Jack London is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American Poetry of Hawaii (review)

by Misty on February 16, 2013
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The latest anthology from TinFish Press is a collection of poems and stories from local “Euro-Americans” (being the term to encompass the “different categories of whiteness in Hawaiʻi”) and their experience as a marginalized voice within the island literary community. With work from well known local poets Susan Schultz and Eric Paul Shaffer, plus several […]

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808 Literature gaining presence on the ‘net!

by Misty on October 9, 2009
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posted by M.L. Sanico As you may have read in HBB’s “About” section, we began this site over a year and a half ago because we felt that Hawai’i’s literary achievements deserved a bigger spotlight on the interwebs. We wanted to help share Hawai’i’s books with the world! Over the past year we’ve seen/found other blogs (like […]

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Congratulations to the winning poets of “Youth Speaks Hawai’i”

by Misty on July 21, 2009
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Today’s article in the Honolulu Advertiser about the young poets from Hawaii performing in the final round of the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival, was very exciting. These talented artists work hard to write their own poems and practice reciting them for competition on an international level. Encouraging our youth to express themselves […]

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