Hawai‘i Literature & Art
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The Great Bamboo Ridge Year of the Monkey Writing Contest continues. I repeat yet again: Everyone has a 100 word story. I can help you write yours. Just email your ideas to [email protected], and I will help you write your story. Guarans Balberins. This month you can write a haiku or a piece that is…
And the winner for May is Jim Harstad. He’s won 10 Bamboo Bucks that he can redeem at the BR virtual bookstore. Jim, just mention you’re a May winner when you check out. Congratulations!
She’s late, a half-hour, Grins naughty as sin, Smells like old fish. Little Willy John’s “Fever” Hisses, fades, in and out On nighttime AM radio From Seattle. My Chevy’s front seat Rhythms ‘n blueses one last time; Bob Summerise on the low and slow From his World of Music, “To real . . . cool…
Handcrafted truffles Glass of Aubert Chardonnay Cheers! It’s Mother’s Day
Thanksgiving turkey Christmas turkey Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti meatloaf fish sticks Hamburger Helper Campbell’s chicken noodle soup on rainy afternoons grilled cheese sandwiches for Sunday lunch making me eat my peas making me eat my apple conjuring starving children in India leg of lamb with sweet mint jelly because we didn’t know arms crushing me so…
blue skies and shave ice palm trees and spam musubis thats my Hawaii
The Great Bamboo Ridge Year of the Monkey Writing Contest continues. I repeat: Everyone has a 100 word story. I can help you write yours. Just email your ideas to [email protected], and I will help you write your story. Guarans Balberins. This month you can write a haiku or a piece that is exactly 100…
Jim Harrison was The man Hemingway Ached to be. December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016
So many years since those Madison days. Forty years. My plane lands in what’s still a small airport. No Starbuck’s. The temperature is 32 degrees. I miss those days of beer and Shakespeare. You could buy pitchers at the Rathskellar for $2.75, and $1 of that was a deposit on the pitcher. The Rathskellar is…
Small Kid Time Hawaii and Growing Up Local, you frequently Intersecting Circles with Folks You Meet in Longs. You have No Choice but to Follow Da Word In the Company of Strangers, Expounding the Doubtful Points with the Best of Honolulu Fiction, Kauai Tales and More Kauai Tales. Last Days Here, in the Islands Linked…