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Filipino Writers #2: Returning to the Motherland.

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:30 PM

"Force Majeure" by Eileen R. Tabios, read by Stephanie Kong.
Bamboo Ridge 75 (Spring 1999): 205-212
Forthcoming in The Thorn Rosary: Selected Prose Poems & New (1998-2010) (New York: Marsh Hawk Press, 2010)

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Taped at the fifth annual Hawai'i Book and Music Festival on 5/16/10. More pairings from Bamboo Ridge and Talking Hawai'i's Story: Oral Histories of an Island People.

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010 6:30 PM

Women's work is never done.

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:30 PM

It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it!

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Rebroadcast: Spooky Stories #1
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Cedric does a scary Alfred Hitchcock imitation and Kiana Rivera talks to the dead! Previously aired on 10/13/09.

Spooky Stories #2 + Beer Can Hat
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 6:30 PM

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In Their Own Words: Voices of Hawai'i's Past #1 (NEW) Tuesday, September 07, 2010 6:30 PM Taped at the fifth annual Hawai'i Book and Music Festival on 5/16/10. Pairings from Bamboo Ridge and Talking Hawai'i's Story: Oral Histories of an Island People.
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This anthology of fiction and poetry is a good introductory survey of Hawai'i literature. Selected from issues of the first eight years of [i]Bamboo Ridge, The Hawaii Writers' Quarterly[/i], 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.