3rd Saturday Poetry in Chinatown

About the Event

Open mic before and after the featured poets. Sign up at 1 pm.

The event will be Live streamed on our YouTube Channel.

Chun Yu, Ph.D. is an award-winning bilingual poet, artist, and translator. She is the author of the memoir in verse Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution (Simon & Schuster) and a graphic novel in progress (Macmillan). She is a San Francisco Public Library Laureate (2023) and a 2020 YBCA 100 awardee. Her poetry and translations are published by Orion, Poetry, Arion Press, Poetry Northwest, and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee (2021 & 2022). She co-founded Two Languages/One Community to connect Chinese and African American communities and Chinese American Stories to present Chinese immigration history. www.chunyu.org.

Michael Warr is Poetry Editor of the anthology Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin (W.W. Norton). His books include The Armageddon of Funk, called “a poetic soundtrack to black life” by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and We Are All The Black Boy. He is a San Francisco Public Library Laureate and received a Creative Work Fund Award, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award, NEA Fellowship, and many San Francisco Arts Commission grants. He cofounded Two Languages / One Community with poet/translator Chun Yu.