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Beautiful Black Books presents Tiny Room Poetry Series featuring NOAH and the Arkiteks!

An intimate evening of poetry, music and community! This special edition offers a rare chance to connect with poets and musicians up close, meet fellow lovers of the art, and experience a vibrant local space in a fresh new way. Featuring Patricia Smith and NOAH and the Arkiteks! SJZ Break Room December 12, 2025 NOAH and the Arkiteks Bay Area soul singer/songwriter and guitarist Noah exudes so much soul and blues that he and his tight group of seasoned musicians - known as NOAH AND THE ARKITEKS - will take you down memory lane of great soul vocalists Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, and then switch it up and funk things up with nods to Stevie Wonder and Bob Marley. Formed in 2015 the Alternative Soul band throws in hints of a classic sound that pulls from American Roots music. Their first single “Soul Fire” is a bare bones dive into heartbreak and a wanting for Love. Noah and the Arkiteks sprinkle in their own Bay-area influenced West coast jazz and funk to keep you moving to a truly signature Bay Area groove. Patricia Smith is the author of ten books of poetry, including The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems (Scriber, 2025), winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Poetry; Unshuttered (Northwestern 2023); Incendiary Art (Northwestern 2017), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the LA Times Book Prize, and the NAACP Image Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Press, 2012), winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press, 2008), a National Book Award finalist. Her work has been published widely, including in Best American Poetry and Best American Essays. Her short story “When They Are Done With Us” won the Robert Fish Award from the Mystery Writers of America and was featured in Best American Mystery Stories. Smith is a 2024 inductee into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, as well as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a chancellor in the Academy of American Poets, a Guggenheim fellow, an National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a finalist for the Neustadt Prize, a former fellow at Civitella Ranieri, Yaddo, and MacDowell, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. She is a professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, as well as a former distinguished professor for the City University of New York. Currently, she is at work on her first novel and a collection of short stories.