Allie Light – Nellie Wong

Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets (1981)

By hoisanpoet | December 16, 2025December 16, 2025 by hoisanpoet

One of the earliest documentaries to broach the topic of Japanese American wartime incarceration, Mitsuye and Nellie profiles Asian American poets Mitsuye Yamada and Nellie Wong, showing them reading their poetry, meeting their family and visiting the Minidoka and Angel Island sites. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets. See this item in the Densho Digital Repository at: https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-37/. IMBD: Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets Movie Review: “Up from Invisibility” FREEDOM SOCIALIST…

We Can Always (1975)

By hoisanpoet | March 30, 2023March 30, 2023 by hoisanpoet

My very first poem, We can Always, was published in the anthology, Poetry from Violence, published in 1975 by Allie Light for the San Francisco Conference on Violence Against Women. Allie Light and Ann Hershey taught “Woman as Creative Agent” in the early 70’s at San Francisco State University. I credit that class for my writing, as well as the class where the professor told me I should discard my angry poems. Just a bit…