Spring 2023 Flash Reading #53: Adam Mansbach

This April, in celebration of National Poetry Month, the Arts Research Center continues our popular Flash Reading Series featuring Bay Area poets responding to our 2022/23 theme of 'Reclamation'. We are delighted to welcome our 53rd poet, Adam Mansbach, and are grateful to him for sharing this work.

ARC's Flash Reading Series is part of our multi-year Poetry & the Senses initiative, generously funded by Engaging the Senses Foundation. This series focuses on the relevance and urgency of lyrical making and storytelling in times of political crisis, and the value of engaging the senses as an act of care, mindfulness, and resistance. We are grateful to these poets for participating in this online archive.

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ADAM MANSBACH is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, as well as the novels Rage is Back, The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), and Angry Black White Boy, and the memoir-in-verse I Had a Brother Once. His debut screenplay, for the Netflix Original BARRY, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and an NAACP Image Award, and he is a two-time recipient of the Reed Award and the American Association of Political Consultants' Gold Pollie Award, for his 2012 Obama/Biden campaign video "Wake The Fuck Up" and his 2020 Biden/Harris campaign ad "Same Old," both starring Samuel L. Jackson. Mansbach's work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, The Guardian, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, The Moth Storytelling Hour, and This American Life. His next novel, The Golem of Brooklyn, will be published by One World in September.

[Ruth-ix]

Still a beautiful amazing book Adam I look at my tattoo often thanks man for doing what you do