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“These poems were not written for us. They were written for themselves, to express what they were feeling,” says Angel Island ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Angel Island,” an oratorio by Huang Ruo, brings to life the stark poetry of the people who were detained on the California island in the ...
This and dozens of other poems have been the focus of a $50 million, three-phase state parks restoration project underway at the Angel Island Immigration Station on the 470-acre island in San ...
When Chinese poetry was discovered written and carved into Angel Island's barrack walls in the 1970s, she helped translate some of the 100 detainees' poems into English, and shared them in a book ...
The Oakland Ballet Company is putting on a one-time show on Sunday, called Angel Island Project. The backstory "Most of it is inspired by the poetry, protest poetry, carved into the wooden walls ...
I was trying to find a project to do with him that involved Chinese words, and the poems that are carved into the walls of the detention center on Angel Island seemed like the perfect vehicle.” ...
including Chinese poetry engraved on the walls by those detained here. Alamy Visitors can still see Chinese characters carved into the walls of Angel Island's immigration and internment centre ...
Her first play, Paper Angels, a story about Angel Island detainees like her parents, was picked up by American Playhouse. A lover of words, she also began to write poetry in the Big Apple and ...