"Write with the fierceness of an earned forgiveness for what comes from the heart, reaches the heart. Understand the work you have written and chosen then you'll understand your destiny and the friends who love you. Abandon yourself to everything that IS you for what you plan to write is too small for you to live on a white page but the the words hidden in the integrity of your authenticity is the vitality of your dreams you dare to feel!"

- Ayin Adams from "The Woods Deep Inside Me"

News

A new book, “African Americans In Hawai`i: A Search For Identity,” compiled and edited by Ayin M. Adams, Ph.D. is being released by its publisher Pacific Raven Press. The essays and interviews in the book document the difficulties and challenges as well as the contributions and successes of African Americans in Hawai‘i.

The 220-page large format book has an introduction written by Kathryn Waddell Takara, Ph.D. and foreword by Aaron L. Day and Indira Hale-Tucker. Pacific Raven Press features new, emerging writers, and established writers of literary fiction and poetry. Pacific Raven Press publishes books by Africans and African Americans and People of Color in Hawai`i. Books are available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and online at www.pacificravenpress.com.

Read an excerpt from the book!

Updates on my current events, book signings, workshops and poetry will continue so please keep checking in!  In the meantime, feel free to browse around and check out “African Americans In Hawai`i: A Search For Identity,” compiled and edited by Ayin M. Adams, Ph.D for sale on the PURCHASE page!

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