It’s time again! April is National Poetry Month and we have so many amazing poets writing in Hawaiʻi. Thursday, April 24th is National Poem in Your Pocket Day. Poem in Your Pocket Day is a great way to celebrate poetry as a part of our everyday lives. It encourages people to carry a poem in their pocket and […]
Here is yet another fantastic way to celebrate National Poetry Month here in Hawaiʻi! The Hawaii Center for the Book will present “Na Haku Mele o Hawaii Nei: Poets of Contemporary Hawaii,” a free program featuring poet and novelist Eric Paul Shaffer, at the Hawaii State Library on Saturday, April 21 at 2 p.m. in the First Floor […]
August 26th is National “Poem In Your Pocket Day”! Hawaii Book Blog is going to celebrate by collecting local poems and putting them into a virtual aloha shirt pocket. When you click it a poem is chosen at random for you to enjoy! Originally we were just going to include some poems from W.S. Merwin, […]
April is National Poetry Month! Find out all about this national celebration via the Poets.org website. The Hawaiʻi section features W.S. Merwin and Garrett Hongo as well as some short write-ups on our local literary presses and a selected “Poem about Hawaiʻi,” Juliet Kono’s Silverswords. Here are some fun and easy suggestions that we came up with […]
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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