Aloha to all you great friends of BAMBOO RIDGE, and Happy Birthday to all of you October folks. Hope everyone who celebrates Halloween has a very spooky one. Here comes Thanksgiving! My favorite holiday : ) Here's the news for all Bamboo Ridge Press events coming up soon. 1. Join Juliet Kono in Hilo for…
Poet Ken Chen recently wrote of Wing Tek Lum’s reading on the atrocities of war at The Asian Americans’ Workshop.
100 Words Contest winners for July.
Tips on how to motivate the creative process for the uninitiated poetry student/teacher.
Jean Toyama describes her take on the humanities and her effort to demystify poetry for young students so that they have the confidence to write some.
Bamboo Ridge Press was recently featured in Pacific Network TV’s Local Ventures program.
Aloha Shorts held its first open audition on Saturday, June 5, and discovered talented new readers.
Here are the Hawaii Book and Music Festival Word Bag winners.
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