In celebration of the 2023 Summer Reading Challenge!

Janine Oshiro explores the world of seeds through an imaginative storytelling program developed in consultation with local botanist Susan Nalani Ching.

Janine is a writer devoted to the transformative power of words, touch, silence, and movement. She is the author of “Pier”, winner of the 2010 Kundiman Poetry Prize, published by Alice James Books. She has been awarded the 2011 Elliot Cades Award for Literature in Hawaiʻi for an emerging writer and the 2013 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library of Hawai‘i. This is a production of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa Outreach College’s Statewide Cultural Extension Program with additional funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and the University of Hawai‘i.

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