THE PUNAHOU CARNIVAL

by Kirby Wright

Overview

By the spring semester, junior high boys and girls were beginning to pair up. The catalyst for these love matches was the Punahou Carnival, the biggest and best on Oahu because of its rides, food and game booths, and a white elephant tent stocked with alumni donations ranging from Tiki lamps to Vegematics to 14 carat gold ku’uipo bracelets. High school students were responsible for manning the booths with the help of alumni volunteers. Bishop Hall buzzed with gossip about who was taking whom to the carnival. Cecily Garza turned down my big brother Ben because a sophomore from Roosevelt High had asked her to go steady. Rumors spread that some of our seventh grade girls were smoking pakalolo, dropping acid, and going all the way with older guys.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011921148
Publisher:	Lemon Shark Press
Publication date:	11/08/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	11 KB

About the Author

Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Wright has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Jodi Stutz Memorial Prize in Poetry, the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Robert Browning Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. BEFORE THE CITY, his first poetry collection, took First Place at the 2003 San Diego Book Awards. Wright is also the author of the companion novels PUNAHOU BLUES and MOLOKA’I NUI AHINA, both set in Hawaii. He was a Visiting Fellow at the 2009 International Writers Conference in Hong Kong, where he represented the Pacific Rim region of Hawaii. He was also a Visiting Writer at the 2010 Martha’s Vineyard Residency in Edgartown, Mass., and the 2011 Artist in Residence at Milkwood International, Czech Republic.