Teachers respond to poetry readings and workshops by the BR renshi poets: Jean Toyama, Juliet Kono, Ann Inoshita, and Christy Passion.

Thank you all for your wonderful reception of my book, Anshuu. I could not be more grateful.

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