In English and Chinese 中英⽂詩會 (A Two Languages/One Community 兩種語⾔/⼀個社群 Project)
Wednesday, September 11, 6-7:30 PM, 447 Minna Street, San Francisco Free – Light Food and Drinks will be served
FEATURING
GENNY LIM, San Francisco’s Poet Laureate (2024- ) TONGO EISEN MARTIN, San Francisco Poet Laureate (2021-2024) CHUN YU, Poet/Editor/Translator, San Francisco Public Library Laureate (2023) MICHAEL WARR, Poet/Editor, San Francisco Public Library Laureate (2017 & 2023)
Each poet will share poems from the anthology manuscript “Together in Poetry,” a project of Two Languages/One Community (TLOC) which was co-founded by Michael Warr and Chun Yu who translated all the poems into Chinese. She will recite select poems by the featured poets in Chinese.
Mayor London Breed invites you to the announcement and celebration of San Francisco’s Ninth Poet Laureate GENNY LIM
Friday, September 6, 4PM; Asian Art Museum, Samsung Hall, San Francisco, CA
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Mayor London Breed and Genny Lim, 9th Poet Laureate of San Francisco
We celebrate a new chapter in our city’s literary legacy by appointing native San Franciscan Genny Lim as our 9th Poet Laureate. Genny is an extraordinary writer, performer, and cultural advocate, and she will be the first Chinese American to hold this esteemed role.
S.F.’s first Chinese American poet laureate is ‘positive’ she won’t be the last – Genny Lim, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, said she wants to make San Francisco the “mecca” of world poetry.
San Francisco Chronicle, August 31, 2024
Following an acclaimed career, Genny Lim, 77, will become San Francisco’s first Chinese American poet laureate during a Sept. 6 ceremony at the Asian Art Museum.
Festeggiamo con gioia l’imminente conferimento del titolo di “poeta laureato” della città di San Francisco alla nostra straordinaria amica Genny Lim. Poetessa cino-inuit-statunitense, figlia di immigrati cinesi che hanno vissuto esclusioni, razzismo e deportazioni, è una delle più belle voci della poesia statunitense e della jazz-poetry. Buddista e profondamente impegnata per i diritti delle donne e delle minoranze, studiosa di tradizioni e mistica orientale, rappresenta un’avvincente incrocio tra culture orientali ed occidentali fuse nella sua storia personale e nella sua poesia…
We celebrate with joy the imminent award of the title of “poeta laureate” of the city of San Francisco to our extraordinary friend Genny Lim. Chinese-Inuit-US poet, the daughter of Chinese immigrants who have experienced exclusions, racism and deportations, is one of the most beautiful voices of American poetry and jazz-poetry. Buddhist and deeply committed to the rights of women and minorities, a scholar of Eastern traditions and mysticism, it represents a compelling cross between Eastern and Western cultures merged in its personal history and poetry…
Following an acclaimed career, Genny Lim, 77, will become San Francisco’s first Chinese American poet laureate during a ceremony Friday at the Asian Art Museum.