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"Taking their cue from over a hundred years of Japanese linked verse, four erstwhile strangers set out on their own adventurous pilgrimage of renshi. Straying from clas [...]
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Bill Teter, ed. From the powerful opening words of the Kumulipo to the propulsive rhymes of contemporary slam poetry, Hāpai nā Leo celebrates a diverse range of voices that explore, carry, and regenerate Hawaiian culture. Editor Bill Teter created Hāpai nā Leo as a literary companion to Malcolm [...]
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Searching for romance in Longs? Really? Longs may be the first place you think to look for many things, but romance? I decided to give it a shot anyway. My investigation led me to my neighborhood Longs store in the Kaimuki Shopping Center. It also led me to one of my favorite writers.

If I hadn’t asked Lee Cataluna about romance in her book Folks You Meet in Longs (Bamboo Ridge, 2005), I wouldn’t have known that she doesn’t see romance in those monologues of Longs shoppers and employees. Lee told me, “I don’t really think of romance when I think about that collection. I think about needs/wants and people going through Longs trying to fulfill their literal needs and thus their deeper needs.”

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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 FR [...]
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Featuring poetry and prose by some of Hawai'i's finest authors, including work by Margo Berdeshevsky, Nancy Caraway,  J. Freen, Jacinta S. Galea'i, Norma W. Gorst, Ermile Harg [...]
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…the program we present at HBMF is a kind of living anthology, and this thought led naturally to conceiving our program as a continual update of the Hawaiian Renaissance. In other words, our program would be dedicated to presenting the best of classic Hawaiian culture along with the best and most thriving Hawaiian culture today.

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This anthology includes work by established writers, emerging writers, and student writers on the experiences of growing up in the islands. Appropriate for secondary to adult audiences, the volume includes commentary by the authors and work by prize-winning student artists. Ranging from a first-gra [...]
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Bamboo Ridge Issue 91 is an anthology of poetry and prose by 44 writers, including 29 Bamboo Ridge Writers Institute participants. Featured in this collection are Lee Cataluna, Kealoha, Brenda Kwon, Ian MacMillan, Chris McKinney, Susan Schultz, Lee A. Tonouchi, Cedric Yamanaka; plus Rachel Ana Brow [...]
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Landmark 25th anniversary issue featuring a portfolio of photographs by Mary Ann Lynch "Kalapana, A Hawaiian Place" taken in the early 1970s. Visit the Bamboo Ridge Press online store.