Grades: 9-12; Language Arts. This series features six island women who are distinguished poets in our community: Kathy Song, Juliet Kono, Carolyn Sinavaiana, Mahealani Perez-Wendt, Brandy Nalani McDougall, and Amalia Bueno. They have distinctive literary voices that reflect with depth their roots in Hawai'i and the Pacific. Each segment features one poet speaking about their lives and work, and sharing several of their poems on camera. After reading a poem, they comment on each piece, giving the viewers insights into their creative process. Cathy Song was born in Honolulu, Hawai'i in 1955 of Chinese and Korean descent. She left the island to pursue her education, receiving her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1977 and an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University in 1981. She returned to Hawai'i after graduating. In 1983, Song published her first collection of poetry, Picture Bride, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, a very prestigious national poetry award.