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Audio Recording Mahealani Perez-Wendt reads and discusses Na Wai Eā, The Freed Waters on June 30, 2020. Na Wai Eā, The Freed Waters

Mahealani Perez-Wendt reads and discusses Na Wai Eā, The Freed Waters
Audio recording of poet reading and discussing poem.

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Title

  • Mahealani Perez-Wendt reads and discusses Na Wai Eā, The Freed Waters on June 30, 2020.

Other Title

  • Na Wai Eā, The Freed Waters

Summary

  • Mahealani Perez-Wendt reads and discusses her poem "Na Wai Eā, The Freed Waters" on June 30, 2020, from her home in Wailuanui, Maui, Hawai`i. Perez-Wendt directed an indigenous rights law firm in Hawai`i for 32 years. She is a poet and has also published poetry and short stories in Hawai`i and abroad. She and her husband Ed are taro farmers on his family's ancestral lands in Wailuanui, East Maui.

Names

  • Perez-Wendt, Māhealani, author, speaker.
  • Library of Congress. Poetry and Literature Center, sponsor.

Created / Published

  • 2020.

Headings

  • -  American poetry--Indian authors
  • -  American poetry--21st century
  • -  Indians of North America--Poetry

Genre

  • Poetry
  • Poetry readings (Sound recordings)
  • Sound recordings
  • Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020

Notes

  • -  Living Nations, Living Words: A Collection of First Peoples Poetry (AFC 2020/004: 35) Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  In English and ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi.

Medium

  • 1 audio file (0:23:42) : digital, wav
  • 1 photograph : digital, jpg, color
  • 2 manuscripts (11 pages) : digital, pdf

Source Collection

  • Living Nations, Living Words: A Collection of First Peoples Poetry AFC 2020/004

Repository

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020785235

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  • Mahealani Perez-Wendt, "Na Wai Eā, The Freed Waters." Copyright © by Mahealani Perez-Wendt. Photo by Kaehukai Broadhurst, courtesy of the author.

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  • pdf

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Credit line: Living Nations, Living Words (AFC 2020/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Perez-Wendt, Māhealani, Author, Speaker, and Sponsor Library Of Congress. Poetry And Literature Center. Mahealani Perez-Wendt reads and discusses Na Wai Eā, The Freed Waters on. 2020. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020785235/.

APA citation style:

Perez-Wendt, M. & Library Of Congress. Poetry And Literature Center, S. (2020) Mahealani Perez-Wendt reads and discusses Na Wai Eā, The Freed Waters on. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020785235/.

MLA citation style:

Perez-Wendt, Māhealani, Author, Speaker, and Sponsor Library Of Congress. Poetry And Literature Center. Mahealani Perez-Wendt reads and discusses Na Wai Eā, The Freed Waters on. 2020. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020785235/>.