Hawaiʻi Review Student of the Month, Winter 2015

STUDENT OF THE MONTH

WINTER 2015

Featuring:

ʻIolani Antonio “Kaleimakaliʻi”

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Hawaiʻi Review Staff 2015-2016 Editor-in-Chief Abbey Seth Mayer Managing Editor Chase Wiggins Design Editor Avree Ito-Fujita Poetry Editor Julia Wieting Fiction Editor Kapena Landgraf Creative Non-Fiction Editor Rain Wright

FEATURING: ʻIOLANI ANTONIO “KALEIMAKALIʻI” Copyright © 2016 by the Board of Publications, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Graphic Novel Editor Scott Kaʻalele Graphic Novel Design Editor Crystel Sundberg-Yannell Contact us at: managing@hawaiireview.org

A Note on the Series

Our Student of the Month series features on our website stellar student writing and visual art from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the institution where our roots dig deep.

In print for more than 40 years, our journal has been an established voice in the Pacific and beyond for decades, featuring work from emerging writers alongside literary heavy-weights.

The Student of the Month is our latest effort to expand Hawaiʻi Review’s reach by fostering the creative efforts of UH students.

About the Author ‘Iolani wrote this piece during a workshop hosted by Reina Whaitiri and Nisi Shawl entitled, “Voicing Wonder through Lineage and Landscape,” which was part of the recent conference, “Creating Futures Rooted in Wonder: Bridges Between Indigenous Science Fiction and Fairy Tale Studies.” The workshop encouraged participants to celebrate, through poetry and collage, the ways that the past empowers us individually and collectively, and allowed us to transform the mana transmitted to us by our ancestors and our ʻāina in ways that will benefit our peoples and the spaces we inhabit. This poem honors ‘Iolani’s kūpuna and ʻaumākua on her māmā’s side of the family from Kīpahulu, Maui. “The poem’s name and that of my ʻohana are one in the same, and one translation can mean “the lei of Makaliʻi (Pleiades).” I am inspired by place, memories and futures, and my people.”

We at the HR have selected ‘Iolani as the Winter 2015 SOTM in appreciation of her continued achievements as a writer and contributions to the UH-Mānoa Dept. of English and greater community.

Abbey Seth Mayer, Editor-in-Chief 2015-2016

‘Iolani Antonio is a second year MA student in English with a concentration in Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her academic interests include Kanaka Maoli, Pasifika, and Native American poetry and literature, themes of mana wahine, resistance and resurgence, and movements toward ea.

Kaleimakaliʻi ʻIolani Antonio

kamaliʻi of the cosmos wrapped in ka lipo o ka pō tenderly haku ʻia, he lei woven together with the long breath of quivering leaves memories of moʻo pueo aloft soft winds the silent song of makaliʻi the heavens, turning the earth, turning in your iwi heavy fragrance of the stars whose light guides your fresh, young eyes shining in infinite pō 1

This Could Be ...

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Featured Calls Student of the Month: Our Student of the Month series features on our

website stellar student writing and visual art from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. If you are student and would like to feature your work in Student of the Month or an instructor for a creative writing course would like to submit exemplary University of Hawaiʻi student work to Hawaiʻi Review’s Student of the Month initiative, please send submissions to our Submittable account.

Deadline: Ongoing

Reviews: We invite you to submit “a review,” however creatively you might define that, of a forthcoming or recently published work or a recent literary event. We are interested in casting our net into literary scenes beyond Hawai‘i, but we give special preference to reviews of literary works or events from Hawai‘i.

Deadline: Ongoing

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