Monologues – Nellie Wong

LaborFest Writers – Anthology Launch Reading

By hoisanpoet | July 29, 2026July 29, 2026 by hoisanpoet

Adobe Books & Arts Cooperative 3130 24th Street, San FranciscoWednesday, July 29, 2026 • 7:00-8:30pm LaborFest Writers are proud to announce the publication of Giving Voice 2026: LaborFest Writers Anthology — our latest collection of writing: fiction, polemic, memoir and poetry tracing the lives and struggles of working people across generations and geographies. Giving Voice 2026 honors Nellie Wong (1934-2026) — poet, activist, and beloved member of LaborFest Writers. Her voice is in its pages.…

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…