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is "Derek Y.Y. Pang – Professional Thug." From Lee Cataluna's Folks You Meet in Longs and Other Stories. Hawaii Five-O taping, 9/12/10. Photo credit: Sammie Choy.
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play Good Cop Bad Cop in their introduction of a piece by Cedric Yamanaka at Hawaii Five-O taping, 9/12/10. Photo credit: Sammie Choy.
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points out the "fracturcation" of his nose, in his reading of Lee Cataluna's "John 'Johnny' 'John-Boy' Monrovia." Hawaii Five-O taping, 9/12/10. Photo credit: Sammie Choy
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reads Shirley Strout's poem "To Friends in a Lifetime of Prisons" in taping Hawaii Five-O, 9/12/10. Photo credit: Sammie Choy
Ann Inoshita shares idea generating techniques with students, and students produce their own renshi poems.
Makua by Hamajang, which incidentally also did the theme for Aloha Shorts.
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An intimate evening of talk story with Juliet S. Kono.
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Wing Tek Lum reading at The Asian Americans’ Workshop.
My write-up shows the steps I took in getting the students to write their own renshi. The process was simple:
1. playing a word association game like–river, rocks; rocks, roll; roll, cinammon and so on.
2. dividing the class into small groups of four or five;
3. writing my own poem and having the first writer in the groups take my last line to start their own poems;
4. reading their own poems;
5. pasting all of the poems, showing the sequence, and pasting the final scroll of poems on the board.
Poet Ken Chen recently wrote of Wing Tek Lum’s reading on the atrocities of war at The Asian Americans’ Workshop.