-355-6339
mrvnx@yahoo.com /
www.marvinxwrites.blogspot.com
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Black Bird Press is an imprint of the Marian M.
Jackmon Foundation.
The Mission of the Marian M. Jackmon Foundation is to
preserve and disseminate the writings of Marvin X. Also,
to establish grants and scholarships for men and women
entrepreneurs of spiritual consciousness. Feel free to
make a generous donation to the Marian M. Jackmon
Foundation. Your donation can be tax deductible.
Marian M. Jackmon Foundation, P.O. Box 1317, Paradise
CA 95967. Call 510-472-9589 /
mrvnx@yahoo.com
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update 22 October 2007 / updated 3 April 2008 |
