Musings – Nellie Wong

Asian American Literature Festival 2024 Keynote Address

By hoisanpoet | September 14, 2024September 18, 2024 by hoisanpoet

Chinese Culture Center San Francisco, California September 14, 2024 Nellie Wong If art cannot engage with life, it has no future —Ai Weiwei The literature, poetry, art, songs of Asian America sail and float throughout the cosmos, indeed on earth through workers’ hands, their compassion, survivors’ instincts, their respect for the living and the dead, for permanent revolution, our communal search for bread and roses, for beauty. Our voices may tremble or shout, murmur, somersault,…

Monologues Musings

TYPEWRITERBACKTALK: A Monologue (1980)

By hoisanpoet | January 1, 1980March 30, 2023 by hoisanpoet

So you want to write. A poet, a playwright a storyteller, a magician! And to write, you think you have to be a sociologist, an environmentalist, a psychologist, an observer of human behavior, and a scholar too! Well, prove it. The least you could do is pay attention to me. How would you like to be covered up like this, not knowing the light basking in the colors of this universe? Go, go! Traipse around…