Audio Recordings

• Island Bound: Casey Dexter-Lee

  Island Bound: Women Making History gathers, preserves and shares the stories of inspiring women whose collective action helped to carry Angel Island history forward into the future. Casey Dexter-Lee is…

  March 2, 2025

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  “It’s in the Blood” by Nellie Wong

  Nellie Wong’s poem “It’s In the Blood” is a personal narrative about her family’s journey from China to Oakland’s Chinatown via Angel Island. Nellie read the poem for participants in…

  January 9, 2024

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  Angel Island Poems: The Ocean Encircles a Lone Peak

  January 9, 2024

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  Angel Island Poems: Buried Beneath Clay and Earth

  December 15, 2023

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  Angel Island Poems: When We Bade Farewell

  December 15, 2023

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  Angel Island Poems: The Seascape

  December 14, 2023

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  Language Archive

  We are inviting people to contribute their readings to a growing language archive of the poems included in Huang Ruo’s ANGEL ISLAND 天使島 Oratorio for Voices and String Quartet. Listen…

  October 30, 2021

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  “Four Women” by Genny Lim

  Genny Lim reads “Four Women,” a poetic narrative about four women held on Angel Island from Angel Island Insight

  May 22, 2021