Hawai‘i Literature & Art
— Since 1978 —
I wonder if local people Shudder more than others When they read Kafka’s Metamorphosis— You know the one where the guy turns into a cockroach. Local folks are afraid…
It looked like white rice— packaged with brown nuggets of karaage fried chicken in a bento box. Mom didn’t like its color. Dad said it tasted funny. Judgements made by…
Testing… testing ʻokina and kahakō Kaʻaʻawa and kūpuna Hōʻike da ʻokina and kahakō
It’s good for a local island boy to see life from somewhere else once in a while. Madison was an eye-opener, the whiteness of it all, snow for the first…
Okay, for August, it’s any length any style again. Here are the topics: 1. Write a 5-page monologue or 10-page scene based on this prompt: a confrontation between a person…
ON HE RODE — Chapter Thirty-Nine The country school I attended in grades five through eight was a steep-roofed chalet built of river rock, heavy Douglas fir timbers, and cedar…
Don Millich only lived in our neighborhood for a couple years, and he was a couple years older than me, but we got to be pretty good hangout buddies sometimes. One…
Along the Ala Wai in the cool heat of day’s end We might see walkers Rushing by without smiles Intent on closing the gap to unknown destinations. Hand in…
Grandmother’s half-filled tea cup cools in the family Butsudan, her enigmatic smile exposing white teeth, appearing less spectral since the move from mom’s bedroom where she sat unobtrusive for a…
Prompt: From “The Alternative,” by Jim Harstad One of the really good things about being old is having the leisure to think about all the noble things you did on…