Daren Kamali - Pacific Poet : Oral Histories and the Education System

Poet, writer, and musician DK Pacific Poet - Daren Kamali was born in Fiji and moved to New Zealand as a child. He is the author of the trilogy of poetry books celebrating the Polynesian, Indonesian, and Melanesian world. Before earning a BA at Manukau Institute of Technology, Kamali worked in youth arts programming as a mentor. In 2008 he co-founded the South Auckland Poets Collective, a youth program dedicated to poetry as an agent of social change. In 2013, Kamali co-founded Niu Navigations, an organization aimed at encouraging Pan-Pacific writers to tell their stories. He is a former Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and has held residencies at the University of Iowa as part of its International Writing Program. www.theDOC.nz Other useful links ================ Youtube https://goo.gl/uLs7j5 Spotify https://goo.gl/zYQUhC iTunes https://goo.gl/rMFT7F Stitcher https://goo.gl/GQkfpS