Yesterday wrapped up the end of a weeklong workshop on photography and poetry at the Palolo Ohana Learning Center – a center which caters to the Palolo Housing community here in Honolulu – entitled “Capturing Waves of Change” (pretty cliche of a title but hey, I was cramming during the application). The workshop was funded by a grant from the… Read More
poem: Tell Them
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9D88ST9qbw&feature=player_embedded] Tell Them I prepared the package for my friends in the states the dangling earrings woven into half moons black pearls glinting like an eye in a storm of tight spirals the baskets sturdy, also woven brown cowry shells shiny intricate mandalas shaped by calloused fingers Inside the basket a message: Wear these earrings to parties to your… Read More
poem: History Project
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJm0pCbHB6Y] History Project at fifteen I decide to do my history project on nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands time to learn my own history, I decide I weave through book after article after website all on how the US military once used my island home for nuclear testing I sift through political jargon tables of nuclear weapons with names… Read More
poem: Lessons from Hawaii
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sbtpazYra0] Lessons from Hawaii LESSON NUMBER 1: FUCKIN MICRONESIANS! that’s my seventh grade friend cussin at the boys across the street rockin swap meet blue t-shirt baggy jeans spittin a steady beetlenut stream yea one of them’s related to me You know, you’re actually kinda smart for a Micronesian And that’s my classmate who I tutor through the civil… Read More