Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Tontongi

Schedule

Sun Nov 30 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC-05:00

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Lizard Lounge | Cambridge, MA

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The Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam with featured poet Tontongi Nov 30th!
About this Event

$10

Eddy Toussaint (aka Tontongi) is a poet, critic and essayist who writes in Haitian, French and English. His latest books include the newly released Gaze of Thunder (Trilingual Press, 2025), a collection of his anthropopoetic poems; Tyaka Poetica (Trilingual Press, 2021); La Parole indomptée / Memwa Baboukèt (“The Untamed Speech / Memory of The Muzzle,”) published by L’Harmattan in Paris, France, 2015); and In the Beast’s Alley (2013), a collection in English of his “poems of conscience.” Tontongi’s book Critique de la francophonie haïtienne (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007) is considered by experts a seminal critique of linguistic power relations in Haiti. Tontongi is also the founder and host of the award-winning cultural program “Haitian Poetry in Three Languages” (Français, English & Ayisyen) broadcast across Boston-area cable TV. He has received awards from community organizations including the Somerville Arts Council and the Cambridge Peace Commission, and has given invited lectures at colleges and universities internationally. Tontongi is now working on a collection of essays using the critical investigative perspective which he calls reverse anthropology (l’anthropologie inversée — the reverse gaze of the Other, the oppressed, upon the oppressors). A look from the South to the North. He is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the publishing house Trilingual Press in Boston and the trilingual politico-literary journal Tanbou (online: www.tanbou.com).


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