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San Diego Festival of Books

Posted on August 21, 2017 at 6:20 pm by
This is an event that we at Puna Press have been hoping would happen for a long time. We considered trying to put on a book festival ourselves but did not have the money or resources to pull it off. Fortunately the San Diego Union-Tribune and KPBS decided this did need to happen in San… Read More
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Author Approved: The Poets of Puna Press Share Their Latest Reads

Posted on June 13, 2017 at 3:02 pm by
“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.” The above quote is from the picaresque novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which happens to be the book one of Puna Press’s own authors is currently reading.… Read More
Ola Hadi

calligraphy of living

Posted on October 6, 2011 at 4:09 pm by / 0
by ola hadi/10.5.11 I did not know the man I did not know he had the same dreams I have reading about Steve I wish I had I can relate not just because of his love for the creative but because he was real was adopted shaved his head and meditated spent time at an… Read More
Ola Hadi

Pilgrimage

Posted on October 5, 2011 at 1:41 am by / 0
by ola hadi/ 10.4.11 if time was an infinite resource I would spend lifetimes with you as it is this precious gift sets limits boundaries that I doubt I’d draw alone through you the pilgrimage begins I’d hoped we’d share the journey through life in union explore the paths ahead get lost and find something… Read More
Ola Hadi

Lotus Life

Posted on October 2, 2010 at 12:09 pm by / 1 Comment
in unexpected moments the swamp surrounds us green, brown, overgrown endless mud you know the stuff and us, the lotus, above the waters the disgusting, putrid stench but how? how with these senses nostrils full of vomit we weep with the swamp we wish we did not see this reality like a broken mirror full… Read More
Ola Hadi

note to Adam

Posted on June 27, 2010 at 11:01 pm by / 0
I halt stand staring at the tree outside of my apartment say sincerely I wish this was an orange tree you know, I could come out into this front yard pick the fruit like when I was young and we with our small grasping hands picked the lemons and the oranges off the branches of… Read More
Ola Hadi

airport poetry

Posted on June 12, 2010 at 11:34 pm by / 0
Often they congregate close enough to cough Yuck germy humans Heavy cell phone conversations Islands of egoism All walks of life Acting like It’s totally normal To follow the rules To be all ears on your attention please Final boarding call Recorded, not a human voice They wait in line Watch monitors Buy starbucks Are… Read More
Ola Hadi

Conflicted

Posted on April 2, 2010 at 8:40 am by / 0
darling, I am conflicted. part of me is enjoying the building anticipation of kissing your full delicious lips in just four days there is the almost pleasurable agony in the length and space between us that makes the waiting that much more intense that sets my whole being into this burst of excitement that I… Read More
Ola Hadi

Mud

Posted on March 7, 2010 at 4:01 am by / 1 Comment
there is the absurd question of semantics left to wrestle with limbs so lifeless heavy tree branches gnarly natural monsters difficult wrestling left absurd to wrestle with the question of what is left there nude or naked in the muddied interpretations of ideologies, communist/democratic/polka dotted/ never powerful enough to make a difference bruised/battered/left to lose… Read More
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