100 Words Contest winners for July.

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

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.

Hawaii Book and Music Festival prices online until June 30th