Adam Greenfield, Anna Zappoli, Edwin Decker, Event, Kara Goldfarb, Michael Klam, News, Ola Hadi, Ted Washington
San Diego Festival of Books
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
Adam Greenfield, Anna Zappoli, Edwin Decker, Lists, Michael Klam, News, Ola Hadi, Ted Washington
Author Approved: The Poets of Puna Press Share Their Latest Reads
“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
Adam Greenfield, Anna Zappoli, Edwin Decker, Event, Kara Goldfarb, Michael Klam, News, Ola Hadi, Ted Washington
Poetry LP!
Poetry LP? The birth of the long play format poetry performance for me began in 1998 at Java Joes. I had tired of the 3 – 5 minutes poets are normally relegated to at slams and open mics. I wanted to talk to the people in the audience, develop a story line and arc with… Read More
Ola Hadi
calligraphy of living
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
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
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
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
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
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
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