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3.25.08 :: Poetry Event:: The Stairwell Readings
Written and photographed by Tracy Chan
In the afterglow of Thursday’s Stairwell Reading, the synchronous thought that popped up was “let’s do it again!” Mahalo to all the writers who showed up and made it a great first event!
Check out pics and audio:
3.14.08 :: Literature :: Pink Magic Woman
By Christian Miller
Got a pink magic woman
Got a pink magic woman
I've got a pink magic woman
Got me so blind I cant see...
Writer Christian Miller graces us with some Gibson-esque prose.
>>More>>2.27.08 :: Literature :: Don Quixote's Letter to the Editor
By Casey Ishitani
Just because the legends of literature have survived into the modern age doesn't necessarily mean they like it here.
Casey Ishitani channels the (mostly cantankerous) voice of Don Quixote of La Mancha, in a "letter to the editor."
2.24.08 ::Featured Poet: Jared Ideta Lee
Join Jared Lee as he meditates on waiting, the process of thought, and the reflections of the bodhisattva and Godzilla.
1.23.08 :: Literature :: Election 2008 Interview with the Devil
By Casey Ishitani
Presenting our new Meet the Candidates section, with an exclusive interview from a surprise candidate for the upcoming 2008 election: Lord Satan himself.
>>More>>12.20.07 :: Featured New Poet:: Christian Miller
Island culture and cyber-romance...check these out::
07.19.07:: Featured Poet :: Tracy Chan
Journalism major and biker chick Tracy Chan throws words together and muses on the future, the city, death and dreams. Check these out::
+ Conversations With a Dying Age>>
05.11.07:: and poetry (after)words
(after)words is a collaborative group of UHM and high school students who got together this semester to explore creative writing out of bounds. check out what happened:
+MORE>>3.1.07::Billy Collins at Iolani Highschool
Billy Collins read a little more than a dozen poems to a room filled with the laughter of more than 300 people. Every seat in the auditorium at Iolani highschool, next to the Alawai, was taken. Collins' readings of poems like "Ballistics" and "Divorce" were sincere and terrifyingly frank. As the poet laureate for this year, Collins delivered a reading that was both entertaining and insightful. It seems many of his poems are written to mock other writers. Collins wrote "Litany," in efforts to rewrite a bad poem he had read in a magazine, a poem that compared a woman to, well, nearly everything. His poem:
"Litany"
You are the bread and the knife,
The crystal goblet and the wine...
-Jacques Crickillon
You are the bread and the knife,
the crystal goblet and the wine.
You are the dew on the morning grass
and the burning wheel of the sun.
You are the white apron of the baker,
and the marsh birds suddenly in flight.
However, you are not the wind in the orchard,
the plums on the counter,
or the house of cards.
And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.
There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air.
It is possible that you are the fish under the bridge,
maybe even the pigeon on the general's head,
but you are not even close
to being the field of cornflowers at dusk.
And a quick look in the mirror will show
that you are neither the boots in the corner
nor the boat asleep in its boathouse.
It might interest you to know,
speaking of the plentiful imagery of the world,
that I am the sound of rain on the roof.
I also happen to be the shooting star,
the evening paper blowing down an alley
and the basket of chestnuts on the kitchen table.
I am also the moon in the trees
and the blind woman's tea cup.
But don't worry, I'm not the bread and the knife.
You are still the bread and the knife.
You will always be the bread and the knife,
not to mention the crystal goblet and--somehow--the wine.
02.27.07::FEBRUARY LUNCH POEMS
More, more!
+MORE>>
01.25.07::JANUARY LUNCH POEMS
Last Tuesday of the month =
Have you looked inside the lunch bags?
+MORE>>01.17.07::HELP WANTED
Interested in helping with an after-school creative writing program at a high school? Get involved with (after)words -- a hot new UH student organization.
Find out +MORE>>
12.09.06::WE HONOR THEE, CASTLE HIGH
Ka Lamakua is proud to debut the work of six high school poets who took part in an "after school creative writing program" founded by two UH undergrads...
+MORE>>
11.22.06::MORE POETRY: NOVEMBER POEMS SET TO L(A)UNCH
Something to be thankful for...
LUNCH POEMS the sequel
TUESDAY NOV. 28 in the KUYKENDALL courtyard
12-1 PM
FREE FREE FREE!
+MORE>>11.17.06::POETRY: Lift the Hale
By Tracy Chan
Ka Leo Staff Writer
From the secrets that lie inside us, to how our lives are shaped by childhood, to the sensuality and passion of sex, to the dead ancestors whose stories we continue to live, poets spoke from their hearts at a recent poetry reading in the Kuykendall Auditorium, titled “Wendt and Young Poets Lift the Hale.”
+MORE>>11.11.06::Lunch Poems: Broke da Mouth
-the poems, for reals
+MORE>>-exclusive KL interviews
Lunch Poem poets Tiare Picard, Julia Wieting, and Sage Takehiro share thoughts on poetry, creativity, and breakfast.
+MORE>>10.25.06::Event Preview: Lunch Poems
Celebrate Hallowe'en with some dames who rhyme...
Tuesday, October 31, from 12-1 pm at the Campus Center Stage
This event is going to be the first of a monthly series dedicated to putting poetry in public places, promoting fresh student work, and cultivating a larger audience for word artists.
+MORE>>10.25.06:: Event Preview: Justaposition
Poetry, drama, song: three female artists to provoke and inspire you...
Saturday, October 28 at 7pm at rRed Elephant Cafe, 1144 Bethel Street,
It's free, baby!
Call 808-545-2468 for more details, or go here
10.20.06:: Aiko says...
Reflections on Electronic Literature: My internet assay by footnote:
+MORE>>10.10.06:: Wordsmith:: Flora Devatine and Célestine Hitiura Vaite
“To write, you do it from your life, from the people you’ve met, from the depth of your feelings and all the contradictions…without [necessarily] understanding all of it.”
—Flora Devatine
Varua Tupu writers (really) speak on writing, creativity, and art. +MORE>>
10.3.06:: Reviews:: Varua Tupu
By Aiko Yamashiro
“A man whistles to lure a crab out of its shell. Just as its shell protects the hermit crab, the tattoo protects the young man’s soul.”
(Varua Tupu, IX)
Pacific literature’s newest treasure Varua Tupu: New Writing from French Polynesia makes its grand and much-anticipated Hawai‘i debut this week.
+MORE>>9.11.06 Wordsmith: Anne Kennedy
By Blaine Tolentino
Kennedy speaks of her giant girl as someone who is entirely willing to conform to the ideas of society by hiding her height at all costs; she tries her best to be sitting whenever in her suitors' presence.
8.21.06 Fresh Poetry: Marika Stokset Staff
Marika is a student in English at UHM.
+PICKING FLOWERS OUT>>+MY ALBA>>
8.21.06 Fresh Prose: Sean Gould
Sean Gould recently graduated from UH with a B.A. in Philosophy, and now makes his home in Idaho. He's an adept at slack-key guitar, as well as having a treasure trove of good ol' boy jokes and a magnificent cat named Sheba.
+A WOMAN DIES IN THE DESERT>>8.1.06 Wordsmith: Bradajo looks ennsai
By Alyssa S. Navares
He looked inside and now tells others through his books to Chaloookyu Eensai, too.
+READ MORE >>8.1.06 Fresh Poetry: Candice Novak
By Matthew K. Ing
Candice Novak enjoys listening to German punk rock, spelunking, and riding her Harley in her leather chaps and fuchsia tights. She hopes to live on her writing and ride across America.
+HE REMINDS ME >>+AN AUSTRIAN >>
+THE GERMAN GRANDMOTHER'S GOT A SMILE >>