Denise ʻAkaloka Rivers

Akaloka Rivers is from Waʻianae, Oʻahu.  She attended Leeward Community College where she studied Hawaiian Studies.  Her poems, which earned Ka ʻUmeke Kāʻeo Native Hawaiian Achievement Awards, mark her return to writing. Pūpū A ʻO ʻEwa is pleased to present Akaloka Rivers and her poems, Birthright and Koʻu Inoa (My Name)

 Credits: Video by Robert Delim and Kat Camit; post feature photo courtesy of Kahoʻolemana Naone

 

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