Day is Lei Day". The Hawaiian song, "May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii" was composed in 1927 by Ruth and Leonard "Red" Hawk. The Don Blanding Poetry Society in Enid, Oklahoma is named after him. Blanding lived in Enid as a child from age 3 to 7. Bibliography Leaves from a Grass-House 2000-copy private printing – 1923 commercial publication – 1923 Paradise Loot – 1925 Flowers of the Rainbow – 1926 The Virgin of Waikiki – 1926 Vagabond's House – 1928 Also published under the title Aloha House Hula Moons – 1930 Songs of the Seven Senses – 1931 Stowaways in Paradise – 1931 Let Us Dream – 1933 Memory Room – 1935 Pictures of Paradise - 1936 The Rest of the Road – 1937 Drifter's Gold – 1939 Floridays – 1941 noted as a nice book to read while at home in 2020 Pilot Bails Out – 1943, reviewed by the New York Times Today is Here – 1946 Mostly California – 1948 A Grand Time Living – 1950 Joy is an Inside Job – 1953 Hawaii Says Aloha – 1955 No Strings on Tomorrow – Unpublished References Papanikolas, Theresa and DeSoto Brown, Art Deco Hawai'i, Honolulu, Honolulu Museum of Art, 2014, , pp. 43, 58–59 Severson, Don R., Finding Paradise, Island Art in Private Collections, University of Hawaii Press, 2002, pp. 142–43, 278–81. External links All Poetry Don Blanding 1894 births 1957 deaths 20th-century American painters 20th-century American poets American male painters Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers Military personnel from Oklahoma Painters from Hawaii People from Kingfisher, Oklahoma Poets from Oklahoma School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni United States Army personnel of World War II United States Army non-commissioned officers Writers from Hawaii Writers from Oklahoma 20th-century American male artists Writers from Enid, Oklahoma People from Lawton, Oklahoma