because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now.arts. >> it my honor to introduce a true patron of the arts our mayor london breed. >> (clapping). >> wow. it is packed house here tonight, i'm so very much excited to be here because this has been a long time coming the process that the committee members have had to go through to make a selection who are an

important a poet laureate is one time consuming because of number of applications received and the robust body of work so many of those accomplished poetsd have and i really want to start by thanking the committee for all the great work they have done director lopez and others thank you to (clapping.) all the be you've done with 39 folks here i don't know if i have all the names please raise your machine if you are that on the committee (clapping.) thank you, poet and thank you for being here i'd like to that's why take that opportunity to welcome you all here to the asian art museum to announce the 9 poet laureate of city and county of san francisco and by the looks of this crowd you know

who it is ladies and gentlemen (clapping.) jenny likely wow. what a big fan club here (yelling). >> now thank you, do you is is about jenny i think that jenorgen any that is about her lifelong story when community members can relate do we stand as a moment in history we have the opportunity to reflect not

on how far we've come but on the struggles of your chinese and asian-american what they faced not seiu so in the recently past but her family history and throughout growing up in san francisco are a reminder how deeply exhibition policies and discrimination have shaped the lives of individuals and families across generations. jenny's grandfather came to this country during the gold rush and despite to build a new life unfamiliar faces and lanes his family was had inclusionary policy her father was at 10 years old was detained at angel i'd like for casting a long shadow of suspension on anyone

at foreign by soliciting immigrants and worse her it grandfather was deported that dark period in our history not just about laws or policies that was about real people and real families torn apart their dreams deferred and their trust in the america dream like a many others jenny's fathered experienced fear in a country that didn't welcome them i lived his lifelike others no amnesty for him or folks in his position his fear and mistrust 6 government were passed detain drove immigrants 3 feared the same and, yes despite the history jenny's story like the stories of so many immigrants is also

one of resilience and strengths she found her voice as a poet and social go just advocate inspired by her history of painful memories her family endemurred and overcame. jenny might talk about hero experiences grouping and how much time it tractor for her family to fully embrace hero identity and be proud of her working class groups and hydrogen she emerged stronger knowing the only way to move forward was by honoring the past. her inspiration came apart in the late another asian-american poet (clapping.) who is dearly missed and whose

family was imprimped in world war ii in a japanese encampment those stories of oppression whether under the chinese explore act arrest the ifrm terminate of japanese-american are not just distance americans but part of those in the community shaping their i identity and their fight for justice. even today, the echoes of that painful history can be heard during the covid pandemic and jenny remind us of that a new wave of anti asian violence emerged bringing what can the paste memories how asian-american astound to face the violence that once defined the darkest chapter guess is

sobering reminder a sober reminder we have come far the work of what equity and justice is far from complete. but we must take a moment and celebrate how far we have come thanks to the resilience of people like jenny her family and community and friends and many others who roosted to give up on their dreams they're stories remind us that while americans history of immigration has been figure out with injustice a history of peruvians and today jenny in the first chinese-american decide of the city and county of san

francisco. >> (yelling). >> and position she never could have imagined when her family didn't see them as people. she stepped into the role they carried her not just her own stories but generations of family that came before her, she is the first but will not be the late to be in the role. >> and not to mention she is last gail la high school alliance and i see supervisor yee one of the fight and resilience as a city that takes pride in supporting the arts

community i'm really proud of not only her body of work but all that that represents and all it will do over the next 3 years to evaluate san francisco's position as an ambassador not just in the arts but ambassador that represents the amazing woevenl tapestry of what san francisco is we appreciate your work and representation of san francisco and we or so proud and honored and excited about the work i will do as san francisco poet laureate ladies and gentlemen jenny lamb (clapping.) (yellowing yelling. >> oh my god. >> thank you.

>> thank you. i'm just speech also the mayor said everything for me and france wong and the co-sponsor at the time they're everything they express that's what i'm fellowship heart full for everyone here has a good heart that is the most important thing that whatever you do in life have to have a good heart. >> all of you on this long journey with me 7 seven years as my school france galla i don't know, y'all that often but you're always part of my memory. >> and that's why you're all here you'll all part of me all

the poet laureates in the past, present, and future and the committee the member committee that did the wonderful work processing all the 23450e78gs and applications was amazing with the poets and for me to squeak through and high bar i'm truly amazed and, you know, i go back with the people that started the june of poetry and jazz with john james and francis and all of the people i've done free reading and benefit reading often (laughter) reading for i guess for everything culminates here and i want to, you know, my family is here i think this is a first time i've gathered my family at

one of my events my 3 grandsons are here and taylor from cal poly on facebook for his drawings i ever will in a lifetime and traveled to las vegas and baseball and basketball athletic and going to the oakland yeah - he's got more trophys in the room i can count so that's the next generation and speaks for like my mother taught me the culture is transferred somehow from those most to memories and i want to thank the asian art museum for

hosting this wonderful event for the city library and michael and michelle and the staff the mayor i can't be will will she had my historian that took time to get my story together and appreciate that i'm touched you can do that and the former i'm an ordinary people thank you for being here and um, you know, so many people that i need to thank my students, my just everyone here have played a part in my life i want to share this poem to for my mom couldn't be here never spoke a wore in english and my pop that taught me he was the

person i mean i was really had i wrote his speeches for a club had a wonderful voice i learned public so to speak through him and, of course, my daughter danielle he lost at 19 she is there milestone down at me and my family and josh and everyone. here you there. language it differs memory. and across seasons study strong like the hands that cooperative child 3wir9d and decades served and led rich erroneously and per simple and nightmares and among

a suing woman and the tongue that shamed me now archived with footnotes and for definitions and keepers of 10:15 for publication. >> and who are here you there or here in english will be spoken here. the action has a swing she mind like the tail six the objection along the muddy river delta we were country folks that followed the dream called - beautiful country we were frozen in time. they said you never really left china. our

formaler wet on my town & country village apartments a thing tasting of - the tip of lights own the college a descending like a gal. >> like a gull in a cave with its wings clipped. she waited and waited and the echosing glom of post moratorium togsz as as crow flies in the temple wall and well recalled a painful memory tossed those sea it is all she left me her children laid to rest behind locked doors with graffiti and the night moved is goldberg light on the

words i will across the barrier. >> (speaking foreign language.) what year were you born? >> (speaking foreign language.) >> how many houses in a row in your village are hear me there. momma mother watches like a sparrow under the fading moon. she dreams of the fire flies under the bridge. she dreams of capturing there be flicking utility and finish swimming swiftly class the frozen bay to survive. now. >> thank you

(clapping.) (yelling). >> as for all of you all nellie my sister who have p had grandparents and parents going gone to the i'd like we know with people south of bored survive everyday the same story so history is not really hiv negative so, now. i'm going studio welcome my colleague to come up here and thank andy and her little elves for taking care of to put my poem tiny poems in little miles if you're fortunate on the way out you can get one of those little poems they're

proposed to be capsules i don't know (laughter) if they have to be opened at a future dates or if they can - >> oh, 24 years oh. okay. >> (laughter) don't break the bottle you might have bad lucky but this is the poem that is in it you don't have to break the glass (laughter). >> oh. okay there is she's thought of everything. so the journey (music) though would not

we can't be together. and all times. may the blessing of our ann shelters protect us. >> though we cannot change the path of the sun or moon. may we persevere in the place of wind and darkness. like the cocoa who returns from foreign lands to sip the fruit of this generation. how joyful it will be if we could see the spaces of

our children radiant alive and as stars. the pursuit of freedom is filled with hardship the struggle, is here, here and their gift to their fellow beings. come after. their gift is the truth of freedom the powerful. >> illuminations that bright and clear light that cuts through had the i go initials of

haftd and fear and injustice of spirit of hope and daerpgs now that's the immigrant swoird to dispel the darkness of this world. the spirit of change and transformation that is the immigrant dream that is all of our dreams to end makes sense inhumanity to demand with tolerance and compassion with the equity and peace and love. that is the ultimate revolution journey, journey, journey to light we we are all the lights we are all the light you and me.

free, free, that's all we want to be. >> free. >> free.

>> thank you. (clapping.) i love you all. >> (yelling). >> so - >> the co-sponsor at the time.

>> (laughter.) >> that is good energy in here i just want to take this opportunity to again congratulate our new decide but thank the committee appropriately i didn't have all the names in front of me i apologize for that i want to start with valerie a 5 generation san franciscan an amazing poet that helps with the city hall we're going to bring back with that new poet laureate it will be amazing (clapping.) and thank joyce jennings and known poet in the bay area and mistaken lambert our city larger than and stacey the vice president of the city light

publishing. (clapping.) and dr. lopez on the library committee here in san francisco and major the third poet laureate of city and county of san francisco and this ken who is the 7th poet poet laureate of san francisco. >> (clapping) so again, thank you all so much and i know that our public defender's office is here. as well as former president of board of supervisors norman where we and ink mary and finally, i want to thank the poet laureate who i had the opportunity to thank you, you and congress attended columbia

something about san francisco natives in columbia but i want to take the opportunity to thank congo and martin as a poet laureate for san francisco thank you all for joining us >> candlestick park known also as the stick was an outdoor stadium for sports and entertainment. built between 1958 to 1960, it was located in the bayview

hunters point where it was home to the san francisco giants and 49ers. the last event held was a concert in late 2014. it was demolished in 2015. mlb team the san francisco giants played at candlestick from 1960-1999. fans came to see players such a willie mays and barry bonds, over 38 seasons in the open ballpark. an upper deck expansion was added in the 1970s. there are two world series played at the stick in 1962 and in 198 9. during the 1989 world series against the oakland as they were shook by an earthquake. candlestick's enclosure had minor damages from the quake but its design saved thousands of lives. nfl team the san francisco 49ers

played at candlestick from feign 71-2013. it was home to five-time super bowl champion teams and hall of fame players by joe montana, jerry rice and steve jones. in 1982, the game-winning touchdown pass from joe montana to dwight clark was known as "the catch." leading the niners to their first super bowl. the 49ers hosted eight n.f.c. championship games including the 2001 season that ended with a loss to the new york giants. in 201, the last event held at candlestick park was a concert by paul mccartney who played with the beatles in 1966, the stadium's first concert. demolition of the stick began in late 2014 and it was completed in september 2015. the giants had moved to pacific rail park in 2000 while the 49ers moved to santa clara in

2014. with structural claims and numerous name changes, many have passed through and will remember candlestick park as home to the legendary athletes and entertainment. these memorable moments will live on in a place called the stick. (♪♪♪) >> i'm supervisor connie chan. over the last 4 years i worked to make district 1 stronger and safeer for all families. first generation chinese immigrant, i aserved the public over two deck ades to give back to it t