David Keali'i
Poet Facilitator
David Keali‘i is a queer poet of mixed Kanaka Maoli descent who was born and raised in Western Massachusetts. A poet, whose work has appeared in Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English (Whetu Moana, Volume II), and Assaracus: a Journal of Gay Poetry. He was also a member of the 2009 Worcester Poetry Slam and is a graduate student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Center for Pacific Islands Studies.
Poet Facilitator
David Keali‘i is a queer poet of mixed Kanaka Maoli descent who was born and raised in Western Massachusetts. A poet, whose work has appeared in Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English (Whetu Moana, Volume II), and Assaracus: a Journal of Gay Poetry. He was also a member of the 2009 Worcester Poetry Slam and is a graduate student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Center for Pacific Islands Studies.
Travis Thompson
Navid Najafi
Kathy Jetnil- Kijiner
Kathy Neien Jetnil-Kijiner is from the Marshall Islands and graduated from Mills College with a BA in English. She is a poet, writer, performance artist, and journalist and has performed in the Marshall Islands, the United States, and England. Kathy is interested in learning from the oral historians that came before her and furthering her writing based on Marshallese legends in order to encourage other Marshallese to write and publish.
Kathy Neien Jetnil-Kijiner is from the Marshall Islands and graduated from Mills College with a BA in English. She is a poet, writer, performance artist, and journalist and has performed in the Marshall Islands, the United States, and England. Kathy is interested in learning from the oral historians that came before her and furthering her writing based on Marshallese legends in order to encourage other Marshallese to write and publish.