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National Poetry Month at SFPL: ”When Cherry Blossoms Fall”

Reading by Genny Lim & Nellie Wong, with Hyeyung Sol Yoon Weds., April 19, 2025, 2pm – 3:30pmLatino/Hispanic Meeting RoomMain Library, 100 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94102 SFPL’s Humanities Center celebrates National Poetry Month with a reading by Genny Lim, San Francisco’s 9th Poet Laureate. Cherry blossoms have long been a symbol of life’s brevity. Lim, together with poet Nellie Wong, will address themes of life, death and renewal in the historical and personal…

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America in the Fillmore

poem seven / Nellie Wong at Ninety NELLIE WONG celebrates her ninetieth birthday with the publication of Nothing Like Freedom, her fifth collection, after Dreams of Harrison Railroad Park (1977), Death of Long Steam Lady (1986), Stolen Moments (1997), and Breakfast Lunch Dinner (2012). “Nellie Wong at Ninety” is a digital companion project centered around nine poems, chosen by Nellie to represent each decade of her storied life. In the late 1970s, Chinese American women…

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