Bradajo ("Brother Joe") is the pen name of Jozuf Hadley, also known as Joe Hadley (born 1932), an American poet, sculptor, and art teacher who writes in
Hawaiian Pidgin.
''Chaloookyu Eensai'', his 1972 recording with printed translation, is believed to be the first publication in
Hawaiian Pidgin.
Bradajo on Project MUSE
/ref> He was born on Kauai
Kauai, () anglicized as Kauai ( ), is geologically the second-oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands (after Niʻihau). With an area of 562.3 square miles (1,456.4 km2), it is the fourth-largest of these islands and the 21st largest island ...
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Books
*''Avebade Bade = Everybody Body : Hawaii’s Pidgin Poetry'', Mutual Pub., c2002.
*''2 Poems'', Tinfish Press, c2006.
References
Living people
1932 births
Poets from Hawaii
Sculptors from Hawaii
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