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Purchase Anshu: Dark SorrowAnshu: Dark Sorrow
Juliet S. Kono


AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2010 - PRE-ORDER NOW!

Based on historical events, Anshu is a tale of passion and human triumph in the face of extraordinary adversity, spanning the cane fields of Hawai‘i and the devastation in Hiroshima. A pregnant, unmarried Hilo teenager, Himiko Aoki, finds her Hawai‘i Japanese American identity clashing with Japan’s cultural norms when she is sent to live with relatives in Tokyo in 1941 and becomes trapped there with the outbreak of war. When America drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Himiko finds herself adapting in unexpected ways just to survive.

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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 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.

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Purchase In the Company of StrangersIn the Company of Strangers
Michelle Cruz Skinner


Sixteen deceptively simple stories comprise Michelle Cruz Skinner’s much-anticipated follow-up to Balikbayan and Mango Seasons, many of them about Filipinos tongue-tied and alienated in the motherland, or scattered across the map of heartaches and homesickness in the company of strangers called countrymen, family, lovers. A book of quiet gems definitely worth the wait. - R. Zamora Linmark, author of Prime Time Apparitions and The Evolution of a Sigh

The essential subject of these captivating stories is memory, but memory filtered by what cannot–or even should not–be said. The corrosive effects of a secret history, the burdens of understanding, are limned through stories both spare and lyrical. In a way, these stories tell a kind of love story: the love of a daughter for a heritage that, even while suppressed or denied, can never be erased. - Marianne Villanueva, author of Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila and Mayor of the Roses: Stories

Michelle Cruz Skinner shows us again that exile sometimes captures the body and sometime the heart; she writes closely about love and life in a family and we see that distance, longing, and desire all can contribute to the things misplaced in translation. - Ron Carlson, author of Five Skies and The Signal

FEATURES

Writings and articles by BAMBOORIDGE.COM members.
 
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Renshi Poems for May 05.03.2008
Renshi Poems for April 04.03.2008
Renshi Poems for March 02.28.2008
Renshi Poems for February 02.01.2008
Renshi Poems for January 01.14.2008
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EVENTS

Upcoming literary events.
 
Sunday, August 01, 2010 6:45 AM
ALOHA SHORTS BACK TO WORK - LIVE TAPING AUGUST 1
Sunday, August 01, 2010 6:45 PM
ALOHA SHORTS NEXT LIVE TAPING AUGUST 1
Saturday, September 18, 2010 10:30 AM
Renshi Reading
Saturday, September 18, 2010 11:00 AM
New York Comes to Hawai'i Kai
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 7:00 PM
WINE & WORDS!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 7:00 PM
ANSHU book launch and reading

NEWS

Recent news items from or about Bamboo Ridge Press.
 
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 7:15 PM
Hawaii Book and Music Festival Word Bag winners

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:09 AM
Writing as one

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:05 AM
Poets unite in differences

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 9:03 AM
4 Oahu poets share yearlong poetry chain

Sunday, December 13, 2009 9:37 PM
New book offers rich stories of life - Lee Cataluna reviews "In the Company of Strangers"

Friday, June 19, 2009 4:23 PM
All Word Bag Contest Entries



RECENT BLOGS

Recent blogs by Bamboo Ridge Press staff and BAMBOORIDGE.COM members. Feel free to post blogs of your own.

Aloha Shorts Finds New Talent at First Open Audition
Aloha Shorts co-producers Sammie Choy, Craig Howes, and Phyllis Look saw 66 people in the five-hour audition call for new readers on June 5t

Cheap sale! Cades Winner and the Obama poems
The BR booth at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival this past weekend always has the best prices of the year.

Listen up! Podcasts by Lisa Linn Kanae and Wing Tek Lum...NYC to Honolulu Hale
Lisa Kanae will receive the Cades Award at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival at 3:45 pm on Sat, May 15th in the at the Mission Memorial Aud



LATEST BAMBOO SHOOTS ENTRIES

Prose and poetry by members of BAMBOORIDGE.COM. If you have writings of your own to share, head over to Bamboo Shoots and post it.
Notes to Self
Published by Anne Greer | Friday, July 30, 2010 9:27 AM
One hundred words and counting…
Morning Commute
Published by Marie Kaufman | Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:49 AM
BR 100 Word Contest
How It Began
Published by Anne Greer | Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:09 AM
100 words float back from the '60s.
Memories
Published by bdcozz | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 4:24 PM
BR 100 Word Contest. This is my inspiration every morning as I walk out my back door.
Poi
Published by pleopard | Thursday, July 29, 2010 7:10 AM
BR 100 word contest
A Knife
Published by Guy Agena | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:55 AM
BR 100 word contest
By Definition: Unscrupulous
Published by Lavender Lee | Thursday, July 29, 2010 5:29 AM
BR 100 Word Contest
Safe Keeping
Published by Doodie | Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:19 PM
Sunrise musings in cool Mt. View.

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BAMBOO RIDGE MEDIA

Latest media resources that are available on this site for you to browse and enjoy.

PODCASTS

Podcasts and audio by or discovered by BAMBOORIDGE.COM members.


Lisa Linn Kanae interview by Noe Tanigawa
Lisa Linn Kanae talks about writing, teaching, and Hawaii literature.
Wing Tek Lum--The Nanjing Massacre in Poetry
The legendary Asian American poet will join us to read from a work that’s been 13 years in the making—-a harrowing and heartbreaking 70-poem series on the Nanjing Massacre of 1937.
Book Publishing in Hawaii
Business of the Arts podcast with Bob Sandla, Darrell Lum, and Ron Cox.
The Bodysurfers - Eric Chock
Eric Chock reads THE BODYSURFERS from his book, LAST DAYS HERE.
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.

VIDEOS

Videos by or discovered by BAMBOORIDGE.COM members.


Aloha Daze trailer
Trailer for the upcoming independent film, "Aloha Daze."
Hawaiian Pidgin 101
Hawaiian Creole, called Pidgin, is a language with a rich history and structure that is misunderstood by many who not only hear it but speak it as well. Local celebrity Tita explains it all for an audience at a gender illusionist beauty pagent.
No Choice but to Follow poets read the Obama poems
A clip from the Wine & Words reading at Kapiolani Community College on April 28, 2010. The four poets, Jean Toyama, Juliet Kono, Ann Inoshita, and Christy Passion, discuss the November poems about the election.
Lee Tonouchi introduces Lisa Linn Kanae, Cades Emerging Writer Award winner
Lee Tonouchi introduced the Cades Emerging Writer Award winner, Lisa Linn Kanae at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival, May 15, 2010. Lisa Kanae responds with a poem for Lee.
Renshi poets taping the CD for No Choice but to Follow
Poets Jean Yamasaki Toyama, Juliet Kono, Ann Inoshita, and Christy Passion record their work for the CD that accompanies their new book, No Choice but to Follow. Watch how the poems are linked and the challenges to getting a perfect reading!

DOCUMENTS

Past issues of BRidges and other Bamboo Ridge documents.


BRidges April 2010
NO CHOICE BUT TO FOLLOW Book Launch Flyer
Wine & Words flyer
BRidges Newsletter - December 2009
BRidges Newsletter September 2009
Bridges February 2009
BRidges Newsletter for February 2009
Not Pau Yet Programm Booklet
Not Pau Yet Programm Booklet