Lee Tonouchi writes his plays, essays, dictionaries, poems, books, children’s stories, anthologies and even restaurant reviews exclusively in Pidgin. Tonouchi, 53, is the new Poet Laureate of Hawaiʻi — one of the highest honors for a writer in the state. To put this self-styled “Pidgin Guerrilla” on a pedestal shows how much acceptance and respect has grown for … Continue reading Denby Fawcett: Pidgin Author Lee Tonouchi Is Hawaiʻi’s New Poet Laureate