Host: Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina (Host, PhD student, Scholar & Artist)

Guests: Noʻu Revilla (Poet, Scholar, Educator) & Kamakani Albano (Poet, Educator)

Works Featured: poi mouth and Re-membering Māhū is a Love Letter to Creation

Theme: Water as sanctuary, mentorship, and transformation

Description:

Poets Noʻu Revilla and Kamakani Albano join host Kaʻimi Kahikina to talk story about water as sanctuary—where wai and kai meet in the muliwai. They reflect on eroticism, emergence, and the mentorship that flows between kumu and haumāna. Through reflections on their poetic works, they explore how desire, devotion, and language blur the imaginary divisions between lover and land, guider and guided, creation and resistance.

Listen & Learn:

What lessons does the muliwai hold for how we nurture, teach, and aloha one another—especially those who exist in the spaces between?

*This episode engages Hawaiian worldviews and social contexts, and explores themes of sexuality, gender, and erotics. Some language and content may be considered strong or triggering. Viewer/listener discretion is advised. 

Art concept: Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina @mahucha_art

Art design: Sara Saffery @sarasaffery

Music: “Pua Līlīlehua,” Mokihana Flood, Tree of Life

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