WORKS – Nellie Wong

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

By hoisanpoet | April 19, 2025May 5, 2025 by hoisanpoet

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…

Do It Every Morning

By hoisanpoet | April 3, 2025April 3, 2025 by hoisanpoet

poem nine / 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.

Activism Poetry Work

Fourteen-Line Poem on The World

By hoisanpoet | March 30, 2025January 3, 2025 by hoisanpoet

poem eight / 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.

Poetry Work

America in the Fillmore

By hoisanpoet | March 12, 2025January 3, 2025 by hoisanpoet

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.

Poetry Work

Farewell My Dragonfly

By hoisanpoet | February 12, 2025January 3, 2025 by hoisanpoet

poem six / 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.

Activism Poetry Work

Art

By hoisanpoet | January 12, 2025January 3, 2025 by hoisanpoet

poem five / 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.

Mentors Musings Poetry The Memory Palace

Owen

By hoisanpoet | January 3, 2025January 13, 2025 by hoisanpoet

OwenInvited meto Brooklyn visit himlinking writing our poemsour lives. In memory of American poet, novelist, and playwright Owen Dodson ((November 28, 1914 – June 21, 1983) whom I met at a conference of writers of color in Syracuse, New York in the late 1970s. Sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Loni Ding, filmmaker, educator and activist had invited me. Owen was retired chair of the drama department at Howard University. But I didn’t know…

Feminism Poetry The Memory Palace Work

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…

Poetry Recording The Memory Palace Work

I do not hate a poet

By hoisanpoet | November 14, 2024January 3, 2025 by hoisanpoet

poem three / 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. Nellie shares a memory about the dress…

Calendar Poetry

Nothing Like Freedom Bookstore Launch

By hoisanpoet | November 1, 2024December 8, 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…