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Islands Linked by Ocean
Lisa Linn Kanae
From the author of SISTA TONGUE come stories written with humor and compassion that give voice to characters who find themselves at crossroad moments where past informs present, young teach old, and love can mean holding on or letting go. In “The Steersman,” a novice paddler shares her tempestuous yet life-affirming introduction to the tradition of outrigger canoe paddling: “…in the canoe, we were nameless. We were numbers, and when we weren’t numbers, we were random expletives—scrub, donkey, idiot, stupid, jackass, lame ass, dumb ass....” In “Born Again Hawaiian,” a young husband discovers how the personal impacts the political when his activist wife shows him how he must fight for what he loves most. And what happens when three local women take in the opera? “Dat suckah Pavarotti—he get um.” The stories in this collection are familiar, like family. And like the father and daughter in the title story, the stories in ISLANDS LINKED BY OCEAN are “told and retold until the words swim through the listener’s veins and turn into blood.”

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NEDA Published by WILL | Thursday, July 02, 2009 1:24 AM Dedicated to Neda Agha Soltan who was murdered in Tehran, Iran on June 20, 2009	Hawaii Tracks VOG and other Haiku Published by CONNIED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:15 AM Haikus
Rock and Plant Writing Exercise Published by CMAK15 | Monday, June 29, 2009 3:45 AM "Orchids, ti leaves, and plumerias all craving for my attention." "It dances, like a fairy, to the music of a million flowers."	Cockroach Heaven Published by CONNIED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:12 AM Haiku's
Toad Festival in May Published by CONNIED | Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:03 PM	Stinger Published by MARIZ | Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:20 AM A response to the last renshi. This one line kept buzzing around in my head about 'nasty girls like wasps'. I wrote it down somewhere and it has finally found a place in this poem.
Submarine Watch Published by CONNIED | Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:18 AM	God Like Fo' Talk Pidgin Published by KACIE | Monday, November 17, 2008 12:33 AM

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IMAGES Photos and images by BAMBOORIDGE.COM members. Renshi Poets	PODCASTS Podcasts and audio by or discovered by BAMBOORIDGE.COM members. Urban Gardening - Eric Chock Eric Chock reads URBAN GARDENING from his book, LAST DAYS HERE. Ghislaine's Quilt - Eric Chock Eric Chock reads GHISLAINE'S QUILT from his book, LAST DAYS HERE. Strawberries - Eric Chock Eric Chock reads WORKING CONSTRUCTION from his book, LAST DAYS HERE. Working Construction - Eric Chock Eric Chock reads WORKING CONSTRUCTION from his book, LAST DAYS HERE. Joe Tsujimoto, Morningside Heights, at Punahou Joe Tsujimoto reads from his collection of short stories that chronicles the life of a Japanese American born on the edge of Harlem after his family moved to New York following internment during World War II Confession by Eric Chock Eric Chock reads CONFESSION from his book, LAST DAYS HERE.	VIDEOS Videos by or discovered by BAMBOORIDGE.COM members. Ha Kam Wi Tawk Pidgin Yet? Part 3 of 3 Note: the title is spelled using Odo orthography. One story in Lee Tonouchi's collection [i]Da Word[/i] is written using Odo orthography. For more information contact the Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, and Dialect Studies at UHM [url]http://www.hawaii.edu/satocenter/index.html[/url] Ha Kam Wi Tawk Pidgin Yet? Part 2 of 3 Written,performed, and produced by students in Waianae HS Searider Productions class. Funded by the Hawaii Council for the Humanities. Ha Kam Wi Tawk Pidgin Yet? Part 1 of 3 A video project by Waianae HS Searider Productions and UHM Sato Center for Pidgin, Creole, & Dialect Studies. Little Iron Men Trailer Little Iron Men recounts the true story of a Japanese-American unit behind German lines during World War II. www.littleironmen.com All I Have Ever Done Is Write You Love Poems All I Have Ever Done Is Write You Love Poems - Ishle Yi Park - Def Poetry - July 12, 2002 - S0204.	DOCUMENTS Past issues of BRidges and other Bamboo Ridge documents. Celebrate Reading Book and Literature Festival Poster UHM Reader Flyer UHM Reading Flyer Ver. 3.12 Bridges February 2009 BRidges Newsletter for February 2009 Not Pau Yet Programm Booklet Not Pau Yet Programm Booklet Bridges Summer 2008 Eric and Darell honored, then roasted; Morningside Heights in Hawaii; Books and Music Festival coverage; and Renshi poetry for all. BRidges December 2007 Talk Story, The Writer's Voice at Punahou, and Mavis Hara's 'An Offerring of Rice' BRidges August 2007 Mavis Hara's 'An Offerring of Rice' at Wine and Words; For the Love of BR; and Hawai'i Book and Music Festival coverage.