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Changing Culture Published by DOREEN B. \| Tuesday, June 18, 2019 3:55 PM Ten-word story
Growing up Local Published by LANNING \| Tuesday, June 18, 2019 8:11 AM
Extolling the Music Published by DOREEN B. \| Tuesday, June 18, 2019 1:47 AM six-word poem
Uncle Maloney’s Lu’au - ten word story Published by PIIHONUA \| Monday, June 17, 2019 11:58 AM Hemo-skin hot...
Good Time Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Friday, June 14, 2019 10:54 PM six-word poem
Breaking Up Published by HOMELESSINHONOLULU \| Saturday, June 15, 2019 1:51 AM 10 words for June
Here's the draft of a poem I'm working on today Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO \| Saturday, June 08, 2019 7:55 PM This is NOT a contest entry.
10 words Published by DARREL \| Friday, June 07, 2019 3:24 AM not sure if AC count as one word or two...
Year of the Pig writing contest for June : ) Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO \| Tuesday, June 04, 2019 3:54 AM
Finding My Mom's Choir Robe Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO \| Sunday, June 02, 2019 7:55 PM A poem I drafted this morning.
Ho'omaika'i Published by LANNING \| Saturday, June 01, 2019 7:22 PM This is NOT a contest entry
ON HE RODE — Chapter Thirteen Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Saturday, June 01, 2019 7:46 AM This is not a contest entry.
Crossing Time Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO \| Friday, May 31, 2019 10:04 PM Walt Whitman was born on this date in 1819. Happy 200th Birthday, Walt. This isn't a contest entry.
for Joe Published by DARREL \| Sunday, May 19, 2019 6:02 AM 10 word tributes and a 12-word one
Schoolyard Scrap Published by HOMELESSINHONOLULU \| Friday, May 24, 2019 4:32 AM 10 words for May
Another ten-word story Published by LANNING \| Saturday, May 18, 2019 6:37 PM
Ten-word story for May Published by DOREEN B. \| Sunday, May 12, 2019 4:19 PM
Hank, Sr. in Waikiki Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Wednesday, May 08, 2019 7:13 AM Ten-word story.
Six-word poem for May Published by DOREEN B. \| Wednesday, May 08, 2019 2:04 AM
One and Two and One Is Four (for GK and BG) Published by LANNING \| Tuesday, May 07, 2019 10:01 PM This is NOT a contest piece
POEM for May Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Thursday, May 02, 2019 8:26 PM
Year of the Pig writing contest for May : ) Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO \| Wednesday, May 01, 2019 9:34 PM
Six-word poem and ten-word story Published by LANNING \| Wednesday, May 01, 2019 9:56 PM
ON HE RODE — Chapter Twelve Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Tuesday, April 30, 2019 4:39 AM This is NOT a contest entry.
Ornithological Rhapsody sans Dove or Rats with Wings Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Sunday, April 14, 2019 12:05 PM
Fly Me the Moon -- Chapter Two Published by LANNING \| Tuesday, April 02, 2019 4:54 AM 400 words for April.
Year of the Pig writing contest rules and regs for April : ) Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO \| Monday, April 01, 2019 9:03 PM
ON HE RODE — Chapter Eleven Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:52 PM This is NOT a contest entry.
Ornithological Rhapsody sans Dove or Rats with Wings Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Friday, March 08, 2019 1:56 AM 300 words for March.
to describe it I think Published by LANNING \| Friday, March 08, 2019 11:00 PM This is NOT a contest entry.
Happy Year of the Pig! Here are the rules and regs for this month's writing contest : ) Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO \| Wednesday, March 06, 2019 12:01 AM
Teach Me a Lifetime Published by LANNING \| Wednesday, March 06, 2019 12:52 AM 300 words for March.
Writing Contest rules and regs for the final Year of the Dog entry. Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO \| Wednesday, February 06, 2019 1:11 AM
Dat Buggah Ma Fadda (Part 8) Published by HOMELESSINHONOLULU \| Sunday, February 17, 2019 7:31 AM 100 words for February
Comedia Published by LANNING \| Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:09 PM This is NOT a contest entry.
Da Buggah No Can Fish Published by PIIHONUA \| Saturday, February 16, 2019 3:55 PM “Well, he’s da kinda bruddah who looks good in da dark, but not in da morning.”
ON HE RODE — Chapter Ten Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Monday, February 11, 2019 11:04 PM This is NOT a contest piece.
So What da Buggah Said? Part Eight (The End) Published by LANNING \| Tuesday, February 12, 2019 6:40 AM 500 words for February.
Wishing Well Part 7 (Final Part) Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Tuesday, February 12, 2019 3:53 AM 100 words for February.
Kaloa Pau : notes from a fisherman’s diary Published by PIIHONUA \| Thursday, January 31, 2019 4:09 PM Pre-dawn beasts clutter the sky...
Hawai'i sonnet 40 Published by LANNING \| Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:08 PM This is NOT a contest entry.
Wishing Well, Part 6 Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Friday, January 25, 2019 10:27 PM 200 words for January.
So what da buggah said? Published by LANNING \| Friday, January 25, 2019 8:19 AM 500 words for January.
ON HE RODE — Chapter Nine Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Tuesday, January 22, 2019 3:44 AM This is NOT a contest entry.
Dat Buggah Ma Fadda (Part 7) Published by HOMELESSINHONOLULU \| Friday, January 11, 2019 7:19 AM 100 words for January
Bamboo Ridge Year of the Dog writing contest rules for January : ) Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO \| Sunday, January 06, 2019 5:31 PM
American Poem Published by LANNING \| Tuesday, January 01, 2019 9:06 AM This is NOT a writing contest entry. I've been working on some things. This is the latest installment of one piece.
ON HE RODE — Chapter Eight Published by JIM HARSTAD \| Monday, December 31, 2018 10:22 PM This is not a writing contest entry.
Angel of Mercy Published by RBIBEAU \| Sunday, December 30, 2018 4:34 AM In troubled times, let us not forget...
So What da Buggah Said? Published by LANNING \| Thursday, December 13, 2018 5:58 PM 400 words for December.

Changing Culture
Published by DOREEN B. | Tuesday, June 18, 2019 3:55 PM
Ten-word story

Growing up Local
Published by LANNING | Tuesday, June 18, 2019 8:11 AM

Extolling the Music
Published by DOREEN B. | Tuesday, June 18, 2019 1:47 AM
six-word poem

Uncle Maloney’s Lu’au - ten word story
Published by PIIHONUA | Monday, June 17, 2019 11:58 AM
Hemo-skin hot...

Good Time
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Friday, June 14, 2019 10:54 PM
six-word poem

Breaking Up
Published by HOMELESSINHONOLULU | Saturday, June 15, 2019 1:51 AM
10 words for June

Here's the draft of a poem I'm working on today
Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO | Saturday, June 08, 2019 7:55 PM
This is NOT a contest entry.

10 words
Published by DARREL | Friday, June 07, 2019 3:24 AM
not sure if AC count as one word or two...

Year of the Pig writing contest for June : )
Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO | Tuesday, June 04, 2019 3:54 AM

Finding My Mom's Choir Robe
Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO | Sunday, June 02, 2019 7:55 PM
A poem I drafted this morning.

Ho'omaika'i
Published by LANNING | Saturday, June 01, 2019 7:22 PM
This is NOT a contest entry

ON HE RODE — Chapter Thirteen
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Saturday, June 01, 2019 7:46 AM
This is not a contest entry.

Crossing Time
Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO | Friday, May 31, 2019 10:04 PM
Walt Whitman was born on this date in 1819. Happy 200th Birthday, Walt. This isn't a contest entry.

for Joe
Published by DARREL | Sunday, May 19, 2019 6:02 AM
10 word tributes and a 12-word one

Schoolyard Scrap
Published by HOMELESSINHONOLULU | Friday, May 24, 2019 4:32 AM
10 words for May

Another ten-word story
Published by LANNING | Saturday, May 18, 2019 6:37 PM

Ten-word story for May
Published by DOREEN B. | Sunday, May 12, 2019 4:19 PM

Hank, Sr. in Waikiki
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Wednesday, May 08, 2019 7:13 AM
Ten-word story.

Six-word poem for May
Published by DOREEN B. | Wednesday, May 08, 2019 2:04 AM

One and Two and One Is Four (for GK and BG)
Published by LANNING | Tuesday, May 07, 2019 10:01 PM
This is NOT a contest piece

POEM for May
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Thursday, May 02, 2019 8:26 PM

Year of the Pig writing contest for May : )
Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO | Wednesday, May 01, 2019 9:34 PM

Six-word poem and ten-word story
Published by LANNING | Wednesday, May 01, 2019 9:56 PM

ON HE RODE — Chapter Twelve
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Tuesday, April 30, 2019 4:39 AM
This is NOT a contest entry.

Ornithological Rhapsody sans Dove or Rats with Wings
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Sunday, April 14, 2019 12:05 PM

Fly Me the Moon -- Chapter Two
Published by LANNING | Tuesday, April 02, 2019 4:54 AM
400 words for April.

Year of the Pig writing contest rules and regs for April : )
Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO | Monday, April 01, 2019 9:03 PM

ON HE RODE — Chapter Eleven
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:52 PM
This is NOT a contest entry.

Ornithological Rhapsody sans Dove or Rats with Wings
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Friday, March 08, 2019 1:56 AM
300 words for March.

to describe it I think
Published by LANNING | Friday, March 08, 2019 11:00 PM
This is NOT a contest entry.

Happy Year of the Pig! Here are the rules and regs for this month's writing contest : )
Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO | Wednesday, March 06, 2019 12:01 AM

Teach Me a Lifetime
Published by LANNING | Wednesday, March 06, 2019 12:52 AM
300 words for March.

Writing Contest rules and regs for the final Year of the Dog entry.
Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO | Wednesday, February 06, 2019 1:11 AM

Dat Buggah Ma Fadda (Part 8)
Published by HOMELESSINHONOLULU | Sunday, February 17, 2019 7:31 AM
100 words for February

Comedia
Published by LANNING | Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:09 PM
This is NOT a contest entry.

Da Buggah No Can Fish
Published by PIIHONUA | Saturday, February 16, 2019 3:55 PM
“Well, he’s da kinda bruddah who looks good in da dark, but not in da morning.”

ON HE RODE — Chapter Ten
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Monday, February 11, 2019 11:04 PM
This is NOT a contest piece.

So What da Buggah Said? Part Eight (The End)
Published by LANNING | Tuesday, February 12, 2019 6:40 AM
500 words for February.

Wishing Well Part 7 (Final Part)
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Tuesday, February 12, 2019 3:53 AM
100 words for February.

Kaloa Pau : notes from a fisherman’s diary
Published by PIIHONUA | Thursday, January 31, 2019 4:09 PM
Pre-dawn beasts clutter the sky...

Hawai'i sonnet 40
Published by LANNING | Tuesday, January 29, 2019 7:08 PM
This is NOT a contest entry.

Wishing Well, Part 6
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Friday, January 25, 2019 10:27 PM
200 words for January.

So what da buggah said?
Published by LANNING | Friday, January 25, 2019 8:19 AM
500 words for January.

ON HE RODE — Chapter Nine
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Tuesday, January 22, 2019 3:44 AM
This is NOT a contest entry.

Dat Buggah Ma Fadda (Part 7)
Published by HOMELESSINHONOLULU | Friday, January 11, 2019 7:19 AM
100 words for January

Bamboo Ridge Year of the Dog writing contest rules for January : )
Published by BAMBOO BUCKAROO | Sunday, January 06, 2019 5:31 PM

American Poem
Published by LANNING | Tuesday, January 01, 2019 9:06 AM
This is NOT a writing contest entry. I've been working on some things. This is the latest installment of one piece.

ON HE RODE — Chapter Eight
Published by JIM HARSTAD | Monday, December 31, 2018 10:22 PM
This is not a writing contest entry.

Angel of Mercy
Published by RBIBEAU | Sunday, December 30, 2018 4:34 AM
In troubled times, let us not forget...

So What da Buggah Said?
Published by LANNING | Thursday, December 13, 2018 5:58 PM
400 words for December.

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The Nanjing Massacre: Poems
ISBN: 978-0-910043-88-5
THE NANJING MASSACRE: POEMS offers us a series of snapshots of human cruelty, courage, and compassion that together compose a frightening yet accurate and unforgettable portrait of a historical nightmare. Like Goya’s prints in DISASTERS OF WAR, or Ian MacMillan’s prose sketches in PROUD MONSTER, Wing Tek Lum’s poems confront readers with fully realized vignettes of brutality, love, and suffering whose effect is cumulative.

The subject is the notorious Japanese occupation of Nanjing, China, in 1937. The poems capture all perspectives of the tragedy—from the weary, casually cruel Japanese soldiers to the uncomprehending child victims, and from the desperate helpless parents and the brutalized comfort women to the bloodless yet vicious bureaucrats of death.

“Too often history is written by those who survive, those who won,” Lum writes. Drawing on published histories, memoirs, photographic collections, and oral histories, he composes testimony after testimony for the silenced—poetic memorials that also provide some measure of revenge against the victors. At key moments, he also broadens the frame of reference, linking the crimes in China to the atrocities committed since then at different times, on different continents. Massacres, Lum suggests, bear a family resemblance—the human family.

But THE NANJING MASSACRE is much more than a chamber of horrors. Lum’s spare and meticulous verse offers up vivid, memorable, and even beautiful images, and many of the poems are mini-narratives, suspenseful and compelling. The result is a gallery of disturbing portraits that nevertheless move us through their artistry and truth.

—Craig Howes
Director, Center for Biographic Research
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

"Please do not bury me.
I will awake from my sleep
at my chosen moment..."

So in Wing Tek Lum’s chosen moment—the Nanjing Massacre—both literature and history are dangerously awakened. Epigrammatic, elegiac, and luminous, these poems beckon the buried voices of daughters and sons, husbands and wives, soldiers and survivors— Chinese and Japanese alike. This masterful and courageous collection allows us to breathe deeply over the shallows of history and to under- stand, through poetry, how “the truth shall set us free.”

—Russell C. Leong, Contributing Editor, AMERASIA JOURNAL

. . . a striking volume of poetry. The poems, intelligent and at times brutal, provide both kaleidoscopic slices and a vast panorama of the tragedy. The magnitude of the poetic vision and effort is simply overwhelming.

—Ha Jin, author of NANJING REQUIEM, WAR TRASH, and WAITING

. . . [a] masterpiece, written over a span of fifteen years. Sustaining an unwavering vigilance on events of incomprehensible human suffer- ing is an affirmation of the poet’s unflinching regard. These stark and steadfast poems resolve to dig deep for the antidote—our capacity to love—transforming what continues to arise repeatedly in this world of cruelty and indifference. By summoning courage these poems demand that we face the unpleasant, stripped of delusion, and find deserving of our compassion the unacceptable.

—Cathy Song, author of CLOUD MOVING HANDS and THE LAND OF BLISS

Wing Tek Lum’s poems are deeply moving and extremely imaginative. Bridging literature and history, they bring the past back to life and of- fer one solution to the almost impossible task of recovering lost voice and experience where no historical records exist.

—Daqing Yang, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University

These poems are not your standard polemics. Lum, who possesses a master’s degree in divinity, writes not just as a poet of witness but as an ascetic seeking to evidence the torment of the world . . . there is a strange way that fact and opinion fall out of Lum’s deeply historical poems like light falling through a pane of glass.

—Ken Chen, Executive Director, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

History is not poetry and of course poetry is never history—and yet, Lum has fused the two with skill, sensitivity and fury. This brilliant collection that is based on documents avoids agenda, although Lum is necessarily partisan in addressing the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens and disarmed soldiers by the Japanese. This six-week period in 1937 is still being disputed by some who would rather not foul Japanese history any further. Others prefer to forget. Lum resuscitates various sides with renewed blood and soul, invigo- rates dry record . . . is unflinching in his art.

—Kimiko Hahn, author of TOXIC FLORA

Lum observes the killing fields, the eponymous Nanjing Massacre, stares directly at the slaughtered remains, the historical evidence, and you may well ask why. As tribute to Iris Chang, whose own tortured experience and suicide gives pause: yes. To prod a litany of human di- sasters, Shoah, Congo, Sabra/Shatila, My Lai, Cambodia, Darfur, Bosnia, Rwanda, Jenin, Homs: no problem. But I think it’s more for company, to join the other messengers in God’s waiting room, awaiting reprieve. Have a seat.

—Jeffery Paul Chan, author of EAT EVERYTHING BEFORE YOU DIE

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