All events are held on Thursdays, 3:00-4:30 pm in Kuykendall 410, unless otherwise noted

Past Readings
The Department of English regularly hosts internationally acclaimed writers for readings and workshops. Our reading series tend to feature writers whose work engages issues of race, ethnicity and culture. All events, including workshops, are free and open to the public. For an audio archive of past events, see Try Listen.

Fall 2005 - Tinfish 15 An evening reading to launch the 15th journal issue of Tinfish Press, a new chapbook by Sherman Souther, and a new broadside by Michael Puleloa and Kimo Armitage//S. Shankar and Gary Pak (UHM), A Literary Reading//Tusiata Avia (Fulbright Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer-in-Residence with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies) co-sponsored with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies//Achy Obejas, Distinguished Writer-in-Residence with the English Department; author of the novels, Days of Awe and Memory Mambo, and the short story collection We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?//A reading to celebrate the poetry, fiction, and prose of Marjorie Sinclair//Andrew Lam, a reading and discussion//Achy Obejas, works from students of her classes.

Spring 2005 - Cathy Bao Bean, author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, A Memoir and Manual. Co-sponsored with Women's Studies and the Center for Chinese Studies
// Lecture and Reading: "Aching for Beauty, " Wang Ping, author of The Magic Whip. Co-sponsored with Women's Studies and the Center for Chinese Studies // Reading: Lee Cataluna, author of Folks You Meet in Longs. Co-sponsored with Bamboo Ridge Press // Tammy Pavich (G.A. and Ph.D. Candidate in English, UHM), "Half a Heart: Midwest Stories" // Samantha Cosentino, Jenny Nakagawa, Nani Ross, Heidi Sakuma, (M.A. Students in English, UHM), "Memory, Trauma, and Women: Approaches to Autobiography".

Fall 2004-to be added

Spring 2004 --Murray Edmond, New Zealand poet and co-editor of the anthology Big Smoke. // Poetry:Tia Ballantine-Berger and Clint Frakes (UHM) // Morgan Blair, UHM, author of Mixed Plate // Ku‘ualoha Ho‘omanawanui (UHM), "He Lei Ho'oheno no Na Kau a Kau: Performance and Form in Contemporary Hawaiian Poetry" // Georganne Nordstrom // Fiction: Sarah Pardes, Tammy Pavich, and Ian MacMillan (UHM) // Robert Sullivan (UHM), "The English Moko" // Poetry: Deborah Meadows (Cal State Pomona).

Fall 2003 - Joy Harjo, 2003 Distinguished Visiting Writer, and Robert Sullivan, Co-sponsored by the Center for the Pacific Islands Studies // Robin Hemley, Co-sponsored by HLAC // A group reading introduced by Esther Figueroa, editor of At Home the Green Remains- Caribbean Writing in Honor of John Figueroa // Susan Ludwigson, poet, and Scott Ely, fiction writer (Winthrop University of South Carolina) // Leland Bardwell, Irish poet will read from her work and give a presentation about Irish Poetry // Lee Tonouchi, with some members of the LitWits: "Anykine Identity" // Alani Apio, Tammy Haili'opua Baker, Lee Cataluna, and Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl: HE LEO HOU: A New Voice - launch of a new collection of plays by Bamboo Ridge Press // Fifth Annual Fall Festival of Writers // Evening Readings by guest writers Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Haunani-Kay Trask, and Kathleen Tyau // Poesie Cinematique by the LitWits Literary Society.

Spring 2003 - Stuart Coleman: Reading from Eddie Would Go: The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero // Ian MacMillan: Evening Reading.