Hey hey hey! It’s another writing theme bonus month : ) So many good ones to choose from. There are five — count ‘um FIVE — theme choices for September, taken from BR issues #13 and #14. They are: Theme #1: It isn’t that hard growing old Theme #2: Choose those things that unfailingly astonish…
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From BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number 13, December 1981 – February 1982, New Moon
Untitled by Karl Ichida It isn't that hard growing old after all — just a matter of moving beyond the breadth of each morning and forgetting your nightmares caked and drying about your eyes. So now you occupy yourself writing poems about “time” and “reality,” spinning cocoons of words around each day for some winter…
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From BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number 14, March – May 1982, First Quarter
Small Kid Time by Maxine Hong Kingston * * * * * Maxine Hong Kingston had already published The Woman Warrior and China Men, and two of her poems were included in the then upcoming issue of The Iowa Review.
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BAMBOO RIDGE E-News for 08/28/11
Friends of BAMBOO RIDGE! Hey! How are you? I hope you've had a great August and a pleasant summer. Did you remember to put in your August entry for the ongoing Great BR Fishing & Wishing Contest? If not, the themes for this month are listed here: http://www.bambooridge.com/bambooshoot.aspx?bid=1043 Get those entries in. As you might…
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July Winners for The Great BR Fishing & Wishing 100-100 Contest : )
Congratulations to the four authors who won 10 Bamboo Bucks to use at the BRP online store. Here are the winners for July along with the awards they've won: 1. Da mos Daddy's Leeetle Girl Award: “Beloved Pukas,” by shrllgsp5: http://bambooridge.com/bambooshoot.aspx?bid=1024 2. Da mos Hungry for da Honu Award: “I Don't Tell Her,” by kristel…
Please submit your August entries by 2:00 p.m. HST on Wednesday, August 31.
PDF of BR Issue #1
Download the entire issue (.pdf): http://www.bambooridge.com/bluesun.aspx?bid=1034
Marie Hara, President Darrell Lum & Eric Chock, Editors and Co-Founders of Bamboo Ridge, explain to all of us the "one issue at a time" long-term plan : ) Here's to Issue Number 200. I want to be there for that one : ) Mahalo nui loa to both of you for your many hard…
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From BAMBOO RIDGE Issue Number 12, Last Quarter, SMALL KID TIME HAWAII
Introduction: What Can I Say? by Eric Chock I. When I make my visits to the schools, students, teachers, and administrators are somewhat skeptical of me, a long-haired local guy who is supposed to be a poet. It seems that most people have never met a practicing poet, and they don't know what to expect….