16-year-old Samantha Hsiung reads from her poem "Chinatown Pt. 2." The poem was written after the June 2021 stabbing of a 94-year-old Asian woman in San Francisco who was on her way to the grocery store. "Chinatown Pt. 2" won an honorable mention in the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum’s Literary Contest.
'Chinatown Pt. 2' by poet Samantha Hsiung
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