Dennis Loo's Writings
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Article
Oct.10.2011
OpEd News
[This is a slightly different version of an article posted by me at OpEd News today]:
Dear 1%:
I'm so sorry that you seem confused by the 99%.
Ann Coulter says that we're a mob and that Occupy Wall Street et al is the beginnings of "totalitarianism." Josh Barro at the National Review says that OWS "shouldn't be taken seriously" because it is oh so...
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Poem
Oct.04.2011
Pomona Valley Review
We crossed from our car
to the point
and over the hill
spotted craggy rocks
like old folks’ faces
beaten yet shining beneath the sun
defying the surf
Around our feet
along the hillside
facing the sea
silver blue succulents
quietly awaited the fog
Black kelp swirled slowly
in China Cove’s jade green water
like seaweed soup
White bird in multi-...
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Oct.03.2011
Porter Gulch Review
[I wrote this as the first poem in a creative writing class while I was in graduate school in the summer of 1990. It was a response to Gulf War I under George H. W. Bush. The course was the first creative writing class I had ever taken and I took it as a lark and also as a change from the grind and pressure of graduate school. When I was in high school I had been...
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Brilliant... a game changer. ”
—Sharon Araji, Past President of the Pacific Sociological Association (On Globalization and the Demolition of Society)
About Dennis
I was born and raised in Honolulu, third or fourth generation Chinese-American, depending on which side of the family you count from. My father was a physician and my mother, as was standard for her generation, a homemaker. I attended Punahou School and then...
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Causes Dennis Loo Supports
World Can't Wait, Occupy, War Criminals Watch, Doctors without Borders, Wikileaks, We Are Not Your Soldiers
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