Ann Inoshita shares idea generating techniques with students, and students produce their own renshi poems.

Award-winning author Juliet S. Kono offers insight into the background of her long-awaited novel, ‘Anshu: Dark Sorrow.’

Juliet’s recommendations

After a week of madly working on my M.A. thesis for 8-12 hours a day, my brain came up with this haiku: a paper monster thesis is thirty pages only section one!

See all the Word Bag Contest entries from the 2009 Book & Music Festival.

Bamboo Ridge Press Word Bag Poetry contest winners from the Hawaii Book & Music Festival.

we feel so much at one time
like drugs in a capsule

Swollen Moments

The stranger sang a theme
From someone else’s dream
The leaves began to fall
And no one spoke at all
But I can’t seem to recall
When you came along
Ingenue

Ingenue
I just don’t know what to do
-Mono

I love haikus…they are simple and elegant-like a bamboo shoot.
Here are my three favorites.