For over forty years, The Kahiki Supper Club was the largest freestanding Polynesian restaurant in the country and the site where generations of central Ohioans relished Tiki culture. This poetry collection is the result of interviews and research conducted by a local, award-winning poet who became obsessed to learn why this pop-culture icon was razed over ten years ago after being placed on the National Historic Register. Complete with photographs and a handsome chapbook design, this collection celebrates the nuances of why this venue brought such delight and pride to the cultural landscape of Columbus, Ohio.

Kahiki Redux

Rikki Santer

11th Hour Press

This collection won finalist recognition in the 2009 national chapbook competition of Pudding House Press.  "Santer crafts her language with wit and joy," wrote Pudding House publisher Jennifer Bosveld.   "It is clear that she is attracted to the interplay of content with form as well as to the sly underbelly of satire-from the fetishizing of popular culture to the sticky tangles of philosophy-and yet some of her poems are quiet and wise, examining the elegant simplicities of humanity's corollary in nature.""The language of this manuscript pushes the edge, and the spiral of its focus is provocative and intriguing."--Diane Frank, chief editor, Blue Light Press"Rikki Santer's poems revel in their own language and music without going into the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E POEM dead end of self-absorption and indecipherability."--David Citino, Ohio poet and professor

Clothesline Logic

Pudding House Press

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Kahiki Redux

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