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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,