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
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
interview awesomeness
So I recently had the honor of being interviewed by Heather Jarvis on Radio Australia for World Poetry Day. I’m not exactly sure how Heather found out about my writing, but she contacted me via facebook and we ended up scheduling a phone interview. I have to admit – I was pretty psyched. I’m a pretty new writer and it’s… Read More
poem: Bursts of Bianca
When you come through the door, she is a burst of smiles sunny afternoons giggle glitter and deepdeep eyes deepdeep dimples that radiate from her starchy crinkled gown She is 10 you see the feeding tube snaking into her nose the iv that breaks into the skin of her wrist the twist of her fists in her sheets But don’t… Read More
feature on jacket 2 blog
so cool! my poem “tell them”, the piece i wrote on climate change and the marshall islands, was recently featured on the Jacket 2 blog after i wrote in on one of their posts about “poetic terminology for climate change. The link is here: http://jacket2.org/commentary/ocean-leveling-land-0
