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Nothing Like Freedom Bookstore Launch

By hoisanpoet | November 1, 2024November 1, 2024 by hoisanpoet

Reading by Nellie Wong, with special musical guest Destiny Muhammad Wednesday, November 6th – 7pm – 8:30pmBird & Beckett Books and Records653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA 94131 Chinese American revolutionary feminist poet Nellie Wong, joined by special musical guest, singer and harpist Destiny Muhammad, will read selections from “Nothing Like Freedom” at a bookstore launch event held on Wednesday, November 6th – 7pm at Bird & Beckett Bookstore. For additional information, please visit https://birdbeckett.com/ A Glen Park…

Not Once

By hoisanpoet | October 25, 2024November 1, 2024 by hoisanpoet

poem two / 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. Web Gallery Nellie at Great China Restaurant…

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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,…

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Webster Street Moon

By hoisanpoet | September 14, 2024September 23, 2024 by hoisanpoet

poem one / 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. Web Gallery The Gee Wong Family (1944)…

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Rivertown Poets & Aqus Café present

By hoisanpoet | March 26, 2024 by hoisanpoet

Nellie Wong + Vincent Kobelt Monday, April 8th at 6:15 p.m. an online reading via Zoom Rivertown Poets is a first-Mondays poetry series that has been hosted by the Aqus Cafe in Petaluma, CA since 2013. Vincent Kobelt has written poetry for the page, stage, and the mic. His early work explored the murals of the Mission where he grew up, the music of jazz, a cry for justice, the birth of his daughters, milkweed…

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Poets! Every First Thursday @ Bird and Beckett

By hoisanpoet | March 25, 2024March 26, 2024 by hoisanpoet

Featured Poets: Nellie Wong and Robert Eugene Rubino Thursday, April 4, 7pm – 9 pm Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA 94131 On the first Thursday of each month, Jerry Ferraz and Michael Koch host a poetry reading that showcases local legends, poets passing through and folks from around the Bay — typically two featured poets followed by an open mic. We can count on a warm group of…