English Department Colloquium: Poetry Reading

Selina Tusitala Marsh is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, and English descent. She is a poet lecturing in the English Department at the University of Auckland. She is currently developing Pasifika Poetry Web, a sister site of the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc). Her poetry appears in Whetu Moana, Niu Voices: Contemporary Pacific Fiction 1, a collection of short stories and poetry by Pacific writers (which she edited) and Best New Zealand Poems 2006. Her first collection of poetry will be called Afakasi. She plans to publish her doctoral research as a book: Ancient Banyans, Flying Foxes and White Ginger, the first critical anthology of the first Pacific women poets to publish in English.

Albert Wendt
is the UH-M Citizens' Chair among many honors. He is a pioneering author of the Pacific whose widely acclaimed work in multiple genres has been translated into many languages. His books of poetry include The Book of the Black Star, Inside Us the Dead, Shaman of Visions and Photographs.

Caroline Sinavaiana
is Associate Professor of English at UH-M. Her books of poetry include Alchemies of Distance and, co-authored with James Thomas Stevens, Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations. Her poetry and scholarly works have appeared in many national and international journals..

Brandy Nālani McDougall
has been published throughout Hawai‘i, the U.S. and the Pacific. Her first poetry collection is forthcoming in 2007. She is Assistant Editor for Kuleana ‘Ōiwi Press, which is the publisher of ‘Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal, and the 2006-2007 recipient of the Grace K.J. Abernethy Fellowship in publishing, awarded by the international journal Mānoa. She is studying toward a Ph.D in English.

Robert Sullivan
is a Maori poet and UH-M Assistant Professor of English. He is widely published and has written five books of poetry including Star Waka and Voice Carried My Family. He co-edits Trout: journal of arts and literature with poet Anne Kennedy; they also recently co-edited Best New Zealand Poems 2006.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, and the Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures.

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