February 21, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Observer Editor, FreeFree
Jane Wong: U-M English Department Zell Visiting Writers Series

This New Jerseyborn, Seattle-based poet, whose vivid, visual style brings to life her parents’ experience living through China’s Great Leap Forward, reads from and discusses her work. Her 2023 memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, is a meditation on her childhood in her family’s Chinese restaurant. Q&A. Also, tomorrow (10–11 a.m., 3222 Angell Hall) Wong gives a free lecture titled “Memoir or the Ghost Archive.” 5:30–6:30 p.m., UMMA Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State. Livestream available for both programs at tinyurl.com/zellwriters24. Free. [email protected].

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