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San Francisco Poet Laureate Announcement

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date September 1, 2024

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.

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— London Breed (@LondonBreed) September 7, 2024

San Francisco Public Library San Francisco Poet Laureate Chronology

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.

首位華裔：詩人林小琴Genny Lim榮獲舊金山桂冠詩人獎 8.30（國）/ The first Chinese American: Poet Genny Lim appointed as San Francisco Poet Laureate 8.30 (USA)

KTSF Channel 26, August 30, 2024

舊金山首位華裔桂冠詩人林小琴, 父親當年是所謂的Paper son 9.02(國）/ San Francisco’s first Chinese-American poet laureate Lin Xiaoqin, her father was a “Paper son” 9.02 (USA)

KTSF Channel 26, September 2, 2024

Genny Lim: Lingua madre / Mothertongue. La poesia della settimana (24/2024).

Potlatch.it: Sergio Iagulli on La poesia della settimana (24/2024).

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…

S.F. picks first Chinese American poet laureate

SF Chronicle (eedition), September 5, 2024

San Francisco’s newest Poet Laureate Genny Lim stands for a portrait at her daughter’s home in Orinda, California Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. Lim is the first Chinese American to hold the position. Photo by Jessica Christian.

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.

Tags Asian Art Museum, Genny Lim, Mayor London Breed, Poet Laureate, San Francisco

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SFJAZZ Poetry Festival 2018 with Genny Lim

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date April 5, 2018

Thursday, April 5th – Sunday, April 8, 2018, Joe Henderson Lab

Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim, the 2018 Wordology Festival featured “the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond, centered on the concept of ‘wordology.’”

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Genny Lim and Francis Wong at SFJazz Poetry Festival 2018

“I want poets to… let go of their concept of how the poem is supposed to be, to surrender to the spirit of improvisation, so the poem can breathe and become a whole new poem.”
GENNY LIM

This year’s festival is bookended by two illustrious poets: on opening night, former California poet laureate Al Young, whom Lim calls “the Duke Ellington of letters,” and who is the much-honored author of 22 books of various genres; and, playing piano at the closing matinee, Ishmael Reed (“just a lion—a political satirist, a playwright, an essayist,” says Lim).
In between is a multicultural and multigenerational lineup of poets, rappers, spoken-word artists and jazz musicians, many among them part of San Francisco’s underground arts scene, many of them social activists as well: Arlene Biala with musician Brittany Biala; Royal Kent with Copus Multimedia (his duo with composer/pianist Wendy Loomis); also Paul Flores, Tongo Eisen-Martin, QR Hand, novelist and hip-hop artist Aya De Leon, Tony Robles, rapper Equipto, the musical ensemble the Broun Fellinis, “drum strategist” Marshall Trammel and saxophonist Francis Wong. The festival includes a tribute to Charles Mingus and Native American sax player Jim Pepper.
Poetry and Jazz Make a Harmonic Hybrid by JEAN SCHIFFMAN, sfarts.org

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SFJAZZ Poetry Festival 2017 with Genny Lim

Post author By hoisanpoet
Post date April 6, 2017

Genny Lim with Anthony Brown & the Asian American Orchestra: “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite”

Sunday, April 9, 8:00pm, Joe Henderson Lab

The SFJAZZ Poetry Festival 2017 was curated and hosted by Genny Lim, SFJAZZ Poet Laureate. The program on Sunday, April 9 featured poetry and music by poet devorah major, and then we became, with recording artist Destiny Muhammad, and “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite,” with Genny Lim, composer and percussionist Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra. The evening was co-presented by Litquake in the Joe Henderson Lab at SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco.

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Genny Lim, SF Jazz Poet Laureate, performs Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite at SF Jazz (2017)

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On stage, in front of panels lit in blue and reds, SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim, Amikaeyla Gaston and trombonist Jasim Perales roar with laughter, as they perform together for "Poetry Matters" the closing performance of SFJAZZ Poetry Festival 2017.

Genny Lim with Anthony Brown and The Asian American Orchestra – Freedom Now Suite

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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.

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