Bamboo Ridge Issue 94 Book Launch and Reading
Join us in celebrating the release of the latest regular issue of Bamboo Ridge, Journal of Hawai‘i Literature and Arts (no. 94), the book launch and reading:
Monday, November 23, 2009
7:00 p.m. – reception and book signing;
7:30 p.m. – reading*
University of Hawai‘i Campus Center Ballroom
FREE and open to the public
*Readers will include Editors’ Choice Award Winners Tyler Miranda (prose), Janine Oshiro (poetry); KCC instructors Ann Inoshita and Elizabeth Kahikahealani Wight reading from excerpts of book-length manuscripts; Michael Little; Wing Tek Lum; Alexei Melnick; Ken Quilantang; Joe Stanton; and Maui teacher Delaina Thomas.
Sponsored by the University of Hawai‘i Campus Center Board Activities Council
For more information, call (808) 626-1481, e-mail brinfo@bambooridge.com, or visit www.bambooridge.com.
With the work of more than 30 writers, this issue of Bamboo Ridge opens with the work of the Editors’ Choice Awards winners, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán for poetry, Tyler Miranda for prose, and Janine Oshiro for new BR writer. Each will receive a $100 prize in addition to the author honorarium.
The award winners are followed by “Not Pau Yet,” a special section of selections from works in progress, excerpts from book-length manuscripts by Jeffrey Carroll, Lee Cataluna, J. Freen, Ann Inoshita, Juliet S. Kono, Alexei Melnick, and Elizabeth Kahikahealani Wight.
Featured artist in this issue is Fred H. Roster, professor of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. The veteran sculptor’s work has always been provocative, humorous, and inventive. A portfolio of his work is accompanied by an insightful article by Lisa A. Yoshihara, Director of the UH Art Gallery.
Also included in this anthology, new work by Juliet S. Kono, Wing Tek Lum, Joseph Stanton, Brenda Kwon, and Michael Little, as well as two intimate poems by Bamboo Ridge Press co-founder and poetry editor Eric Chock’s wife, Ghislaine D. Chock.
