:Carolyn Lei-Lanilau
{{short description|American poet (born 1946)}}
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Carolyn Leilani Yu Zhen Lau (aka Carolyn Lau) (born 1946 Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American poet.
Biography
Lei-Lanilau is Hawaiian of Hakka ancestry.
She graduated from San Francisco State University with an M.A. in English. She also studied Chinese philosophy.
She is an educator who teaches poetry and movement to bilingual Chinese and Southeast Asian immigrant children.{{cite book|url=http://www.questia.com/read/101396359/asian-american-poets-a-bio-bibliographical-critical|section=CAROLYN LAU (1946–): Rowena Tomaneng Matsunari|title=Asian-American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook|page=189|via=Questia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018223617/http://www.questia.com/read/101396359/asian-american-poets-a-bio-bibliographical-critical|archive-date=Oct 18, 2012|editor=Guiyou Huang|publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, CT|date=2002}}
Her work appeared in The Bloomsbury Review, The American Poetry Review, Manoa, Yellow Silk, Zyzzyva,{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BsNlAAAAMAAJ&q=Carolyn+Lei-Lanilau+chinese| title=AutoBioDiversity: true stories from ZYZZYVA| editor=Howard Junker| publisher=Heyday Books| year= 2005| isbn= 978-1-59714-007-2 }} and Calyx.
She lectured at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and at West O'ahu, Tianjin Foreign Languages Institute in Hexi District, Tianjin China, and California State University, East Bay.
She divides her time between Oakland, California,{{Cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/carolyn_leilanilau_1|title = Carolyn Lei-lanilau| date=28 May 1981 }} and Honolulu.{{Cite web|url=http://faculty.washington.edu/kendo/carolynleilanilau.html|title = Carolyn Lei-Lanilau}}
Awards
- 1988 American Book Award, for Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking
- 1998 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Poetry for Ono Ono Girl's Hula{{cite web|url=http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|title=Firecracker Alternative Book Awards|work=ReadersRead.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304133738/http://www.readersread.com/awards/firecracker.htm|archive-date=Mar 4, 2009}}
- California Arts Council Fellowship
Works
- {{cite book| title=Wode Shuofa: My Way of Speaking| publisher=Tooth of Time Books| year=1988| isbn=978-0-940510-15-9| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/wodeshuofamywayo0000leil}}
- {{cite book| title=Ono Ono Girl's Hula| publisher= University of Wisconsin Press| year= 1997| url=https://archive.org/details/onoonogirlshula00leil| url-access=registration| quote=Carolyn Lei-Lanilau.| isbn=978-0-299-15634-3 }}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=Chinese American Poetry: An Anthology |editor1=L. Ling-chi Wang |editor2=Yiheng Zhao |editor3=Carrie L. Waara | isbn=978-0-9629639-0-2 | publisher=Asian American Voices| year= 1991 }}
- {{cite book | title=Chinese American Poetry: An Anthology |editor=L. Ling-Chi Wang |editor2=Henry Y. H. Zhao | publisher=University of Washington Press | date=January 1992 | isbn=978-0-295-97154-4 | url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780295971544 }}
- {{cite book| title=Blue mesa review| publisher=Creative Writing Center, University of New Mexico| year= 1994| isbn= 978-1-885290-05-2 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Best American Poetry of 1996| url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericanpoe100lehm| url-access=registration |editor=Adrienne Rich |editor2=David Lehman| publisher=Scribner| year= 1996| isbn= 978-0-684-81455-1 }}
- {{cite book| title=Making More Waves: New Writing By Asian American Women | url=https://archive.org/details/makingmorewaves00elai| url-access=registration | page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmorewaves00elai/page/109 109] | chapter=The Presence of Lite Spam |editor=Elaine H. Kim |editor2=Lilia V. Villanueva| publisher=Beacon Press| year= 1997| isbn= 978-0-8070-5913-5 }}
- {{cite book| title=Visit teepee town: native writings after the detours| url=https://archive.org/details/visitteepeetownn00glan| url-access=registration |editor=Diane Glancy |editor2=Mark Nowak| publisher=Coffee House Press| year= 1999| isbn= 978-1-56689-084-7 }}
- {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/boldwordscentury0000unse| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/boldwordscentury0000unse/page/52 52] | chapter=from Ono Ono Girl's Hula| title=Bold words: a century of Asian American writing |editor=Rajini Srikanth |editor2=Esther Yae Iwanaga| publisher=Rutgers University Press| year= 2001| isbn= 978-0-8135-2966-0 }}
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Category:American writers of Chinese descent
Category:Writers from Honolulu