Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Michelle Keown and Aileen Sefeti travelled with the Okeanos-RMI canoe and its crew to Enewetak and Bikini atolls (sites of the Cold-War US nuclear tests), and also visited Runit Dome (a concrete structure within a bomb crater covering a mass of nuclear waste), where Kathy was recorded reading her antinuclear poem ‘Anointed’. At Enewetak Kathy, Michelle and Aileen ran poetry-writing workshops and card-sorting activities with students at Enewetak Public Elementary School. The students also participated in canoe educational tours run by the crew of the Okeanos.
Fieldwork: Enewetak, Bikini, Runit
