This past summer, I was hugely honored to represent the Marshall Islands at the Poetry Parnassus Festival in London, supposedly one of the largest gathering of international poets in history. Now, as a young up-and-coming poet this was a pretty big deal for me. Mostly because I’ve never traveled to London, I don’t have a book published, and yeah comparatively speaking,… Read More
Archives for July 2012
350.org feature and two publications
Cheeehheee! So some of this is late BUT it’s still pretty awesome: “Tell Them” was published in the Kurangabaa Magazine, a journal of literature, history, and ideas from the sea: http://kurungabaa.net/ “Tell Them” “history project” and “Lessons from Hawaii” were all published in University of Guam’s publication called “Storyboard 12: A Journal of Pacific Imagery.” I just got this one in… Read More
poem: The Monkey Gate
I. my uncle was lost in the honolulu airport he fished out a wandering airport employee and asked him if he knew where the Micronesian gate was the man smirked through blue uniform you mean the monkey gate? blood rushing beneath his face blank and unchanged my uncle turned and jogged in the direction the man had pointed months later my… Read More