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Damn I won a national book award! Crazy

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after 9 years at the university of hawaiʻi at mānoa I have just been promoted to full professor. poured my heart and soul into it. grateful.

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another one of my poems that appeared in The Poets' Republic

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11 months

Still in shock

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6 years

Poets, don’t confuse saying something abstract with saying something profound.

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3 years

nice to see that my poem, "Love in a Time of Climate Change," was Poetry Foundation's poem-of-the-day:

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11 months

somehow I unlocked a triple crown in 2023. so grateful 1) my academic book won the MLA Prize for Studies in Native Literatures, Cultures, and Languages 2) my co-edited anthology won the ASLE Creative Writing Book Award 3) my poetry collection won the National Book Award

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3 years

omg this book is being sent to the printer next week!

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3 years

one last poem to share this year, "Elegy, 2021."

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1 year

So proud of this anthology!

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11 months

Mine

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4 years

happy to share the cover of my monograph forthcoming Fall 2021 from the Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies series with the University of Arizona Press. grateful to the design team

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11 months

the fit

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5 years

Poets of color dont ever forget that the privileges and opportunities we enjoy today exist because small, independent, and radical editors, publishers, and journals supported and championed us when the mainstream ignored and tokenized us. Don’t forget where we come from.

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Craig Santos Perez

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1 year

I’m honored and grateful to share that my new poetry book is a finalist for the National Book Award ! so thankful to the judges.

2023 National Book Awards Finalists Announced

Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature

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3 years

im thrilled to share the cover of our forthcoming anthology from the University of Hawaiʻi Press! cover art by Tongan artist Taniela Petelō.

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11 months

Omg

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Craig Santos Perez

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9 months

excited to share I have received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to work on my second scholarly monograph titled Pacific Islander Ecopoetry: Indigenous Knowledge, Environmental Justice, and Climate Change. so grateful

Fellowships

Supports individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.

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5 years

the first major anthology of Micronesian literature will launch today at Hawaiʻi Book & Music Festival. if you know the history of colonialism in the Pacific, you know how historic this is. to honor the moment, I share my afterword with you. may our ancestors be with us

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4 years

im speechless. my new book was recommended by the US poet laureate, Joy Harjo, in the New York Times today! wow.

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1 year

wow im thrilled to share that my new poetry book, from unincorporated territory [åmot] has been named to the longlist for the National Book Award! grateful to the judges & my publisher Omnidawn, and so happy for all the amazing authors on this list!

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10 months

“Local poet from Guam is the first Pacific Islander to win a National Book Award”

Local poet from Guam is the first Pacific Islander to win a National Book Award

Guam native Craig Santos Perez is the first Pacific Islander to win the prestigious National Book Award for Poetry — and the first Pacific Islander to win in any category. The Conversation's Cather...

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11 months

It was a good night to be a native writer congrats to Ned Blackhawk!

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OMG my new book of poetry Habitat Threshold won a gold Nautilus Book Award!!! this prestigious award honors books about environmental & social justice. so thankful to my publisher, @Omnidawn , and to the judges. extra special to receive this news during #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIHM

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1 year

My short poem, “ars pasifika”

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4 years

just received an email from a reporter asking me to comment on the surge of anti-Pacific Islander hate and violence in the US. this is one of many reasons why the "AAPI" label needs to be disaggregated. the hate and violence is targeted against Asians and not Pacific Islanders...

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11 months

Last photo before I board the flight back to San Diego

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one of my goals for 2019 is to bring this book into the world. forthcoming April the historic Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia anthology from the University of Hawaii Press. this has been years in the making, and I am honored to be the series editor

Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia

For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been brought together to form a resounding—and distinct…

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3 years

copyediting complete. grateful.

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4 years

just received my manuscript from the copyeditor. I have till April 9th. wish me luck :)

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5 years

Today I submitted my application for promotion to full professor. Compiling and narrating all the teaching, research, publishing & service I’ve done since hire (2011) and tenure (2014) reminded me how hard I’ve worked and how lucky I’ve been. Grateful to all who’ve supported me

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Craig Santos Perez

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4 years

some good news to share. book six under contract. finishing the manuscript this summer. grateful to omnidawn.

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2 years

nice to have two of my recycling poems featured in The Margins. here's "Good Fossil Fuels," a recycling of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones"

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2 years

thrilled to share I just signed a contract for my next monograph: Pacific Islander Ecopoetry: Indigenous Knowledge, Environmental Justice, and Climate Change. Grateful to the Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies series at the University of Arizona Press for believing in my work

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9 months

starting the new year by reviewing the galley of my forthcoming poetry book...

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5 years

good news: my application for promotion to full professor has been approved by my dept personnel committee and dept chair. still has to be reviewed by outside committees & administrators but this was an important step in the process. been stressful, but happy to be moving forward

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Craig Santos Perez

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3 years

good news: our Pacific Islander eco-literature anthology is officially in production. forthcoming from the University of Hawai'i Press in August 2022! 386 pages. so excited! grateful to all the contributors and my co-editors, the amazing Lee Kava & Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner!

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this semester I'm applying for full professor. putting my dossier together over the next few weeks. my post-tenure research dossier coming together. lots of paperwork, so wish me luck!

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ive said it before but it needs to be said again: we should train creative writing students for jobs outside of academia because most creative writers are horrible teachers and should not be given the keys to a classroom.

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after 12 years of working on this book, it has finally arrived. so grateful to everyone who supported me and made this first ever monograph on chamoru literature a reality.

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5 years

"let poems be mist"

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3 years

the pacific daily news

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6 years

"anthology" comes from the greek work, "anthos," meaning "group hug"

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8 months

I have two books coming out this year. This one is close!

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3 years

so happy that a hardcover of my new book arrived today! grateful

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Craig Santos Perez

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3 years

received the proof of our forthcoming anthology. looking forward to reading through it again:

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5 years

in the pacific it's important to not only think about "cultural revitalization" but to also think about "cross-cultural revitalization" a phenomenon in which pacific cultures re-articulate colonially-suppressed practices/customs by learning from other pacific cultures...

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10 months

It makes a nice ornament

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6 years

so excited to share the cover of the first anthology in the new literary series with the university of Hawaii press that I am editing.

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6 years

poets, remember there are differences between plagiarism, imitations, afters, re-mixes, cut-ups, found poems, collages, centos, samplings, appropriations, subversions, etc

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11 months

With LeVar Burton

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11 months

thanks to the national book foundation for the recognition, the poetry judges for all their work, fellow finalists & long listed authors (all of whose books are brilliant), to my partner, to my family, and to all of you for your kind words. so grateful. here's one last pic:

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6 years

Transnational diversity capitalism is our new favorite capitalism. Crazy Rich Asians, Black Panther, Moana. How much capital will actually trickle down to other narratives often deemed unprofitable?

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7 years

ending this hot day with a little chamorro humor

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Craig Santos Perez

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6 years

Im deeply honored that my new book of poems is a finalist for one of the world's most prestigious poetry awards, the Kingsley Tufts, which honors a "mid-career" poet with a $100,000 prize! thx to the organizers & judges & congrats to the fellow finalists!

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Craig Santos Perez

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3 years

finished writing an indigenous Pacific horror short story. titled "The Disturbed" & takes place on Guam. it follows what happens after a burial ground is unearthed during a military construction project & the taotaomoʻna, the ancestral spirits, punish those who disturbed them

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I wrote this over 10 years ago but here it is again: one of the major problems with Seth Abramson's MFA rankings was that it didn't take into account the ethnic diversity of MFA faculty and student populations, which should be a key assessment category.

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5 years

not a comprehensive list, and only represents US based publications, but here is reading list of Pacific Islander poetry books, chapbooks, and anthologies from recent years. for those who are challenging themselves to read at least 1 pacific book during #TheSealeyChallenge

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5 years

happy to share a draft of the cover of my forthcoming book of eco-poetry! the central image is one of my photos of my dad and daughter from a few years ago. thankful to book designer Cassie Smith :)

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5 years

How beautiful to see some of my poetry at the climate march in London!

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Thought you'd appreciate this sign from the London #ClimateStrike @bornlinguist

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Dear American studies scholars: Native American Studies is not the same as Native Hawaiian Studies which is not the same as Native Pacific Islander Studies. Yes, there are intersections, but important differences as well. #ASA2019

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3 years

for #AAPIHeritageMonth #APAHM #AAPIHM please consider purchasing the first ever anthology of Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia (U of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019). I was honored to be the series editor for this historic work about the part of the Pacific that Iʻm from and...

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4 years

Being anti-racist is not the same as being anti-colonial

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6 years

New literary term: “social media fallacy,” the fallacy of basing an assessment of a poem on the author's social media popularity and/or the poem’s virality rather than on the actual work.

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4 years ago today I filed my dissertation in ethnic studies from UC Berkeley. 300 pages, 400 sources, 600 footnotes. 4 years to research, write, and revise & 8 years overall for my phd. the most difficult project iʻve ever done. table of contents. someday this will be a book

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"distancing"

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on pacific & black relations after reading some tweets on anti-blackness at #ASA2019 and within Pacific Islander communities: it is important for us to acknowledge that anti-blackness sadly exists within the Pacific and we need to fully reckon with it. our islands are not...

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2 years

i'm thrilled, honored, and humbled to share that my monograph has received the MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages! so grateful to MLA, the judges, the University of Arizona Press, and everyone who supported this book!

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4 years

for all the Pacific Islanders in the National Guard being deployed to American cities. you have a choice. stand down & resist your orders. stand up for black lives & justice!

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2 years

Hardcopy arrived!

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5 years

please continue to expand our decolonial solidarities and become aware of what's happening in the Northern Mariana islands #wearerising

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4 years

after 10 years of research, writing, and revising, so excited that my first academic book is moving into production. forthcoming 2021 from the U of Arizona Press Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies series. grateful

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"Earth (Day) Haiku" from my book Habitat Threshold.

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3) for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, here is a Youtube playlist I compiled of over 250 videos of Pacific Islander poets performances, TED talks, readings, lectures, interviews, film-poems, and more. an ongoing list...

Pacific Islander Poetry

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2 years

signed! & grateful

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"Good Fossil Fuels"

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for #AAPIHeritageMonth , listen to this Youtube playlist I put together of over 250 Pacific Islander poetry videos. wonderful resource for educators. listen to our voices. please retweet. #AAPIHM #AAPI #APAHM

Pacific Islander Poetry

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5 years

been working on this book of eco-poetry since 2016, so im happy that it is almost done! newest draft sent to my wonderful publisher today. this will be my 5th book overall, but my first outside of my unincorporated territory series.

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to all the Pacific Islanders in the military, the national guard, and the American police. do not obey the orders of this racist president. America is not our nation. stop defending its unjust laws. stand down and stand up for justice!

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4 years

every night i write a poem about the end of the world yet every morning the world revises the end of the poem

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I want to tell poets that the book itself is more important than the book tour, that the author's life is more important than the author's photo, that public engagement is more important than endless publicity, that honoring one's influences is more important...

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3 years

omg my proofs are here! looking forward to returning to this manuscript. grateful to the good folks at u of arizona press and the critical issues in indigenous studies series

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7 years

the real threat to #guam is not #northkorea . the real threat is the continuing #militarization of our island by the united states.

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3 years

YES my Pacific sci-fi story, "The Forever Spam, 2055," was accepted for publication! looking forward to seeing this Spam futurism in print someday soon :)

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5 years

Happy cooking captain cook day! Reading this valentine poem by my love today!

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3 years

honored to see some of my words at the Burke Museum at the University of Washington.

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2 years

It’s my 43rd birthday and I have to be on campus to teach lol! It’s a good thing my students are awesome this semester

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aw another nice pic with Ned Blackhawk! I think we're taking a selfie LOL

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2 years

thrilled to share that @RebeccaHogue and I have received an advance contract from the University of Washington Press @UWAPress for our edited volume For the People, Land, and Sea: Environmental Relations in Oceania and the Pacific Islands. so grateful to editor @mikebaccam !

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4 years

deeply honored & grateful to receive a 2020 Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship. My project, titled "Climate Change, Environmental Poetry, and the Public Humanities in Hawaiʻi," is a collaboration with the non-profit Pacific Writers Connection.

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7 years

activist & scholar in germany showing solidarity with guam!

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7 years

Love this picture of a few 2017 native poetry books

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2 years

Since I’m getting selfie-conscious, this will be the last pic I share from my Alaska trip, my first non-work solo trip in about 20 years! Thanks everyone for your hearts and comments—sharing with you made the experience even more joyful. Hope you all are well

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4 years

six years in the making. over 90 contributors from across oceania & pacific diaspora & generations & genres & languages. grateful to all the inspiring authors, grateful to amazing co-editors, grateful to reviewers, and grateful to UH press. submitting final manuscript in April.

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5 years

We made it to the mauna

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I have three major goals for 2020. wish me luck :) 1) finish my next poetry book, from unincorporated territory [åmot] (forthcoming in 2022) 2) finish co-editing an anthology on Pacific Literature and the Environment 3) finish editing my monograph on Chamoru poetry

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