Description:
Free Speech's two poem sequences, "Road Sign Suite" and "Restoring Lady Liberty," address the endangered species of American liberty. America has never been clearer in traffic sign, iron structure, or clashing symbols.
Brief description: Eric Paul Shaffer is the author of nine books of poetry, including Lāhaina Noon; Portable Planet; Living at the Monastery, Working in the Kitchen; AMillion-Dollar Bill; Even Further West; and Green Leaves. More than 600 of his poems have been published in the USA, Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales. Shaffer received Hawai'i's 2002 Elliot Cades Award for Literature, a 2006 Ka Palapala Po'okela Book Award for Lāhaina Noon, and the 2009 James M. Vaughan Award for Poetry. He won a fellowship to attend the Summer 2006 Fishtrap Writers Workshop and was a visiting poetry faculty member at the 23rd Annual Jackson Hole Writers Conference in 2015. Shaffer lives on the island of O'ahu.