John Curl Book Talk

Come and join us as John Curl presents his book, Indigenous Peoples Day: A Handbook for Activists + Documentary History .

Curl has published fiction, poetry, essays, and history in numerous magazines and periodicals and is a long-time member of PEN Oakland, the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, and the Berkeley Indigenous Peoples Day Committee, where he helps to organize the annual Berkeley Indigenous Peoples Day Pow Wow. He was born and mostly raised in Manhattan and spent some time in New Jersey. He received a BA in comparative literature from New York City College in 1965. He lived in a sixties rural commune in Colorado, worked on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico, and has practiced custom woodworking at Heartwood Cooperative Workshop in Berkeley, CA for over 35 years. He is chairman of West Berkeley Artisans and Industrial Companies (WEBAIC), promoting arts and industries in the manufacturing zone and has served as a Berkeley planning commissioner.