Derek N. Otsuji is the author of the book The Kitchen of Small Hours, which won the Crab Orchard Review Poetry Series Open Competition. He was also awarded the 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His poems have appeared in The Southern Poetry Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Threepenny Review, The Bennington Review, Harpur Palate, Missouri Review Online, and many others. He is an associate professor of English at Honolulu Community College.      

George Herbert was born in 1593 in Montgomery Castle, Wales. He attended Westminster School and then Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained as a priest and became the rector at Bemerton. He died in 1633 of consumption at the age of forty.

Links:

Read "Among the More Innocent Touristic Amusements of the Old Waikiki"

Read "Two Boys One Fish Two Eyes" in Rhino

Read "Virtue" by George Herbert" at The Poetry Foundation

Derek N. Otsuji

Derek N. Otsuji's website

"How She Loves Music" in Pleiades.

Two Poems at Terrain.org

Video: "Interview with Derek Otsuji, Author of The Kitchen of Small Hours"

"Theatre of Shadows" at The Poetry Foundation

George Herbert

Bio and poems at the The Poetry Foundation

Bio and poems at Poets.org

"George Herbert: British Poet" in Britannica

Video: George Herbert - a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest

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