Am reading Never Let me Go by Ishiguro.

After MVT, there was the official launch at UH campus center.

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.

BR authors read from their own work for Aloha Shorts

Editor Darrell Lum on HPR’s Business of the Arts program

Video interview of Wing Tek Lum on Bamboo Ridge beginnings

Turns out, sunshine states really are happiest by Randolph E. Schmid for the Associated Press "People in sunny, outdoorsy states — Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida — say they’re the happiest Americans, and researchers think they know why. A new study comparing self-described pleasant feelings with objective measures of good living found these folks generally have reason…

Books, books, more books

So last night as Christy Passion, put it, I was a "human traffic cone." We were recording a CD of the renshi poets at the Hawaii Public Radio studio and a weird thumping from outside the building caused us to stop. It was from a wobbly cover to the Hawaiian Electric wiring vault in the…

No mo nutting fo do? Try write.