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“Watery sounds like ocean waves rushed … raging hot, like the ngawha down in the back yard.”

Review of Tahuri, A Limited Edition 2017, by Ngahuia te Awekotuku

Oct 2, 2019

Front cover of 2017 Limited Edition of Tahuri, by Ngahuia te Awekotuku

Oct 2, 2019

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laso fu’a : creation point — Cycles of Creation and Rebirth in [lukao]

“gi tinituhon : in the beginning fuʻuna transforms her brother puntanʻs back into tanoʻ : land, chest into langet : sky, eyes into atdao …

Jun 5, 2018

laso fu’a : creation point — Cycles of Creation and Rebirth in [lukao]

Jun 5, 2018

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Does that not make me —

“The years form a mythology I can almost explain. / I see in colors because they are always so much // A part of the problem:” — Charif…

Sep 13, 2017

Does that not make me —

Sep 13, 2017

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“what is left is only water:” Navigating Exile and Distance in The January Children, by Safia…

i am not named in the very first language i call arabic my mother tongue

Jun 22, 2017

“what is left is only water:” Navigating Exile and Distance in The January Children, by Safia…

Jun 22, 2017

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Dual Citizenship: Re-Rooting The Language of WHEREAS

“WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as a mother to teach what it is to be Lakota, therein the question: what did I know about…

Mar 7, 2017

Dual Citizenship: Re-Rooting The Language of WHEREAS

Mar 7, 2017

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A Sea Breaking Open

Review of América Invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets, Edited by Jesse Lee Kercheval

Jan 23, 2017

A Sea Breaking Open

Jan 23, 2017

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The Odorless Smolder that Flared into This City:

A Review of Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album

Oct 10, 2016

The Odorless Smolder that Flared into This City:

Oct 10, 2016

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Dragon Memories Like Stones: Documenting Self and Nation in Power Made Us Swoon by Brynn Saito

“Dragon memories / Memories like stones / Dragging memories like stones through southern deserts / Though I like the desert / Though the…

Aug 22, 2016

Dragon Memories Like Stones: Documenting Self and Nation in Power Made Us Swoon by Brynn Saito

Aug 22, 2016

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“I rip apart each word”: New American Mythologies in After by Fatimah Asghar

The cover of After, by Fatimah Asghar, lures us in — a vivid image of Medusa hair curls into blue and red snakes, surrounding a listening…

Jul 14, 2016

“I rip apart each word”: New American Mythologies in After by Fatimah Asghar

Jul 14, 2016

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Poets Who Will Not Remain Silent

Dispatch from Split This Rock! Poetry Festival 2016

May 11, 2016

May 11, 2016

LynleyShimat Lys

LynleyShimat Lys

PhD candidate - English, UH Mānoa. MFA '16, Poetry & Translation, Queens College CUNY. Editorial Board - @hawaii_review. http://lynleyshimatlyspoetry.weebly.com

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