ʻĀina Hānau / Birth Land

ʻĀina Hānau / Birth LandSoftcover, 160 pp. Tracing flows from the mountains to the ocean, from the sky to the earth, and from ancestor to mother to child, the poems in ina Hnau Birth Land are rooted in the rich ancestral and contemporary literature of Hawaii moolelo, mookauhau, and mele honoring Hawaiian ina, culture, language, histories, aesthetics, and futures. The poems cycle through sacred and personal narratives while exposing and fighting ongoing American imperialism,

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Margaret Titcomb

Educating with Aloha is Iwase’s follow-up to Leading with Aloha: From the Pineapple Fields to the Principal’s Office

and they run a lot deeper than escaping a harsh Michigan winter

selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series

with its distinct tangy flavor

Sea Breeze

The book shows how the technologies of successive generations (recorded music

hiʻohiʻona (features) about the pō mahina

a pipeline into the exhilarating world of surfing

unforgettable collection