Following the recent and unfortunate news that the Honolulu Weekly would be shutting its doors, I was tempted to write a post on the [local] book industry, something I’ve been mulling over since maybe two years ago when readers and writers found empty square-footage where their Borders used to be. I intentionally use the pronoun…
In her essay on creative writing pedagogy, ‘WRIT101: Ethics of Representation for Creative Writers’, Shady Cosgrove, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Wollongong, ponders the question: “…should creative writers be expected to study the ethical implications of their craft?” (Cosgrove 134). She argues that creative writers, specifically fiction writers, have often “escaped” scrutiny…
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Jean purchased a Massie artifact from Steve Doi, Antique Dealer.
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Wing Tek Lum shared poems from his latest publication, The Nanjing Massacre: Poems.
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Loading Up the Lyric with Evidence: Documentary Literature in Hawaii panel with: Gary Pak, Wing Tek Lum, Amalia Bueno, and Stephen Sumida.
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Remembering Hawaii's Massie-Kahahawai Case Through Renshi Poetry panel with: John Rosa, Christy Passion, Ann Inoshita, Juliet Kono, and Jean Yamasaki Toyama.
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Remembering Hawaii's Massie-Kahahawai Case Through Renshi Poetry panel with renshi poets: Jean Yamasaki Toyama, Juliet Kono, Ann Inoshita, and Christy Passion.
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