Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan/Guam. He is the co-founder of Ala Press, co-star of the poetry album Undercurrent (Hawai’i Dub Machine, 2011), and author of two collections of poetry: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008) and from unincorporated territory [saina] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010), a finalist for the LA Times 2010 Book Prize for Poetry and the winner of the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry. He is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa, where he teaches Pacific literature and creative writing.
Mar/Apr 2021
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Virus
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. A mutation of Wallace Stevens I Among intubated patients, The only moving thing Was the genome of the virus. II We are of […]
Nature’s Nature
Mar/Apr 2021
Full Moon, New Word
April 8, 2020 “It’s so close to our balcony,” my wife whispers, as she waters the herbs we planted at the beginning of the pandemic. The super moon is like […]
Summer 2012
On Robert Sullivan’s Cassino: City of Martyrs/Città Martire
The 28th Māori Batallion of the New Zealand Army served in Greece, North Africa, and Italy during World War II. They were highly decorated, respected, and feared.
Winter 2012
Racial Profiling: Three First Books by Latino Poets
Arizona law SB 1070 makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally and requires immigrants to carry documents proving they legally reside in the United States. Not only will SB 1070 lead to racial profiling and violate many citizens’ civil rights, the law is also an inhumane response to the causes of immigration and the violent situation of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Craig Santos Perez
Craig Santos Perez is an indigenous CHamoru poet from the Pacific Island of Guam. He is the author of five books of poetry and the coeditor of five anthologies. He […]