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if you are a friend, relative, or organization who has received a free copy of any of Hanalei's chapbooks, and would like to make a paypal donation to the artist, please click on the button below:


foiled stars. $10 +s/h

A limited run of chapbooks designed and hand silk-screened by Jesse Olanday.

A collection of Hanalei's prosetry between 2000 and 2006, including:

Haikus + Left Turns
Her Breasts
The Music of Falling
Tonight
Calculated Things I’ve Thought Which Have Become the Beginnings of No Poems
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This City
Lucky Me
To My Girls
Pussy
Updates In Rebellion
Heat
My Spine
Vacuum
Untitled
Promise Me
Conversations at Dinner

Letters to Martha $7.99 +s/h


a portion of the proceeds will go to the Women's Project of Jersey City, NJ.

for non-paypal users, please visit http://www.blacklava.net to purchase Letters to Martha


(actual cardstock cover in b/w // 44 sides // 7 in. x 8.5 in.)

"Hanalei Ramos' Letters to Martha is authored in meticulously crafted layers of side splitting irreverence, poignant irony and uncompromised honesty. She speaks with a voice that acknowledges the deepest pain but refuses defeat and through a narrative that seeks clarity (if desperately) out of confusion rather than some easier escape." Koba from Kontrast

"Hanalei’s poems and stories recreate the secrets, desires, and dreams that we are too afraid to reveal even to ourselves. In Letters to Martha, she relates a challenging time in her life with reflective candor and laugh-cause-I don’t-wanna-cry humor. Read, cry, laugh… be inspired. " E. Hang Le

"Hanalei Ramos’ series of incitingly humorous notes, “Letters to Martha” explore the complexities of life and relationships. Ramos’ work exposes all of us in our most vulnerable and honest moments with a clarity and humor that is at once accessible and difficult to reach, which she does with skill and ease. " Stephen Bor

Letters to Martha $7.99 +s/h


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