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As a Hawaiian, I area. “We had this very impromptu con- have had trouble with this.” versation and he said, ‘Well, I am going Dressed in an elegant turquoise to tell you what you are doing on the blouse and slacks, Osorio stepped evening of May 12, and if you don’t Hawaiian to the podium in the East Room and agree we will have to fight about it,’ ” launched into litany of Hawaiian expe- said Osorio. With the invitation arose riences. Her two-minute performance a new challenge: she had to compose Board of Trustees bore all the hallmarks of slam poetry, her Kumulipo poem, since she had no poet in the a style in which Osorio has distin- pieces that would clock in under the Haunani Apoliona, MSW guished herself. The spoken-word given limit of two minutes. Chairperson, Trustee, At-large art frees poetry from the page and The Pälolo Valley girl swears she Tel: 808.594.1886 places poetry’s candor and flights of got into poetry quite by accident, after Email: [email protected] House! imagination where many feel it right- a health problem prevented her from fully belongs – before a live audience continuing to pursue her first love: Walter M. Heen Jamaica Osorio performs in the mixed with musical jams, sometimes team sports. “That’s when my writing Vice Chair, Trustee, O‘ahu with video and dance. Slam goes a took off. Before that sports to me was East Room.- Photo: Courtesy of the Tel: 808.594.1854 White House by Samatha Appleton step further and gives spoken word art- always a way of releasing my frustra- Fax: 808.594.0210 ists an arena for competition. An outfit tion and getting out things I wanted to Email: [email protected] known as Youth Speaks organizes slam express, but poetry became my new Jamaica Osorio performs fests for teens in more than two dozen outlet,” she said. Rowena Akana U.S. cities. Osorio is a member of the Though she says she just began to for Obama poetry bash Trustee, At-large Youth Speaks Hawai‘i team, which write poetry during her junior year Tel: 808.594.1860 By Liza Simon last summer won first place at the 11th in high school, Osorio appears to Fax: 808.594.0209 Public Affairs Specialist annual International Youth Poetry have discovered the power of the pen Email: [email protected] Slam Festival held in Washington, much earlier. As a student at Kaimukï D.C. Therefore, the White House event Middle School, her application for Donald B. Cataluna peaking by phone just moments did not mark her debut in the nation’s admission to Kamehameha Schools Trustee, Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau after performing at the White capital, but as Osorio repeated in dis- was initially rejected. She wrote a Tel: 808.594.1881 SHouse, Jamaica Heolimeleika- belief on the phone, “I was speaking letter to the school expressing her Fax: 808.594.0211 lani Osorio was nearly at a loss for out at the White House!” disappointment: “I felt like (Kame- Email: [email protected] words, though this, indeed, is a rare Barack and Michelle Obama and hameha Schools) was rejecting people state for the Native Hawaiian slam cabinet colleagues hosted the poetry who were working really hard to per- Robert K. Lindsey Jr. President Barack Obama and Jamaica Oso- poetry champion. party as a part of a fulfillment of a petuate Hawaiian culture and taking Trustee, Hawai‘i Describing how President Obama rio. - Photo: Courtesy of the White House by popular campaign promise of inclu- top-tier kids who could get into other Tel: 808.594.1855 approached her in the reception line, Chuck Kennedy siveness, which encompassed a pledge private schools anyway. So my letter Fax: 808.594.1883 she recalled: “He said, ‘You’re the to open the White House to a diverse said Princess Bernice Pauahi would Email: [email protected] girl from Hawai‘i.’ … And it was so is a freshman at Stanford University public. The May 12 poetry party show- not have intended it this way.” amazing that I said I was from Pälolo pursuing a degree in ethnic studies, cased rising stars of spoken-word art Subsequently, Osorio was accepted Colette Y. Machado Valley, (O‘ahu) and he could actu- said the piece evolved after she real- alongside their peer jazz musicians and at the school, where she excelled in Trustee, Moloka‘i and La¯na‘i ally nod his head and smile, because ized that she could not dredge up from seasoned celebrity artists, writers and music, winning a scholarship award Tel: 808.594.1837 he got it,” said the elated 18-year-old, memory the full Hawaiian names of performers, including actor James Earl named for Helen Desha Beamer. As Fax: 808.594.0212 laughing as she savored the notion her great-grandparents, and she had Jones and novelist Michael Chabon. much as she also loves music, Osorio Email: [email protected] that the nation’s leader was born and no immediate access to her family’s Obama is also reportedly a fan of said poetry has captured her heart. bred just one green valley away from genealogy written in a binder back in poetry and has a particular interest in This was not only visible in the East Boyd P. Mossman her home. “Mostly when I tell people her Pälolo Valley home. She contacted the work of Caribbean master poet Room, it can also be seen in the new Trustee, Maui I am from Hawai‘i, they have no idea her dad, Jonathan Osorio, a Hawaiian Derek Walcott, according to an online HBO special Brave New Voices. The Tel: 808.594.1858 what’s going on here.” Studies professor, but he was away article posted by The Guardian. nine-part documentary features win- Fax: 808.594.1864 In an evening of “Poetry, Music and from the Islands and also could not Osorio said the evening celebra- ning slam teams, including the group Email: [email protected] Spoken Word” hosted by the Obamas recall – without access to the binder – tion looked to her like a perfect por- from Honolulu, of which Osorio is a at the White House, Osorio delivered an the information she sought. “He is this trait of diversity. “I kept thinking this member. Oz Stender amazing and distinguished scholar for emotional poem meant to enlighten the is a new kind of White House. There Catching her breath in the after- Trustee, At-large audience about “what’s going on here,” Hawaiian people, but like all us today, were people of color in the audience math of her White House debut, Tel: 808.594.1877 through a mesmerizing chant-like cadence he is letting go of things – almost and on the stage and in the White Osorio has this to say about the ben- Fax: 808.594.1853 in both English and ‘ölelo Hawai‘i about unconsciously, and we don’t know House staff.” She was also impressed efits of poetry: “I can tell you it has Email: [email protected] her experiences growing up in a native why we are doing this,” Osorio noted.