Craig Santos Perez

Jun 9, 2024 | press.uchicago.edu | Craig Santos Perez

9781632431288 A collection of previously published poems by renowned National Book Award-winning Chamoru poet Craig Santos Perez. The seventh book from award-winning Chamoru author Craig Santos Perez, Call This Mutiny brings together poems that were originally published in journals and anthologies from 2008 to 2023.

Nov 16, 2023 | barnesandnoble.com | Miwa Messer |Justin Torres |Ned Blackhawk |Craig Santos Perez

“I wanted it to feel like stepping off the world…” Blackouts by Justin Torres (We the Animals) explores love, loss and the stories we leave behind with inventive and transformative form and prose. Justin joins us on our Poured Over podcast to talk about the source material for this novel, the importance of telling queer stories, navigating legacy, loneliness and identity and more. You can find Poured Over wherever you listen to podcasts, stream from our blog, or watch on our YouTube channel.

Jun 11, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Craig Santos Perez

For my wife, Nālani, and our daughter, Kaikainali‘i, on her first birthday nālani clips kaikainali‘i’s tiny fingernails while she sleeps — “the rape of oceania began with guam” — soldiers invade okinawa, hawai‘i, the philippines, and south korea — #yesallwomen how do [we] stop kaikainali‘i’s body from becoming target practice — bullets fragment and ricochet — nālani brushes kaikainali‘i’s hair when she wakes, sings the names of body parts in hawaiian language — who will remember the names of...

Mar 30, 2023 | aaww.org | Craig Santos Perez

These poems are featured in the Climate notebook, which features art by Katrina Bello. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a GlacierXIIIAmong starving polar bears,the only moving thingwas the edge of a glacier. XIIWe are of one ecologylike a planetin which there were once 200,000 glaciers. XIThe glacier absorbs greenhouse gas. We are a large part of the biosphere. XHumans and animalsare kin. Humans and animals and glaciersare kin.

Mar 26, 2023 | woodlandpatternbookcenter.com | Craig Santos Perez

Author: Craig Santos Perez Publisher: Omnidawn (2020)With Habitat Threshold, Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry that explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future. The book begins with the birth of the author’s daughter, capturing her growth and childlike awe at the wonders of nature.