On May 3rd, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library presented “Spring Awakening: A Tribute to San Francisco Libraries in Bloom”. What a privilege it was to be named as a Library Laureate along with writers, poets and creatives Kevin Adler, Robert Mailer Anderson, Elaine Castillo, Dr. Monica Gandhi, Katy Hays, Leticia Hernández-Linares, Cathy Park Hong, E.Hughes, R.O. Kwon, Dorothy Lazard, Ginny Lim, Eve Marie Little, Alexis Madrigal, Lauren Markham, Abi Maxwell, Tomas Moniz, Brittany Newell, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Alison Owings, Kenard Pak, Beverly Parayno, Samantha Rajaram, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Sam Sax, Rebecca Solnit, Kara Swisher, Jim Van Buskirk, Hetal Vasavada, Steve Wasserman, and Colin Winnette. Pictured here with San Francisco’s Poet Laureate, Genny Lim, who is the first Chinese-American Poet Laureate of San Francisco. A special thank you to co-chairs Roselyne Chroman Swig, Susan Swig, Adam Swig and Genny Lim.