Founder, poet, activist
The Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition
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Lessons in Global Literary Activism from "Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here"
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About this Speaker
Beau Beausoleil is a poet and activist based in San Francisco, California. He is the founder of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, which began in 2007 as a book arts response to the March 5th,2007 car bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street (the street of the booksellers) in Baghdad, Iraq. The project holds and exhibits the work of approximately 600 writers and artists from 20 countries. We are a project of Witness, Memory, and Solidarity.
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