On Angel Island, the walls still talk. On Angel Island, the walls still talk. News. Home Page ; California ... Poems, yes, including about 80 newly discovered Chinese verses.

My poem about the angels, for example, was written in about an hour in the middle of the night on Dec. 7, 2015. I've heard that songwriting is often of a similar nature.

The Poetry of Angel Island. Back to Angel Island. Numerous carvings and writings in several languages have been found on the barracks walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station. Some are simple ...

His poems are marvels of mental engineering, balancing extended constructions on a single striking conceit, as one might build a cathedral on the foundation of a single Lego brick. Today’s Poem of the ...

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) ...

Hundreds of heartfelt poems were carved into the walls by those detained at Angel Island's Immigration Station during an era when it was U.S. government policy to drastically limit the number of ...

It’s a fit that’s inextricably entwined with the Bay Area, and not merely because Angel Island is a 15-minute ferry ride from Tiburon. An intricate collaboration with the Angel Island Immigration ...

In 1970, when the buildings of Angel Island were due to be torn down, a park ranger noticed the inscriptions of poetry. PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT GALBRAITH / GETTY ...

The composer Huang Ruo, who came to the U.S. from China in the 1990s to study music, fell under the spell of Angel Island's poems after learning about them.