Presentations, Talks and Appearances
Upcoming 2021 –
- Assoc. of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference (Virtual) – March 5, 2021, at 10:20 am PST, “My Tongue in the Mouth of My Friend”: Literary Translation in Creative Writing, translation panel sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) (AWP conference attendees only)
- Word Week San Francisco 2021 (Virtual) – Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 7:00 pm PST, Angel Island poetry book talk and reading (General public welcome via Zoom)
Past Events –
2020
- UC Berkeley Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies (AAADS) – Tuesday, February 4, 2020, talk on the 1969 TWLF Strike and the founding of UC Berkeley’s Asian American Studies program (with Steve Wong)
- Friends of Noe Valley – San Francisco – Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 5:00 pm, at the Noe Valley Library, WGS book talk and reading, event is part of the 14th Annual Noe Valley Word Week (Event cancelled due to Coronavirus outbreak)
2019
- Buena Vista United Methodist Church – Alameda– Sunday, February 10, 2019, book talk and reading
- Green Apple Books on the Park – San Francisco – Tuesday, February 12, 2019, book talk and reading
- San Francisco Art Institute – Wednesday, February 27, 2019, book talk and reading
- American University of Beirut – Beirut, Lebanon – Wednesday, March 13, 2019, book talk and reading
- Assoc. of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, Portland, OR – Thursday, March 28, 2019, Poetry International/Calypso Editions/Locked Horn Press Happy Hour Reading, Friday, March 29, 2019, AWP Book Fair, book-signing
- APAHE 2019 Annual Conference, Oakland – Friday, April 5, 2019, book-signing with AACP, Inc.
- Eastwind Books of Berkeley – Sunday, April 14, 2019, book launch for Writ
- Holy Names High School – Oakland – Friday, May 3, 2019, all-school assembly on Angel Island poetry for 2019 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- Bay Area Book Festival, Berkeley – Saturday, May 4, 2019, Eastwind Books of Berkeley book signing; translation exercise with the Center for the Art of Translation-Poetry Inside Out
- San Francisco Public Library – North Beach Branch – Sunday, May 5, 2019, book talk and reading on Angel Island poetry
- Clarion Performing Arts Center – SF Chinatown – Sunday, June 2, 2019, Poetry in Chinatown reading with Clara Hsu, Nellie Wong and Genny Lim
- Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) – NY Chinatown – Thursday, June 6, 2019, book talk and reading on Angel Island poetry
- 38th Annual Northern California Book Awards, San Francisco – Sunday, June 23, 2019, awards ceremony and reception with Northern California Book Reviewers Association
- San Francisco Public Library – Chinatown Branch – Saturday, September 21, 2019, book talk and reading on Angel Island poetry
- Poetry Flash Reading Series – Oakland – Sunday, September 22, 2019, “Poetry Behind Barrack Walls” a joint reading and conversation with poet Brian Komei Dempster (Event flyer)
- Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, San Francisco – Saturday, October 12, 2019, “Words Around the World: Passport to the World” reading and panel on translation
- San Francisco Public Library – Richmond Branch – Saturday, October 26, 2019, Wild Geese Sorrow and Writ book talk and reading
- Lyrics & Dirges Reading Series – Berkeley – Wednesday, November 20, 2019, Wild Geese Sorrow and Writ book reading
2018
- Assoc. of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, Tampa, FL – March 8, 2018, We Are a Helix, We Survive: Calypso Authors Read; March 10, National book launch and signing, AWP Book Fair
- Assoc. for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference, San Francisco – March 29, 2018, Asian American Political Alliance Stories: Legacies of the UC Berkeley 1969 Third World Strike; March 30, Literary Translation as Resistance: The Angel Island Wall Poems
- Eastwind Books of Berkeley – April 15, 2018, East Bay book launch
- Oakland Asian Cultural Center/Oakland Unified School District – May 12, 2018, The Chinese Exclusion Act, book signing
- Book Passage Ferry Building, San Francisco – May 16, 2018, San Francisco book launch
- Books Inc. Alameda – June 13, 2018, book talk and reading
- Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, Summer Institute on China, San Francisco – June 21, 2018, book talk and reading
- City Lore – New York, NY – June 28, 2018, book talk and reading
- Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) MFA in Writing Summer Residency, Montpelier, VT – Sunday-Tuesday, July 1-3, 2018, visiting alumni poet and translator
- San Francisco Public Library – Richmond Branch – September 15, 2018, book talk and reading
- Angel Island Pilgrimage (with the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity) – September 22, 2018, Pilgrimage and book talk and reading at the Angel Island Immigration Station Mess Hall
- UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library (with Palestinian-American Poet Deema Shehabi) – Wednesday, October 10, 2018, “Poets Imagine: A World Free from Borders, Detention and Otherness, from Angel Island to Palestine” book talk and reading Event flyer
- San Francisco Public Library – Sunset Branch – Thursday, October 11, 2018, book talk and reading
- San Mateo Public Library – Main Library – Saturday, October 27, 2018, book talk and reading Event flyer
- San Francisco Public Library – Main Library – Thursday, November 1, 2018, book talk and reading