Aloha Shorts held its first open audition on Saturday, June 5, and discovered talented new readers.
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Poets Jean Yamasaki Toyama, Juliet Kono, Christy Passion, Ann Inoshita and cover artist, Russell Sunabe.
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Bamboo Ridge Press’ latest issue (#96) is a collection called No Choice but to Follow. The title is a canny play on the book’s concept: a series of linked poems done in a year’s span by seasoned writers Jean Yamasaki Toyama, Juliet S. Kono, Ann Inoshita and Christy Passion. Each of the Japanese linked-verses (renshi) was originally posted online on a weekly basis in celebration of the publishing house’s 30th anniversary.
Four writers link 48 poems in a Japanese art form known as renshi
The voices of four O’ahu poets who spent a year penning a chain of interlocking verses fill "No Choice but to Follow," a collection slated for release this month by Bamboo Press.
A clip from the Wine & Words reading at Kapiolani Community College on April 28, 2010. The four poets, Jean Toyama, Juliet Kono, Ann Inoshita, and Christy Passion, discuss the…
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Lee Tonouchi introduced the Cades Emerging Writer Award winner, Lisa Linn Kanae at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival, May 15, 2010. Lisa Kanae responds with a poem for Lee.