September 2024
August 2023
City Lights 70th Anniversary Poetry Reading — Live in Kerouac Alley
Join us as we gather some of the Bay Area’s best poets to help us celebrate our 70th anniversary!Emceed by Peter Maravelis, with readings by Micah Ballard, Chris Carosi, Garrett Caples, Neeli Cherkovski, Norma Cole, Gillian Conoley, Sophia Dahlin, Tiff Dressen, Nadia Elbgal, Agneta Falk Hirschman, erica lewis, Randall Mann, Alexandra Mattraw, Alejandro Murguía, Achy […]
July 2023
Bird & Beckett Poetry Reading
Poet Michael Warr and poet/translator Chun Yu, co-founders of Two Languages / One Community, present work that has evolved out of the project, which includes contributions from renowned authors from Chinese American and African American communities. The collaboration—which emerged during a period defined by COVID, injustice, violence, and social division—reflects the possibility of unity rooted […]
June 2023
February 2023
Black History Month & Chinese New Year Poetry Reading on Angel Island by Chun Yu & Michael Warr
Poets Chun Yu and Michael Warr co-founded Two Languages/One Community to exchange culture and common experiences between African Americans and Chinese Americans using poetry and translation. The poets stand in solidarity with both communities in ensuring safety and peace against all forms of violence, hatred, and discrimination. You are invited to experience their poems and […]
January 2023
April 2022
Poetry Across the Disciplines
Indelible Evenings Online, Poetry Across the Disciplines Featuring notable poets: Fiona Sampson, Norbert Hirschhorn, Chun Yu, Hélène Demetriades, and Lorette C. Luzajic.Poetry is an interdisciplinary art, as demonstrated by these brilliant poets who bridge the gap between art and science by sharing some verse inspired by architecture, science and technology, music, psychology, and medicine.
July 2021
June 2021
“The Map 地圖” Publication Party by Arion Press and Two Languages/One Community
We have all endured months of uncertainty and challenges. Come out and celebrate Arion Press’s broadside of Chun Yu’s poem “The Map 地圖” (purchase here) with an introduction of the publication by Arion Press and a poetry reading by Yu, followed by a live conversation between Yu and poet Michael Warr on culture and community […]
Cambridge Public Library’s Juneteenth Celebration: Chun Yu and Michael Warr present Two Languages / One Community
A portmanteau of “June” and “nineteenth,” the Juneteenth holiday – also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, marks the day, in 1865, when a group of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned that they were free from the institution of slavery. Join the Cambridge Public Library for a virtual […]
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