Poet-scholar Alice Te Punga Somerville writes of oceanic identity fractured by colonial borders. Her “Always Italicise” & “Once Were Pacific” center the sea as both connective tissue & contested space.
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Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez’s “from unincorporated territory” series treats the Pacific as homeland & archive. His work layers maps, migration, colonial history, & ecological witness, an ocean-centered poetics of memory & resistance.
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