Haunani-Kay Trask, ‘Night is a Sharkskin Drum’ (University of Hawaii Press, 2002) August 26, 2009: Haunani-Kay Trask's Night is a Sharkskin Drum (University of Hawaii Press) is a book I picked up along with Lee A. Tonouchi's Da Word (Bamboo Ridge Press) and the first edition of his Living Pidgin (Tinfish Press) in a Borders Bookstore, of all places, in Lihue, Kauai. Having found these books, I was trippin' for two reasons. First, these [...] by Barbara Jane Reyes

CALABASH DISPATCHES–SUNDAY May 26, 2009: As if on cue, Sunday morning of Calabash arrived with overcast skies.  The sofa in the wide living room of the suite I was staying in was getting old already. I was waking up quite early each day because of the firm surface of my bed.  On the verandah, the sea is a few yards away, and it makes sense to sit there, and watch the light creep into [...] by Kwame Dawes

THIS IS THAT PLAZA May 5, 2009: The exercise in silent poetry rages on. I drove in my truck up to The Hispanic Society on 155 St. on Sunday morning to do a walk through with a few of the future silent performers. I wonder if anyone’s read a great book called The Art of Memory by Frances Fitzgerald. Among other things (I’ve never finished it though I have assigned it to [...] by Eileen Myles