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Join us this week on Thursday, 4/13 at 12 pm HST for Shawna Yang Ryan's Brown Bag Biography talk, "Barren." Note that this talk will be in person in KUY 410. See you there!
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for those asking, here's my poem, "Love in a Time of Covid-19," which is a variant of Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet XVII
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THURSDAY! Join us for a free, virtual reading with amazing Hawaiian poets!
arts.berkeley.edu/hawaiian-p…
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NOTE: IN-PERSON ONLY (KUY 410): This week, we'll welcome Shawna Yang Ryan for her Brown Bag talk, "Barren" on Thursday, March 23 at 12 PM (HST).
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We have also announced our judges!
AAALS Fiction & Nonfiction Prize: @rainwright17 & @vagrantwords
AAALS Poetry Prize: Ann-Marie Blanchard, @thebluepoetess & Mackenzie Kozak
AAALS Indigenous Writers Prize: Jenny Fraser (Migunberri Yugambeh) & Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa)
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In two weeks (after spring break), join us on Thursday, March 23 at 12 PM (HST) for Shawna Yang Ryan's exciting talk, "Barren." Note that this presentation will take place in person, in KUY 410.
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Ewa elementary’s logo is a plantation smoke stack.
It’s school bell is a bugle playing “taps”!
It’s majority Filipino/Hawaiian with white/Japanese leadership.
An SNL sketch of a colonial school meant to keep brown people in the workforce/military and out of leadership.
“Tradition” isn’t an excuse. This needs change.
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Amazing news from the Guyana Prize for Literature! ANTIMAN was on the shortlist for nonfiction and CUTLISH won SECOND PLACE in poetry! To be seen in Guyana (and to have both of these books acknowledged) is a dream and I am so humbled!
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We invite you to join us for our second Brown Bag Biography talk, "Flow: Outdoor Counternarratives by Women from Rivers, Rock, and Sky” with Denisa Krásná, which will take place on Thursday, February 9 at 12 pm HST in Biomed B-104 and on Zoom: hawaii.zoom.us/j/97819261096
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Happening over the next two days!
Please join us for our first event of the new year! On Tuesday, January 24, 1:45-2:45 PM HST, @TinaMakereti will give a virtual talk about her work, with an online creative writing workshop at 1 PM on the 25th. See you there!
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Please join us for our first event of the new year! On Tuesday, January 24, 1:45-2:45 PM HST, @TinaMakereti will give a virtual talk about her work, with an online creative writing workshop at 1 PM on the 25th. See you there!
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Thank you @TIME for selecting NUCLEAR FAMILY as a must-read book of 2022!!
time.com/collection/must-rea…
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🤩Congratulations once again to "On the Morning You Wake (to The End of The World)", for winning the 2022 #crystalowlaward at @Stereopsia in the category Best VR Experience! 👏
🎦Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, @coli_coli, @PierreZandro, @jamaicaosorio
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Please join us next week as we welcome @HalaNAlyan! She will give a reading (Oct. 18, 5:30 p.m.) and creative writing workshop (Oct. 19, 12:00 p.m.), both in Kuykendall 410 - see you there!
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Next week, we look forward to hearing @rajivmohabir speak to us about his work! Join us on October 12 at 5:30 p.m. in Kuykendall 409 for this free public event. Very excited!
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The U.S. Navy and its leaking Red Hill facility – and the continual desecration, pollution, and bombardment of lands occupied by the U.S. military – remain the biggest threat to Hawaiʻi and all life on the islands.
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In one week, please join us as @hanjoseph reads from his debut novel, Nuclear Family! This free public event takes place Thursday, October 6 at 3:00 p.m. in Kuykendall Hall 410. We hope to see you there!
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Tomorrow O’ahu Water Protectors will be speaking and marching at the Scientists, Activists, and Families for Cancer-free Environments (CARE) at the Freedom Plaza at Washington DC. #speakoutforcleanwater #shutdownredhill #militarypoisons
