Weds., July 29, 2026 • 5:30pm at GLIDE, 330 Ellis Street
Event Program: Poet Laureate Genny Lim Community Dinner Crane Folding
In honor of Janice Mirikitani’s vision, courage, and devotion to peace and justice, we invite our community to come together in creativity, solidarity, and love.
Come help contribute to our 10,000 cranes – Each crane, a wish for peace. Together, a message to the world.
We start on Janice’s memorial (July 29) and fold cranes together until International Peace Day (Sept. 21). Our cranes will be delivered to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on International Peace Day.
SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO “A Love Letter to The Bay Area”
SAT, May 2 · 3PM & 7:30PM MINER AUDITORIUM
GRAMMY-winning bassist, singer, and songwriter performs covers and compositions that speak to American protest
GRAMMY-winning bassist, singer, and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello is an uncompromising trailblazer whose deliriously funky, soulful work doubles as potent commentary on race, gender, and LGBTQ+ rights.
For the family-friendly matinee and evening shows on Saturday, May 2, Meshell and her ensemble will be joined by some of the Bay Area’s most groundbreaking poets, including Aja Monet, Genny Lim, Tongo Eisen-Martin and Mimi Tempestt for two concerts that bring together jazz, soul, and spoken word.
San Francisco Public Library Presents 21st Annual Poems Under the Dome
April 24th 2026, 5:30-8:00pm North Light Court, San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco Public Library presents Poems Under the Dome at San Francisco’s majestic City Hall. The 21st annual event features an all-ages open mic to celebrate National Poetry Month. San Francisco Poet Laureate Genny Lim will read the first poem. All poets and poetry lovers are welcome to attend. Participants put their name in a hat for a chance to read one poem in under three minutes in the North Light Court of San Francisco City Hall.
WHO is coming??? SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim reads the First Poem! Youth Poets! And… E.K. Keith and Global Val Ibarra and Charlie Getter and Richard Ivanhoe and Dan Brady will be there too! Jorge Molina will give us a community blessing! And…. and you come too! See you there!
Special thanks to the San Francisco Public Library, and the Friends of SFPL, the Mayor, & the Board of Supervisors, for all these years of support for this amazing community event!
In Loving Memory of Poems Under the Dome Organizer Diamond Dave Whitaker (1937-2026)
“Cast a wide net! Find the common thread! Let life flourish! Don’t panic… Keep it organic!”
Sunday, March 22, at 2pm Golden Sardine 362 Columbus Avenue North Beach, San Francisco
Join Feather Press for the next book release party for Tender Hearts Club, Love Poems Anthology on Sunday March 22, at 2pm at Golden Sardine, 362 Columbus Ave, North Beach SF. Featuring all new poets and a special winemaker takeover from Dario Serrentino pouring wines from Il Mortellito Winery, Sicily, Italy.
Featuring poets: Al Averbach, Char Lacsina, Jennifer Barone, E.K. Keith, Gail Mitchell, Genny Lim, Heather Romero-Kornblum, Kelechi Ubozoh, Natasha Dennerstein, Patrick Cahill, Paul Corman Roberts, and Peggy Morrison.
This anthology of love poetry gathers love in all its forms. Tender Hearts Club: Volume One is a gathering of voices that refuse to let love be diminished. These poems do not ask love to be easy. They let love be honest, messy, radiant, and real.
OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, March 21, 6pm Public Atrium in Bldg 12 at Pier 70 1070 Maryland @ 22nd St
San Francisco’s current Poet Laureate Genny Lim will be featuring this Saturday, March 21 at 6pm for the Ferlinghetti event Kick-off in the public atrium of Bldg 12 at Pier 70, 1070 Maryland @ 22nd St. Presented by 3RD ST CREATIVE ARTERY, the event also features Mauro Aprile Zanetti, one of Ferlinghetti’s final collaborators, and a performance by long-time Ferlinghetti Day friends, The Conspiracy of Beards, a 30-member male choir that performs dynamic, original, a cappella arrangements of the poetic songs of Leonard Cohen.
The exhibit and reception are part of festivities related to Ferlinghetti Day, an annual literary walkabout on March 24th, in honor of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s birthday.
The primary intention of 3RD ST CREATIVE ARTERY is to highlight and amplify the efforts and output of artists, makers, movers, and shakers who have a connection to San Francisco’s 3RD ST through engaging exhibits, curated events, and creative programming. A cornerstone of our offering will be exhibiting the visual artwork of Lawrence Ferlinghetti who has deep and long-standing ties to the area, as he maintained a light-filled art studio at Hunters Point Shipyard for almost 40 years. We’ll also feature books, objects, and artifacts from his personal library.
Genny Lim reads her poem, “Facing the Moon,” along with Clara Hsu’s reading of her Cantonese translation of the poem.
Facing the Moon: Songs of the Diaspora, featuring poetry written by SF Poet Laureate Genny Lim, premieres on October 19, 2025at 2pm at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco.
Voices of mothers and daughters, across continents and generations, anchor this multimedia performance with new music by Chinese-diaspora composers Theresa Wong, Vivian Fung and Meilina Tsui. Del Sol Quartet centers the collaboration, building on their transformative Angel Island Project, with a theatrical visual experience by Olivia Ting and Mark Hellar. The musicians’ own histories, gathered through Genny Lim’s interviews, build connections between the musical sounds and Lim’s poetry.
Genny Lim, Poet Laureate, accompanied by J. Raoul Brody
Fri., August 8, 2025, 7PM Mile High Theater 7024 Crable Street Frazier Park, CA 9322
Genny Lim accompanied by J. Raoul Brody. Genevieve (Genny) Lim is an American Poet, playwright, and performer. She is the ninth poet laureate of San Francisco.
Fringe of the Woods Festival features a diverse lineup of acts and performances every year, over the course of 3 days.
“Not In Our Name / No En Nuestro Nombre” A Collaboration between Muralist Juana Alicia with Poetry by Genny Lim
Program Highlights
Francis Wong – composer, saxophonist, activist, and educator
Alexandro Murguía & devorah major – former San Francisco Poets Laureates
Chun Yu – Chinese/American poet and translator (reading in Chinese)
Mo Sati – Palestinian American poet
On-site Activation: The San Francisco Poster Syndicate will live-print and distribute free political posters, facilitating community engagement through art as activism.
This inaugural event unites poetry, mural art, and community solidarity into a powerful public statement. Not in Our Name / No en nuestro nombre calls on individuals to witness, engage, and amplify a message for peace, justice, and human dignity.
Our mural and poem, Not in Our Name, is an urgent call to demand a permanent Cease Fire to end the genocide in Palestine. The large scale poetic mural (15 feet by 25 feet) by internationally renowned muralist Juana Alicia and Genny Lim, SF Poet Laureate, is mounted in San Francisco’s celebrated Mission District’s Clarion Mural Alley Project in Clarion Alley at the Valencia corridor between 17th and 19th Streets. The mural stands alongside a length of vibrant, global social justice murals, created by artist activists. Since the October 7th attack on the Nova Music Festival almost two years ago, there has been no let‑up in the bombardment of Gaza and the West Bank, with over 60,000 Palestinians killed, more than half of whom were children and women. With hospitals and schools destroyed, starvation looming without any sufficient food or medical supplies allowed access, famine and disease, is inevitable. To date, there is no significant movement towards a cease fire and, in fact, the war threatens to spread with Israel’s attacks on Iran, Syria and Lebanon, which elicited retaliatory attacks.
As artists and poets, we use the tools of our craft to help raise social consciousness. Our crew of dedicated volunteers, led by activist, David Solnit, former SF Supervisor, Eric Mar, peace activist, Catherine Cusic and Tirso Araiza, among others, with the generous moral and material support support by CAMP, is a labor of love in tribute to all the victims of this horrific genocide. We believe that all war is an aberration, an abomination and a sign of moral decay. We believe that dialogue and honest cooperation are the only way to achieve true and lasting peace. Not in Our Name is a plea for peace and hope. It is a call to action. A message to all individuals with a moral conscience to defend the human rights and dignity of all human beings and the sovereignty of all nations by speaking truth to power and injustice.
Installation Team
The mural was installed by volunteers under the leadership of David Solnit, with support from Eric Mar, Catherine Cusic, Tirso González Araiza, Jade Mar, Yasmin Madriz, Yano Rivera, Denisse Ogata, Christopher Statton, Megan Wilson, and others. Poetry translations were provided by Carmen Hynds May & Alan Hynds (Spanish) and Carol Khoury (Arabic). Graphic design and video documentation by Andi Wong.
About Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP)
The Mission of Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) is to support and produce socially engaged and aesthetically innovative public art, locally and globally as a grassroots artist-run organization based in San Francisco’s Mission District. CAMP is a community, a public space, and an organizing force that uses public art (murals, street art, performance art, dance, poster projects, literary events) as a means for supporting social, economic, racial, and environmental justice messaging and storytelling. Over the past 30 years CAMP has produced over 900 murals and worked with many talented artists and community-based organizations and activists. In addition to its overall mural programming, CAMP’s projects/programming has included 1) the Redstone Labor Temple Project, highlighting San Francisco’s labor history (1997); 2) international exchange & residency projects with Yogykarata, Indonesia – Sama-Sama/Together (2003-2006) in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts and Bangkit/Arise (2018-present) in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum; 3) In Honor Of …, drawing attention to political prisoners in Iran in collaboration with Artists’ Television Access (2019); 4) Wall + Response, featuring 16 Bay Area poets responding to the social, political, and racial justice narratives of four mural projects on Clarion Alley (2020-22); and Manifest Differently, working with 38 artists & poets to interrogate the doctrine of ‘Manifest Destiny’(2023).
Reading by Genny Lim & Nellie Wong, with Hyeyung Sol Yoon
Weds., April 19, 2025, 2pm – 3:30pm Latino/Hispanic Meeting Room Main 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 contexts of their poems, accompanied by Del Sol String Quartet violinist Hyeyung Sol Yoon.
The Palestinian Village, Wadi Foquin is located in the Bethlehem District of the West Bank, and is threatened by land takeover with the presence and expansion of the illegal Israeli settlement of Betar Illit. With accelerated violence and military presence in the village during the last year, Friends of Wadi Foquin organized a “Protective Presence Trip” to the village in January 2025. Rev. Yoshii was among five persons who made the trip, and will provide a report back from the visit.
For those who prefer attending program online on a live zoom broadcast, on Feb 23rd at 1pm, log in to this zoom ink: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89849603176
Since 1982, Eastwind Books of Berkeley has been a major source for Asian American literature, Asian Studies, Ethnic Studies, Language Learning, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Martial Arts books. https://www.asiabookcenter.com/
The Friends of Wadi Foquin support community development projects in the village, organize annual trips to the region, and provide advocacy on behalf ot the village. .
Rev. Michael Yoshii is Pastor Emeritus at the Buena Vista United Methodist Church in Alameda where he served as Sr. Pastor from 1988 to 2020. He is also Co-Chair of the Friends of Wadi Foquin, a partnership initiated in 2009 at the Alameda church with the West Bank Palestinian village of Wadi Foquin. Yoshii’s life experience encouraged him to work to support Palestine. During WWII, Yoshii’s Japanese American parents were forced to leave their home and were incarcerated in a U.S.interment camp by the U.S. government until the war ended.
Genny Lim, the 9th San Francisco Poet Laureate (2025), opens the program with poetry. Lim is the first Chinese American given this honor in San Fancisco. She is co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940.
Noura Khouri will be joining the conversation with Rev. Yoshii on the present situation and beyond. Khouri is a U.S. born Palestinian human rights activist and community organizer based in Oakland, California. Over the past two decades, Noura has dedicated herself to advocating for Palestinian rights, serving as a campaign strategist and organizer. She has lived and worked in occupied Palestine and Egypt, gaining firsthand experience in the role and impact of US foreign policy on the region.
