In 2017 Perez became the first native Pacific Islander to receive a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship for Poetry. Craig Santos Perez is a poet with a mission, and with the skill and battle cry to do it right. “I love you without knowing how or when this world / will end,” he writes in a poem for his wife, which perhaps speaks also to his daughter, to the creatures, mountains, sea, and air, to us all. I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. On average, each Chamorro consumes 16 tins of SPAM® each year, which is more per capita than any country in the world. Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamorro from Mongmong, Guam. In 1995, his family moved to California. In the 5th century B.C. Craig Santos Perez interweaves parental tenderness with knowledge of environmental crisis. Dr. Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru (Chamorro) from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). 2015. Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamorro from Mongmong, Guam. The name itself stands for Specially Processed Army Meat, Salted Pork And More, Super Pink Artificial Meat, Squirrel Possum And Mouse, or Some People Are Missing. Craig Santos Perez is an associate professor of Pacific literature and creative writing at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[2]. (to my wife, nālaniand our 7-month old daughter, kai). Perez’s poetry focuses on themes of Pacific life, immigration, ancestry, colonialism, and diaspora. II. The kids loved it! SPAM® doesn't have to be unhealthy. In the 20th century A.D. Barbie agrees, but wonders how a man with such a belly could pose, smiling, and without a shirt. These are songs of protest, but also love songs for family, place, plant and animal. I will never forget the two-pound SPAM® bust of George Washington he made for Liberation Day, toasted crispy on the outside with raw egg yolk in the hollow center. Craig Santos Perez. Guam, Hawaii, and Saipan have the only McDonald's restaurants that feature SPAM® on the menu. I. He seeks to push them in new directions not beset by those limiting politics of recognition. His other awards include the Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange Award, the Emily Chamberlain Cook Poetry, and the Jean Burden Poetry Award. My uncle is the reigning Guam SPAM® king. Just switch to SPAM® Lite. Craig Santos Perez is quite simply writing some of the most significant poetry of the early 21st century. On average, each Chamorro consumes 16 tins of SPAM® each year, which is more per capita than any country in the world. Related Poems. Craig Santos Perez. Related Poems. The poems find music in inconvenient truths, with a sobering indictment of our Capitalocene footprint. Guam is considered the SPAM® capital of the world. More by Craig Santos Perez. 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