Event, News, Ola Hadi, Ted Washington
Ola Hadi Features at Palabra!
PALABRA an evening of poetry hosted by Ted Washington Featured reader is Ola Hadi Ola Hadi was born in Kuwait City in 1982. An immigrant of Iraqi descent, she grew up in Imperial Beach, a border-beach town of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Economy of… Read More
Adam Greenfield, Anna Zappoli, Dave Lonteen, Edwin Decker, Kara Goldfarb, Michael Klam, Ola Hadi, Ted Washington
SDVoyager Interviews Ted Washington
Hello Everyone, I haven’t done many interviews focussed on the history of Puna Press. SDVoyager decided that it would be an inspiring story so here we go. Check the interview here. Peace Ted Read More
Adam Greenfield, Anna Zappoli, Edwin Decker, Event, Kara Goldfarb, Michael Klam, News, Ola Hadi, Ted Washington
Taking A Step Up: California Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibition
Puna Press is taking a step up. We are participating in the California Library Association Annual Conference & Exhibition! We will be hosting a table during the exhibition. This is our first attempt to reach this audience. The goal is to sell of course but we hope to increase our visibility in the literary world… Read More
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, 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
News, Ted Washington
Alternative Press Expo 2013
Puna Press will be hosting a table in the Alternative Press Expo, October 12-13 @ Concourse Exhibition Center, San Francisco, CA.!!! Table # 835 More info here. See you there! Peace, Ted 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