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. These 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
New Releases
No Choice but to Follow Latest Special Issue
In the Company of Strangers
Bamboo Ridge Issue 94 Latest Regular Issue
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
Pass On, No Pass Back!
September 16th, 2009
Darrell Lum's signature pidgin narratives dominate this nine-story collection, which also includes standard English stories and comic strip illustrations. Endearing and insightful, Lum's characters tell stories of initiation, family, wonder and community.
In Pass On, No Pass Back!, "community is not defined by delineating boundaries, but by moving the center outwards to include what has traditionally been defined as marginal. Lum's is a vision of the possibility once expressed by Derek [...]
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