Events Info

APRIL 29 through MAY 2

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DATE	DAYTIME	EVENING
Apr 29	Craig Santos Perez 2pm, PVAC (Performing and Visual Arts Center

Apr 30	KB Brookins 12:30pm, PVAC	New Voices 7pm, Rm. 26-220

May 1	Carolina Hotchandani 2pm, PVAC	Sara Marchant 6:30pm, PVAC

May 2	Why Literature Matters 12:30pm, Library Living Room (Rm. 70-162)

MONDAY, APRIL 29

2-3:20 PM • Performance & Visual Arts Center (PVAC)

^poet CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ

in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Ethnic, Gender, Social Justice Program (EGSJ) and the Asian Pacific Islander Committee (API)

author portrait: Craig Santos Perez Dr. Craig Santos Perez is a native CHamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). He is the co-founder of Ala Press, co-editor of three anthologies of Pacific Literature, and the author of two spoken word poetry albums, and five books of poetry: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (2008), from unincorporated territory [saina] (2010), from unincorporated territory [guma’] (2014), from unincorporated territory [lukao] (2017), and Habitat Threshold (2020). Craig is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa, where he teaches creative writing, eco-poetry, and Pacific literature.

Resources

author's website: craigsantosperez.com

Academy of American Poets: poets.org/poet/craig-santos-perez

X (Twitter): /craigsperez

Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Santos_Perez

Books

from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Reprint, Omnidawn Publishing, 2017)

from unincorporated territory [saina] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010),

from unincorporated territory [guma’] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2014),

from unincorporated territory [lukao] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2017)

from unincorporated territory [amat] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2023)

Habitat Threshold (Omnidawn Publishing, 2020)

Preterrain (Corollary Press, 2008)

from Preterrain (Big Game Books, 2007)

Constellations Gathered Along the Ecliptic (Shadowbox Press, 2007)

All With Ocean Views (Overhere Press, 2007)

Spoken Word Digital Albums

Undercurrent (Hawai’i Dub Machine, 2011)

Crosscurrent (independently published via Bandcamp, 2017)

Selected Interviews

Lycurgus, Cate. “Shape-shifting Nostalgia Across the ‘Va’: An Interview with Craig Santos Perez.” 32 Poems, vol. 15, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2017). https://32poems.com/prose/shape-shifting-nostalgia-across-the-va-an-interview-with-craig-santos-perez-by-cate-lycurgus/

Magrane, Eric. “Inscriptions of Power Upon the Land: Craig Santos Perez and Eric Magrane in Conversation.” Terrain, Nov. 11, 2020. https://www.terrain.org/2020/interviews/craig-santos-perez-eric-magrane/

Perez, Jason Magabo. “Poetic Archives as Ethnic Studies: An Interview with Dr. Craig Santos Perez.” Ploughshares, Feb.12, 2019. https://blog.pshares.org/poetic-archives-as-ethnic-studies-an-interview-with-dr-craig-santos-perez/

Vizzo, Emily. “Imagining a More ‘Tender Country’: A Conversation with Craig Santos Perez.” World Literature Today, Autumn 2019. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/autumn/imagining-more-tender-country-conversation-craig-santos-perez-emily-vizzo

“War, Migration and the Environment.” Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center, Apr./May 2020. https://apa.si.edu/learn/learn-archives/04-2020/

Selected Works by the Author

from aerial roots [off-island chamorros]. Poems. North Dakota Quarterly, Nov. 19, 2020. https://ndquarterly.org/2020/11/19/poetry-from-craig-santos-perez/

“Between the Diagnosis and the Death.” Poem. With poet Declan Fry. Red Room Poetry, May 2022. https://redroompoetry.org/poets/declan-fry/between-diagnosis-and-death/

“ECL (English as a Colonial Language, an abecedarian)” and “The Zen of Spam.” Poems. The Rumpus, Jan. 9, 2020. https://therumpus.net/2020/01/09/rumpus-original-poetry-two-poems-by-craig-santos-perez/

“Guam and Literary Activism.” Essay. World Literature Today, Autumn 2019. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/autumn/guam-and-literary-activism-craig-santos-perez

“Off-Island Chamorros.” Poem. Craig Santos Perrez, Jul. 25, 2017. https://craigsantosperez.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/off-island-chamorros/

Selected Media

"Praise Song for Oceania." The Georgia Review, Apr. 20, 2020.

"Craig Santos Perez—'Spam's Carbon Footprint.' " Splitthisrock, Sep. 2, 2016.

"Craig Santos Perez Reads from preterrain • National Poetry Library." Southbank Centre, Jul. 26, 2012.

TUESDAY, APRIL 30

12:30-1:50 PM • PVAC

^{poet & memoirist}KB BROOKINS

author portrait: KB Brookins KB Brookins is a Black queer and trans writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. KB’s chapbook, How To Identify Yourself with a Wound, won the Saguaro Poetry Prize, a Writer’s League of Texas Discovery Prize, and an ALA Stonewall Honor Book Award. Their debut poetry collection, Freedom House, was called “urgent and timely” by Vogue and won the ALA Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry. KB’s debut memoir, Pretty, releases on May 28, 2024 with Alfred A. Knopf. Follow them online: @earthtokb.