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What to Read This April: 5 Hawai‘i Poetry Book Picks Recommended by Local Experts
Happy National Poetry Month! We reached out to our friends at Da Shop: Books + Curiosities to ask their community of writers and readers for their poetry picks.
April 6, 2021
by Ishle Yi Park
I been following Ishle Yi Park since da early 2000s when I used to send fan letters to New York for mail order her chapbooks and slam poetry CDs. Wuz so long ago I remember paying by check. Lol. In 2004 her first poetry collection,
The Temperature of Water, came out and she got one Asian American Literary Award and da PEN/Open Book award. Das big time, you know! Sometime in between den and now, she wen move to Hawai‘i and she made fans of her poetry wait 17 years for her follow-up. Kidding, not kidding. Set in New York,
Hosted by Paul Holdengräber,
The Quarantine Tapes chronicles shifting paradigms in the age of social distancing. Each day, Paul calls a guest for a brief discussion about how they are experiencing the global pandemic.
On Episode 143 of
The Quarantine Tapes, guest host Naomi Shihab Nye is joined by poet Cathy Song. Cathy describes her experience of the past months from her home in Hawaii and the unique isolation of living through quarantine on an island. Naomi and Cathy’s conversation centers around family, discussing Cathy’s latest book, her debut short story collection,
All the Love in the World. They dig into the line between fiction and nonfiction and Cathy talks about the powerful role her father held in her family. She reads from her book and tells stories from her father’s fascinating life, from his career as a pilot to his later years riding the bus around Hawaii.