Bamboo Ridge Press
Bamboo Ridge Press is a non-profit literary small press founded in 1978 to foster the appreciation, understanding and creation of literary, visual or performing arts by, for or about Hawaii's people. Publisher of books, audio recordings, and Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawaii Literature and Arts.
P.O. Box 61781
Honolulu, HI 96839-1781
Telephone/Fax: (808) 626-1481
Please visit our website at bambooridge.com or email: brinfo@bambooridge.com for more information.
Aloha Shorts is a locally produced radio program of writings from Bamboo Ridge Press performed by Hawai‘i’s actors. The shows tape before a live audience on the first Sunday of every month and are broadcast every Tuesday at 6:30pm on Hawai‘i Public Radio’s KIPO 89.3 FM. Tapings and broadcasts are supported in part by the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities.
Visit hawaiipublicradio.org for more information. Now podcasting at http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AlohaShorts. Subscribe to podcasts here.
The co-producers of the Aloha Shorts program are Sammie Choy, Craig Howes, and Phyllis Look. The on-air host is Cedric Yamanaka. Providing two sessions of live music is the house band, Hamajang.
Upcoming Releases
In the Company of Strangers
Bamboo Ridge Issue 94
New Releases
Islands Linked By Ocean
Morningside Heights
Saturday Night at Pahala Theatre Re-released
People’s Choice
An Offering of Rice
The Seven Orchids
Folks You Meet in Longs
Our Heritage
Kauai Tales
Polihale and Other Kaua'i Legends
More Kaua‘i Tales
Pele Ma: Legends of Pele From Kaua'i
He Leo Hou
Ho‘i Ho‘i Hou
O Na Holoholona Wawae Eha O Ka Lama Hawaii
Bamboo Ridge Issue 89
YOBO: Korean American Writing in Hawai'i
Chan Is Missing
Fiction
Ho‘olulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile
Pass On, No Pass Back!
Da Word
Bananaheart and Other Stories
The Watcher of Waipuna
Guilt Payment
Poetry
OUTSPEAKS A RHAPSODY
Expounding the Doubtful Points
Hilo Rains
Tsunami Years
Outcry from the Inferno: Atomic Bomb Tanka Anthology
Last Days Here
The Best
Growing Up Local
The Best of Bamboo Ridge
The Best of HONOLULU Fiction
Sister Stew: Fiction and Poetry by Women
Back Issues
Bamboo Ridge Issue 91: 30th Anniversary Issue
Bamboo Ridge Issue 84: 25th Anniversary Issue
Bamboo Ridge Issue 75
Bamboo Ridge Issue 73: 20th Anniversary Issue
Bamboo Ridge Issue 91: 30th Anniversary Issue
September 22nd, 2009
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 Brown, Peter Van Dyke, and Christine Thomas, the winners of the Editors' Choice Awards; cover image of surfing legend Gerry Lopez along with an excerpt from his upcoming book; and selections from the late Kayo Hatta's journal notes and photos [...]
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Bamboo Ridge Issue 84: 25th Anniversary Issue
September 22nd, 2009
Landmark 25th anniversary issue featuring a portfolio of photographs by Mary Ann Lynch "Kalapana, A Hawaiian Place" taken in the early 1970s.
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Bamboo Ridge Issue 89
September 22nd, 2009
Celebrating the Filipino Centennial
Portfolio by Romolo Valencia
Editors’ Choice Awards
Featuring Amalia B. Bueno, Stuart Ching, Clinton John Frakes, J. Freen, Marie Park Fujii, Barbara Hamby, Jody Helfand, Michael Honda, Ann Inoshita, Juliet S. Kono, Joseph O. Legaspi, R. Zamora Linmark, Michael Little, Wing Tek Lum, Michael McPherson, Alexei Melnick, Lori Lei Hokyo Misaka, Veronica Montes, Gene J. Parola, ChristyAnne Passion, Pianta, Elmer Omar Pizo, Normie Salvador, Steve Shrader, Michelle Cruz Skinner, [...]
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The Best of HONOLULU Fiction
September 22nd, 2009
What happens when a slick city magazine and a literary journal join forces? This book, published by Hawai'i's foremost literary journal Bamboo Ridge, features stories from the HONOLULU Magazine Fiction Contest.
For the last 16 years, HONOLULU Magazine has sponsored a yearly contest for short stories that reflect Hawai'i in setting, characters or theme. The prizes have been generous. And the response great.
Pamela Ball, Marie Hara, Nora Okja Keller, R. Zamora Linmark, Gar [...]
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Sister Stew: Fiction and Poetry by Women
September 21st, 2009
This new anthology of contemporary fiction and poetry features new works by 49 women writers. Among the new works featured are writings by Nell Altizer, Sue Cowing, Epi Enari Fuaau, Jessica Hagedorn, Faye Kicknosway, Susan Nunes, Marjorie Sinclair, and Adrienne Tien.
Many of the writers reside in Hawai‘i and collectively reflect a multicultural diversity of voice and style.
From settings as varied as Hawai‘i, Samoa, New York, Saigon, Los Angeles, the Philippines, and South Dakota, these a [...]
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Expounding the Doubtful Points
September 21st, 2009
This collection of poetry by the 1970 Discovery Award winner speaks of the author’s Chinese American heritage: his ancestors in China, his family in Hawai‘i, and forging a Chinese American identity. He also speaks of racial discrimination and the obscenity of ethnic stereotypes with astute and unforgiving clarity.
"Lum’s style is an unembellished line of measured prose, setting out a message in direct declarations . . . his straight forward descriptions take th [...]
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Small Kid Time Hawaii
September 21st, 2009
This kid's-eye view of the world celebrates the creative life and vision of Hawai'i's children. Eric Chock, poet and coordinator of Poets-In-The-Schools, has compiled this selection of poems written by students who participated in a week-long enrichment program. Most of the poems were written by eight- to twelve-year-old public school children, others by intermediate and high school students. Chock also includes a brief commentary on his approach to teaching poetry.
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Last Days Here
September 21st, 2009
Eric Chock’s second poetry collection, both intensely personal and historically expansive, tells of childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and return to home and family. Structured in four parts, each section reads as a part of the life cycle and as a sort of poetic historical document, chronicling one man’s experience of Hawai‘i in the past 40 years.
"Last Days Here is a rich collection. Its scope of experience, private and public, is wide and ambitious . . . and the transcendence he [Chock] exp [...]
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Sun: Short Stories and Drama
September 21st, 2009
This landmark collection, published in 1980, is the first fiction and drama collection by a local Chinese writer. The stories include classics such as "Beer Can Hat" as well as experimental pieces and "Oranges Are Lucky," a one-act play that revolves around the generational differences between a Chinese-speaking grandmother and her English-speaking grandchildren.
This collection established Lum’s signature pidgin narratives that have since become favorites among Hawai‘i readers.
"In a world that is forgetting [...]
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The Best of Bamboo Ridge
September 21st, 2009
This anthology of fiction and poetry is a good introductory survey of Hawai'i literature. Selected from issues of the first eight years of Bamboo Ridge, The Hawaii Writers' Quarterly, it features the work of more than 50 writers and includes an introduction by the editors as well as an essay on Asian american literature in Hawai'i by Stephen Sumida.
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Da Word
September 21st, 2009
Writing entirely in hip-hop speak or what people in Hawai‘i refer to as Pidgin, Lee A. Tonouchi takes the language largely associated with Hawai‘i's underprivileged youth and attempts to legitimize it in literature.
His high-performance readings of his humorous fiction pieces have won Tonouchi a large underground following and the local media has given him the notorious nickname, "Da Pidgin Guerrilla" for his work in starting up his own Pidgin-centered literary magazine, Hybolics.
Tonouchi was named "B [...]
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Hilo Rains
September 21st, 2009
In her first collection of poetry, Juliet S. Kono shares her family's immigrant past and captures in poetic memory a time and place.
Rich in detail, the work spans two generations and examines the daily events of life on the sugar plantation and growing up Japanese American in Hawai'i on the Big Island. Kono's sharp observational skills and lyrical voice paint a picture that resonates with both the tenderness and strength of clear-eyed memory.
The collection includes one short story and archiva [...]
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Tsunami Years
September 21st, 2009
Juliet S. Kono's second book, Tsunami Years, packs an unexpectedly hard poetic punch.
From the first section, which grips you in the hilariously poignant caring for a mother-in-law with Alzheimer's Disease, to the ending section where another kind of madness drives a son over the edge, you will feel the rush of emotional waves that more than matches the real tsunami poems in between.
This is a book for real people to read.
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Ho'olulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile
September 21st, 2009
Here comes a tsunami of unforgettable fiction, told by a writer whose life in Hawai'i encompasses the sweep of generations of immigrant history and the vitality of lives caught in waves of overwhelming change. An exquisite gift to readers.
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Chan Is Missing
September 20th, 2009
This screenplay of Wayne Wang's widely acclaimed first film includes an English translation of scenes spoken in Chinese, as well as a Chinese character text of those scenes.
Chan is Missing broke ground with mainstream audiences with its realistic portrayals of Chinese characters in San Francisco's Chinatown, replacing stereotypic stock Asian characters found in previous films from the western world. This volume includes an interview with Wang and an introduction and screen notes by Diane Mark.
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