Smithsonian Center For Folklife & Cultural Heritage

Elexia Alleyne. Photo courtesy of the artist

Coming of Age in Poetry: An Interview with Elexia Alleyne

April 27th, 2021, 12:00PM

/ BY Carolina Meurkens

Chinese poetry carved on the wall of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. (Text from Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940)

The Chinese Poetry Left at Angel Island, the “Ellis Island of the West”

April 20th, 2021, 12:00PM

/ BY Ying Diao

Elizabeth Acevedo (Photo by Jonathan B. Tucker)

How Poet Elizabeth Acevedo Brings Sacred Monsters to Life

April 6th, 2021, 12:00PM

/ BY Monique-Marie Cummings

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