Ishle Yi Park
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Ishle Yi Park

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Ishle Yi Park is the first woman to become Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. She is an award~winning poet, singer, hula dancer, surfer, certified yoga teacher, lomi lomi practitioner, and mommy. Over the past decade, Ishle has traveled around the world, reading poetry, singing & playing music at over 300 music festivals, colleges, cafes & cultural venues in the United States, Cuba, Jamaica, Singapore, Aotearoa, North & South Korea and South Africa, at festivals such as the Auckland International Writers' Festival, SPLORE, the Parihaka Peace Festival, Calabash Literary & Arts Festival, Poetry Africa, the Singapore Writers' Festival, Yale University, Stanford University, Columbia University, New York University, the University of Santa Cruz, Berkeley University, and many more. She has organized readings & benefits to raise awareness about Korean Reunification, to support women in situations of domestic violence, to help victims of natural disasters, and to support the greening of our planet. One summer, she started a library with over 150 books donated to Indigo Skate Camp in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. She is a sponsored artist of Element Skateboards, a company that supports independent, progressive artists, natural living, and has nature skate~camp retreats for children. In her career, she has been blessed to receive the Sister of Fire Award from the Women of Color Resource Center in California, a Poet Laureate title for the Borough of Queens, New York, a Certificate of Merit from John C. Liu at City Hall, New York, and was honored to have her birthday, May 24 become "Ishle Yi Park" day in Queens, New York, an honor given to her by Queens Borough President Helen Marshall. Ishle's first book, The Temperature of this Water, published by Kaya Press, was the recipient of 3 literary awards, including the Pen America Beyond Margins Award for Outstanding Writers of Color, and the Member's Choice Award of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and is taught in colleges across the country. The New York Times said, "she has the voice of an angel and the soul of a rock star." Now rooted & settled on the Big Island of Hawai'i, she is raising 2 daughters & following her lifelong passion for music and focusing on poetry, singing, songwriting & hula. Her current book, Angel & Hannah, a novel~in~verse published by One World Penguin Random House in May 2021, has already become an Amazon & Audible bestseller in Asian American poetry. If you want Ms. Park to lead a writing workshop, perform poetry & song, or give a keynote speech your college, university, or high school for your Asian American Month, Women's History Month, Asian American Association, Multi~cultural Association, Women's Group, or International club, please contact: kehaulanimusic@gmail.com. She has years of experience with college audiences & is available to sing, read from her books & facilitate workshops on everything from poetry, story~telling, ukulele & guitar to sound healing mantras, hula, and yoga. For bookings, please contact kehaulanimusic@gmail.com. For a free song, please go to www.kehaulanimusic.com To find out more about writing mentorships, go to www.ishleyipark.com IG: @ishleyipark and @lanisgardensartistsretreat Aloha & may peace be your Journey. * namaste *
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