Hawai‘i Literature & Art
— Since 1978 —
Nice article by Gary Chun in last week’s Star Bulletin. Photos of Keith Kashiwada reading at the Aloha Shorts taping, along with a big (4 columms!)photo of poet Wing Tek Lum listening to his own work (or napping…donno which)and a nice image of Cora Yee’s 30th anniversary t-shirt. http://starbulletin.com/2008/03/04/features/story01.html
Original music by Johnny Helm,whose CD “At Random” was nominated for Rock album of the year in the 2003 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. Check out his music at johnnyhelm.com
Artist Cora Yee displays her print that will become the BR 30th anniversary t-shirt.
Ain’t it great when author Bill Miyasato brings along his posse to the Aloha Shorts taping on Feb. 10, 2008
Musician Johnny Helm played at the Aloha Shorts taping on Feb. 10, 2008
Author/playwright Lee Cataluna and director Keith Kashiwada work on the BR production of "Folks You Meet in Longs."
The program for March 2nd,7 pm at Atherton Studio, Hawaii Public Radio Local actors will read the following selections: D. Mahealani Dudoit’s MY FATHER’S GARDEN Aria Soyama’s CONFESSIONS OF A PORN STORE CLERK A bunch of Wing Tek Lum’s short poems: “An Image of the Good Times” “Childhood Memories” “Kids Do Tings They Don’t Mean”…
A Few Words on Linked Poetry
Talk Story, The Writer’s Voice at Punahou, and Mavis Hara’s ‘An Offerring of Rice’
It was midnight on November 30th and I had only 31,746 words written down. I had failed. For some perspective, 31,746 words fit quite nicely on 100 pages. I’m not sure how many pages 50,000 words fill up; I’ll tell you when I get there. = ^_^ = I took the weekend off to decompress…