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Elmer Omar Pizo was born in the Philippines, where he went to seminary school, then worked in Saudi Arabia. Twenty nine years ago, Pizo immigrated to…
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Today, the last day of Poetry Month, we hear from the late W.S. Merwin, award winning U.S. Poet Laureate. He spent his last three decades cultivating a…
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Honolulu’s annual Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival attracts thousands of participants every year in late spring. The two-day event doesn't just bring…
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A recent national poetry competition was set against the backdrop of political debates. President Trump’s proposed budget calls for cuts to agencies that…
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America’s relationship with the natural environment appears to be headed for change under the Trump Administration. The White House Climate Page has been…
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Hawai‘i Slam, a monthly spoken word poetry competition, has been happening since 2003. It’s considered the largest poetry slam in the world, attracting…
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Award winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye grew up in Palestine, Jerusalem, and San Antonio. She has traveled the world leading writing workshops and inspiring…
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Writer Kimo Armitage has been writing for two decades---he’s published over twenty children’s books, including many bestsellers, like Honu the Blue…
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The 2010 U.S. Census reported that Chamorro, the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, are the third largest Pacific Islander group in the US.…
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Bamboo Ridge Press was founded in 1978 to publish local literature. Like a fishing float, it has bobbed through controversies about pidgin, literature,…