Tell These Hands – Nellie Wong

No Luck in This Equation

By hoisanpoet | December 12, 2024April 24, 2025 by hoisanpoet

poem four / 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. “A world without ghosts,” Hung Liu tells…

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Tell These Hands – inspired by Ding Ling (1904-1986)

By hoisanpoet | May 3, 2022May 3, 2023 by hoisanpoet

DING LING (1904 – 1986) Nellie writes, “Ding Ling was a prolific author of revolutionary China. Her early short stories focusing on young Chinese women greatly influenced the world of socialist and feminist literature. One of her notable works, “When I Was in Xia Village,” inspired several of my own poems. How fortunate to meet my literary heroine during the First American Women Writers Tour to China in 1983.” Tell These Hands In a modest…