No Choice but to Follow Book Launch and Reading

May 4, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Campus Center Ballroom

Linked poetry by Jean Yamasaki Toyama, Juliet S. Kono, Ann Inoshita, and Christy Passion

Book launch and reading

Four gifted poets will share their year-long poetry chain, first written in 2008 as weekly posts online to commemorate Bamboo Ridge Press' 30th anniversary, now a moving book and CD.

"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 classical constraints, these women use a looser method—last line/title or first line—to create a new narrative that is routed by collaborative spirit and individual concerns. Wobbly bicycle wheel, tumor, local bradas . . . first gardenia. Join them on this fragrant path." Kimiko Hahn, author of The Narrow Road to the Interior

Reception 7:00 Reading 7:30


Ticket Information
free and open to the public

Event Sponsor
English, Mānoa Campus

More Information
(808) 956-7619, http://www.bambooridge.com/event.aspx?pid=1&eid=327

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