A Pause at the End of Summer

Dear Friends,

August rushed in without me.

I am still in late July, looking out at the world anew from my perch in Pádraig Ó Tuama’s poems. We’ve just said goodbye to Pádraig, who was with us in residence in these days of a waning summer, and we’re taking a pause to linger. We hope you’ll join us later this month when we share a recording of Pádraig’s extraordinary Green Room reading. I imagine you, too, will wish to linger in the spaces he opens up in his poems, and will see new possibilities from the vantage points we find in them.

As we pause, we hold in our hearts the communities of Lahaina and Kula, and mark the anniversary of the fires that forever changed that place and its people.

Aloha,

Sonnet