Oct 4th 2024

The Oldtimers: A Poetry Reading with Wing Tek Lum

@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago

238 W 23rd St, 4th floor, Chicago, IL 60616

Opening Friday, October 4th, from 4PM - 5PM

Book Talk Alert: ‘The Oldtimers’ by Wing Tek Lum

🗒️ Friday, October 4th, 2024

⏰ 4-5pm

📍 CAMOC FL4

Join us in imagining life in Honolulu Chinatown circa 1900 with poet Wing Tek Lum.

He will be sharing his latest work, “The Oldtimers,” which reflects on the forgotten bachelor society of sojourners and settlers in Hawaii—their work, their diversions, their challenges amidst plague and fire, and the perseverance that helped shape the America we see today.

Lum’s poetry revives archival voices with emotional depth, and historical consciousness, lighting on the experience of displacement, hard labor, isolation, familial bonds and obligations, heritage and adaptation amidst the islands’ rapid growth.

Talk followed by Q+A!

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