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One Message from Prez Kent Sakoda

Posted on by Kent Sakoda

ʻano ʻai & hallohauzit to all my calabash Bamboo Ridge ʻOhana…

i hope you guys stay all looking good and kicking back but playing om safe… i know i no need remind you guys as da season now when you goin stay get uku plenty mails… dakine insai da mailbox and dakine ontop yo computah from all ovah da place (especially from all da dot orgs li’dat)… asking fo yo help fo dishout dakine makana dollahs… as why I figgah no sense beat around da bush and jus puka chru and come out tell you guys first ting awready wat dis lettah all about in da first place…

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Art and Anthology: Issue #79

Posted on by madeline.gaudlitz

“Art & Anthology” is a series of posts that examine some of the ways art and literature intersect. M.Y. Gaudlitz never finishes anything. She’s learning, though. She’s a former and current student at Williams College studying in Art History and Comparative Literature, and born and raised on Oahu. ~ Halfway through Issue #79 of Bamboo…

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August Featured Author—Cathy Song

Posted on by Misty Sanico

  It’s been a tough year and although her new book came out in June, Cathy Song has not had the usual opportunities to read and launch All the Love in the World properly. She’s been a real trooper and made several wonderful videos that you can watch on our BR YouTube channel. We’re trying…

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Challenges and Changes in 2020: An Open Letter from Wing Tek Lum

Posted on by Misty Sanico

Dear Fellow Lovers of Local Literature: Some of you may recognize my name as a writer whose poems have been published in Bamboo Ridge. However, I am now writing in my capacity as business manager of Bamboo Ridge Press, a position that I have been honored to serve since 1986. On behalf of our nonprofit…

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On Bamboo Ridge Lineage

Posted on by Alyssa Lo

Recently, we launched a new series on our social media entitled Bamboo Ridge Lineage. We asked members of the Bamboo Ridge ‘Ohana who some of their writing influencers are including which books or authors have impacted the way they think about writing craft and literature. For this project, we wanted to highlight the ways in…

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Alyssa’s Quarantine Reads

Posted on by Alyssa Lo

Hi I’m Alyssa! I recently joined the Bamboo Ridge team as an intern and have been working with Misty to get content up on our social media pages. Since I’m working at Bamboo Ridge, it pretty much goes without saying that I’m a fan of reading. Like most people, I’ve been observing quarantine / self-isolation…

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Father’s Day from the Archives

Posted on by Misty Sanico

This weekend is Father’s Day and in celebration, we went looking through the Bamboo Ridge Digital Archive in the UH Repository to find the perfect literary tribute. For all the Dads who mend the scrapes and pick us up when we fall, here’s a short piece from A Small Obligation and Other Stories of Hilo…

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Featured Author—SCOTT KIKKAWA

Posted on by Misty Sanico

As an early standout of our Bamboo Shoots monthly writing contests, many of Scott Kikkawa’s entries were chosen for publication in our annual issues. His dark humor and descriptive scenes made him a captivating favorite at our reading events. When all of his stories eventually made up a novel the editors decided to publish it…

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