Through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, National Book Award–honored author Ingrid Rojas Contreras (The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir, 2022 Nonfiction Finalist) and Hawaiʻi Poet Laureate Lee A. Tonouchi (Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son: One Hawai‘i Okinawan Journal) expand the possibilities of language, place, and memory. Join Rojas Contreras and Tonouchi for readings and conversation on the relationship among family, migration, and art-making, from Colombia to Hawaiʻi.

Moderated by Kristiana Kahakauwila, writer, educator, and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa.

Presented in partnership with the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa Creative Writing Program & Department of English and Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities.

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