M.I.A. Art and Literary Series is an organization that stages readings and arts events once a month in Honolulu.  It's organized by the indefatigable Jaimie Gusman, who will be speaking soon (March...

My grandmother, Courtney Coolidge, died yesterday.  Wislawa Szymborska, a Polish poet and Nobel laureat, died the day before.  In grieving I find it appropriate to link the unrelated, as death will...

 If we look hard enough it’s obviously how the gasps are hidden in notes ascending and down it’s obvious the   word as the cello swells with wooden breath, a breath box woman shaped.  A woman word...

Writing poetry is really an excuse to read Wikipedia extensively.  Take the following paragraph, for example; the metaphors emerge from between the lines like the dun dun dun from Jaws: Sharks belong...

I've been learning to reinhabit my room in my parents' house, having come here to spend Thanksgiving together for the first time in seven years.  Coming back to the room you've grown up in is always...