Mostly Monthly Reading Series: Tiare Picard

November 10, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
West Oʻahu Campus, James & Abigail Campbell Library 2nd floor Exhibition Space

For our third and final event of the Fall semester we will be featuring a book launch for Tiare Picard's debut poetry book: Aunty Uncle Dog Chicken Bee. "Tiare Picard was born in Honolulu, Hawai‘i and is the author of Aunty Uncle Dog Chicken Bee. Her work has appeared in various journals and texts including End of the World Project, Shadowed Unheard Voices, Whetu Moana II, Tinfish 18.5: Poetry, Puzzles and Games, Achiote Seeds, and HawaiÊ»i Review. She received her PhD from the University of HawaiÊ»i at ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹ and teaches composition and creative writing at the University of HawaiÊ»i — West OÊ»ahu. Tiare is a cofounder of and editor for HoÊ»olana Publishing, a literary hui dedicated to the arts and literature in Hawai‘i. She lives a quiet life in Aiea." (ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ faculty Profile) "Aunty Uncle Dog Chicken Bee is the story of community and movement. Through an exploration of prose poetry, lyric, sound poetry, and character sketches, Tiare Picard illustrates the lives of the aunties and the uncles, the dogs and the chickens, and the bees all around us, who forge their homes in a world that marginalizes them. Picard guides us through a community in Ê»Aiea, one uncannily familiar to HawaiÊ»i residents and those abroad alike. Neighbors struggle against the ever-growing economic gap; animals slip through broken chain-link fences; there is a precarity in these quiet existences. Yet in these shared spaces, the people are vibrant, determined, and alive in a way that defies societal classification. Capturing complex layers of island culture and challenging inequitable structures of power, this collection gives voice to the people and the beings who all too often exist in the outskirts of HawaiÊ»i’s stories. Each poem portrays the movement of people, the movement of poetic forms, and the movement of language itself as the text shifts fluidly from English to Pidgin English and back again." (ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ Press Book Page) The event will be a reading and Q&A session. We will also be providing dry snacks and prizes for this event.


Event Sponsor
Humanities, West Oʻahu Campus

More Information
Andrew Godefroy, 8084291975, Godefroy@hawaii.edu

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